Staying Roman: Conquest and Identity in Africa and the Mediterranean, 439-700 (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Serie) (Hardback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Staying Roman This is the first systematic study of the changing nature of Roman identity in post-Roman North Africa.
Full description- Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Published: 28 May 2012
- Format: Hardback 456 pages
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- Categories: European History | African History | Ancient History: To C 500 CE | Early History: C 500 To C 1450/1500 | Church History
- ISBN 13: 9780521196970 ISBN 10: 0521196973
- Sales rank: 696,341
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What did it mean to be Roman once the Roman Empire had collapsed in the West? Staying Roman examines Roman identities in the region of modern Tunisia and Algeria between the fifth-century Vandal conquest and the seventh-century Islamic invasions. Using historical, archaeological and epigraphic evidence, this study argues that the fracturing of the empire's political unity also led to a fracturing of Roman identity along political, cultural and religious lines, as individuals who continued to feel 'Roman' but who were no longer living under imperial rule sought to redefine what it was that connected them to their fellow Romans elsewhere. The resulting definitions of Romanness could overlap, but were not always mutually reinforcing. Significantly, in late antiquity Romanness had a practical value, and could be used in remarkably flexible ways to foster a sense of similarity or difference over space, time and ethnicity, in a wide variety of circumstances.
