Brent D. Shaw

Sacred Violence

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Employs the sectarian battles which divided African Christians in late antiquity to explore the nature of violence in religious conflicts.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 932
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 54mm
• Gewicht: 1474g
• ISBN-13: 9780521196055
• ISBN-10: 0521196051
• Artikelnr.: 32261751

Autorenporträt

Brent D. Shaw is currently the Andrew Fleming West Professor of Classics at Princeton University. He has published widely on the regional history of the Roman empire - with particular emphasis on the North African provinces and the problem of violence in its historical contexts - in major journals including the Journal of Roman Studies, Past and Present and the American Historical Review. He has also written, with other Princeton faculty in history, a new world history text entitled Worlds Together, Worlds Apart.

Inhaltsangabe

1. This terrible custom
2. Church of the traitors
3. Poisonous brood of vipers
4. Archives of memory
5. City of denial
6. Ravens feeding on death
7. Little foxes, evil women
8. Guardians of the people
9. In the house of discipline
10. Sing a new song
11. Kings of our age
12. We choose to stand
13. Athletes of death
14. Bad boys
15. Men of blood
16. Divine winds
Appendix A. Bishops and bishoprics in Africa: the numbers
Appendix B. Origins of the division: chronology
Appendix C. The Catholic conference of 348
Appendix D. The peasant jacquerie of Axido and Fasir
Appendix E. The mission of Paul and Macarius
Appendix F. Historical fictions: interpreting the circumcellions
Appendix G. The archaeology of suicide
Appendix H. African sermons.