A Short Note On The Edict Of Milan

and tortured Christians in Rome, before executing them. Despite this, Nero's persecution of the new Christian sect was short, and luckily was not repeated in other regions of Rome and on a larger scale the world. This aided the widespread of Christianity Over time, the Christian church and faith grew more organized. In 313 AD, the Emperor Constantine issued the Edict of Milan, which permanently established religious toleration of Christianity within the Roman Empire, by the year 380 AD, Christianity

When I started this course, my entire knowledge of the post Roman Empire era, more than four decades ago, was primarily based on Gibbon’s The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. We were taught that Rome fell because of internal weaknesses, its inability to contain the Barbarians and a moral decay throughout the Empire. We were taught that a combined Roman and Barbarian army beat the Huns at Chalon; Rome in 476 CE had a barbarian warlord (king) who replaced the existing Roman aristocracy and that

ECS8C_C01.qxd 22/10/2007 11:54 Page 597 CASE STUDIES ECS8C_C01.qxd 22/10/2007 11:54 Page 598 ECS8C_C01.qxd 22/10/2007 11:54 Page 599 Guide to using the case studies The main text of this book includes 87 short illustrations and 15 case examples which have been chosen to enlarge specific issues in the text and/or provide practical examples of how business and public sector organisations are managing strategic issues. The case studies which follow allow the