At 4:42 pm +1300 9/1/00, andrew wrote:
>Am 01/08 22:12 Raymond Brown yscrifef:
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>I was under the impression that the Berbers remained outside the
>influnence of Roman society.
I find it difficult to believe that they all did. Who then was living
within the Roman provinces between Libya and the Atlantic? Surely it was
not only Roman settlers; there must have been a good number of pre-Roman
natives surely. And the Romans would certainly have traded with peoples to
the south.
OK - a goodly proportion, maybe the majority, kept themselves 'pure' from
Roman 'corruption' - but surely not all.
>Also that African Christianity suffered a
>mortal blow due to the bad press of the Crusades in Muslim society, only
>the Monophysite Coptic community surviving to present day in continuity.
Possibly - I get the impression that the _Latin_ Christianity west of Libya
had largely disappeared before the Crusades (did they move on up into
Spain?).
Ray.
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