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Book Description
- Title:
- The Early Persecutions of the Christians. Columbia University Studies in Social Sciences 136
- Author:
- Leon Hardy Canfield [1886-1980]
- Publication Year:
- 1913
- Location:
- New York
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- Pages:
- 215
- Subjects:
- Early Church, Christian Persecution, Roman Empire
- Copyright Holder:
- Public domain
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Part I. The Early Persecutions
- Legal Basis of the Persecutions
- Persecution of the Christians Under Nero
- The Christians Under the Flavian Emperors
- Trajan and the Christians
- Attitude of Hadrian
- Part II. Textual
- Sources on the Legal Status of the Christians
- Sources for the Neroian Persecution
- Sources for the Flavian Period
- Sources for the Period of Trajan
- Sources for the Period of Hadrian