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Africa Proconsularis
African Christianity
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antiquity
Arab Conquest
BAR International Series
Berber state development
Bu Njem
caesariensis
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Chronica Minora
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epigraphic evidence analysis
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ethnic identity formation
Historia Persecutionis
IAM
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Late Antique North Africa
Late Antiquity
late antiquity studies
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Les Vandales
Loca Sanctorum
Madrid Version
mauretania
Mauretania Caesariensis
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North African archaeology
North African Christianity
North African Martyrs
post-Roman North Africa research
religious conflict history
Roman North Africa
Vandal Africa
Vandal Kingdom
Vandal Kings
Vandal North Africa
Vandal Occupation
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Venantius Fortunatus
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780754641452
- Weight: 840g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 19 Nov 2004
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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The birth, growth and decline of the Vandal and Berber Kingdoms in North Africa have often been forgotten in studies of the late Roman and post-Roman West. Although recent archaeological activity has alleviated this situation, the vast and disparate body of written evidence from the region remains comparatively neglected. The present volume attempts to redress this imbalance through an examination of the changing cultural landscape of 5th- and 6th-century North Africa. Many questions that have been central within other areas of Late Antique studies are here asked of the North African evidence for the first time. Vandals, Romans and Berbers considers issues of ethnicity, identity and state formation within the Vandal kingdoms and the Berber polities, through new analysis of the textual, epigraphic and archaeological record. It reassesses the varied body of written material that has survived from Africa, and questions its authorship, audience and function, as well as its historical value to the modern scholar. The final section is concerned with the religious changes of the period, and challenges many of the comfortable certainties that have arisen in the consideration of North African Christianity, including the tensions between 'Donatist', Catholic and Arian, and the supposed disappearance of the faith after the Arab conquest. Throughout, attempts are made to assess the relation of Vandal and Berber states to the wider world and the importance of the African evidence to the broader understanding of the post-Roman world.
Dr Andrew Merrills
