Arianism: Roman Heresy and Barbarian Creed

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Dr Guido M Berndt, Dr Roland Steinacher
Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., Sep 28, 2014 - History - 386 pages
This is the first volume to attempt a comprehensive introduction to and overview of the evolution of the 'Arian' churches in the Roman world of Late Antiquity and their political importance in the late Roman kingdoms of the 5th-6th centuries, ruled by barbarian warrior elites. Bringing together researchers from the disciplines of theology, history and archaeology, and providing an extensive bibliography, it constitutes a breakthrough in a field largely neglected in historical studies.
 

Contents

la Ulfila und der sogenannte gotische Arianismus 21
45
Orthodox or Arian?
67
The Homoians
85
Deconstruction of the Socalled Germanic Arianism
117
Vulfila pontifex ipseque primas Gothorum minorum sed
131
Barbarian Arian Clergy Church Organization and Church
145
Germanic Language and Germanic Homoianism
193
The ecclesia legis Gothorum and the Role of Arianism
219
Arianism in Africa
239
Arianism and Ethnic Identity in SixthCentury
257
The Homoians in Gaul
271
Uta Heil
285
The Elusive Nature of an Orthodox Heresy
311
Index
367
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Guido M. Berndt is a researcher at the Department of Ancient History, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany; Roland Steinacher is a historian specialising in Roman History at the Institut für Mittelalterforschung of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and teaches at the University of Vienna, Austria.

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