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Outreach

outreach at kibworthOur Outreach team takes archaeology workshops and talks out to schools and colleges in the county. It also runs Masterclasses and workshops on campus and in the department. We've also worked with the army on Project Nightingale at Caerwent. Find out more on what we do! And hear about the places we have visited last year, read some testimonials, and see what we can bring to your school to help bring the past alive!

University of Leicester Archaeological Services

ULAS is an independent professional unit whose expertise covers urban, rural and buildings archaeology of all periods across the Midlands. Find out more...

collapsed Roman basilica wall at Leicester

Read about the city's archaeology in the new publication Visions of Ancient Leicester

Contact the School

School of Archaeology and Ancient History,
University of Leicester, University Road,
Leicester, LE1 7RH

Key Contacts

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Ranked 9th in the Guardian University Guide 2013

 

Publications

Books

Andy Merrills and Richard Miles. The Vandals. Blackwell Peoples of Europe. Oxford and Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.


A.H. Merrills, History and Geography in Late Antiquity. Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought 64. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pbk reprint 2008. 
 

A.H. Merrills (ed.) Vandals, Romans and Berbers: New Perspectives on Late Antique North Africa. London: Ashgate, 2004. 
 


Articles:

A.H. Merrills, ‘totum subuertere uoluerunt:  ‘Social martyrdom’ in the Historia Persecutionis of Victor of Vita’, in Michael Williams, Richard Flower and Christopher Kelly (edd.), Unclassical Traditions. Volume II. Perspectives from East and West in Late Antiquity, Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society, Supp. 35, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), 102-15. 

A.H. Merrills, ‘The Secret of My Succession: Dynasty and Crisis in Vandal North Africa’, Early Medieval Europe, 18.2. (2010), 135-59.

A.H. Merrills, ‘The Origins of ‘Vandalism’’, International Journal of the Classical Tradition, 16.2. (2009), 155-75.

Andrew H. Merrills, ‘Kornkammer und Keramiklager. Die wirtschaftlichen Verhältnisse im Vandalenreich’, in Das Königreich der Vandalen. Erben des Imperiums in Nordafrika, (Badisches Landesmuseum, Karlsruhe, 2009): 240-52.

A.H. Merrills, ‘Comparative Histories: The Vandals, The Sueves and Isidore of Seville’, in R. Corradini, R. Meens, C. Pössel and P. Shaw (eds), Texts and Identities in the Early Middle Ages. Forschungen zur Geschichte des Mittelalters, 12 (Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences, 2006), 35-46.

A.H. Merrills, ‘Monks, Monsters and Barbarians: Re-defining the African Periphery in Late Antiquity’, Journal of Early Christian Studies, 12:2 (2004), 217-44.

A.H. Merrills, ‘Understanding Late Antique North Africa’, in A. H. Merrills (ed.), Vandals, Romans and Berbers: New Perspectives on Late Antique North Africa (London: Ashgate, 2004), 1-29.

A.H. Merrills, ‘The Perils of Panegyric: Dracontius’ lost poem and its consequences’, in A. H. Merrills (ed.), Vandals, Romans and Berbers: New Perspectives on Late Antique North Africa (London: Ashgate, 2004), 145-62.