7 Citations
Deux hommages en l’honneur de deux chevaliers en Afrique Proconsulaire : Caecilius Secundus et L. Sempronius Ianuarius
- Art
- 2019
Deux inscriptions latines recemment decouvertes en Tunisie font connaitre deux chevaliers. La premiere, totalement inedite, de Bisica Lucana, se rapporte a Caecilius Secundus qui a fait une carriere…
Cyprian's Early Career in the Church of Carthage
- HistoryThe Journal of Ecclesiastical History
- 2019
Cyprian's baptism is usually placed in 245–6, two to four years before he became bishop. The early treatise Ad Donatum is thus taken as a witness to the neophyte's spiritual ‘transition’. This…
Popular Hatred Against Christians: the Case of North Africa in the Second and Third Centuries
- History
- 2015
Abstract Popular hatred against Christians is often presented as an important factor in the persecutions. This paper argues that where evidence is available, which is the case for North Africa in the…
Dos arquivos da perseguição às histórias dos mártires: hagiografia, memória e propaganda na África romana
- History
- 2010
The series of events stemming from the acts and passions of the Christian martyrs, written in the heat of persecution up to the more legendary and epic stories spreading from the late 4th and early…
Paradisus in carcere: The Vocabulary of Imprisonment and the Theology of Martyrdom in the Passio Sanctarum Perpetuae et Felicitatis
- History
- 2006
Christian martyrdom, a complex amalgam of late Jewish fidelity to the law and aspects of Greco-Roman thought embodied in the exitus illustrium virorum tradition, fashioned an eschatological ideology…
Judicial Nightmares and Christian Memory
- History
- 2003
An institution whose effects were as traumatic, mundane, spectacular, and ordinary as the Roman trial necessarily left its imprint on the consciousness, both waking and unwaking, of the empire's…
Scripture as an Element of Social Control: Two Martyr Stories of Christian North Africa
- HistoryHarvard Theological Review
- 1990
The martyr stories, the earliest hagiographical writings, were not composed simply as memorials to the courage of those who preferred death to apostasy. Their authors recorded the stories both to…