Konrad Vössing – Das Königreich der Vandalen

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Official title	Das Königreich der Vandalen
Sub-title or secondary title	Geiserichs Herrschaft und das Imperium Romanum
Author	Konrad Vössing
Language	German
Title in English	The Kingdom of the Vandals
Titre en français	Le Royaume des Vandales
Spanish title	—
العنوان بالعربية	مملكة الوندال
Initial release	2017
City / State	Darmstadt / Hesse
Editor / Publisher	WGB & Philipp von Zabern
Tags	Academic work, History of the Vandals, Vandalic Kingdom, Culture, Religion, Literature,
OpenSource	No.
Links	Amazon

Offizielle Beschreibung

Eine kleine Schar germanischer ›Barbaren‹ zieht quer durch Europa bis nach Nordafrika, erobert Rom und ist unmittelbar am Untergang des weströmischen Reiches beteiligt: die Vandalen.
100 Jahre besteht ihr Königreich, bevor sich ihre Spuren ebenso schnell wie rätselhaft verlieren. Kein anderer Germanenstamm hat eine so lange Unabhängigkeit erreicht wie sie. Dieses Vandalenreich ist in einzigartiger Weise verbunden mit seinem ersten und bedeutendsten König, Geiserich. Er war es, der sie auf römisches Gebiet im heutigen Tunesien führte, sich in militärischen Auseinandersetzungen behauptete und einen gut organisierten Staat installierte.
Konrad Vössing beschreibt anschaulich und klar dieses mächtige Königreich im Kontext des spätrömischen Reiches, der afrikanischen Provinzen, der Völkerwanderungszeit und Geiserichs Herrschaft.

Academic review by Roland Steinacher

Click here to access the review on De Gruyter.

Robin Whelan – Being Christian in Vandal Africa

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Official title	Being Christian in Vandal Africa
Sub-title or secondary title	The Politics of Orthodoxy in Post-Imperial West
Author	Robin Whelan
Language	English
Title in English	—
Titre en français	Être chrétien en Afrique vandale
Spanish title	—
العنوان بالعربية	أن تكون مسيحياً في إفريقيا الوندالية
Initial release	2018
City / State	Oakland / California
Editor / Publisher	University of California Press
Tags	Academic work, History of the Vandals, Vandalic Kingdom, Culture, Religion, Literature,
OpenSource	No.
Links	JSTOR, UCP, Amazon

Official description in English

Being Christian in Vandal Africa investigates conflicts over Christian orthodoxy in the Vandal kingdom, the successor to Roman rule in North Africa, ca. 439 to 533 c.e. Exploiting neglected texts, author Robin Whelan exposes a sophisticated culture of disputation between Nicene (“Catholic”) and Homoian (“Arian”) Christians and explores their rival claims to political and religious legitimacy. These contests—sometimes violent—are key to understanding the wider and much-debated issues of identity and state formation in the post-imperial West.

Frank M. Clover – The Late Roman West and the Vandals

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Official title	The Late Roman West and the Vandals
Sub-title or secondary title	—
Author	Frank M. Clover
Language	English
Title in English	—
Titre en français	Le Bas Empire Romain d’Occident et les Vandales
Spanish title	—
العنوان بالعربية	الإمبراطورية الرومانية الغربية المتأخّرة و الوندال
Initial release	1993
City / State	Milton Park/ U.K.
Editor / Publisher	Routeldge
Tags	Academic work, History of the Vandals, Vandalic Kingdom, Culture, Religion, Literature, Art,
OpenSource	No.
Links	Routeldge, Amazon

Official description in English

The impact of Roman civilisation on the Empire’s clients in the West forms the subject of the first parts of this volume. Even the most successful Germanic kingdoms of the 5th-6th centuries, the author argues, such as that of the Vandals in North Africa, could not escape the grasp of the Roman Empire: their politics and culture remained conditioned by imperial models and by the continuing reality of imperial power throughout late antiquity. The subsequent articles deal with the Historia Augusta, but approaching that difficult text from the periphery, by first attempting to establish its broad literary and topical context before considering questions of its nature and date.

Description officielle en français

L’impact de la civilisation romaine sur les clients de l’empire en Occident forme le sujet des premières parties de ce recueil. Selon l’auteur, même les royaumes germaniques, bénéficiant du plus grand des succès aux 5e et 6e siècles, tel celui des Vandales en Afrique du Nord, ne pouvaient échapper à  l’emprise de l’empire romain: leurs politiques et leurs cultures restaient sous l’influence des modèles impériaux et de la réalité constante du pouvoir impérial tout au long de l’Antiquité tardive. Les études suivantes traitent de l’Historia Augusta, approchant cependant ce texte ardu depuis sa périphérie, tentant tout d’abord d’établir son contexte littéraire et thématique, ce, avant d’en considérer la nature et la date.

