Talk:Flavius Paulus

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As it stands, this article, without any source attributions, seems fairly novelesque. Julian of Toledo's History of King Wamba is rabidly anti-Jewish, and equally rabidly anti-Paul, yet in all of the hostile epithets he hurls at Paul, he never accuses him of being an apostate, and while he accuses Gaul (Septimania), of having made itself "a whorehouse of the Jews blaspheming against our Savior and Lord" (p. 504 of the MGH edition), he says nothing about Jewish support for Paul's forces. So Paul's conversion to Judaism, the Jewish uprising, asassinations, etc., seem like candidates for removal, along with the embassy to the Basques, etc. --Isidorpax (talk) 21:39, 12 June 2012 (UTC) I should add that Julian says that Wamba was campaigning against the Basques when word came of Paul's betrayal, but he says nothing of any embassy from Paul to the Basques (p. 507 of the MGH edition). --Isidorpax (talk) 22:38, 12 June 2012 (UTC)

Was Paul Hispano-Roman?
Do we have any evidence Paul was Hispano-Roman? I'll delete the reference to him as Hispano-Roman until someone can come up with some contemporary evidence he was. The fifth and sixth councils of Toledo over three decades before Paul's rebellion both listed being "Gothic" as a requirement for a legitimate king; Julian of Toledo, rabidly anti-Paul, doesn't say he wasn't Gothic.--Isidorpax (talk) 23:44, 27 July 2012 (UTC)