Going Out of Print 5/18/98 per HH. In Volume II, the relationship between the Christian Church and Imperial Rome is examined and referenced with historical documents from the earliest times of Christianity to the end of the Second Century. These two volumes comprehensively cover all the essential legal problems of the persecutions from 5 or, indeed, 2 B.C., the two possible dates for the Nativity, up to the time of Constantine's death in 337 A.D. An Era of Special Edicts Against the Christians The Edict of Septimius Severus; His Constitution Antoniniana; Maximinus Edict Against the Hierarchy; The Decian Libelli and Contemporary Literature; Two Edicts of the Emperor Valerian; The Unquestionable Peace of Gallienus; From the Persecution to the Peace of Galerius; Constantine the Great and the Christian Church.