The Library
1774 works catalogued century by century, from the literature the Bible was written among to the present — each with a note on what it is, why it lasted, and where to read it.
401–500
2 works
c. 445–450
Latin
Quodvultdeus · d. c. 454
Written in exile at Naples by the bishop of Carthage, expelled when the Vandals took the city. It runs through scripture as a series of promises made and kept, and reads the catastrophe that has just happened to his own church as one more chapter rather than as the end.
c. 484–489
Latin
Historia Persecutionis Africanae Provinciae
Victor of Vita
An African bishop's record of sixty years under Arian Vandal kings: churches confiscated, catholic clergy deported to the desert, a public debate rigged in advance, and the confessors of Tipasa whose tongues were cut out and who, Victor says, went on speaking.
2 of 1774 works