MDV 2100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Codex Theodosianus, Nocturnal Rites, Late Antiquity
20 Sep 2016
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(1) emperors, bishops, and sorcerers in late antiquity. This was a body of roman legal opinion of what the scholars believed that the laws should be. 5. 23. 17: it is agreed that those guilty of the magic art (magicae artis) be inflicted with the supreme punishment (i. e. be thrown to the beasts or crucified). Actual magicians (magi), however, shall be burned alive: actual magicians are people who are professionals/experts. The others" are those who are just dabblers and who might have magic books or books of spells. Not only is the profession of this art but also the knowledge prohibited: books that were not housed in the temple, in the possession by the temple, and did not tend to public affairs were suspected. An edict of the emperor constantine, 318 ce. Christians were finally tolerated and received a measure of official support. The theodosian code (380s) justinianiac code: edicts of the roman empire.
