Vandals - Merrills, Andrew; Miles, Richard
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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. …mehr

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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.
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Autorenporträt
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).
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"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)