Rapporti e conflitti tra paganesimo e cristianesimo nel Codice Teodosiano

In the studies on the legislation of the Christian empire between the fourth and fifth centuries, considerable space is occupied by the interpretative difficulties concerning the Theodosian Code. As the earliest official formulation of a unitary codification of imperial laws, it describes the social and religious experiences of the empire in the phase of transformation from paganism to Christianity. Its contents and interpretation are crucial to the study of the historic-religious dynamics of confrontation, meeting and contraposition between religious realities, in the context of the institutional definition of Christian identity according to traditional cultural mechanisms and instruments.