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 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, 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 presents a
brand-new interpretation of post-Roman North Africa, providing a
compelling argument for 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.
General
| Imprint: |
Casemate Publishers
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
2024 |
| Authors: |
Simon Elliott
|
| Dimensions: |
229 x 152mm (L x W) |
| Pages: |
240 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-63624-287-3 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
1-63624-287-1 |
| Barcode: |
9781636242873 |
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