Download or read book Vandal Heaven written by Simon Elliott and published by Casemate. This book was released on 2024-03-31 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new study that challenges previous interpretations of post-Roman North Africa. North Africa was one of the richest parts of the Roman Empire, the agricultural powerhouse of the Mediterranean. It was also home to some of the emperor’s biggest imperial estates, and prosperous cities of all kinds. Its loss to the Vandals in the first half of the 5th century AD was the mortal blow which both precipitated the fall of the western empire, and set the eastern empire back for decades. Its reconquest then became an obsession with each new emperor in Constantinople. Time and again the eastern Romans failed in this goal, until Justinian I finally succeeded in the AD 530s. Although North Africa’s restoration to the world of Rome only lasted a short time, it has widely been regarded as a positive development. However, new research—published here for the first time—shows that post-Roman North Africa thrived under the Vandals. To them it was Vandal heaven, a place where they found a way as the new incumbent elite to live comfortably alongside the late Roman inhabitants, despite their different interpretations of Christianity. Together, the two cultures flourished. When the eastern Romans – now styled Byzantines – returned, they weren’t welcome. This is evidenced in the surviving built environments of this new period of North African history, namely chains of small forts along the frontier and interior, where the Byzantines used mounted troops to keep an unhappy local population under control. Dr Elliott not only presents a brand-new interpretation of post-Roman North Africa, but makes the case that the Arab Conquest was so successful in this region because the Byzantine overlords were so unpopular. Furthermore his argument explains how the region today came to be part of the Arab world, in contrast to the regions along the northern Mediterranean freeboard, which maintain their Roman-ness to this day.
Download or read book Triple Fugue written by Osbert Sitwell and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Vandal Conquest of North Africa written by Procopius of Caesarea and published by Dalcassian Publishing Company. This book was released on 2019-11-02 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The conquest of North Africa by the Vandals was a blow to the beleaguered Western Roman Empire as North Africa was a major source of revenue and a supplier of grain (mostly wheat) to the city of Rome.
Download or read book Italy and Her Invaders The Hunnish invasion The Vandal invasion and the Herulian mutiny 1892 written by Thomas Hodgkin and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Italy and Her Invaders The Hunnish invasion The Vandal invasion and the Herulian mutiny written by Thomas Hodgkin and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Italy and Her Invaders The Hunnish invasion The Vandal invasion and the Herulian mutiny 1892 written by Thomas Hodgkin and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Death Mage Volume 3 written by Densuke Densuke and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2023-08-29 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After victorious battles, Zadilis and the other ghouls from the grotto undergo their first job changes. The ghouls are on the move! What awaits them in their new home?! The dhampir Vandal has defeated the Kobolt King Gyahn and the Noble Orc Bugogan, saved Zadilis and the other ghouls in the grotto, become a Ghoul King, and made plenty of new allies along the way. Vandal wants to keep the ghouls safe and is not yet ready to face the human threats that still pursue him. So he decides to lead his allies to fresh pastures in order to first consolidate their fighting strength. Along the way, the party faces encounters with unknown monsters and many of the ghouls give birth. They finally overcome these challenges to arrive at the ruined demon barren of Talosheim—where a welcome that none of them could have expected awaits!
Download or read book The Vandals written by Andrew Merrills and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-12-23 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Vandals is the first book available in the EnglishLanguage dedicated to exploring the sudden rise and dramatic fallof this complex North African Kingdom. This complete historyprovides a full account of the Vandals and re-evaluates key aspectsof the society including: Political and economic structures such as the complexforeign policy which combined diplomatic alliances and marriageswith brutal raiding The extraordinary cultural development of secular learning,and the religious struggles that threatened to tear the stateapart The nature of Vandal identity from a social and genderperspective.
Download or read book The Calcutta Christian Observer written by and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Being Christian in Vandal Africa written by Robin Whelan and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2024-05-10 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being Christian in Vandal Africa investigates conflicts over Christian orthodoxy in the Vandal kingdom, the successor to Roman rule in North Africa, ca. 439 to 533 c.e. Exploiting neglected texts, author Robin Whelan exposes a sophisticated culture of disputation between Nicene (“Catholic”) and Homoian (“Arian”) Christians and explores their rival claims to political and religious legitimacy. These contests—sometimes violent—are key to understanding the wider and much-debated issues of identity and state formation in the post-imperial West.
