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I was discussing the Vandals in North Africa, and the importance of the region for the Gothic wars with ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
carolinw today, especially under the aspect of supply routes -- once the Vandals were beaten, and the Byzantine general Belisarius had taken Sicily, there was no way any more for the Goths to get at grain imports from there to feed the population of Italy. Combine that with terrible wars that annihilated the home-grown harvests, and you got terrible famines. Not helping the Vandals fight Byzantium might have been a decision Queen Amalaswintha thought good 'realpolitik', but in the end, it proved disastrous.
In order to look for possible connections that I might use, I idly googled 'teja gelimer' while waiting for a process to run its course at work, and found the shorter novel about Gelimer that Felix Dahn wrote in 1885, nine years after 'A Struggle For Rome'.
Because Teja is in it!! Not personally, but he is mentioned several times by a Gothic woman who is married to one of the vandal leaders, in that novel. Through her perspective, I get a few tantalising glances at Teja through the eyes of a close personal friend.
( All of the new canon is in here! )
carolinw today, especially under the aspect of supply routes -- once the Vandals were beaten, and the Byzantine general Belisarius had taken Sicily, there was no way any more for the Goths to get at grain imports from there to feed the population of Italy. Combine that with terrible wars that annihilated the home-grown harvests, and you got terrible famines. Not helping the Vandals fight Byzantium might have been a decision Queen Amalaswintha thought good 'realpolitik', but in the end, it proved disastrous.In order to look for possible connections that I might use, I idly googled 'teja gelimer' while waiting for a process to run its course at work, and found the shorter novel about Gelimer that Felix Dahn wrote in 1885, nine years after 'A Struggle For Rome'.
Because Teja is in it!! Not personally, but he is mentioned several times by a Gothic woman who is married to one of the vandal leaders, in that novel. Through her perspective, I get a few tantalising glances at Teja through the eyes of a close personal friend.
( All of the new canon is in here! )