1. I sing of things that are not unknown: epic and history in Byzantine Africa; 2. Prelude to a war: Byzantine Africa 533-546; 3. Past and future in the Iohannis; 4. Corippus and the Moorish World; 5. For every blade was red war and bloodshed in the Iohannis; 6. Christianity and paganism in the Iohannis; Conclusions.