Was the Edict of Milan the dooming of the Roman Empire.?

Answer 1

No, and neither was it the invasion of the Barbarians. They fell from within on their lust, pride and arrogance.

Answer 2

The seeds of the fall of the Roman Empire go back to the fall of the Republic and to the establishment of the Roman Empire.

The moment that the dictatorships of Sulla, Marius, Pompey, Julius Caesar and then Augustus used the Roman military to intervene in Roman government, then the Empire was doomed to the army running the government. Petty jealousies were inevitable as one Roman Emperor was replaced by another emperor from the ranks of the army.

The moment the Senate lost any control of government, the Empire was doomed as powerful Roman generals, corrupt with power, were raised by their legions and were proclaimed emperor - totally inept at government and totally corrupt morally, the empire began to become neglected.

Answer 3

The Decline of the Roman Empire, also called the Fall of the Roman Empire, or the Fall of Rome, is a historical term of periodization for the end of the Western Roman Empire. Edward Gibbon in his famous study The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776) was the first to use this terminology, but he was neither the first nor the last to speculate on why and when the Empire collapsed. It remains one of the greatest historical questions, and has a tradition rich in scholarly interest. In 1984, German professor Alexander Demandt published a collection of 210 theories on why Rome fell.

The traditional date of the fall of the Roman Empire is September 4, 476 when Romulus Augustus, the de facto Emperor of the Western Roman Empire was deposed by Odoacer. Many historians question this date, noting that the Eastern Roman Empire continued until the Fall of Constantinople in 29 May 1453. Some other notable dates are the death of Theodosius I in 395, that last time the Roman Empire was unified, the crossing of the Rhine in 406 by Germanic tribes, after the withdrawal of the legions in order to defend Italy against Alaric I, and the death of Stilicho in 408, followed by the disintegration of the western legions. Many scholars maintain that rather than a simplistic "fall", the changes can more accurately be described as a complex transformation.

The actual Edict of Milan.

The Edict of Milan (313) declared that the Roman Empire would be neutral with regard to religious worship, officially removing all obstacles to the practice of Christianity and other religions. Christianity had previously been legalized in April of 311 by Galerius, who was the first emperor to issue an edict of toleration for all religious creeds including Christianity.

Answer 4

did yes came Holy Roman Empire and Byzantine Empire


The Edict of Milan was issued in 313, in the names of the Roman Emperors Constantine I, who ruled the western parts of the Empire, and Licinius, who ruled the east.

A previous edict of toleration had been recently issued from Nicomedia by the Emperor Galerius in 311. By its provisions, the Christians, who had "followed such a caprice and had fallen into such a folly that they would not obey the institutes of antiquity", were granted an indulgence.

"Wherefore, for this our indulgence, they ought to pray to their God for our safety, for that of the republic, and for their own, that the commonwealth may continue uninjured on every side, and that they may be able to live securely in their homes."
By the Edict of Milan the meeting places and other properties which had been confiscated from the Christians and sold or granted out of the government treasury were to be returned:

"...the same shall be restored to the Christians without payment or any claim of recompense and without any kind of fraud or deception..."
It directed the provincial magistrates to execute this order at once with all energy, so that public order may be restored and the continuance of the Divine favor may "preserve and prosper our successes together with the good of the state."

The actual edicts have not been retrieved inscribed upon stone. However, they are quoted at length in a historical work with a theme of divine retribution, Lactantius' De mortibus persecutorum ("Deaths of the persecutors"). Eusebius of Caesarea translated Lactantius' Latin into Greek for the text that was included in his History of the Church.

Answer 5

christianity itself caused the end of the empire thanks to its teachings