Description: A detailed and scholarly historical study of the schism between orthodox Christians and the Monophysites during the 5th to 7th centuries.
Brief description: Professor William H.C. Frend devoted more than fifty years to the study of the Early Church and was one of the foremost church historians of the English-speaking world. He was Dean of the Divinity Faculty of the University of Glasgow from 1972 to 1975, and is Bye-Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, and Emeritus Professor of Ecclesiastical History, University of Glasgow. He is also the author of: The Donatist Church, The Early Church, The Archaeology of Early Christianity, Saints and Sinners in the Early Church and The Rise of Christianity.