tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22261571.post8878604634050653041..comments2024-03-20T01:06:12.181-04:00Comments on MEI Editor's Blog: North African and Middle Eastern Popes, Part II: The PastUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22261571.post-65354413644172542602013-03-18T23:26:03.719-04:002013-03-18T23:26:03.719-04:00Rugeirn: All true, but since the post discussed th...Rugeirn: All true, but since the post discussed the Berber/Punic identity of the African popes, defined the boundaries of Roman Proconsular Africa,discussed the Byzantine role in the Syrian Popes and the Arab conquest of Syria in 636-638, I'm wondering kf your comment was on the post or on the title?<br />Michael Collins Dunnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07398326467953722017noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22261571.post-83028793235823257992013-03-15T08:18:31.964-04:002013-03-15T08:18:31.964-04:00The reference to "Middle Eastern and North Af...The reference to "Middle Eastern and North African Popes" in the first few hundred years of the church completely overlooks the fact that in that time what we now think of as the Middle East and North Africa were just two more provinces of the Roman empire. Islam had not even come into being yet. The heritage of North Africa was the heritage of Carthage, not of Mecca and Medina. It is always unwise to project modern conditions anachronistically into the past.Rugeirnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14744434341487464249noreply@blogger.com