Town and country in the early Christian centuries
By: W. H. C. Frend.
Series: Collected studies ; CS 110
Publisher: Variorum Reprints
Published: 1980
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 372
Subjects: Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 -- Addresses, essays, lectures
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Articles reprinted from various journals.
Table of contents: title: Town and countryside in early Christianity -- The winning of the countryside -- The Gospel of Thomas: Is rehabilitation possible? -- The ecology of the early Christianities -- The archaeologist and church history -- Ecclesiastical history: Its growth and relevance -- Review of T. Kaluser, Henri Leclercq 1869-1945: vom autodidacten zum kompilator grossen stils -- The church of the Roman Empire, 313-600 -- A severan persecution? -- The failure of the persecutions in the Roman Empire -- Eastern attitudes to Rome during the Acacian schism -- Ecclesia Britannica: prelude or dead end? -- A note on the influence of Greek immigrants on the spread of Christianity in the West -- Paulinus of Nola and the last century of the Western Empire -- Blandina and Perpetua: two early Christian heroines -- The early Christian church in Carthage -- Jews and Christians in third century Carthage -- The Memoriae Apostolorum in Roman North Africa -- Circumcellions and monks -- The revival of Berber art -- North Africa and Europe in the early middle ages -- The mission to Nubia: an episode in the struggle for power in sixth century Byzantium -- The cult of military saints in Christian Nubia -- Recently discovered materials for writing the history of Christian Nubia -- Review of Erich Dinkler (ed.): Kunst und Geschichte Nubiens in christlicher zeit