Beschreibung:
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 Illustrations viiiPreface ixList of Abbreviations xii1 The Vandals in History 12 From the Danube to Africa 273 Ruling the Vandal Kingdom ad 435-534 564 Identity and Ethnicity in the Vandal Kingdom 835 The Vandal Kingdom and the Wider World, ad 439-5341096 The Economy of Vandal Africa 1417 Religion and the Vandal Kingdom 1778 Cultural Life Under the Vandals 2049 Justinian and the End of the Vandal Kingdom 228Notes 256Pre-1800 Sources 306Works Post 1800 313Index 341