Arians and Vandals of the 4th-6th centuries. Annotated translations of the historical works by bishops Victor of Vita (Historia persecutionis Africanae provinciae) and Victor of Tonnena (Chronicon), and of the religious works by bishop Victor of Cartenna (De paenitentia) and saints Ambrose (De fide orthodoxa contra Arianos), and Athanasius (Expositio fidei)

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This volume consists of annotated translations of a selection of late-antique writings. The central text is Victor of Vita's History of the Vandal persecution, a translation of which by John Moorhead appeared in 1990 in Liverpool University Press's Translated Texts for Historians. Readers might therefore be surprised to encounter another translation of this relatively minor, if none the less interesting, work so soon after the first. Martyn, however, makes his rationale clear in his introduction, remarking that Moorhead's version 'has useful notes, but unfortunately it very often omits words and distorts the sense of the Latin' (p. xxiii). From then on, this new volume becomes a conversation with Moorhead, who makes regular appearances in...