Description

The Vandal-Alan Regnum as well as the Berber polities of the changing cultural landscape of 5th and 6th century North Africa offer historians and archaeologists a rich field for research concerning transformations in the Roman world. An international conference, held in January 2005 by the Institut fur Mittelalterforschung of the Austrian Academy of Sciences together with the Institut zur Interdisziplinaren Erforschung des Mittelalters und seines Nachwirkens (IEMAN) of the University of Paderborn, provided the platform for the 18 articles presented in this volume. An international group of scholars from Austria, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Spain, Tunisia and the USA contributed to the volume. The studies focus on North African archaeological questions as well as the much-discussed connections to archaeological finds outside the Roman world, historical questions concerning the migrations of Vandal groups through Gaul and Spain, and the 5th and 6th century organization of the Roman North African provinces. Scholars have long neglected the Vandal and Berber kingdoms. The present volume attempts to make up for this deficit, and to add to the recent international discourse.