This is the first book for over twenty years to undertake a holistic examination of the Donatist Controversy, a bilious and sometimes violent schism that broke out in the North African Christian Churc
This is the first book for over twenty years to undertake a holistic examination of the Donatist Controversy, a bilious and sometimes violent schism that broke out in the North African Christian Churc
For almost forty years, from 1378 to 1417, the Western Church was divided into rival camps headed by twoand eventually threecompeting popes. The so-called Schism provoked a profound and long-lasting a
"Werbner makes an outstanding contribution to the growing field of Anthropology of Christianity, ethnographically and historically. His writing is engaged and engaging, certain to appeal to a readersh
The traditional date of the beginning of the Oriental Schism is 1054. Congar shows that the seeds of this break were sown centuries before when the creation of Byzantium, the Crowning of Charlemagne a
Historians and scholars of religion, literature, and art summarize scholarship on the split that created two popes for a generation, one in French Avignon and the other in German-occupied Rome. Their
Internal crises and external conflict made stability a rare feature of city life in the northern Italian communities of the Renaissance. Negotiating Survival follows the many twists and turns of strat
