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?
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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There's a great study of British 'expats' in the Roman Empire by Tatiana Ivleva in her PhD, but it unfortunately ends in the 3rdC…
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Oohhh, that sounds totally fascinating - is it published?
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It wasn't last time I looked, but the full text is available online! https://openaccess.leidenuniv.nl/handle/1887/20136 …
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Thank you so much.
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No problem :)
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Copy ordered!
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It's a good book, well worth a read :)
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