Table of Contents

• Preface
• Chronology
• Introduction
• Optatus: Against the Donatists
• The Optatan Appendix
• App. 1 Proeeedings before Zenophilus
• App. 2 Trial of Bishop Felix
• App. 3 Constantine to Aelafius
• App. 4 The Council of Arles
• App. 5 Constantine to the catholic bishops
• App. 6 Constantine to the Donatist bishops
• App. 7 Constantine to Celsus
• App. 8 The prefects to Celsus
• App. 9 Constantine to the catholics
• App. 10 Constantine to the catholic bishops of Numidia
• Bibliography
• Glossary and Index
• App. 1 The Bishops of Rome
• App. 2 The Italian bishoprics
• Maps at end of volume

About the Author

Professor Mark J. Edwards is Tutor in Theology at Christ Church College, Oxford. His previous publications include Catholicity and Heresy in the Early Church (2009), Image, Word and God in the Early Christian Centuries (2012) and Christians, Gnostics and Philosophers in Late Antiquity (2012)