To browse Academia. Ecole Nationale Polytechnique d'Alger. Skip to main content. Log In Sign Up. Followers Following Public Views. My doctoral thesis focused on the role of the bishop in the North African' cities of Late Antiquity period. I'am also a cultural historian of the North Africa in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages : My research focuses on the Later Roman Empire and its Early Medieval successors, with a particular interest in issues of religious diversity, social identity, ethnic communities and political culture.
I am also interested in North African historiography. Related Authors. Grigori Lazarev. Hosni Farcheni. Emilio Gonzalez-Ferrin Universidad de Sevilla. Interests View All 8. Papers by Mohamed Arbi Nsiri. As with Tyconius and Augustine, the role of time is crucial in Quodvultdeus' theology for underst In the structure of thought of the Bishop of Carthage, there is a dual construction of time: the time of suffering and the time of glory. This dualistic and linear conception of time greatly contributed to his conceptualisation of history.
Thus, his understanding of historical time, in a context marked by strong Nicene resistance to the Homaeans, sees the course of current events as a fulfilment of the events foretold in the Bible. The result is a perspective in which the apocalyptic end of time takes on increasing importance. Download Edit. Yvette Duval's publications offer diverse and contrasting aspects about the dynamism of late-anti I have underlined the extent to which they were able to exert a considerable influence in recent historiography.
The ideas defended in her various articles and books cannot leave anyone indifferent. Discussing them, drawing up a critical assessment, seeing them questioned, does not mean doing an iconoclast's work. The episcopal election is imposed in Late Roman North Africa as a theological rule and as a socio This made it possible to create an interaction between the clergy and the populus christianus at the local level through-out the Late Roman Period.
After the installation of the Vandal in North Africa, the modality of recruitment of bishops sustained many changes who were related to political and doctrinal aspects. This new reality is explained by the royal interventionist policy in the internal affairs of North African Church. The election assemblies, when they are maintained, have only a weak decision-making power and the choice of the bishop very often escapes them.