Composition

• Part I : Politics and Literature in the fifth-century West
• Part II : The Venture of the Vandals in Africa
• The Historia Augusta, viewed from the periphery

Review

There is an academic review published in The Classical Review by Geoffrey Greatrex; check it here.

Roland Steinacher – Die Vandalen: Aufstieg und Fall eines Barbarenreichs

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Official title	Die Vandalen: Aufstieg und Fall eines Barbarenreichs
Sub-title or secondary title	—
Author	Roland Steinacher
Language	German
Title in English	The Vandals: Rise and Fall of a Barbarian State
Titre en français	Les Vandales: Fondation et chute d’un Etat barbare
Spanish title	—
العنوان بالعربية	الوندال: قيام و سقوط دولة برابرية
Initial release	2016
City / State	Stuttgart / Germany
Editor / Publisher	Klett-Cotta Verlag
Tags	Academic work, History of the Vandals, Vandal ethnicity, Origins of the Vandals, Vandalic Kingdom, Migration Periods, Vandalism,
Get it	Amazon

Review

(Not available yet)

More informations will be available soon.

Conquest of Carthage 439

Conquête de Carthage 439

Une courte vidéo concernant la Conquête de Carthage, qui eut lieu le 19 Octobre 439, avec Geiseric en premier plan !

Staff de la vidéo

Narration : Maxime Müller
Dessins, animation et montage vidéo : Meriam Cherif
Présenté par la Société Geiseric
Date d’enregistrement : 18/10/2020

Merrills A. & Miles R. – The Vandals

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Official title	The Vandals
Sub-title or secondary title	—
Author	Andy Merrills & Richard Miles
Language	English
Title in English	The Vandals
Titre en français	Les Vandales
Spanish title	—
العنوان بالعربية	الوندال
Initial release	2010
City / State	Chichester / U.K.
Editor / Publisher	Wiley-Blackwell
Tags	Academic work, History of the Vandals, Vandal ethnicity, Origins of the Vandals, Vandalic Kingdom, Migration Periods, Culture, Religion, Economy,
OpenSource	No.
Links	Worldcat ID, Amazon

Review

Part of the collection “Peoples of Europe”, this book is the first book dedicated entirely to the Vandals. It traces all their parcours from their appearance in History, up to their kingdom’s fall in 533AD. More than a general view, with a simple and clear explanation of the events, the authors offer a conclusion of all the latter studies on the Vandals have been up.

This book is suggested to anyone who wants a general and well-documented introduction to the Vandals, according to new academic works.

Informations on other versions of this book will be available soon.

Christian Courtois – Les Vandales et l’Afrique

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Official title	Les Vandales et l’Afrique
Sub-title or secondary title	—
Author	Christian Courtois
Language	French
Title in English	The Vandals and Africa
Titre en français	Les Vandales et l’Afrique
Spanish title	—
العنوان بالعربية	الوندال و إفريقيا
Initial release	1955
City / State	Paris / France
Editor / Publisher	Arts et Métiers Graphiques
Tags	Academic work, History of the Vandals, Vandal ethnicity, Origins of the Vandals, Vandalic Kingdom, Migration Periods, Vandalism,
OpenSource	Not until 2027.

Review

Courtois’ work is the main and major reference for the study of the Vandalic History since the release of his work. Professor Christian Courtois has worked on Geiseric’s governance for his Master thesis and had this actual book as a PhD thesis. He worked on the Vandals for over 25 years until his death that happened in 1957, 2 years after the release of this book .

More than mastering and using all he could gather and reach concerning the Vandals, he worked in the University of Algiers and got in touch with anything Vandal-related on the archaeological side.
This book corrects and fills many gaps and errors done by historians prior to him. The discovery of Vandalic vestiges by the French in North Africa helped him fulfill this work and make of it a reference.

Courtois, with this book, made a revolution on how the Vandals are seen. His view on the Vandals could be seen by many readers as : “The Vandals may have been brutal, barbarians, violent and undisciplined… But nothing much or more than other peoples to deserve a label as pejorative as Vandalism.”

Informations on other versions of this book will be available soon.

