Allen Brent

Cyprian and Roman Carthage

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores Cyprian in his intellectual and political context of mid-third-century AD Carthage.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 382
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Januar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 705g
• ISBN-13: 9780521515474
• ISBN-10: 0521515475
• Artikelnr.: 29984896

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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.