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Author | : Simon Elliott |
Publisher | : Casemate |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2024-03-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 163624288X |
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A new study that challenges previous interpretations of post-Roman North Africa. North Africa was one of the richest parts of the Roman Empire, the agricultural powerhouse of the Mediterranean. It was also home to some of the emperor’s biggest imperial estates, and prosperous cities of all kinds. Its loss to the Vandals in the first half of the 5th century AD was the mortal blow which both precipitated the fall of the western empire, and set the eastern empire back for decades. Its reconquest then became an obsession with each new emperor in Constantinople. Time and again the eastern Romans failed in this goal, until Justinian I finally succeeded in the AD 530s. Although North Africa’s restoration to the world of Rome only lasted a short time, it has widely been regarded as a positive development. However, new research—published here for the first time—shows that post-Roman North Africa thrived under the Vandals. To them it was Vandal heaven, a place where they found a way as the new incumbent elite to live comfortably alongside the late Roman inhabitants, despite their different interpretations of Christianity. Together, the two cultures flourished. When the eastern Romans – now styled Byzantines – returned, they weren’t welcome. This is evidenced in the surviving built environments of this new period of North African history, namely chains of small forts along the frontier and interior, where the Byzantines used mounted troops to keep an unhappy local population under control. Dr Elliott not only presents a brand-new interpretation of post-Roman North Africa, but makes the case that the Arab Conquest was so successful in this region because the Byzantine overlords were so unpopular. Furthermore his argument explains how the region today came to be part of the Arab world, in contrast to the regions along the northern Mediterranean freeboard, which maintain their Roman-ness to this day.
Author | : Simon Elliott |
Publisher | : Casemate |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2024-01-31 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781636242873 |
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A new interpretation of post-Roman North Africa which shows the Vandals and late Roman population flourishing together to the extent that Byzantine reconquest was unwelcome.
Author | : Osbert Sitwell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 1924 |
Genre | : English fiction |
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Author | : Procopius of Caesarea |
Publisher | : Dalcassian Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2019-11-02 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 1078737622 |
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The conquest of North Africa by the Vandals was a blow to the beleaguered Western Roman Empire as North Africa was a major source of revenue and a supplier of grain (mostly wheat) to the city of Rome.
Author | : Thomas Hodgkin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 718 |
Release | : 1892 |
Genre | : Europe |
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Download Italy and Her Invaders: The Hunnish invasion. The Vandal invasion and the Herulian mutiny. 1892 Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Author | : Thomas Hodgkin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 738 |
Release | : 1892 |
Genre | : Europe |
ISBN | : |
Download Italy and Her Invaders: The Hunnish invasion. The Vandal invasion and the Herulian mutiny Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Author | : Thomas Hodgkin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 722 |
Release | : 1885 |
Genre | : Europe |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Andrew Merrills |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2009-12-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781444318081 |
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The Vandals is the first book available in the EnglishLanguage dedicated to exploring the sudden rise and dramatic fallof this complex North African Kingdom. This complete historyprovides a full account of the Vandals and re-evaluates key aspectsof the society including: Political and economic structures such as the complexforeign policy which combined diplomatic alliances and marriageswith brutal raiding The extraordinary cultural development of secular learning,and the religious struggles that threatened to tear the stateapart The nature of Vandal identity from a social and genderperspective.
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Total Pages | : 696 |
Release | : 1835 |
Genre | : Baptists |
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Author | : Robin Whelan |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2024-05-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520401433 |
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Being Christian in Vandal Africa investigates conflicts over Christian orthodoxy in the Vandal kingdom, the successor to Roman rule in North Africa, ca. 439 to 533 c.e. Exploiting neglected texts, author Robin Whelan exposes a sophisticated culture of disputation between Nicene (“Catholic”) and Homoian (“Arian”) Christians and explores their rival claims to political and religious legitimacy. These contests—sometimes violent—are key to understanding the wider and much-debated issues of identity and state formation in the post-imperial West.