Christian Persecution, Martyrdom, and Orthodoxy

This volume brings together seven seminal papers on early Christian topics by the great radical historian Geoffrey de Ste. Croix, who died in 2000. Three of these have previously been published, and are widely regarded as classic studies, while the other four appear here for the first time. All the papers have been updated in terms of bibliography and referencing, and the editors have contributed essays on the questions of Ste. Croix's contribution to the study of persecution and martyrdom and his views on toleration.

Geoffrey de Ste. Croix was Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History at New College, Oxford from 1953 until 1977. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1972. He published Origins of the Peloponnesian War in 1972 and The Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek World in 1981; the latter book was translated into Spanish and Greek, and won the Isaac Deutscher Memorial prize for 1982.