Charles River Editors
ASIN: B01BKXHBFC
Publisher: Charles River Editors
Pages: 36
*Includes pictures*Includes ancient accounts of the Vandals and the sack of Rome*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading*Includes a table of contents"For they are all of the Arian faith, and have one language called Gothic; and, as it seems to me, they all came originally from one tribe, and were distinguished later by the names of those who led each group.” – Procopius Today, most people are familiar with the term “vandalism”, but are ignorant as to the word’s etymology. Yes, vandalism refers to the wanton destruction of property in the modern world, but the word’s origin is much more complex, as it was originally the name of an important Germanic tribe that flourished in Europe and North Africa in the fifth and sixth centuries AD. As the Vandals rampaged throughout Western Europe and later into North Africa, they left a swath of destruction in their wake ...