Papers originally presented at the seventieth Dumbarton Oaks Byzantine Studies Symposium, "Rome Re-Imagined: Byzantine and Early Islamic North Africa, ca. 500-800" (27-29 April 2012).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: re-imagining Byzantine Africa / Susan T. Stevens and Jonathan P. Conant -- Procopius's Vandal war : thematic trajectories and hidden transcripts / Anthony Kaldellis -- Gelimer's slaughter : the case for late Vandal Africa / Andy Merrills -- The Saharan Berber diaspora and the southern frontiers of Byzantine North Africa / Elizabeth Fentress and Andrew Wilson -- The Islamic conquest and the defense of Byzantine Africa : reconsiderations on campaigns, conquests, and contexts / Walter E. Kaegi -- Carthage in transition : from late Byzantine city to medieval villages / Susan T. Stevens -- The transformation of ancient land- and cityscapes in early medieval North Africa / Philipp von Rummel -- The contribution of medieval Arabic sources to the historical geography of Byzantine Africa / Mohamed Benabbès -- From Vandal Africa to Arab Ifriqiya : tracing ceramic and economic trends through the fifth to the eleventh centuries / Paul Reynolds -- Regio dives in omnibus bonis ornata : the African economy from the Vandals to the Arab conquest in the light of coin evidence / Cécile Morrisson -- Sanctity and the networks of empire in Byzantine North Africa / Jonathan P. Conant -- Beyond spolia : architectural memory and adaptation in the churches of late antique North Africa / Ann Marie Yasin -- Public order, private power, and the politics of the secular : marriage, law, and Christian rhetoric in Vandal Africa / Kate Cooper -- Exegesis and dissent in Byzantine North Africa / Leslie Dossey -- Sounds from a silent land : the Latin poetry of Byzantine North Africa / Gregory Hays -- Byzantine and early Islamic Africa, ca. 500-800 : concluding remarks / Peter Brown.

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