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Valens
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Flavius Valens, born in 321 CE in the Pannonian city Cibalae (Vinkovci, Croatia), was of humble origins. As a young man, Valens became a soldier; his first attested rank was
protector domesticus (member of the palace guard) during the short reign of Emperor Jovian (363/364 CE). On Mar 1, 364 CE, Valentinian I (r. 364–375 CE) appointed him
tribunus stabuli (stable master), which earned him a position close to the emperor. Valentinian was well aware that the empire was too large to be governed by one man; the army likewise expressed its wishes for a co-em…
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2022-09-22
Victor of Vita
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Victor of Vita (or Victor Vitensis) was a North African Nicene Christian living in the kingdom of the Vandals. His importance for early Christianity rests on his work,
Historia persecutionis Africanae Provinciae temporum Geiserici et Hunerici regum Vandalorum (
History of the Persecution in the African Provinces in the Time of the Vandal Kings Geiseric und Huneric), written in the in the late 480s CE. In this work Victor defends the position of the Nicene Creed (the doctrine of the Christian faith adopted at the Council of Nicaea in 325 CE to defend …
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2022-09-22
Rimini, Council of
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With the attempt to resolve the “Arian” controversy, which in the 4th century CE had theologically and politically divided the church, Emperor Constantius II (r. 337–361 CE) called for two councils (Councils/Synods) to be held simultaneously in the western and the eastern parts of the Roman Empire in 358 CE. The purpose was to negotiate a theological position between Nicene and Homoian Christians, who disagreed over whether God’s being was in one or three substances (
hypostaseis) of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, and to exclude the Anomoean positions of Aëtius of A…
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2022-09-22
Vandals
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Vandals are a people known for its role in the “migration period” who maintained a kingdom in North Africa from 429 to 534 CE. Their name has remained a synonym for willful destruction.Prehistory and First Contacts with the Roman EmpireThe Vandals, a people speaking one specific form of the Eastern Germanic that is related to the Gothic language, are first mentioned in Greek and Roman ethnographic writing of the 1st century CE. Designations in these texts, however, differ. Thus, it is far from clear where they originated. In the time…
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2022-09-22
