Starting mainly from the period of the Principate, Roman Africa was one of the most economically and culturally prosperous places of the empire. Several historical and literary sources (from Victor Vitensis to Procopius of Caesarea) discuss its dramatic fate during the 5th century AD, following its seizure by Gaiseric’s army. Without any doubt, the Albertini Tablets (between 493 and 496 AD) offer a wealth of information which, in order to be interpreted correctly, must always be compared with historical, geographical, archaeological and numismatic data, but also with the ones that are offered by the hard sciences, such as botany and climatology: only in this way can the document really speak to us and reveal some of its secrets.

Dat sagentum mi seolidante westar ubar Wentilseo. Conservatorismo giuridico ed evoluzione linguistica nell'Africa vandalica alla luce delle Tablettes Albertini.

Biavaschi Paola
2021-01-01

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Starting mainly from the period of the Principate, Roman Africa was one of the most economically and culturally prosperous places of the empire. Several historical and literary sources (from Victor Vitensis to Procopius of Caesarea) discuss its dramatic fate during the 5th century AD, following its seizure by Gaiseric’s army. Without any doubt, the Albertini Tablets (between 493 and 496 AD) offer a wealth of information which, in order to be interpreted correctly, must always be compared with historical, geographical, archaeological and numismatic data, but also with the ones that are offered by the hard sciences, such as botany and climatology: only in this way can the document really speak to us and reveal some of its secrets.
2021
Tablettes Albertini, Vandal invasion, Africa Byzacena, Flavius Geminius Catullinus
Biavaschi, Paola
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