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A Companion to North Africa in Antiquity: Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World

Autor RB Hitchner
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 6 apr 2022

Explore a one-of-a-kind and authoritative resource on Ancient North Africa

A Companion to North Africa in Antiquity, edited by a recognized leader in the field, is the first reference work of its kind in English. It provides a comprehensive introduction to all aspects of North Africa's rich history from the Protohistoric period through Late Antiquity (1000 BCE to the 800 CE).

Comprised of twenty-four thematic and topical essays by established and emerging scholars covering the area between ancient Tripolitania and the Atlantic Ocean, including the Sahara, the volume introduces readers to Ancient North Africa's environment, peoples, institutions, literature, art, economy and more, taking into account the significant body of new research and fieldwork that has been produced over the last fifty years.

A Companion to North Africa in Antiquity is an essential resource for anyone interested in this important region of the Ancient World.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781444350012
ISBN-10: 1444350013
Pagini: 496
Dimensiuni: 187 x 263 x 35 mm
Greutate: 1.07 kg
Editura: Wiley
Seria Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World

Locul publicării:Hoboken, United States

Cuprins

Illustrations ix Preface xiii R. Bruce Hitchner North Africa Maps xv List of Abbreviations xxiv Notes on Contributors xxv Part I Setting the Stage 1 1 The Historiography of North Africa in Antiquity: An Overview 3 R. Bruce Hitchner 2 Archaeology 9 David L. Stone 3 The Environment of North Africa 24 Philippe Leveau Part II Africa in the First Millennium BCE 39 4 Libyan Culture and Society 41 Joan Sanmartí 5 Beyond Barbarians: The Garamantes of the Libyan Sahara 64 David J. Mattingly 6 Punic Carthage 81 Iván Fumadó Ortega 7 Africa under the Roman Republic 101 Matthew S. Hobson Part III The Roman Period (146 BCE-439 CE) 117 8 African Rome. The City of Carthage from its Roman (Re-)foundation to the End of the Byzantine Period 119 Ralf Bockmann 9 Roman Imperial Administration 142 Jesper Carlsen 10 The Army 152 Patrice Faure 11 Roman North African Urbanism 173 J. Andrew Dufton and Elizabeth Fentress 12 Rural Settlement, Land Use, and Economy 202 Mariette de Vos Raaijmakers 13 The African Economy: The Ceramic Evidence 220 Michel Bonifay 14 Prose Literature 233 Stéphanie Guédon 15 Architecture and Art 247 Niccolò Mugnai 16 Transforming Religion under the Roman Empire: The Case of Africa 285 Matthew M. McCarty 17 Society and Culture in Late Roman Africa 299 Julio Cesar Magalhães de Oliveira 18 The Mauri in Late Antiquity 317 Andy Merrills 19 Imperial and Late Latin Poetry from North Africa 332 Helen Kaufmann 20 Christian North Africa in Antiquity 354 Anna Leone Part IV From the Vandal Kingdom to the Arab Conquest (439-711 CE) 373 21 The Vandals 375 Jonathan P. Conant 22 The Byzantine Period 391 Andy Merrills 23 Late Roman, Vandal, and Byzantine Coinage in Africa 410 Cécile Morrisson 24 The Arab Conquests and the End of Ancient Africa? 424 Corisande Fenwick Index 439

Notă biografică

R. Bruce Hitchner is Professor of Classical Studies and International Relations, and Chair of Classical Studies at Tufts. He has directed major archaeological projects in both Tunisia and France. His research and scholarship is focused on the economy and society of the Roman World, and he is also a policy specialist and author of work on contemporary Bosnia and the Western Balkans.