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Chapter Eleven: Enforcing the Law
1 See Vaggione, Chapter Eight, ‘Troglodyte’, and Chapter Nine, ‘Heretic’, for
these events.
2 See Humfress.
3 Ibid., p.140. For the trial of Priscillian, see Matthews, Western Aristocracies,
pp.160—71.
4 Quoted in Humfress.
5 Theodosian Code XVI.5.65. Quoted in Millar, A Greek Roman Empire, p.151.
6 Quoted in Chadwick, p.591.
7 Humfress, p.140. The codex first appears in the first century AD. About 1.5
per cent of the texts at the great rubbish dump of Oxyrynchus from this century
are codices and the first literary reference to a text written on a codex is a work
by the poet Martial at the end of the century. Christians favoured the codex over
the scroll, perhaps to distance themselves from the scroll literature of the Jews,
and by the fourth century it was the most popular method of producing texts.
8 Martin of Deacon’s Life of Porphyry is most easily accessed at
www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/porphyry. This is an important source for
showing the resilience of paganism and the violent means necessary to destroy
the ancient buildings that housed pagan cults.
9 Quoted in Garnsey and Humfress, pp.152—3. The law is to be found in the
Theodosian Code at XVl.10.24.
10 Theodosian Code XVI.10.25. Quoted in Millar, A Greek Roman Empire,
p.122.
11 This comes from a fuller exposition of some of Theodosius’ laws, the
Novellae, and is quoted in ibid., p.121.
12 Ibid., p.128, for both quotes. See also Millar, The Greek World, pp.457—86,
‘Christian Emperors, Christian Church and the Jews of the Diaspora in the Greek
East, AD 379—450’.
13 Garnsey and Humfress, p.75. See also Rapp, pp.242—52, ‘Episcopal Courts’.