While defending Rome from a siege by Vitiges, this man replaced Pope Silverius with Vigilius, who was later arrested during the Three Chapters Controversy. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this commander whose defeat of Gelimer at the Battle of Ad Decimum enabled the conquest of the Vandal Kingdom.
ANSWER: Flavius Belisarius
[10e] After refusing Justinian I’s demand to condemn the Three Chapters, Vigilius spent eight years under arrest in this Byzantine capital city. Vigilius did not attend this city’s second ecumenical council, which sided with Justinian.
ANSWER: Constantinople
[10h] This man wrote that Justinian was “admiring the heresy of Acefali” during the Three Chapters Controversy. This church father converted Reccared and standardized the use of several punctuation marks in one work.
ANSWER: Isidore of Seville
<Ohio State C, European History>