Episcopus et plebs: L'évêque et la communauté ecclésiale dans les conciles africains (345-525)

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Ancient and Medieval Episcopus et plebs: L'évêque et la communauté ecclésiale dans les conciles africains (345-525). By Jean-Anatole Sabw Kanyang. [Publications Universitaires Européennes, Series XXIII: Theology Vol. 701.] (Bern: Peter Lang. 2000. Pp. xiv, 396; 2 folding maps. $57.95 paperback.)

Episcopus et plebs is a masterful examination of church life and the episcopate in late Roman Africa, glimpsed through the prism of canonical legislation from that region. Scholars of North African Christianity owe a debt of gratitude to Sabw Kanyang (and to his thesis director, Otto Wermelinger, ...

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