Merrills / Miles The Vandals

1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-1-4443-1808-1
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 368 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: The Peoples of Europe

The Vandals is the first book available in the EnglishLanguage dedicated to exploring the sudden rise and dramatic fallof this complex North African Kingdom. This complete historyprovides a full account of the Vandals and re-evaluates key aspectsof the society including:
* Political and economic structures such as the complexforeign policy which combined diplomatic alliances and marriageswith brutal raiding
* The extraordinary cultural development of secular learning,and the religious struggles that threatened to tear the stateapart
* The nature of Vandal identity from a social and genderperspective.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Merrills, Andrew

Miles, Richard

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 439-534109
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

Über Autor(innen)

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).