LEADER 03273oam 2200541I 450 001 9910953283503321 005 20251117090101.0 010 $a1-315-23512-9 024 7 $a10.4324/9781315235127 035 $a(CKB)3710000001081843 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4817335 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4817335 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11356505 035 $a(OCoLC)975225182 035 $a(OCoLC)974642531 035 $a(FINmELB)ELB139207 035 $a(BIP)59818019 035 $a(BIP)9952496 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001081843 100 $a20180706e20162004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 00$aVandals, Romans and Berbers $enew perspectives on late antique North Africa /$fedited by A.H. Merrills 210 1$aLondon :$cRoutledge,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (364 pages) $cillustrations, maps 300 $aFirst published 2004 by Ashgate Publishing. 311 08$a0-7546-4145-7 311 08$a1-351-87611-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $apt. 1. African identities -- pt. 2. Written culture -- pt. 3. The African church in context. 330 $aThe 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. 606 $aVandals$zAfrica, North$xHistory 606 $aVandals$zAfrica$xIntellectual life 607 $aAfrica, North$xHistory$yTo 647 615 0$aVandals$xHistory. 615 0$aVandals$xIntellectual life. 676 $a939/.703 701 $aMerrills$b A. H$g(Andrew H.),$f1975-$0623163 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910953283503321 996 $aVandals, Romans and Berbers$94472718 997 $aUNINA