Religion ou politique ?
King Huneric’s decision to enter into conflict with the church of his Roman subjects in Africa in 481-482 AD was not, as far as we know, the inevitable consequence of his earlier policy. The only historiographer to deal with the persecution, Victor de Vita, refrains from explaining it historically,...
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Anthropologie et Histoire des Mondes Antiques
2025-02-01
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| Series: | Cahiers Mondes Anciens |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/mondesanciens/5228 |
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| Summary: | King Huneric’s decision to enter into conflict with the church of his Roman subjects in Africa in 481-482 AD was not, as far as we know, the inevitable consequence of his earlier policy. The only historiographer to deal with the persecution, Victor de Vita, refrains from explaining it historically, and sees in the policies of Genseric’s son nothing more than the actions of a tyrant both enraged and godless. To understand Huneric’s religious and political behavior, we must therefore try to reconstruct the king’s intentions a posteriori. It seems highly likely that the royal policy was the result of a rather fortuitous situation: Huneric wanted to break the rule of succession that his father had laid down and, to do so, needed support. We know that these plans failed, at the latest when he died at the end of 484. But did this strategy have any chance of success? In any case, even without success, it had considerable repercussions for the Vandal kingdom; these were, however, also due to other causes and were, on the whole, by no means accidental. |
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| ISSN: | 2107-0199 |