Konflikt und Anpassun: Studien zu Migration und Ethnogenese der Vandalen

Abstract

Guido Berndt's work is the publication of his doctoral thesis in Ancient History at the University of Paderborn, where Jörg Jarnut was his supervisor. Berndt's thesis was the first monographic book to appear in German on Vandal history since H.J. Diesner's Das Vandalenreich: Aufstieg und Niedergang in 1966 and the second edition of Ludwig Schmidt's Geschichte der Wandalen (1942, originally published in 1901; rev. ante, xvii [1902], 542–3). In general, C. Courtois’ Les Vandales et l’Afrique, published in 1955 (rev. ante, lxxi [1956], 627–30), is still the most comprehensive monographic work on the history of Vandal Africa, including as it does a rich collection of historical and epigraphical source material. In the same year as Berndt's book, a short monographic history of the Vandals by Helmut Castritius was published (Die Vandalen, 2007). This recent activity reflects the interest that Vandal history has received in recent years (e.g. A.H. Merrills, ed., Vandals, Romans and Berbers, 2004 [rev. ante, cxx (2005), 759–60], and the conference papers L’Afrique Vandale et Byzantine, 2002 and 2003). Berndt himself has recently edited a collection of conference papers together with Roland Steinacher (Das Reich der Vandalen und seine (Vor-)Geschichten, 2008).