Tertullian the African: An Anthropological Reading of Tertullian’s Context and Identities (Millennium-Studien / Millennium Studies) – David E. Wilhite Finale Uitverkoop

Who was Tertullian, and what can we know about him? This work explores his social identities, focusing on his North African milieu. Theories from the discipline of social/cultural anthropology, including kinship, class and ethnicity, are accommodated and applied to selections of Tertullian’s writings. In light of postcolonial concerns, this study utilizes the categories of Roman colonizers, indigenous Africans and new elites. The third category, new elites, is actually intended to destabilize the other two,…