Years of the Infidels - African Latin Christianity From the Vandals to the Almohads

This book examines African Latin Christianity from the fifth to the thirteenth century, exploring the complex interactions between local Christian communities and Vandals, Byzantines, and Arabs.

List of contents

Introduction
Chapter 1: The Vandal Kingdom: Confrontation and Coexistence
Chapter 2: Conquering Africa: Justinian's Wars and the Three Chapters Controversy
Chapter 3: Gregory the Great and the African Church
Chapter 4: Monotheletism and the African Latin Church
Chapter 5: The Islamic Conquest and its Impact upon African Latin Christianity
Chapter 6: Three Centuries of Silence? African Christians under Islamic Rule during the Early Middle Ages
Chapter 7: Leo IX, Gregory VII, and the Church of Africa
Chapter 8: The Almohads and the End of African Latin Christianity
Conclusion
Bibliography

About the author

Marco Cristini obtained his PhD at Scuola Normale Superiore (Pisa, Italy). He subsequently held a fellowship at the University of Tübingen and at the Istituto Italiano di Storia Antica (Rome). He is currently Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Florence. He published a monograph on the second-last Ostrogothic king (Baduila: Politics and Warfare at the End of Ostrogothic Italy), as well as several papers on sixth-century Italy, Cassiodorus, Procopius of Caesarea, and early medieval diplomacy.

Product details

• Authors: Marco Cristini
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 27.06.2025
• EAN: 9781032540634
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3254063-4
• No. of pages: 258
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; RELIGION / Christian Church / History, HISTORY / Africa / North, Christianity, History of Religion, Medieval History, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, African History, Church history, History and Archaeology, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval, C 500 CE To C 1000 CE, Byzantine Empire