Being Christian in Vandal Africa: The Politics of Orthodoxy in the Post-Imperial Westvolume 59

ISBN-13: 9780520295957 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 320 str.

Whelan, Robin

Opis

Being Christian in Vandal Africa investigates conflicts over Christian orthodoxy in the Vandal kingdom--the successor to Roman rule in North Africa, ca. 439 to 533 CE. Exploiting neglected texts, author Robin Whelan exposes a sophisticated culture of disputation between Nicene ("Catholic") and Homoian ("Arian") Christians and explores their rival claims to political and religious legitimacy. These contests--sometimes violent--are key to understanding the wider and much-debated issues of identity and state formation in the post-imperial West.