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Author:   Michael Gaddis
Publisher:   University of California Press
Imprint:   University of California Press
Volume:   39
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.590kg
ISBN:  

9780520286245

ISBN 10:   0520286243
Pages:   416
Publication Date:   18 March 2015
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Preface and Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction 1. ""What Has the Emperor to Do with the Church?"" Persecution and Martyrdom from Diocletian to Constantine 2. ""The God of the Martyrs Refuses You"": Religious Violence, Political Discourse, and Christian Identity in the Century after Constantine 3. An Eye for an Eye: Religious Violence in Donatist Africa 4. Temperata Severitas: Augustine, the State, and Disciplinary Violence 5. ""There Is No Crime for Those Who Have Christ"": Holy Men and Holy Violence in the Late Fourth and Early Fifth Centuries 6. ""The Monks Commit Many Crimes"": Holy Violence Contested 7. ""Sanctify Thy Hand by the Blow"": Problematizing Episcopal Power 8. Non Iudicium sed Latrocinium: Of Holy Synods and Robber Councils Conclusion Bibliography Index"

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Michael Gaddis is formerly Associate Professor of History at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University.

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