IMC 2003: Sessions
Session 1507: The Vandals and their Histories, I: Representations
Thursday 17 July 2003, 09.00-10.30
| Organisers: | Andrew Merrills, King's College, University of Cambridge Roland Steinacher, Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Walter Pohl, Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien |
| Paper 1507-a | The Representation of the Vandals in Victor of Vita (Language: English) |
| Paper 1507-b | After the Fall: Fulgentius's De aetatibus mundi et hominis (Language: English) |
| Paper 1507-c | Isidore and the Vandals (Language: English) |
| Abstract | In this session, aspects of some main sources for Vandal history will be discussed. A different reading of Victor of Vita‘s History of the Vandal persecution can shed some new light on the question of Vandal identity in the 5th century. A little-known text by Fulgentius of Ruspe is also relevant in this context. Later constructions of Vandal identity start with Isidore of Seville who wrote a short Vandal history. All of these sources, although they use the image of the barbarian ‚other‘, go beyond it and are parts of a narrative process in which the Vandals became part of late antique history. |