 note 54.
- Theodosian Code 16.5.42
- Theodosian Code 16.10.19
- Theodosian Code 16.5.63
- Constitutiones Sirmondianae 6
- Justinian Code 1.11.7
- Theodosian Code 16.7.7
- Justinian Code 1.11.8
- Sidonius Epistle 1.11.6
- Theodosian Code 16.5.46
- Zosimus 5.46
- Gibbon, Edward The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, ch28
- This law (Theodosian Code 16.10.24) is interesting because it officially recognizes the fact that there were many people who only pretended to be Christian.
- Theodosian Code 16.5.51
- Theodosian Code 16.7.1, 16.7.2, 16.7.3, 16.7.4, 16.7.5, 16.7.6
- Justinian Code 1.7.2.
- Theodosian Code 16.10.25
- MacMullen, Ramsay (1997) Christianity & Paganism in the Fourth to Eighth Centuries, Yale University Press, p.4 quote: "non Christian writings came in for this same treatment, that is destruction in great bonfires at the center of the town square. Copyists were discouraged from replacing them by the threat of having their hands cut off
- Kirsch, R. (1997) God Against the Gods, p.279, Viking and Compass
- Constitutiones Sirmondianae 12.
- MacMullen, R. Christianizing The Roman Empire A.D.100-400, Yale University Press, 1984, ISBN 0-300-03642-6
- Theodosian Code 16.5.43
- Theodosian Code 16.10.15
- Theodosian Code 16.10.17
- Theodosian Code 16.10.18
- A law in the Theodosian Code (16.2.47) refers to a tyrant who issued edicts in opposition to the church. This tyrant (i.e. usurper) is most likely to be identified with Joannes the Primicerius.
- Photius Bibliotheca cod. 242
- Marcellinus Chronicle s.a. 468
- Theophanes Chronographia s.a. A.M. 5976-5980; John Malalas Chronicle 15.12-15.14.
- Pagans were still sufficiently numerous during the reign of Justinian for a law to be published, in 527 (Justinian Code 1.5.12), which barred Pagans from office and confiscated their property.
- The modern Church takes a much less antagonistic stance to non-Abrahamic religions. See Dignitatis Humanae and Nostra Aetate
- R. MacMullen, "Christianity and Paganism in the Fourth to Eighth Centuries," Yale University Press, 1997.
- J.N Hillgarth, ed. "Christianity and Paganism 350-750,:The Conversion of Western Europe", rev. ed., University of Pennsylvania Press, 1986.
- R. Kirsch, "God Against the Gods," p. 278, Viking Compass, 1997.
- H.A.Drake, Lambs into Lions, p. 8
- H.A.Drake, Lambs into Lions, p. 5
- H.A.Drake, Lambs into Lions, p. 7: Drake refers to Gibbons, Decline and Fall, Chapter XVI, Part 2; online text from Project Gutenberg
- Garnsey 1984: 24
- quoted after Garnsey 1984: 25
- Garnsey 1984: 25
- John Coffey (2000), Persecution and Toleration in Protestant England 1558-1689, Studies in Modern History, Pearson Education, p. 31; O. O'Donovan (1996), The Desire of the Nations: Rediscovering the Roots of Political Theology, esp. ch. 6.
- Ramsay MacMullen, "Christianity & Paganism in the Fourth to Eighth Centuries," Chap 1:16, "Persecution," ISBN 0-300-07148-5
- Thomas J. Shahan & E. Macpherson, "Charlemagne," The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume III. Published 1908 
- John Coffey (2000), Persecution and Toleration in Protestant England 1558-1689, Studies in Modern History, Pearson Education, p. 49
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