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Claude Lepelley

Lepelley Claude, born in 1934 , is a historian French specialist of late antiquity and the Roman Africa. His thesis on The cities of Roman Africa in the Lower Empire , supported in 1977 under the direction of William Seston , has profoundly changed our understanding of the urban world to ^III - IV ^centuries: far from declining, the cities of Africa experiencing a degree of prosperity at that time.

Biography

Claude Lepelley successively taught ancient history at the University of Tunis (1957-1959) at the Sorbonne (1962-1967), then at the University of Lille III. He was professor at the University of Paris X Nanterre (1984-2002) and Chairman of the Institute for Augustinian Studies (1987-2000).

His research focuses on the history of Christianity and Late Antiquity.

Bibliography

The Roman Empire and Christianity, Paris, Flammarion, "Questions of History", 1969.
(Ed.): Christianity and political power, Lille, Presses Universitaires de Lille, 1973.
Cities of Roman Africa in the Lower Empire, Volume I: The permanence of a civilization city, Paris, Institute for Augustinian Studies, a collection of Augustinian Studies, 1979.
Cities of Roman Africa in the Lower Empire, Volume II: Records of municipal history, Paris, Institute for Research Augustinian, Augustinian Studies Collection, 1981.
(Ed. with P. Veyras): Newman and history, Lyon, Presses Universitaires de Lyon, 1993.
(Ed. with A. and S. Chastagnol Demougin): "Splendissima civitas." Studies of Roman history to the memory of Francois Jacques, Paris, Publications de la Sorbonne, 1996.
(Ed.): The end of the ancient city and the beginning of the medieval city from the late ^third century to the advent of Charlemagne, Bari, Edipuglia, 1996.
(Eds.): Rome and the integration of the empire. Volume II: Regional Approaches to the Early Roman Empire, Paris, PUF, "Clio", 1998.
(Ed. with X. Dupuis): Borders and boundaries of the ancient North Africa. Tribute to Peter Salama, Paris, Publications de la Sorbonne, 2000.
Aspects of Roman Africa. Cities, rural life, Christianity, Bari, Edipuglia, 2001. Collection of articles.
Christians and the Roman Empire. Persecution, polemical and apologetic, Chapter VIII of the History of Christianity, Paris, Descle de Brouwer, 2001.
"Saint Augustine and the influence of his thought," Chapter VI of the History of Christianity, Paris, Seuil, 2007.
St. Augustine: The Giver of two banks, Orbestier Editions, 2010, collective work. This book brings together the fruit of the work of leading experts in Saint Augustine, including Claude Lepelley, and follows a symposium held in 2003 in Les Sables d'Olonne, with the support of Unesco in the framework of the Year of the Algeria in France.

Sources

Inglebert (Herve), ed. : Ideology and civic values in the Roman world. Tribute to Claude Lepelley, Paris, Picard, 2002. A volume of tributes, including a detailed bibliography of Claude Lepelley.