Being Christian in Vandal Africa - The Politics of Orthodoxy in the Post-Imperial West

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.