The Wenceslas Bible was commissioned by a king who was deposed as King of the Romans in what year?
Wenceslaus IV of Bohemia Wenceslaus (also "Wenceslas"; Czech: "Václav" ; German: "Wenzel" , nicknamed "der Faule" ("the Idle"); 26 February 1361 – 16 August 1419) was, by inheritance, King of Bohemia (as "Wenceslaus IV") from 1363 and by election, German King (formally King of the Romans) from 1376. He was the third Bohemian and fourth German monarch of the Luxembourg dynasty. Wenceslaus was deposed in 1400 as King of the Romans, but continued to rule as Bohemian king until his death.
Persecution of pagans in the late Roman Empire The persecution of pagans in the late Roman Empire began late during the reign of Constantine the Great, when he ordered the pillaging and the tearing down of some temples. The first anti-pagan laws by the Christian state started with Constantine's son Constantius II, who was an opponent of paganism; he ordered the closing of all pagan temples, forbade pagan sacrifices under pain of death, and removed the traditional Altar of Victory from the Senate. Under his reign ordinary Christians began to vandalise pagan temples, tombs and monuments. This persecution had proceeded after a period of persecution of Christians in the Empire.