1st Edition
Magnus Maximus and the Priscillianists Mass Trials and Imperial Authority in the Fourth Century
By Ysabeau Wood
Copyright 2027
310 Pages
4 B/W Illustrations
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Routledge
Magnus Maximus and the Priscillianists analyses the Priscillianist controversy from the perspective of the imperial government, focusing on developments in imperial ideology and laws against sorcery, sexual immorality, and treason over the course of the fourth century in order to explain why Priscillian’s actions appeared so sinister to officials.
A comparison of these laws to subcultural and... Read more
1. Collapse Of Security (375—380) 2. Priscillianism, The Churches, And The Council Of Zaragoza 3. Accusation, Suppression, And Crisis (380—381) 4. Fever Pitch (382—383) 5. Making A Usurper Into An Emperor (383—387) 6. The Synod of Bordeaux (384) 7. The Cold War (385—387) 8. The Trials at Trier (385—387?) 9. The Aftermath
Biography
Ysabeau Wood is an Independent Researcher. She received her PhD in Ancient History from the The University of Auckland, New Zealand, and has written on legal history and Theodosius I, sorcery and marginalisation in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, and women’s writings in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages.