Download or read book The Genres of Late Antique Christian Poetry written by Fotini Hadjittofi and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-10-12 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classicizing Christian poetry has largely been neglected by literary scholars, but has recently been receiving growing attention, especially the poetry written in Latin. One of the objectives of this volume is to redress the balance by allowing more space to discussions of Greek Christian poetry. The contributions collected here ask how Christian poets engage with (and are conscious of) the double reliance of their poetry on two separate systems: on the one hand, the classical poetic models and, on the other, the various genres and sub-genres of Christian prose. Keeping in mind the different settings of the Greek-speaking East and the Latin-speaking West, the contributions seek to understand the impact of historical setting on genre, the influence of the paideia shared by authors and audiences, and the continued relevance of traditional categories of literary genre. While our immediate focus is genre, most of the contributions also engage with the ideological ramifications of the transposition of Christian themes into classicizing literature. This volume offers important and original case studies on the reception and appropriation of the classical past and its literary forms by Christian poetry.
Download or read book Crestyphon a Theban tale and the Vandal Robbery a Carthaginian tale written by John Hefford and published by . This book was released on 1820 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Arians and Vandals of the 4th 6th Centuries written by John R. C. Martyn and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-12-15 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a background to this study of the Arians and Vandals in North Africa, and their impact on the Catholic Church, three books have been written recently by John Martyn, investigating the same period (late sixth century) and the same country. They are, firstly, Pope Gregory's Letters (published with commentary and translation by P.I.M.S, three vols, 2, 2004); see introduction pp 32-42 and epp 1.74, 2.36 and 11.7, and for the Manichean heresy, see epp 2.31, 5.7 and 6.14. Next, the Life of Saint Gregory, bishop of Agrigento (published with his commentary and translation by Edwin Mellen, 2004), is set in North Africa in chapters 7-30, and also covers the main schisms of that time. Finally, in a book on Saint Leander, Archbishop of Seville, soon to be published by Lexington Books, in Maryland, he shows that Leander's parents and baby sister were forced to flee from their home in Cartagena to Carthage, from where the Vandals had recently been expelled. Note also his review of L'Afrique Vandale et Byzantine: Ie Partie,' Paris, 2002, which was published in Parergon, 21,1,2004, pp 155-157, and involved a study of the same schisms, history and archaeology of North Africa.
Download or read book Migration and Entrepreneurship in the Global Context written by Denis Hyams-Ssekasi and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Heaven s Prisoners written by James Lee Burke and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-07-13 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Lee Burke’s second Robicheaux novel takes the detective out of New Orleans and into the bayou as he seeks a quieter life. Vietnam vet Dave Robicheaux has turned in his detective’s badge, is winning his battle against booze, and has left New Orleans with his wife for the tranquil beauty of Louisiana’s bayous. But a plane crash on the Gulf brings a young girl into his life—and with her comes a netherworld of murder, deception, and homegrown crime. Suddenly Robicheaux is confronting Bubba Rocque, a brutal hood he’s known since childhood; Rocque’s hungry Cajun wife; and a Federal agent with more guts than sense. In a backwater world where a swagger and a gun go further than the law, Robicheaux and those he loves are caught on a tide of violence far bigger than them all...
Download or read book Fair Days in Heaven s Gate written by Jennifer Fowler and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002-09-01 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the style of Jan Karon's Mitford characters, the ward members in Heaven's Gate go about their daily small town lives. Their struggles and imperfections, self-discoveries and triumphs will go straight to your heart.
Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Jews and Judaism in Late Antiquity written by Catherine Hezser and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-01-24 with total page 746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume focuses on the major issues and debates in the study of Jews and Judaism in late antiquity (third to seventh century C.E.), providing cutting-edge surveys of the state of scholarship, main topics and research questions, methodological approaches, and avenues for future research. Based on both Jewish and non-Jewish literary and material sources, this volume takes an interdisciplinary approach involving historians of ancient Judaism, scholars of rabbinic literature, archaeologists, epigraphers, art historians, and Byzantinists. Developments within Jewish society and culture are viewed within the respective regional, political, cultural, and socioeconomic contexts in which they took place. Special focus is given to the impact of the Christianization of the Roman Empire on Jews, from administrative, legal, social, and cultural points of view. The contributors examine how the confrontation with Christianity changed Jewish practices, perceptions, and organizational structures, such as, for example, the emergence of local Jewish communities around synagogues as central religious spaces. Special chapters are devoted to the eastern and western Jewish Diaspora in Late Antiquity, especially Sasanian Persia but also Roman Italy, Egypt, Syria and Arabia, North Africa, and Asia Minor, to provide a comprehensive assessment of the situation and life experiences of Jews and Judaism during this period. The Routledge Handbook of Jews and Judaism in Late Antiquity is a critical and methodologically sophisticated survey of current scholarship aimed primarily at students and scholars of Jewish Studies, Study of Religions, Patristics, Classics, Roman and Byzantine Studies, Iranology, History of Art, and Archaeology. It is a valuable resource for anyone interested in Judaism and Jewish history.
