IMC 2014: Sessions

Session 514: Empire, Power, and Identity in Roman, Vandal, Byzantine, and Islamic North Africa, IV

Organiser:	Guido M. Berndt, Lehrstuhl für Alte Geschichte, Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Moderator/Chair:	Stefan Esders, Geschichte der Spätantike und des frühen Mittelalters, Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut, Freie Universität Berlin
Respondents:	Anna Leone, Department of Archaeology, Durham University David Mattingly, School of Archaeology & Ancient History, University of Leicester
Paper 514-a	The Relation of Central and Local Romanness in Post-Roman Africa: The Case Study Simitthus / Chimtou (Language: English) Philipp von Rummel, Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Berlin Index terms: Archaeology - General, Archaeology - Sites, Byzantine Studies
Paper 514-b	Empire and Identity in Umayyad and Abbasid North Africa (Language: English) Corisande Fenwick, School of Archaeology & Ancient History, University of Leicester Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Historiography - Medieval, Islamic and Arabic Studies
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.