cites many Pagan festivals as though they were still being openly observed. See also the descriptions of Pagan worship in the following works: Firmicius Maternus De Errore Profanorum Religionum; Vetus Orbis Descriptio Graeci Scriptoris sub Constantio.
- Bowder, D. (1978) The Age of Constantine and Julian
- C. G. Herbermann & Georg Grupp, "Constantine the Great," Catholic Encyclopedia, 1911, New Advent web site.
- Roldanus (2006) p.148
- Hellemo (1989) p.254
- "Gratian," Catholic Encyclopedia, 1909
- "Letter of Gratian to Ambrose," The Letters of Ambrose Bishop of Milan, 379 AD.
- Theodosian Code 2.8.18-2.8.25, 16.7.1-16.7.5
- Sheridan, J.J., "The Altar of Victory – Paganism's Last Battle." L'Antiquite Classique 35 (1966): 187.
- Ambrose Epistles 17-18; Symmachus Relationes 1-3.
- Theodosian Code 16.10.20; Symmachus Relationes 1-3; Ambrose Epistles 17-18.
- Ambrose Epistles 17, 18, 57.
- Theodosian Code 16.10.10
- Theodosian Code 16.10.11
- Routery, Michael (1997) The First Missionary War. The Church take over of the Roman Empire, Ch. 4, The Serapeum of Alexandria
- Zosimus 4.59
- Symmachus Relatio 3.
- Grindle, Gilbert (1892) The Destruction of Paganism in the Roman Empire, pp.29-30. Quote summary: For example, Theodosius ordered Cynegius (Zosimus 4.37), the praetorian prefect of the East, to permanently close down the temples and forbade the worship of the deities throughout Egypt and the East. Most of the destruction was perpetrated by Christian monks and bishops.
- Life of St. Martin
- Gibbon, Edward The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, ch28
- Catholic Encyclopedia (1912) article on Theophilus, New Advent Web Site.
- Ramsay McMullan (1984) Christianizing the Roman Empire A.D. 100–400, Yale University Press, p.90.
- Kotynski, p.3. For more information about the question of this date, see Kotynski.
- Theodosian Code 2.8.22
- Theodosian Code 16.10.13
- Theodosian Code 16.10.14
- Theodosian Code 16.10.16, 15.1.36
- Theodosian Code 15.6.1, 15.6.2
- Gibbon, Edward The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, ch28, 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 Pres