Imperial Collapse and Christianization in Patristic Scholarship during the Final Decades of Colonial Algeria, 1930–1962
Hunt, Thomas E. (2021) Imperial Collapse and Christianization in Patristic Scholarship during the Final Decades of Colonial Algeria, 1930–1962. Journal of Early Christian Studies, 29 (2). pp. 261-289. ISSN 1067-6341
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Abstract
The work of H.-I. Marrou is important in historiographic accounts of the development of patristic studies and late antiquity. From the 1930s onwards, Marrou and his peers made use of material evidence from North Africa produced by the rapidly professionalizing discipline of archaeology. Archaeological engagement with the past was determined by the wider colonial context in which these excavations took place and this shaped the representation of late ancient Christianity, particularly the life and work of Augustine of Hippo. At the same time, however, Augustine’s work gave Marrou the means to challenge France’s prosecution of the Algerian War.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of of Arts, Society and Professional Studies > Department of Art and Humanities |
| Depositing User: | Ms Hazel Barham |
| Date Deposited: | 21 Aug 2019 13:17 |
| Last Modified: | 06 Jun 2023 09:39 |
| URI: | https://newman.repository.guildhe.ac.uk/id/eprint/17265 |
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