History of the Vandal persecution

Title(s):
  • History of the Vandal persecution
  • Historia persecutionis Africanae provinciae temporum Geiserici et Hunerici regum Wandalorum
    (Historia persecutionis Africanae provinciae temporum Geiserici et Hunerici regum Wandalorum, History of the persecution in the province of Africa during the times of Geiseric and Huneric, kings of the Vandals)
Period covered:
429-484
Language:
Latin
State of Preservation:
Full
Genre:
  • Ecclesiastical history
  • Biography (collective)
Remarks:
The last chapter (3.41) is an addition by a later, African reader.
Edition - Translation:
Fragments:
Bibliography:
  • (1995) Clavis patrum Latinorum (CPL) 798
  • P. Chiesa, L. Castaldi (2004) La trasmissione dei testi latini del Medioevo: Mediaeval Latin texts and their transmission. Volume One (Millennio medievale, 50). Florence: 424-430.
  • T. Howe (2007) Vandalen, Barbaren und Arianer bei Victor von Vita (Studien zur alten Geschichte, 7). Frankfurt am Main.
  • P. Wynn (1990) 'Rufinus of Aquileia's Ecclesiastical history and Victor of Vita's History of the Vandal persecution'. Classica et mediaevalia 41: 187-198.