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DONATISTS UNDER THE REIGN OF VANDALS AND BYZANTIUM (Donatysci pod rzadami Wandalow i Bizancjum)

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Adamiak S.

U Schyłku Starożytności. Studia Źrodłoznawcze

2009

vol. 8

13-31

The main subject of letters sent by pope Gregory the Great to Africa is the activity of the Donatists. The pope appeals severely to bishops and secular authorities to suppress schism. There is little evidence of the Donatists' survival after the conference of Carthage in the year 411. Therefore certain researchers (e.g. R.A. Markus) claim that Gregory wrongly estimated the situation, applying the old name to other phenomena, such as the autonomy of African episcopate. It was also possible that the Donatists had achieved some modus vivendi with the Catholics under the reign of Arian Vandals. Some 5th and 6th century sources indicate that the Donatists were considered as opponents by both Catholics and Arians. On the other hand, as it happens, there are sometimes no information about the Donatists where we would expect them. Hence, it may be difficult to estimate clearly the value of information provided by Gregory the Great, but it is definitely not true that nothing is known about the Donatists in the times between Augustine and Gregory.

THE STRUGGLE OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE WITH PAGANISM AND HERESY IN THE EYES OF LATE ANTIQUE HISTORIANS: PHILOSTORGIUS, SOCRATES, SOZOMENUS, THEODORETUS AND ZOSIMUS (Polish title below)

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Stachura M.

U Schyłku Starożytności. Studia Źrodłoznawcze

2009

vol. 8

127-148

(Polish title: Walka panstwa rzymskiego z poganstwem i herezja w oczach poznoantycznych historykow: Filostorgiosa, Sokratesa, Sozomenosa, Teodoreta i Zosimosa). The article is a reflection on the politics of Roman Christian emperors against heretics and pagans, as presented in the Ecclesiastical Histories by Philostorgius, Socrates, Sozomenus and Theodoretus, as well as in the New History by Zosimus. The research is focused not only on similarities and differences in the approach towards this aspect in the enumerated works, but also on comparison of the picture revealed in the analysis with the one based on the Theodosian Code. As it is stated in the conclusion, the two pictures are not contradictory, though historians highlight only selected aspects of the process being described here. Sozomenus is the only one really interested in the impact of law on reality, while all of them contribute to our knowledge of law execution. Historians provide us with more valuable and reliable source when law in practice is included in their descriptions than when they deliberately try to convince the reader about a certain legal state.

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2 U Schyłku Starożytności. Studia Źrodłoznawcze

1 Adamiak S.

1 Stachura M.

2 2009

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DONATISTS UNDER THE REIGN OF VANDALS AND BYZANTIUM (Donatysci pod rzadami Wandalow i Bizancjum)

THE STRUGGLE OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE WITH PAGANISM AND HERESY IN THE EYES OF LATE ANTIQUE HISTORIANS: PHILOSTORGIUS, SOCRATES, SOZOMENUS, THEODORETUS AND ZOSIMUS (Polish title below)