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.
  

• The Vandals 2
  • Contents 10
  • Illustrations 11
  • Preface 12
  • Abbreviations 15
  • 1 The Vandals in History 18
  • 2 From the Danube to Africa 44
  • 3 Ruling the Vandal Kingdom AD 435–534 73
  • 4 Identity and Ethnicity in the Vandal Kingdom 100
  • 5 The Vandal Kingdom and the Wider World, AD 439–534 126
  • 6 The Economy of Vandal Africa 158
  • 7 Religion and the Vandal Kingdom 194
  • 8 Cultural Life Under the Vandals 221
  • 9 Justinian and the End of the Vandal Kingdom 245
  • Notes 273