The Circumcellions: Donatist Peasant Violence

340 CE · Kuzey Afrika · social

The Circumcellions (itinerant harvest labourers), the armed wing of the Donatist heresy, attacked landowners and Catholics; there followed a long controversy with Augustine.

They were the religious guise of class conflict in Roman Africa.

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What was The Circumcellions: Donatist Peasant Violence?
The Circumcellions (itinerant harvest labourers), the armed wing of the Donatist heresy, attacked landowners and Catholics; there followed a long controversy with Augustine.
When did The Circumcellions: Donatist Peasant Violence happen?
340 CE
Where did The Circumcellions: Donatist Peasant Violence take place?
Kuzey Afrika