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Historical Periods
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Events, protagonists,
references
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Freedom of
conscience and religion – Roman Empire
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Costantine – tolerance edicts ( 311 and 313 A.D.)
Julian the Apostate and Universal Tolerance
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Freedom of
conscience and religion –Middle Ages
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The Albigenses and Inquisition
Pope Innocent VIII
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Freedom of
conscience and religion –Humanism and Renaissance
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The Reformation ( M. Lutero, G.Calvino)
The Council of Trent, The index of forbidden books
Pope Paul IV and the Roman Ghetto
S. Castellion
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Freedom of
conscience and religion –17th and 18th century
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The edict of Nantes
” Cuius regio eius et religio”
Jansenism
O. Cromwell
The Tolerance Act (1689)
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Freedom of
conscience and religion – Enlightenment and French Revolution
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Voltaire
M. Robespierre
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Freedom of
conscience and religion –19th century
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King Albert’s Statute
The Syllabus (1864)
C. B. Cavour (a free Church in a free State)
The first Vatican Council and the Pope’s infallibility
(1870)
The ”non expedit” (1874)
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Freedom of
conscience and religion - 20th century
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The laws of Norimberga (1935)
The racist laws in Italy (1938)
The Italian Constitution (1948)
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