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Translated Texts for Historians This series is designed to meet the needs of students of ancient and medieval history and others who wish to broaden their study by reading source material, but whose knowledge of Latin or Greek is not sufficient to allow them to do so in the original language. Many important Late Imperial and Dark Age texts are currently unavailable in translation and it is hoped that TTH will help to fill this gap and to complement the secondary literature in English which already exists. The series relates principally to the period 300-800 AD and includes Late Imperial, Greek, Byzantine and Syriac texts as well as source books illustrating a particular period or theme. Each volume is a self- contained scholarly translation with an introductory essay on the text and its author and notes on the text indicating major problems of interpretation, including textual difficulties. Editorial Committee Sebastian Brock, Oriental Institute, University of Oxford Averil Cameron, Keble College, Oxford Henry Chadwick, Oxford John Davies, University of Liverpool Cariotta Dionisotti, King’s College, London Peter Heather, University College London Michael Lapidge, Clare College, Cambridge Robert Markus, University of Nottingham John Matthews, Yale University Raymond Van Dam, University of Michigan Michael Whitby, University of Warwick Ian Wood, University of Leeds General Editors Gillian Clark, University of Liverpool Mary Whitby, Royal Holloway, London Front cover drawing: Donatist iconography, from an example found near Tebessa (source: Buletin des Antiquaires de France 19Q6, séance du 11 Avril, Heron de Villefosse A full list of published titles in the Translated Texts for Historians series is printed at the end of this book. Translated Texts for Historians Volume 24 Donatist Martyr Stories The Church in Conflict in Roman North Africa Translated with notes and introduction by MAUREEN A. TILLEY Liverpool University Press First published 1996 Liverpool University Press Senate House, Abercromby Square Liverpool, L69 3BX Copyright ® 1996 Maureen A. Tilley All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publishers, except by a reviewer in connection with a review for inclusion in a magazine or newspaper. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A British Library CIP Record is available ISBN 0-85323-931-2 Printed in the European Union by Redwood Books, Trowbridge, England C ontents Abbreviations...........................................................................................v Preface....................................................................................................vii Introduction......................................................................................... xi Legal and Literary Notes.....................................................................xix The Donatist Passion of Cyprian...........................................................1 The Acts of Saint Felix Bishop and Martyr ........................................7 The Passion of Saints Maxima, Donatilla and Secunda......................13 The Acts of the Abitinian Martyrs......................................................25 A Sermon Given on the Passion of Saints Donatus and Advocatus 51 The Passion of Maximian and Isaac....................................................61 The Martyrdom of Marculus ..............................................................77 Map of Donatist North Africa..............................................................89 Bibliography .........................................................................................91 Index.......................................................................................................99 A bbreviations AB Analecta Bollandiana ANF The Ante-Nicene Fathers CCSL Corpus Christianorum Series Latina CIL Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum Cod. Theod. The Theodosian Code. Translated with a com mentary by Clyde Pharr. Princeton: Princeton University, 1952. CSEL Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum Eusebius, EH Eusebius, The Ecclesiastical History. Trans lated by J. E. L. Oulton. Loeb Classical Lib rary. Cambridge: Harvard; and London: Heine mann, 1980. Frend, M&P W. H. C. Frend. Martyrdom and Persecution in the Early Church: A Study of Conflict from the Maccabees to Donatus. New York: New York University, 1967. Frend, TDC W. H. C. Frend. The Donatist Church: A Movement of Protest in Roman North Africa. Oxford: Clarendon, 1952. Maier Le Dossier du Donatisme. Edited and translated by Jean-Louis Maier. T&U 135 and 135. Ber lin: Akademie-Verlag, 1987 and 1989. vi Donatist Martyr Stories Migne Patrologiae Cursus Completus, Series Latina. 221 vols. Edited by Jacques Paul Migne. Paris: Gamier, 1844-94. Monceaux Paul Monceaux, Histoire littéraire de l’Afrique chrétienne depuis les origines jusqu’à l’invasion arabe. 7 vols. Paris, 1901-23; repr. Brussels: Civilisation et Culture, 1963. Musurillo The Acts of the Christian Martyrs. Introduction, texts and translations by Herbert Musurillo. Oxford: Clarendon, 1972. Optatus The Work of St. Optatus Bishop of Milevis against the Donatists. Translated by O. R. Vassall-Phillips. London and New York: Long mans Green, 1917. PL Patrologiae Cursus Completus, Series Latina. Edited by Jacques Paul Migne. 221 Vols. Paris: Gamier, 1844-94. PW August Friedrich von Pauly, Paulys Realen- cyclopädie der classischen Alterumswissen schaft. Neue Arbeitung. Edited by Georg Wis- sowa et al. Stuttgart: Metzler, 1893- REA Revue des Études Augustiniennes SC Sources Chrétiennes T&U Texte und Untersuchungen
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