About 300 years later, the Emperor Constantine, after converting to Christianity, abolished crucifixion and other cruel death penalties in the Roman Empire. In 438, the Code of Theodosius made ...

Terming the passing of Pope Francis as an immense loss to the Christian world, Theodosius Mar Thoma, Metropolitan of the Malankara Mar Thoma Syrian Church, on Monday offered tributes to the late ...

The time span covered is 379 to 565 C.E., from the accession of emperor Theodosius I to the death of emperor Justinian I. In the Introduction, the author writes: “The chapters that constitute this ...

In 392 Theodosius issued laws prohibiting pagan ritual sacrifices. An uprising by Eugenius, a Roman aristocrat sympathetic to paganism was firmly suppressed. Shortly before his sudden death in 395 ...