Constitutio Antoniniana
Caracalla granted Roman citizenship to all free men of the empire, and to free women the rights of Roman women, erasing the old divide between citizens and provincials.
- Date
- 212year known
- Place
- Rometoday: Rome, Italy · Western and Central Europe
- Participants
- Caracalla, Roman Empire
- Threads
- Europe in the Roman age (1st–5th c.)
- Also known as
- Antonine Constitution; Edict of Caracalla; Антонинова конституция
Until 212 Roman citizenship, with its legal privileges, was held by a minority of the empire’s inhabitants. Caracalla’s edict extended it to almost all free people; only the dediticii, a class of freedmen of inferior status, were excluded. Part of its Greek text survives on a papyrus now in Giessen. Cassius Dio claimed that the real motive was money: new citizens became liable to the taxes on inheritances and on the freeing of slaves, which Caracalla had just raised.
Whatever its motive, the edict made Roman law the common law of the provinces and turned the empire from a Roman state ruling subjects into a commonwealth of citizens.
Connections
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Meanwhile in the world
Other regions, within 25 years of this event
Eastern Europe
- The Goths settle in Oiumc. 180 – c. 230
- Kyiv culturec. 200 – between 400 and 430
- Chernyakhov culturebetween 200 and 250 – between 400 and 430
- Zarubintsy culturec. 200 BC – c. 200
The same period
Sources
- Wikipedia (English): Constitutio Antoniniana
- Wikipedia (Russian): Эдикт Каракаллы
- Potter D. S. The Roman Empire at Bay, AD 180–395. — London: Routledge, 2004.
- Wikidata: Q312584