Chapter 2. From the Danube to Africa
Published Online: 15 JAN 2010
DOI: 10.1002/9781444318074.ch2
Copyright © 2010 Andy Merrills and Richard Miles
Book Title
The Vandals
Additional Information
How to Cite
Merrills, A. and Miles, R. (2010) From the Danube to Africa, in The Vandals, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK. doi: 10.1002/9781444318074.ch2
Publication History
- Published Online: 15 JAN 2010
- Published Print: 5 FEB 2010
ISBN Information
Print ISBN: 9781405160681
Online ISBN: 9781444318074
- Summary
- Chapter
Keywords:
- from the Danube to Africa;
- barbarian group, Astingi - entering Roman province of Dacia;
- Dio's Roman History and Skythica of Dexippus - military and political chaos of Roman Balkans;
- Vandals, in extraordinary prominence during fifth and sixth centuries;
- Vandals, being forced back over the frontiers;
- weakening Roman military presence around Rhine-Danube re-entrant;
- archaeology of Vandals on the frontier;
- conflict of Marcomannic Wars in mid-second and abandonment of Dacia;
- Rhine crossing of 406 and ‘decline and fall of the Roman Empire’;
- Boniface's military reputation - ranking as comes domesticorum et Africae (Count of the Households and of Africa)
Summary
This chapter contains sections titled:
The Archaeology of the Vandals on the Frontier
406 and All That
Into Spain
Vandal Identity at the Time of the Invasion
Into Africa
AD 429: The Crossing
Movement within North Africa