
Vandals
Wiley-Blackwell (Publisher)
Published on 15. January 2010
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368 pages
978-1-4443-1807-4 (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
"...Andy Merrills and Richard Miles have done us a great service with this clear, erudite, and engaging study." ( Melbourne Historical Journal, 1 December 2012)More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Chicester
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 239 mm
Width: 163 mm
Thickness: 26 mm
Weight
698 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4443-1807-4 (9781444318074)
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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 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).
Content
List of Illustrations. Preface. List of Abbreviations. 1. The Vandals in History. 2. From the Danube to Africa. 3. Ruling the Vandal Kingdom ad 435-534. 4. Identity and Ethnicity in the Vandal Kingdom. 5. The Vandal Kingdom and the Wider World, 439-534 ad. 6. The Economy of Vandal Africa. 7. Religion and the Vandal Kingdom. 8. Cultural Life Under the Vandals. 9. Justinian and the End of the Vandal Kingdom. Notes. Pre-1800 Sources. Works Post 1800. Index.