The Vandals

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.

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 Senior Lecturer in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Sydney. 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).

List of Illustrations	p. viii
Preface	p. ix
List of Abbreviations	p. xii
The Vandals in History	p. 1
From the Danube to Africa	p. 27
Ruling the Vandal Kingdom AD 435-534	p. 56
Identity and Ethnicity in the Vandal Kingdom	p. 83
The Vandal Kingdom and the Wider World, AD 439-534	p. 109
The Economy of Vandal Africa	p. 141
Religion and the Vandal Kingdom	p. 177
Cultural Life Under the Vandals	p. 204
Justinian and the End of the Vandal Kingdom	p. 228
Notes	p. 256
Pre-1800 Sources	p. 306
Works Post 1800	p. 313
Index	p. 341
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