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The Vandals is the first book available in the English Language dedicated to exploring the sudden rise and dramatic fall of this complex North African Kingdom. This complete history provides a full account of the Vandals and re-evaluates key aspects of the society including:
* Political and economic structures such as the complex foreign policy which combined diplomatic alliances and marriages with brutal raiding
* The extraordinary cultural development of secular learning, and the religious struggles that threatened to tear the state apart
* The nature of Vandal identity from a social and gender perspective.
List of contents
List of Illustrations viii
Preface ix
List of Abbreviations xii
1 The Vandals in History 1
2 From the Danube to Africa 27
3 Ruling the Vandal Kingdom ad 435-534 56
4 Identity and Ethnicity in the Vandal Kingdom 83
5 The Vandal Kingdom and the Wider World, ad 439-534 109
6 The Economy of Vandal Africa 141
7 Religion and the Vandal Kingdom 177
8 Cultural Life Under the Vandals 204
9 Justinian and the End of the Vandal Kingdom 228
Notes 256
Pre-1800 Sources 306
Works Post 1800 313
Index 341
About the author
Andy Merrills is a Senior Lecturer in Ancient History at the School of Archaeology and Ancient History, University of Leicester. He is author of
History and Geography in Late Antiquity (2005) and editor of
Vandals, Romans and Berbers: New Perspectives on Late Antique North Africa (2004).
Richard Miles teaches ancient history at the University of Sydney. As well as having directed archaeological excavations in Carthage, he has written widely on ancient North Africa including
Carthage Must Be Destroyed: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Mediterranean Superpower (2010).
Summary
The Vandals is the first book available in the English language dedicated to exploring the sudden rise and dramatic fall of this complex North African Kingdom. This complete history provides a full account of the Vandals and re-evaluates key aspects of the society.
Report
"Merrills and Miles have produced an outstanding piece of scholarship that makes a genuine contribution to the field, and that will reward the close attention both of scholars and of educated laypeople interested in the transformation of the ancient Mediterranean into the world of the early Middle Ages." ( Speculum , April 2012)
