Africa zwischen Vandalen, Mauren und Byzantinern (533-548 n.Chr.)

Abstract

The history of the Byzantine conquest of North-Africa reveals that the image of this conquest as liberation of the old Roman structures from the Vandalians was illusory. The new Byzantine administration tried to pursue this strategy, but regularly failed if it was not able to integrate the structures of the Vandalian time. Thus the restoration of the old, ante-Vandalian structures was nearly not possible. This seems to be even the case in ecclesiastical affairs, where the Byzantines tried to establish a new, prochalcedonian leadership.