IMC 2014: Sessions
Session 114: Empire, Power, and Identity in Roman, Vandal, Byzantine, and Islamic North Africa, I
Monday 7 July 2014, 11.15-12.45
Organiser: | Roland Steinacher, Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien |
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Moderator/Chair: | David Mattingly, School of Archaeology & Ancient History, University of Leicester |
Paper 114-a | Pre-Roman Monuments of Power and Their Re-Use in Imperial Times (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - General, Art History - General |
Paper 114-b | Tacfarinas, Firmus, Gildo: Some Thoughts on Provincial Identity (Language: English) Index terms: Local History, Military History, Social History |
Paper 114-c | Changing Authorities: Emperors, Officials, Clerics, and Commanders in Roman North Africa in the 4th Century (Language: English) Index terms: Political Thought, Social History |
Abstract | The papers of the 4 'Empire, Power, and Identity in Roman, Vandal, Byzantine, and Islamic North Africa' sessions will deal with imperial (Roman, Byzantine, and Arab) rule and its traces in North Africa, Roman, and non-Roman identities as well as archaeological aspects of a long neglected part of the mediterranean. For nearly a millennium North Africa was part of the Roman west and its afterlife in the Early Middle Ages. |