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Victor of Vita - History of the Vandal Persecution (Paperback)
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Victor of Vita - History of the Vandal Persecution (Paperback)
Series: Translated Texts for Historians, 11
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An accurate translation into English of a 5th-century Latin text
for which there is only an Italina translation currently in print.
The text is a lay source for the history of the Vandals, barbarian
people who adhered to Asian Christianity and occupied Roman Africa,
unleashing a persecution of Catholic Christians which has led to
them generally being seen as the most vicious of the barbarian
peoples who settled on roman territory. An introduction and
footnote commentary discusses issues raised by the text. As so
often, the History of Victor of vita casts light not just on its
topic but the attitudes of its author, and properly understood it
is revelatory of the attitudes of Catholic Africans. Their
traditions had been ones of combat from the time of the pagan Roman
Empire, and the book suggests that bad relations between the
Vandals and Catholics may have been caused by the unyielding
traditions of the latter as well as the nefarious nature of the
former.
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