Capital continuous : A Study of Vandal Carthage and Central North Africa from an Archaeological Perspective

Ralf Bockmann

ISBN 10: 3895009342 / ISBN 13: 9783895009341

Edité par Reichert, Reichert Verlag Feb 2013, 2013

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Neuware - The study 'Capital continuous' deals with the Vandalic epoch of the fifth and early sixth centuries in North Africa that has received major historic interest in recent years. The Vandal epoch was an important transitional period between late Roman and Byzantine times, in which essential social developments took place in the religious, political and economic spheres. For a long time, the Vandal period has been viewed under the influence of tendentious historic sources. Recently, modern studies were able to reconstruct a more nuanced picture. However, the archaeological part of Vandalic North Africa has mostly been disregarded. A number of modern excavations and a change in the assessment of the sources now enable a study of the material remains of the epoch beyond single finds and coins, putting the focus on the edificial and urbanistic developments. The first part of the study engages with Carthage that became the capital of the Vandal kingdom. How were the kings present, what ideological role did Carthage play for them and how did they intervene in the city's development How did the mixed elite of Vandal era Carthage act, and which changes occurred independent of the political situation In the second part of the book, the development in what is today Tunisia and Algeria is studied, in the north east of the antique province of Africa Proconsularis and the border region of Proconsularis with Numidia and Byzacena. The relations between local officials and the Vandal government and its influence for example on public infrastructure is analysed. While major fields show great continuity from the late Roman epoch, a number of developments are visible that fully unfolded in the Byzantine epoch but had their basis earlier. 'Capital continuous' is the first integral consideration of the archaeological findings of the Vandal era in North Africa in a wider sense and thereby an important addition and counterweight to the predominantly historic studies of the epoch.

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• Titre: Capital continuous : A Study of Vandal Carthage and Central North Africa from an Archaeological Perspective
• Éditeur: Reichert, Reichert Verlag Feb 2013
• Date de parution: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 3895009342
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9783895009341
• Reliure: Buch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 240 L x 170 H x 25 P (en millimètres) 240 millimètres de largeur par 170 millimètres de hauteur par 25 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 762 grammes

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English Summary: The Vandal period in North Africa has aroused the interest of historians since long as an intermediate period in late antique North Africa, spanning over much of the fifth and the early sixth centuries until the Vandal kingdom was conquered by the Byzantine Empire. Most studies have concentrated on the historic sources, through which a nuanced picture of the Vandal era was gained in recent years. This book assumes an archaeological perspective as an important counterweight and addition to the historic image. Concentrating on Carthage and two larger regions in modern Tunisia, the archaeological evidence is studied with a specific interest on the behaviour of local leading classes. Within the many signs of material continuity, the way the Vandal kings understood and executed their rule over Africa has produced some evidence that also points at the decisive changes that came with the time. German Description: "Capital continuous" beschaftigt sich mit der vandalischen Epoche in Nordafrika im 5. und fruhen 6. Jahrhundert aus archaologischer Sicht. Rekonstruiert wird im ersten Teil des Buches, wie sich Karthago wahrend der vandalischen Zeit entwickelte und auf welche Art und Weise es die Hauptstadt des Konigreichs wurde. Im zweiten Teil der Studie werden zwei grossere Regionen im zentralen Nordafrika im Hinblick auf ihre Beziehungen zur Hauptstadt und auf die Veranderungen, die sich durch die politischen und gesellschaftlichen Entwicklungen in den Stadten und ihren fuhrenden Gesellschaftsschichten vollzogen, betrachtet.

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Ralf Bockman born 1974, studied Prehistory, Cultural Anthropology and Classics in Hamburg, Lisbon, Berlin, Cambridge and Munich and received his PhD in Classics from the University of Munich. Currently research fellow at the Rome Department of the German Archaeological Institute. His main area of research is Late Antiquity in the Western Mediterranean, archaeologically he worked predominantly in Carthage, actual projects deal with early Christianity in North Africa.