From: The Art Bulletin | Date: September 1, 1995| Author: Brown, Peter | COPYRIGHT 1995 College Art Association. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

THOMAS F. MATHEWS Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1993. 208 pp.; 16 color ills., 122 b/w. $49.50

In 336, Donatus, bishop of Carthage (the founder of the schismatic "Donatist" church in Roman Africa), rebuked the imperial authorities: "Quid est imperatori cum ecclesia?" he wrote, "What has the emperor to do with the Church?"' Though uttered in pique (the emperor had given to his rivals funds for the care of the poor which Donatus himself had hoped to administer),...