The document known as the Edict of Milan (Edictum Mediolanense) is found in De Mortibus Persecutorum of Lactantius and Eusebius of Caesarea's History of the Church with marked divergences between them. In February 313, Constantine I, emperor controlling the western part of the Roman Empire and Licinius, controlling the Balkans, met in Milan and, among other things, agreed to treat the Christians benevolently. Whether or not there was a formal 'edict of Milan' is debatable. The version found in Lactantius is not in the form of an edict; it is a letter from Licinius to the governors of the provinces in the Eastern Empire he had just conquered by defeating Maximin later in the same year and issued in Nicomedia.
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