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基本説明
The first book available in the English Language dedicated to exploring the sudden rise and dramatic fall of the Vandals. This complete history re-evaluates key aspects of Vandal society including political and economic structures, secular learning, religious struggles, and the nature of Vandal identity examined from a social and gender perspective.
Full 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.
Contents
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
