Die Vandalen. Skythen, Goten oder Römer?

Steinacher, Roland

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“…These households acted as a locus for the loyalties of wider sets of officials and aristocrats. 88 One of the (multiple) stages of Huneric's purge, as described by Victor, was the execution of a larger group of counts and nobles seen as Theoderic's supporters. As previously noted, the implementation of Geiseric's testament was not inevitable: it could be contested on each occasion a transition of power had to take place.…”

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Missing Queens: Gender, Dynasty and Power in Vandal Africa

Whelan

2021

Gender & History

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This paper reconsiders a curious aspect of the Vandal kingdom of North Africa (439–533 ce): the total absence of women called Vandals in extant sources. It argues that these missing Vandal women are the women of the Hasding royal dynasty. The non‐application of the ethnic terminology to the consorts, sisters and daughters of kings and princes corresponds to a broader dearth of contemporary discussions of their political agency. This reduced visibility reflects particular structural features of Vandal kingship – and, in particular, its succession arrangements – which reduced the significance of queens and princesses in both the representation and practice of governance at the royal court in Carthage.

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Section: Violence Conspiracy and Satellite Network: Locating Hasding ...mentioning

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Missing Queens: Gender, Dynasty and Power in Vandal Africa

Whelan

2021

Gender & History

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“…The ancient origins and splendid deeds of the Goths inspired writers to derive Swedes and Poles from them (the Three Crowns of Sweden are those of the Goths, Vandals and Swedes), and this, in turn, motivated others to construct Gothic origins of Baltic peoples. 54 The Late Antique and Early Medieval origins of European peoples remained a resource for further identifications.…”

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Narratives of Origin and Migration in Early Medieval Europe

Pohl

2018

The Medieval History Journal

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This contribution concentrates on the origin narratives of the post-Roman peoples and kingdoms in Latin Europe between c. 500 and 1000, including some observations on the elaborate production of origin stories in the later Middle Ages. It thus addresses a period in which a durable multiplicity of polities with ethnic designations emerged in Europe and was anchored in the mental maps of (at least) the political elites through a set of foundational narratives. Most of these new peoples-Goths, Longobards, Franks, Anglo-Saxons and others-prided themselves in their distant origins, be it from Scandinavia or Troy. Their origin narratives are based on a common stock of mythical points of reference, developed in classical mythology and ethnography and complemented by other motifs and memories. Christianity transformed the frame but not necessarily the elements of the narrative. The wide-ranging comparison to other ethnic and tribal origin stories, as exemplified in this issue, sheds better light on the specificities of the Latin European tradition of 'origines gentium', the origins of peoples. The result is that we should look at these texts as essentially hybrid products of cultural encounters in which formerly subaltern peoples developed new identities as a ruling minority in former Roman provinces.

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Die Vandalen. Skythen, Goten oder Römer?

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Missing Queens: Gender, Dynasty and Power in Vandal Africa

Missing Queens: Gender, Dynasty and Power in Vandal Africa

Narratives of Origin and Migration in Early Medieval Europe

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