Reclaiming Martyrdom: Augustine's Reconstruction of Martyrdom in Late Antique North Africa
The cult of martyrs existed throughout the Mediterranean world in late antiquity, but local communities venerated the martyrs in their own ways and for their own reasons. During the fourth and fifth centuries, two factions of Christianity existed in North Africa. Catholicism and Donatism competed fo...
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LSU
2007
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| Online Access: | http://etd.lsu.edu/docs/available/etd-11132007-102209/ |