Allen Brent is an Affiliated Lecturer in the Faculty of Divinity at the University of Cambridge. He has published many books on the history of Christianity, most recently A Political History of Early Christianity (2009).
Introduction
1. Cyprian's life and controversies
2. Cyprian's background in Roman Carthage
3. Historiography in the age of Decius
4. Decius' religious policy and political rhetoric
5. The Decian persecution
6. The church of the martyrs
7. Stephen's challenge to the sacramentum unitatis
8. A final postscript: Cyprian's legacy.
