Slandering the Jew: sexuality and difference in early Christian texts

Abstract

the Muslim advance cut that development prematurely short. Chapter seven concerns itself with how North African Christianity coped initially, but was eventually subsumed, by Islam The most interesting aspects of this book are the individual stories it contains, one of the most intriguing being Procopius’ account of the 400 defeated Vandal warriors sent by the Byzantines via ship into exile in 534 to serve the empire on its Persian frontier (215). The men mutinied, turned the ship around and returned to North Africa. Upon arrival, the Vandals escaped to the mountains, well beyond the coastal cities, and ended up living among the Moors. This suggests that the Vandals had become African, that this was their home, and that perhaps they had found some form of assimilation with the Moorish tribes, something which the original Romano-Africans apparently did not achieve. All in all, Conant has given us a very well-considered overview of the story of North Africa between the end of Roman imperial government there and the coming of Islam. In doing so, he has opened up all sorts of possibilities for further research on what remains a fascinating and evocative subject.

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