The period around the fall of the Western Roman Empire has been a hotbed of opinions and debates tied to narratives of the rise and fall of civilizations. The fall of Rome is seen as the quintessential collapse of an empire, a clear and complete break from the past. But the reality is that Roman culture and civilization didn't just vanish. Some of those who are often seen as Rome's classic enemies, like the Germanic Vandals who took over North Africa, were some of Roman Culture's most enthusiastic promoters and preservers both before and after 476.
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Recommendations for further reading:
-Conant, Jonathan. Staying Roman: conquest and identity in Africa and the Mediterranean, 439-700 (2012).
-Courtney, Edward. "Observations of the Latin Anthology." In Hermathena 129 (1980): 37-50.
-Hen, Yitzhak. Roman Barbarians: the royal court and culture in the early Medieval West (2007).
-Merrils, Andrew, Richard Miles. The Vandals (2010).
-Merrils, Andrew, ed. Vandals, Romans, and Berbers: new perspectives on late antique North Africa (2004).
-Rosenblum, Morris. Luxorius: a Latin Poet among the Vandals (1961, useful for translations of Luxorius, but keep in mind what I noted in the video if you go beyond that)
-Whelan, Robin. Being Christian in Vandal Africa: the politics of orthodoxy in the post-imperial west (2017).
All images used in this video are either my own, in the public domain, under fair use, or under creative commons (whence they shall be credited appropriately)
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Outro music: Laid Back Guitars by Kevin MacLeod, CC BY-SA 4.0
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