Christian persecution, martyrdom, and orthodoxy/

Main Author: De Ste. Croix, G. E. M.
Corporate Author: Oxford University Press
Other Authors: Whitby, Michael
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press, 2006
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Aspects of the 'Great' persecution
  • The Fourth Edict in the West and the date of the Council of Elvira
  • Why were the early Christians persecuted?
  • Voluntary martyrdom in the early church
  • Heresy, schism, and persecution in the later Roman Empire
  • The Council of Chalcedon / with additions by Michael Whitby
  • Early Christian attitudes to property and slavery