The Vandals
The Ancients
History Hit
4.7 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 26 November 2023
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Known for bringing about the fall of the Western Roman Empire - the Vandals have a reputation of violence, destruction, and conquering. Moving from Eastern Europe across Gaul, and eventually taking Carthage, their actions have been immortalised in Christian texts and Western Language. But what do we actually know about the Vandals, and how did their behaviour bring one of the most powerful empires of all time to an eventual collapse?
In this episode Tristan welcomes Professor Andy Merrills to the podcast to help explain the important role the Vandals played in history. Looking at their long migration across the European continent, their arrival in Carthage, and the archaeological evidence discovered - who were the Vandals, and were they really as destructive as history tells us?
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| 1:18.8 | episode where we're talking about an extraordinary group of people who were so important in the decline of the Western |
| 1:28.0 | Roman Empire in the 5th century. They are a group of people that originated from around the Danube area, think Romania and Hungary. They venture west. They cross the river Rhine. Spend some time in France, then go down to southern Spain, and ultimately |
| 1:46.2 | they cross over into North Africa and take control of this incredibly lucrative part of the Roman Empire forming their famous or infamous namesake kingdom, |
| 1:59.5 | the Vandell kingdom because yes today we're talking all about the vandals the original vandals yes this is where the word vandal and vandalism does come from |
| 2:10.0 | but how destructive how infamous really were the vandals. What do we know about these people? |
| 2:18.0 | What to explain all about it, I was delighted to head up to Lester a couple of weeks back to interview the |
| 2:24.5 | Vandel expert that is Professor Andy Merrill's. And he is a brilliant |
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