Tertullian: A Historical and Literary Study, Timothy D. Barnes's 1971 study from Clarendon Press, is the standard critical scholarly study of what can and cannot be reliably established about the early Christian writer Tertullian's life from his own surviving works. Barnes is an established historian of late antiquity, and the study's authority rests on that rigorous source critical method, still treated as foundational in Tertullian scholarship decades later. Its limit is that Barnes's own conclusions on some biographical points have themselves been revisited by later scholarship. Cite it as the standard critical starting point; a specific disputed biographical detail may need checking against more recent specialist literature.
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Timothy D. Barnes's Tertullian, A Historical and Literary Study, published by Clarendon Press in 1971, the top tier reflecting Barnes's standing as an established historian of late antiquity and the study's rigorous source critical method, still treated as foundational decades later, notwithstanding that some of Barnes's own biographical conclusions have themselves been revisited by later scholarship. NotesThe standard critical study of what can and cannot be established about Tertullian from the works themselves.
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AuthorTimothy D. Barnes
PublisherClarendon Press
Publication Year1971
Source Typeacademic monograph
Claims Backed By This Source (13 claims)
This source backs 13 claims across the atlas. As facts: 8 well-attested, 3 scholarly debate. As cited relationships: 1 holds. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Sources, 7 claims: 7 well-attested.
- Historical Figures, 6 claims: 1 well-attested, 3 scholarly debate, 1 holds, 1 general references.
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