ABSTRACT
The debate over the Edict of Milan The term Edict of Milan is a modern construct used to describe a document datable to summer 313 CE that survives in two copies, one in Lactantius’s On the Deaths of Persecutors and the second in the Ecclesiastical History of Eusebius.2 It makes up a legal text that purports to have been written by Constantine and Licinius during a joint meeting at Milan, with the aim of granting religious freedom to Christians and others and the restoration of property confiscated during the Great Persecution.
