El Libellus Precum y los conflictos religiosos en la Hispania de Teodosio

Abstract

This article, which slightly modifies the paper delivered in the Conference on "La Hispania de Teodosio" (Segovia, 1995), dea1s with the ecclesiastical conflicts, especially those held in Hispania, documented in the so-called Libellus Precum, and their social and political background. The decisive role of the Roman Emperors is enlightened by the rescript -reproduced here in a Spanish translation- wherein Theodosius states the orthodoxy of the Christian rigorists, at that moment persecuted, and provides them with personal security.