Vandals Archive
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Settlement and Taxes: the Vandals in North Africa
Posted on April 14, 2013 | No CommentsWith the Vandals, the migration of Northern barbarians flowed into a region that had of course been weakened by innumerable internal crises but was still essentially wealthy, productive and well governed. -
The Death Toll of Justinian’s Plague and Its Effects on the Byzantine Empire
Posted on April 4, 2013 | No CommentsIn 541 a plague arrived in Egypt and rapidly began to spread. The following account of the beginning of the plague, while clearly an exaggeration still shows the impact of the disease. -
Rebaptism as a Ritual of Cultural Integration in Vandal Africa
Posted on January 6, 2013 | No CommentsMidway through the first book of his History of the Vandal Persecution, Victor of Vita narrates the story of a Vandal master who deemed it appropriate to allow his two Roman slaves, Martinianus and Maxima, to marry. -
Rex Vandalorum – The Debates on Wends and Vandals in Swedish Humanism as an Indicator for Early Modern Patterns of Ethnic Perception
Posted on December 7, 2011 | No CommentsThe German word Wenden is documented as a synonym for Slavs since the 6th century A.D.. Medieval authors also used Wandali instead of Wenden/Slavs -
Byzantines, Goths and Lombards in Italy: Jewellery, Dress and Cultural Interactions
Posted on December 5, 2011 | No CommentsThe temptation is naturally to seek differences or contrasts from one power to another, to reinforce the conflict and tension identified in contemporary historians. -
The Role of Arianism in the Vandal Kingdom
Posted on January 3, 2009 | No CommentsMy study will focus on one point: what was the role of religion in the development of the above mentioned beliefs and in the preservation of the true identity of the Vandals?
