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Valerius of Elbierzo, late 7century: The Life of St. Fructuousus of Braga (!)
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Vegetius, Flavius (Flavius Vegetius Renatus): De Re Militari (The Art of War), late 4th century
http://www.pvv.ntnu.no/~madsb/war/vegetius/dere00.html3
Flavius Vegetius Renatus was a Roman of high rank. In some manuscripts he is given the title of count. Raphael of Volterra calls him a Count of Constantinople. Little is known of his life. It is apparent from his book that he had not had extensive practical experience as a soldier.. He states quite frankly that his purpose was to collect and synthesize from ancient manuscripts and regulations the military customs and wisdom that made ancient Rome great. According to his statement, his principal sources were Cato the Elder, Cornelius Celsus, Paternus, Frontinus, and the regulations and ordinances of Augustus, Trajan and Hadrian. The most influential military treatise in the western world from Roman times to the 19th Century was Vegetius' DE RE MILITARI. Its impressions on our own traditions of discipline and organization are everywhere evident.
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Vernantius Fortunatus, (6th century CE) priest, saint and poet; a favorite of Frankish nobility;
Carm. 9.1.73: in the late part of the 6th century the Franks were forced to repel attacks by Saxons and Eutes (Jutes) in the north-east of the Netherlands.
3.9. 103: In 570Ad Bishop Felix of Nantes baptises Saxons, indicating that they had significant settlements at the west-coast of Gaul.
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Vergil (Publius Vergili Maronis): "tibi servit et ultima Thule" (as quoted by Jordanes).
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Victorius of Aquitaine, 457: Cursus Paschalis annorum DXXXII The Cursus of Victorius, AD 367-497 and Victorius of Aquitaine
http://www.vortigernstudies.org.uk/artsou/victorius.htm
http://www.ccel.org/w/wace/biodict/htm/iii.xxii.xx.htm
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Victor Vitensis: Hist. persecutionis Vandalica 1,1
Victor (44) Vitensis, a N. African bishop and writer. The known facts of his life are very few. He was called Vitensis either after his see or after his birthplace. He seems to have been numbered amongst the clergy of Carthage c. 455. His Hist. Persecutionis Provinciae Africanae is very interesting, as he appears to have been with safety an eyewitness of the Vandal persecution for more than 30 years. He was actively employed by Eugenius, metropolitan of Carthage, in 483. Early in that year Hunneric banished 4,966 bishops and clergy of every rank. Victor was used by Eugenius to look after the more aged and infirm of the bishops. The History gives us a view of the religion of the Vandals. It also relates many particulars about Carthage, its churches, their names and dedications, as those of Perpetua and Felicitas, of Celerina and the Scillitans (i. 3). It shews the persistence of paganism at Carthage, and mentions the temples of Memory and of Coelestis as existing till the Vandals levelled them after their capture of Carthage. This temple of Coelestis existed in the time of Augustine, who describes in his de Civ. Dei, lib. ii. cc. 4, 26 (cf. Tertull. Apol. c. 24) the impure rites there performed. Its site was elaborately discussed by M. A. Castan in a Mém. in the Comptes rendus de L'Acad. des Inscript. t. xiii. (1885), pp. 118-132, where all the references to its cult were collected out of classical and patristic sources. Victor's History contains glimpses of N. African ritual. In lib. ii. 17 we have an account of the healing of the blind man Felix by Eugenius, bp. of Carthage. The ritual of the feast of Epiphany is described, while there are frequent references to the singing of hymns or psalms at funerals. In Hist. lib. v. 6, we read that the inhabitants of Tipasa refused to hold communion with the Arian bishop. Hunneric sent a military count, who collected them all into the forum and cut out their tongues by the roots, notwithstanding which they all retained the power of speech. This remarkable fact has been discussed by Gibbon, c. xxxvii., by Middleton in his Free Inquiry, pp. 313-316, and by many others. The History of Victor is usually divided into five books. Bk. i. narrates the persecution of Genseric, from the conquest of Africa by the Vandals in 429 till Genseric's death in 477. Bks. ii. iv. and v. deal with the persecution of Hunneric, A.D. 477-484; while bk. iii. contains the confession of faith drawn up by Eugenius of Carthage and presented to Hunneric at the conference of 484 (cf. Gennadius, de Vir. Ill. No. 97). In the Confession (lib. iii. 11) the celebrated text I. John v. 7, concerning the three heavenly witnesses, first appears. (See on this point Porson's letter to Travis, and Gibbon's notes on c. xxxvii.). The life and works of Victor have been the subject of much modern German criticism, which has not, however, added a great deal to our knowledge. Ebert's Literatur des Mittelalters im Abendlande (Leipz. 1874), t. i. 433-436, fixes the composition of the History at c. 486. In A. Schaefer's Historische Untersuchungen (Bonn, 1882), Aug. Auler (pp. 253-275) maintains, with much learning and acuteness, that Victor was born in Vita, that his see is unknown, that he was consecrated bishop after the persecution, and wrote his History before 487, and that this History is a piece of tendency-writing and untrustworthy. He cannot recognize in the action of Genseric against the Catholic party anything but a legitimate measure of state repression. The best of the older editions of the History is that of Ruinart, reprinted with its elaborate dissertations in Migne's Patr. Lat. lviii. Michael Petschenig, in the Vienna Corpus Scriptt. Ecclesiast. Lat. t. vii. (Vindob. 1881) abandons the old division of the text, dating from Chiffiet in 17th cent., and divides it into three books. In all the editions will be found the Notitia Prov. et Civit. Africae, a valuable document for the geography and ecclesiastical arrangements of N. Africa. Ceill. (x. 448-465) gives a full analysis of Victor's History. It was translated into French in 1563 and 1664, into English in 1605.
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The Visigothic Code: (Forum judicum) (+)
available at: http://libro.uca.edu/vcode/visigoths.htm
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