Ius et religio: The Conference of Carthage and the End of the Donatist Schism. 411 CE

GARCÍA MAC GAW, C.

Conflict and Compromise. The Role of the Bishop in Late Antiquity

Bloomsbury

Lugar: Londres; Año: 2012; p. 47 - 62

The Conference of Carthage, convened by the Emperor Honorius, opened on 1 June 411. Bishops of the Catholic and Donatist churches met to solve the schism that had divided African Christians for over a century. In reality, it was the culmination of a policy of proscription that the Roman State had pursued against the Donatist church in the previous years. This paper studies the interaction of legal and religious aspects which held a central place in the African bishops? debate, without forgetting the political conditions, necessary to understand the reasons for calling the meeting and its development, stressing dissemination and propagandistic factors.