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Donatist Martyr Stories

The Church in Conflict in Roman North America

  • Paperback
  • 144 pages
  • Publisher: Liverpool University Press
  • 14.8 x 21 x 0.9 cm

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The Donatist Church of North Africa was known as "the Church of the Martyrs", yet its martyr stories are virtually unknown. The Donatists lived in Africa Proconsularis, Numidia and Mauretania (present-day Tunisia and Algeria), and their communities produced songs, sermons, pamphlets and stories of martyrs. These documents were suppressed in antiquity, and few of them survived. They remained untranslated, and were therefore mainly ignored by scholars, who instead relied on what the opponents of the Donatists had to say. The translations in this volume present stories which provide an opportunity to glimpse the daily life of the Church which for over a century was the faith of the majority of North African Christians. Their champions include a saintly bishop who was thrown from a cliff - and never landed - and sarcastic teenagers whose story would provoke more adolescent rebellion than pious behaviour. The narratives represent the lives and deaths of Christians who carried on pre-Constantine traditions from the 4th century to the advent of Islam.
Donatist Martyr Stories and The Essential History of Christianity
The Essential History of ChristianityDonatist Martyr Stories
  • Author

    Maureen A. Tilley

  • Book Format

    Paperback / softback

  • Publisher

    Liverpool University Press

  • Published

    February 1996

  • Weight

    192g

  • Page Count

    144

  • Dimensions

    14.8 x 21 x 0.9 cm

  • ISBN

    9780853239314

  • ISBN-10

    0853239312

  • Eden Code

    1166017

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