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grbs-4951	Heather, Peter	The Crossing of the Danube and the Gothic Conversion	1986	30	.pdf	application/pdf	13676	646	61	A later example of a date with similar Significance in Gothic history would be the rejection of Arianism by the Visigothic king Reccared in 587: this was a single decision that committed the Visigothic leadership to orthodoxy, but followed a long process in which catholic inroads into Gothic Arianism had made it a practical and even necessary course to choose.14 De­ tailed examination of the sources will indicate that in 376, similarly, the leadership of the Tervingi committed itself to changing the prac­ tice of the group and adopted the so-called 'semi-Arian' religion of the Emperor Valens in place of their ancestral paganism. II. But essentially because Ammianus does not mention it, there has been much controversy over the date of a Gothic conversion to Christianity ascribed in other sources to the reign of Valens.	cache/grbs-4951.pdf	txt/grbs-4951.txt