Ludwig Schmidt – Geschichte der Wandalen

General information

Official title	Geschichte der Wandalen
Subtitle or secondary title	Aelteste Geschichte der Wandalen
Author	Ludwig Schmidt
Title in English	History of the Vandals
Titre en français	Histoie des Vandales
Spanish title	—
العنوان بالعربية	تاريخ الوندال
Initial release	1901
City / State	Leipzig / Germany
Editor / Publisher	Verlang von B. G. Teubner
Tags	Academic work, History of the Vandals, Vandal ethnicity, Origins of the Vandals, Vandalic Kingdom, Migration Periods,
OpenSource	Yes, check Read online.

Review

For another academic review, in french, check here.
Pour un compte-rendu académique en français concernant ce livre, voir ici.

When it comes to Vandalic history, either for an academic purpose, or a general cultural one, this book is a must-read since it tries to trace all the Vandalic History from Kattegat to Carthage.

This book was published in 1901, by Ludwig Schmidt, a professor who also worked on the Proto-Germanic language and gave a perspective on the Ancient Germanic languages^[1], gained a reputation for presenting various new, interesting, ideas, and points of view on the subject of the Vandals. This work is a remastering if his previous “Aelteste Geschichte der Wandalen”.

History of the Vandals, by Schmidt, has been translated into various different languages since its release, spanning 220 pages, it is known in scholarship on the Vandals for its vibrant, yet succinct contents, that will give a great overview on the historical path of the Vandals.

Read online

Geschichte der Wandalen

Aelteste Geschichte der Wandalen

Informations on other versions of this book will be available soon.

References :

[1] : Geschichte der deutschen Stämme

Lecture on the Battle of Ad Decimum (533)

Français | Español | عربية
Staff of the video

On the 13th of September, 533, perhaps the most fateful & decisive battle in the history of the Vandals & their Kingdom took place. The location, 10 miles south west of Carthage, at a site named ‘Ad Decimum’, meaning at ten miles. One of the Rare sources of this time is the Opus ‘History of Wars’ by Procopius of Caesarea, who documented the battle in the third volune of his series, known by its befitting nickname ‘Vandalic Wars’.

Our lecture is a passage taken from the integral 18th chapter, detailing the battle.

The video have been made by amateur members of Geiseric Society. Thanks for consideration.

Français

Le 13 septembre 533 de notre ère, la plus décisive bataille peut-être dans l’histoire du Royaume Vandale prit lieu à dix miles au sud-est de Carthage. Ce lieu fut nommé “Ad Decimum”.

L’une des rares sources de l’histoire vandale, l’oeuvre des Guerres de Justinien de Procope de Césarée, nous relate cette bataille dans le troisième livre de cet opus, quelques parts ailleurs baptisé : Guerres des Vandales.

Notre lecture sera la citation du 18ème chapitre en sa semi-totalité.

En cette vidéo qui a été faite par des amateurs de la Société Geiseric, nous présentons ce chapitre en question avec une modeste animation et illustration de la situation.

Español

En el 13 de septiembre, 533 d.C, la mas decisiva batalla en la historia del Renio Vándalo sucedió en la lugar llamada como “Ad Decimum”, lo que significa “A diez millas”, al sud-oeste de Cartago. Uno de los recursos raros a la historia vándala es la obra “Historia de las Guerras” por Procopio de Cesarea. En su obra, encontramos el reporte, detallado en los libros tres y quatro, de lo que llaman “Las Guerras Vándalas”.

Nuestra lectura consta del capitulo integral dieciocho del libro tres.

عربية

في الـ13 سبتمبر 533 ميلادي، وقعت أحسم معركة في تاريخ المملكة الوندالية على بعد 10 أميال من جنوب-غرب قرطاج. الموقع سُمّي بآد ديكيموم، أي، على بعد عشرة.

من بين أندر المصادر للتاريخ الوندالي عمل بروكوبيوس القيصري : حروب يوستينيان، أين يروي لنا مجرى هذه المعركة في كتابه الثالث الذي يسمى أيضاً بـ “حروب الوندال”.

قراءتنا ستكون إقتباساً شبه كلّياً للفصل الثامن-عشر من الكتاب الثالث.

Staff

English narration : Adrian THS Windsor
Narration française : Maxime Müller (Lecture) / Meriam Cherif (Introduction)
Naracción en Español : Alex Asturias
قراءة عربية و ترجمة النص : شريف مريم
Video making : Meriam Cherif
Music : Jingle Punks