Vandals, Romans and Berbers: New Perspectives on Late by Andrew Merrills

The beginning, progress and decline of the Vandal and Berber Kingdoms in North Africa have frequently been forgotten in reviews of the overdue Roman and post-Roman West. even though contemporary archaeological task has alleviated this example, the immense and disparate physique of written proof from the zone continues to be relatively overlooked. the current quantity makes an attempt to redress this imbalance via an exam of the altering cultural panorama of fifth- and 6th-century North Africa. Many questions which were imperative inside different components of overdue old experiences are the following requested of the North African facts for the 1st time. Vandals, Romans and Berbers considers problems with ethnicity, identification and kingdom formation in the Vandal kingdoms and the Berber polities, via new research of the textual, epigraphic and archaeological checklist. It reassesses the various physique of written fabric that has survived from Africa, and questions its authorship, viewers and serve as, in addition to its old price to the fashionable pupil. the ultimate part is worried with the non secular alterations of the interval, and demanding situations some of the cozy certainties that experience arisen within the attention of North African Christianity, together with the tensions among 'Donatist', Catholic and Arian, and the intended disappearance of the religion after the Arab conquest. all through, makes an attempt are made to evaluate the relation of Vandal and Berber states to the broader international and the significance of the African facts to the wider figuring out of the post-Roman world.