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STAYING ROMAN
CONQUEST AND IDENTITY IN AFRICA AND THE MEDITERRANEAN, 439-700

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ISBN 10:

1139048104

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9781139048101

Publisher:

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

5 May, 2012

Series:

Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series 82

Description:

This is the first systematic study of the changing nature of Roman identity in post-Roman North Africa.

Synopsis:

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.

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5 b/w illus. 5 maps 29 tables

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Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)

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