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This dissertation is a study of the practice and effects of imperial power in ancient North Africa, and in particular in what is modern-day Tunisia. As part of the reaction against older studies which focus on the binary of the Roman colonizers and the African colonized—whether …

Prior to the second quarter of the fifth century CE, Carthage was one of the most prosperous and populous cities in the Mediterranean. The demise of Roman rule, the Vandal conquest (c. 439 CE) and the Byzantine conquest (c. 533 CE) fueled social, political and economic change th…

Once Rome's greatest rival for the role of capital of the Mediterranean, the North African city of Carthage was razed by the Roman consul Scipio Aemilianus in 146 BCE immediately after the Third Punic War and remained forsaken for almost a century.1 Claiming to have found the de…

In 2008, Lewis Ayres and Michel Barnes published several articles in the journal Augustinian Studies proposing a theory of early Christian pneumatology in three stages. They argue that each successive stage marked a downturn in the church’s pneumatology, progressing from a high …