Stosunek władzy i opinii publicznej do chrześcijan w Cesarstwie Rzymskim w I–II wieku
The attitude of state power and public opinion to Christians in the Roman Empire in the 1st and 2nd century

Summary/Abstract: This study is an attempt at presenting the evolution of the successive sovereigns of the Roman Empire and their administration’s outlook on Christians. The paper’s aim is also to show public opinion of Christians – both the reaction of pagan crowds and the contemporary social and scientific elites to the new religion. The chronological range of the study is marked by two of the great persecutions: the persecution provoked by Nero, the Emperor in 64 and the massacre in Gaul at the time of Marcus Aurelius’ rule. The spatial range relates to the Roman Empire’s territory at that time. Source books and the basic subject’s literature were used in the article.

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