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Ancient Christianity had an ambivalent stance toward violence. Jesus had instructed his disciples to love their enemies, and in the first centuries Christians w

A comparative examination and interpretation of religious violence in the Graeco-Roman world and Late Antiquity.

In Violence and Belief in Late Antiquity, Thomas Sizgorich seeks to understand why and how violent expressions of religious devotion became central to the self-

Employs the sectarian battles which divided African Christians in late antiquity to explore the nature of violence in religious conflicts.

Focusing on the 4th and 5th centuries, Michael Gaddis explores how various groups employed the language of religious violence to construct their own identities,