Being Christian in Vandal Africa: the politics of orthodoxy in the post-imperial West - LVIX

Recent work on the notoriously passionate Christian conflicts of the later Roman Empire has elucidated their wide-ranging political and social implications.

However, the fifth-century conquest of the Roman West by 'barbarian' rulers brings this train of inquiry to a juddering halt, as scholars of early Christianity turn eastward for new doctrinal developments, and early medieval historians focus on political continuity and ethnic identity in the new kingdoms.

This text argues that Christian controversy retained its sophistication and its sociopolitical consequences in the post-imperial West.