
The Vandals
Wiley (Publisher)
Published on 24. January 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
366 pages
978-1-118-78509-6 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
"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)More details
Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
Hoboken
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
533 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-118-78509-6 (9781118785096)
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions

Andrew Merrills | Richard Miles
The Vandals
Book
02/2010
Wiley
€122.00
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Andrew Merrills | Richard Miles
The Vandals
E-Book
12/2009
Wiley-Blackwell
€32.99
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Persons
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).
Content
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