Being Christian in Vandal Africa

Robin Whelan is Departmental Lecturer in Early Medieval History at the University of Oxford.

• List of Illustrations and TablesAcknowledgmentsTime LineIntroductionPART I. CONTESTING ORTHODOXY1. African Churches2. In Dialogue with Heresy: Christian Polemical Literature3. “What Th ey Are to Us, We Are to Them”: Homoian Orthodoxy and Homoousian Heresy4. Ecclesiastical Histories: Reinventing the AriansPART II. ORTHODOXY AND SOCIETY5. Exiles on Main Street: Nicene Bishops and the Vandal Court6. Christianity, Ethnicity, and Society7. Elite Christianity, Political Service, and Social PrestigeEpilogue: Homoian Christianity in the Post-Imperial WestBibliographyIndex

"This is a remarkable first book by a young scholar.... it skillfully analyzes Christian texts from Vandal North Africa that have not received enough attention but which, as Whelan masterly shows, nevertheless constitute a significant contribution to the understanding of the period.