Tertullian: A Historical and Literary StudyTertullian lived and wrote in Roman Carthage during the reigns of Septimus Severus (193 211) and his son Caracalla (211 217). His voluminous tracts and pamphlets reveal the atmosphere of early Christianity in an era of persecution. The author sets Tertullian's writings within a chronological and historical framework, then uses them to interpret Tertullian's intellectial development, his reaction to the society in which he lived, and his place in Latin