In researching my article on 'Lombard Arianism Reconsidered' (Speculum, 56,
1981, pp. 241-58), I looked at the usage of gentilis in Paul the Deacon,
and then Orosius, the Theodosian Code, Isidore of Seville, Gregory of
Tours, and Bede, and found that it in these sources it always meant pagan
(or heathen for the squeamish). (The relevant footnote is no. 8.) In
essence, gentilis would seem to mean 'the other'.
Steve Fanning
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