Das Reich der Vandalen und seine (Vor-)Geschichten

Steinacher, Roland

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“…It was not necessarily a provocation of Rome because recourse to older symbols in coinage was not unusual in late antiquity (cf. Berndt, Steinacher 2006;Berndt, Steinacher 2008a;Merrills, Miles 2010, 168-175;Ladich 2013;Steinacher, 181-187). Instead, it demonstrates a deliberately chosen image program.…”

Section: Archaeological Hints About the Vandal "Masterstory"mentioning

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Creating Memory in Vandal Period Africa

Quast¹

2020

Acta Archaeol. Carpath.

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The Vandals left no origo gentis even though history is an essential factor for the construction of group identity. But the creation of memory in the Vandal kingdom in North Africa can be reconstructed with archaeological sources. For this an attempt by looking for visualisations in the form of images and inscriptions in Vandal Period Africa is made and interpreted against the background of “creating memory”. These observations are based on “official” visualisations. They are a sort of propaganda and because of this are contained within the content of the ideological superstructure. The created memory is addressed to the various groups living under Vandal rule. It is addressed to the former Roman administration, to the inhabitants of Carthage and Christianity as a whole. Only in the private sphere could the tradition of a family genealogy be seen, most probably needed for legitimation – and, if there was a need for this, it points to internal conflicts.

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Section: Archaeological Hints About the Vandal "Masterstory"mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The gens Vandal is not named on a single coin (cf. Berndt, Steinacher 2006;Berndt, Steinacher 2008a;Ladich 2013). It appears only in a few official documents, e.g.…”

Section: Archaeological Hints About the Vandal "Masterstory"mentioning

confidence: 99%

Creating Memory in Vandal Period Africa

Quast¹

2020

Acta Archaeol. Carpath.

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“…But, as we have seen, the Vandals spread their Arianism as widely as possible after they established their kingdom, devoting a great deal of effort and energy to the process. While their Arianism initially served to set them apart from the vast majority of their subjects, over time, a great many Romano-Africans converted to the Arian faith without becoming Vandals, 296 and so Arianism gradually lost valence as a distinguishing indicium of the Vandal people during the Vandal century. Indeed, the African Arian Church itself never acted as if it were exclusively linked to Vandal identity.…”

Section: Arriani Quos Nunc Videmus Multos Seducunt: Religion Identity and Unitymentioning

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“…African Nicene polemicists remarked, as they had previously against the Donatists, that their church filled the entire world, while their opponents' churches inhabited only Africa. 298 If this was ever true of the Donatists, it certainly was not of the Arians: African Arian theological writings show the authors as very concerned about issues in the global Arian church, especially their co-religionists in Nicene-ruled lands, 299 and Theodosius the Deacon's "Vandal" monastery implies that Eastern Arian communities were connected in some way to their counterparts in the West. 300 Arian claims of catholicity were genuine and had substance.…”

Section: Arriani Quos Nunc Videmus Multos Seducunt: Religion Identity and Unitymentioning

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“…Although most concrete details elude us, we can prove there was an Arian community in Africa before the arrival of the Vandal coalition, even an assertive one. 301 Arian churchmen and even individuals described as bishops show up in the writings of the famous African theologian Augustine; although some of these people are foreigners, such as Maximinus (a bishop who debated with Augustine), who arrived in Africa as an envoy for the comes Sigisvult, 302 others are local and hint intriguingly at a parallel hierarchy of Arian clergy in late Roman Africa. 303 Most of the time, Augustine is concerned with other (presumably larger and more important, at least in Africa) dissident sects, but while they were less important to him than, say, the Donatists or the Pelagians, Augustine's attention to the Arians implies they had at least some visible presence in the African provinces.…”

Section: Arriani Quos Nunc Videmus Multos Seducunt: Religion Identity and Unitymentioning

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Vandalia: Identity, Policy, and Nation-Building in Late-Antique North Africa

Parker¹

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<p>In 534, after the conquest of the Vandal kingdom, Procopius tells us that the emperor Justinian deported all remaining Vandals to serve on the Persian frontier. But a hundred years of Vandal rule bred cultural ambiguities in Africa, and the changes in identity that occurred during the Vandal century persisted long after the Vandals had been shipped off to the East: Byzantine and Arabic writers alike shared the conviction that the Africans had, by the sixth and seventh centuries, become something other than Roman. This thesis surveys the available evidence for cultural transformation and merger of identities between the two principal peoples of Vandal Africa, the Vandals and the Romano-Africans, to determine the origins of those changes in identity, and how the people of Africa came to be different enough from Romans for ancient writers to pass such comment. It examines the visible conversation around ethnicity in late-antique Africa to determine what the defining social signifiers of Vandal and Romano-African identity were during the Vandal century, and how they changed over time. Likewise, it explores the evidence for deliberate attempts by the Vandal state to foster national unity and identity among their subjects, and in particular the role that religion and the African Arian Church played in furthering these strategies for national unity. Finally, it traces into the Byzantine period the after-effects of changes that occurred in Africa during the Vandal period, discussing how shifts in what it meant to be Roman or Vandal in Africa under Vandal rule shaped the province's history and character after its incorporation into the Eastern Empire.</p>

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The Vandals

Conant¹

2022

A Companion to North Africa in Antiquity

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Das Reich der Vandalen und seine (Vor-)Geschichten

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Creating Memory in Vandal Period Africa

Vandalia: Identity, Policy, and Nation-Building in Late-Antique North Africa

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