Chrystianizacja prawa po „edykcie mediolańskim”

• Authors: Antoni Żurek

Title variants

EN

Christianization of law after „the edict of Milan”

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The Constantine breakthrough was the beginning of changes in the whole Roman Empire state system. In Roman Law that process meant the introduction of Christian elements into legislation. The process of Roman Law Christianiza­tion was started by the Emperor Constantine the Great and was proceeded by his successors. The scope of those changes is difficult to determine. It is even more difficult to determine those changes mechanism of introduction. It is sure that Church was not the initiator of them. Even priests not always had been satisfied with those changes. Simplifying, those changes could be reduced to three areas: law and rules regarding the Christian cult; respecting the Christian spirit laws, and, finally, to, so called, privileges which were bestowed to the Catholic Church. It seems to be that this process did not open the way to introduction of confes­sional state but strengthened its tolerant – in religious case – character. This article is a systematization attempt of these issues, especially in the face of the numerous appearing allegations.

Keywords

PL

prawo rzymskie; prawo kościelne; chrystianizacja prawa; tolerancja; przywilej

EN

Roman law; Church law; Christianization of Law; tolerance; privilege

• Publisher: Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II
• Journal: Vox Patrum
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 61
• Pages: 73-88

Dates

published

2014-01-05

Contributors

author

Antoni Żurek

Identifiers

DOI

10.31743/vp.3610