Recensione al volume North Africa under Byzantium and Early Islam, Susan T. Stevens, Jonathan P. Conant edd., Dumbarton Oaks Pub Service, Washington D. C. 2016; XII + 322 p.; ill.; index; 28,5 cm; ISBN 978-0884024088

Abstract

Focused on the transition of Roman Africa from the classical to the medieval age, this volume collects a series of essays that attempt to overturn the pessimistic vision of the Byzantine age and to explain its peculiarities not as the fruit of imposition coming from the East but as the almost inevitable result of the political, economic and cultural context in which the Byzantines entered the sixth century.