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Being Christian in Vandal Africa : The Politics of Orthodoxy in the Post-Imperial West / Robin Whelan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Whelan, Robin, author.
- Series:
- Transformation of the classical heritage ; LVIX.
- Transformation of the Classical Heritage ; 59
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Vandals--Africa, North--History.
- Vandals.
- Church history--Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
- Church history.
- Christianity and politics--Africa, North.
- Christianity and politics.
- Christianity--Africa, North.
- Christianity.
- Africa, North--Church history.
- Africa, North.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2017]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- 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 c.e. 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.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- List of Illustrations and Tables
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Time Line
- Introduction
- Part I. Contesting Orthodoxy
- 1. African Churches
- 2. In Dialogue with Heresy: Christian Polemical Literature
- 3. "What They Are to Us, We Are to Them": Homoian Orthodoxy and Homoousian Heresy
- 4. Ecclesiastical Histories: Reinventing the Arians
- Part II. Orthodoxy and Society
- 5. Exiles on Main Street: Nicene Bishops and the Vandal Court
- 6. Christianity, Ethnicity, and Society
- 7. Elite Christianity, Political Service, and Social Prestige
- Epilogue: Homoian Christianity in the Post-Imperial West
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2017.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 20. Sep 2019)
- ISBN:
- 9780520968684
- 0520968689
- OCLC:
- 999672156
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