Robin Whelan about Origin and Character of the Inter-Faith Confrontation in North Africa in the 5th — 6th Century

Bibliographic Data

ID13029138
AuthorsIvan Nikolsky (National Research University Higher School of Economics, corresponding author)
Year2019
Volume10
Issue9 (83)
Pages0-0
Publication date2019-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueIstoriya (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2079-8784 • E-ISSN: 2079-8784
PublisherLtd Integration: Education and Science (PUBLISHER • RU)
DOI10.18254/s207987840007293-1
OpenAlexW2996414939
LanguageEN
References cited2

The paper provides a review of the one of the recent studies, dedicated to the Vandal kingdom in North Africa, the book by Robin Whelan about origin and character of the inter-faith confrontation in this region in the 5-th -6-th century (Whelan R. Being Christian in Vandal Africa: The Politics of Orthodoxy in the Post-Imperial West. California, 2018). This subject is the most important one for research of the political history of the Vandal kingdom, because it is directly linked to the question about the conflict between the local elites. The main thesis of the monograph, that the groups of such elites had mixed nature -as from ethnic, so in religious and ideological point of view, and that its essence was determined in terms of power struggle, in the absence of serious doctrinal contradictions -is assessed here critically. On material of the Roman authors, who lived at that time in Africa (particularly Dracontius), counter-arguments are given

Archaeology · Character (mathematics · Epistemology · Ethnic group · Faith · Genealogy · Ideology · Kingdom · Orthodoxy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Sociology · Subject (documents · Anthropology · Globalization, Historical Perspectives, and International Relations · Historical, Literary, and Cultural Studies · History · Law · Philosophy · Religious, Philosophical, and Educational Studies