Vandals

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).

• List of Illustrations viii Preface 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 439–534 1096 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

“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)