Donatist martyr stories
Subtitle: the Church in conflict in Roman North Africa
By: translated with notes and introduction by Maureen A. Tilley.
Contributors: Tilley, Maureen A.
Series: Translated texts for historians ;; v. 24
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Liverpool
Language: eng
Number of pages: 101
Subjects: Donatists -- Controversial literature -- Early works to 1800.; Christian martyrs -- Africa, North -- Biography -- Early works to 1800.
Genres: Controversial literature; Early works to 1800.
Description: The narratives represent the lives and deaths of Christians who carried on pre-Constantine traditions from the fourth century to the advent of Islam. --from publisher description.
Notes: Translated from Latin.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [91]-98) and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Introduction; title: Legal and literary notes; title: The Donatist Passion of Cyprian; title: The acts of Saint Felix Bishop and Martyr; title: The Passion of Saints Maxima, Donatilla and Secunda; title: The acts of the Abitinian martyrs; title: A sermon given on the passion of Saints Donatus and Advocatus; title: The passion of Maximian and Isaac; title: The martyrdom of Marculus.