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Constantine punishes with death the attack on converts to Christianity and forbids Jews from owning Christian slaves

315·Empire romain

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In the Roman Empire, Constantin punished with death anyone who attacked a Jew converted to Christianity, and simultaneously prohibited Jews from owning Christian slaves or from circumcising their slaves. The first provision protects those who leave, the second closes the entrance.

The prohibition on Christian slaves appears technical; in practice, it was one of the most consequential measures of imperial law, progressively excluding Jews from manorial agriculture and large-scale commerce, where servile labor was the norm. Later codes only hardened it further.

Period :
Antiquity
Type :
Massacre
Region :
Western Europe
Country :
Empire romain
Sources

Code théodosien ; Eusèbe de Césarée, Vie de Constantin.

At the same place6

  1. 72Legal Persecutiontoll not established
  2. 98Nerva and then Trajan maintain the *fiscus judaicus*, the tax of two drachmas paid to the Capitol since 70 as punishment for the revolttoll not established
  3. 202Septimius Severus forbade conversion to Judaism under severe penaltytoll not established
  4. 249-251Persecution of Deciusinconnu
  5. 339Constantius II punishes by death the marriage of a Jew with a Christian woman from imperial manufactories and the circumcision of a slavetoll not established
  6. 388-393Theodosius forbade mixed marriages (388) then Jewish courts in civil matters; synagogues burned were no longer rebuilt at the expense of the culpritstoll not established

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