Home›Open Questions›What Was the True Death Toll of the Donatist-Catholic Conflict?Open QuestionsWhat Was the True Death Toll of the Donatist-Catholic Conflict?Citation FormatsGeneral ReferenceGeneral Reference Citation TextDivinity Atlas. "What Was the True Death Toll of the Donatist-Catholic Conflict?." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://divinity.interactivelion.com/open-questions-index/what-was-the-true-death-toll-of-the-donatist-catholic-conflict.Copy General ReferenceAPA StyleAPA Style Citation TextDivinity Atlas. (n.d.). What Was the True Death Toll of the Donatist-Catholic Conflict?. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://divinity.interactivelion.com/open-questions-index/what-was-the-true-death-toll-of-the-donatist-catholic-conflictCopy APA StyleBibTeXBibTeX Citation Text@misc{divinityatlas-what-was-the-true-death-toll-of-the-dona, author = {Divinity Atlas}, title = {What Was the True Death Toll of the Donatist-Catholic Conflict?}, year = {2026}, url = {https://divinity.interactivelion.com/open-questions-index/what-was-the-true-death-toll-of-the-donatist-catholic-conflict}, note = {Accessed August 30, 2026} }Copy BibTeXOpen QuestionCross-Tradition ConnectionsSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)Open QuestionAugustine's letters and sermons, the fullest surviving contemporary source, name individual incidents of circumcellion violence and its Catholic reprisals but never attempt a running total across the century of intermittent conflict, and no other ancient writer or modern historian has reconstructed one from the surviving legal and ecclesiastical record.What would resolve this A systematic collation of every named incident across Augustine's correspondence, sermons and the acts of North African church councils, of the kind that could at least establish a documented floor even without a claim to completeness.OpenLate antique church history; patristic source criticismBrent D. Shaw, Sacred Violence: African Christians and Sectarian Hatred in the Age of AugustineCross-Tradition ConnectionsQuestion OnThe Donatist-Catholic Conflict and Circumcellion Violence (312 to 411 CE), Wars & Conflicts Well-attested ConnectedNo ancient or modern source consulted attempts even a chronicle-style running total for the century of intermittent violence.SourcesSacred Violence: African Christians and Sectarian Hatred in the Age of Augustinetier 1Brent D. Shaw, Cambridge University Press, 2011Comments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.View At A Past YearThe atlas records no dated fact of its own for this entry, so there is no other year to choose.Show This Year