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Informationen zum Autor Andy Merrills is an RCUK Research Fellow at the School of Archaeology and Ancient History, University of Leicester. His work has focused largely upon the history of late Antique North Africa and upon geographical thought within the classical and medieval worlds. 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 is a Newton Trust Lecturer in the Faculty of Classics at the University of Cambridge, and a fellow of Trinity Hall. His research has centred primarily upon the history and archaeology of Punic, Roman and late Antique North Africa. He is author of African Hercules: The Rise and Fall of Carthage (2009), and editor of Constructing Identities in Late Antiquity (1999). Klappentext 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. Today, the Vandals are remembered primarily as a metaphor for violent and uncultured destruction, but as the Roman Empire came to an end, the Vandals began to exert considerable influence, occupying Carthage and establishing one of the richest kingdoms of the early medieval world.This complete history provides a full account of the Vandals and re-evaluates key aspects of the society including political and economic structures; the complex foreign policy which combined diplomatic alliances and marriages with brutal raiding; the extraordinary cultural development of secular learning; the religious struggles that threatened to tear the state apart; and the nature of Vandal identity, examined from a social and gender perspective. Drawing upon new archaeological findings, as well as textual evidence, the authors present a provocative reinterpretation of this long-forgotten chapter of late antiquity. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis PrefaceAbbreviationsChapter 1: The Vandals in HistoryChapter 2: From the Danube to AfricaChapter 3: Ruling the Vandal Kingdom A.D. 435-534Chapter 4: Identity and Ethnicity in the Vandal KingdomChapter 5: Vandals in the Wider World, 439 - 534Chapter 6: The Economy of Vandal AfricaChapter 7: Religion and the Vandal KingdomChapter 8: Cultural Life under the VandalsChapter 9: Justinian and the End of the Vandal KingdomBibliography...
