Is there any evidence at all for a British presence in Africa in 410, the year that Pelagius came to Carthage following the sack of Rome?
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My question: how much of a rarity would Pelagius have been in Rome/Africa/the Levant as a Briton moving in high society? Can we know?
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Impossible to say for certain, I suspect? Britons were mocked e.g. Ausonius on Silvius Bonus in the L4thC...https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=AFxFkwmnRJMC&lpg=PA70&pg=PA70#v=onepage&q&f=false …
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Yes, that's what prompted me to wonder whether it was a stereotype. Was Pelagius having to cope with that kind of mockery as a Briton?
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Potentially so, seems to have been partly used against him. Yet, at same, other Britons on continent in 5th–6thC happy to identify as such…
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Britonculus was the term used in a letter home from H's wall. So a bit of a put down.
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> exported southwards from Carthage across Sahara to Kissi, Burkina Faso, in this era prob partly originated in Britain, so possible…
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