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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Replying to @holland_tom @e_pe_me_ri
Hmm… can't think of anything off top of my head, but will look :) Definitely evidence from preceding centuries, and looks like metal >
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Replying to @caitlinrgreen @e_pe_me_ri
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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Replying to @holland_tom @e_pe_me_ri
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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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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Replying to @caitlinrgreen @e_pe_me_ri
Oohhh, that sounds totally fascinating - is it published?
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Replying to @holland_tom @e_pe_me_ri
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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No problem :)
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