{"product_id":"the-donatist-schism-controversy-and-contexts-9781781382813","title":"The Donatist Schism: Controversy and Contexts","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is the first book for over twenty years to undertake a holistic examination of the Donatist Controversy, a bilious and sometimes violent schism that broke out in the North African Christian Church in the early years of the century AD and which continued up until the sixth century AD. What made this religious dispute so important was that its protagonists brought to the fore a number of issues and practices that had empire-wide ramifications for how the Christian church and the Roman imperial government dealt with the growing number of dissidents in their ranks. Very significantly it was during the Donatist Controversy that Augustine of Hippo, who was heavily involved in the dispute, developed the idea of ‘tough love’ in dealing with those at odds with the tenets of the main church, which in turn acted as the justification for the later brutal excesses of the Inquisition.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn order to reappraise the Donatist Controversy for the first time in many years, 14 specialists in the religious, cultural, social, legal and political history as well as the archaeology of Late Antique North Africa have examined what was one of the most significant religious controversies in the Late Roman World through a set of key contexts that explain its significance the Donatist Schism not just in North Africa but across the whole Roman Empire, and beyond.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘This book…provides a socio-historical framework in which that more finely-textured textual community can be located, and proves through its insightful reinterpretations that the last word on the Donatist controversy has yet to be spoken.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlden Bass, \u003ci\u003eAugustiniana\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'This volume, stemming from a 2014 conference at Trinity Hall, Cambridge... set[s] out with impressive clarity various ways in which we might understand the Donatist schism against the broader backdrop of the later Roman Empire.'\u003cbr\u003eRobin Whelan, \u003ci\u003eEnglish Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Although there are differing opinions represented by this array of scholars, the book as a whole provides a coherent and helpful topical overview that both could serve as a textbook on Donatism and will serve to further debates among specialists in the field. A veritable one-stop shop for Donatist studies.' \u003cbr\u003e David E. Wilhite, \u003ci\u003eJournal of Ecclesiastical History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'The essays contained in this volume will prove crucial to researchers of the schism for years to come.' \u003cbr\u003e Jesse Hoover, \u003ci\u003ePlekos\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContributors\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. The Donatist Controversy: Parallel Histories, Multiple  Narratives\u003c\/p\u003e    \u003cp\u003eRichard Miles\u003c\/p\u003e    \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e    \u003cp\u003e2. The Course of the Donatist Schism in Late Roman North  Africa\u003c\/p\u003e    \u003cp\u003eJohn Whitehouse\u003c\/p\u003e    \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e    \u003cp\u003e3. The Scholarship of the Donatist Controversy\u003c\/p\u003e    \u003cp\u003eJohn Whitehouse\u003c\/p\u003e    \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e    \u003cp\u003e4. Martyr Veneration in Late Antique North Africa\u003c\/p\u003e    \u003cp\u003eCandida Moss \u003c\/p\u003e    \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e    \u003cp\u003e5. Donatist Martyrs, Stories and Attitudes\u003c\/p\u003e    \u003cp\u003eAlan Dearn\u003c\/p\u003e    \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e    \u003cp\u003e6. The Donatist Schism and Theology\u003c\/p\u003e    \u003cp\u003eMark Edwards\u003c\/p\u003e    \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e    \u003cp\u003e7. Rural Society in North Africa\u003c\/p\u003e    \u003cp\u003eCam Grey \u003c\/p\u003e    \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e    \u003cp\u003e8. Circumcelliones, Rural Society and Communal Violence in  Late Antique North Africa\u003c\/p\u003e    \u003cp\u003eBruno Pottier\u003c\/p\u003e    \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e    \u003cp\u003e9. Imperial Legislation and the Donatist Controversy: From Constantine  to Honorius\u003c\/p\u003e    \u003cp\u003eNoel Lenski 172-226\u003c\/p\u003e    \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e    \u003cp\u003e10           The  Conference of Carthage Reconsidered\u003c\/p\u003e    \u003cp\u003eNeil McLynn\u003c\/p\u003e    \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e    \u003cp\u003e11. Textual Communities and the Donatist Controversy\u003c\/p\u003e    \u003cp\u003eRichard Miles\u003c\/p\u003e    \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e    \u003cp\u003e12. Charitable Correction and Ecclesiastical Unity in  Augustine’s Contra Epistulam Parmeniani\u003c\/p\u003e    \u003cp\u003eJennifer Ebbeler\u003c\/p\u003e    \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e    \u003cp\u003e13. Augustine in Controversy with the Donatists before 411*\u003c\/p\u003e    \u003cp\u003eEric Rebillard\u003c\/p\u003e    \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e    \u003cp\u003e14. Tracing the Donatist presence in North Africa: An  Archaeological Perspective \u003c\/p\u003e    \u003cp\u003eAnna Leone \u003c\/p\u003e    \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e    \u003cp\u003e15. Donatism in the Fifth and Sixth Centuries\u003c\/p\u003e    \u003cp\u003eJonathan Conant \u003c\/p\u003e    \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e    \u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Liverpool University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50469969330519,"sku":"9781781382813","price":109.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-donatist-schism-controversy-and-contexts-9781781382813","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}