1st Edition
The Years of the Infidels African Latin Christianity from the Vandals to the Almohads
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 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
Biography
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.
