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Good question. I'm not sufficiently knowledgeable to answer whether (and how) the Carthaginian archbishopric can be elevated to Patriarchal status, but I think it's reasonable to expect that they'd enjoy a degree of autonomy from Rome given the strength and prestige of the Church in Africa...

Speaking of a reduced Islamic conquest in the west, I wonder if a neo-WRE wouldn't be able to stop the Arabs in northern Africa. There was enough of a Christian, Romanized Moorish (Mauri/Berber) population there to successfully resist the Umayyad advance even after the Byzantines' hold...

I'd agree with that the Ostrogoths would almost certainly abandon Arianism sooner or later, and probably sooner than the Visigoths did given their closer proximity to the Pope, the Emperor & traditional Roman institutions in Italy. Interesting point re: their relationship with the ERE - given...

Ostrogothic Italy was an interesting place. After conquering the peninsula from the probably-Scirian warlord Odoacer at the behest of Eastern Emperor Zeno, the Ostrogoths took to Romanitas or 'Roman-ness' like a fish to water: Theodoric the Great and his immediate heirs cultivated close ties to...