Yves Modéran (1955 – 1 July 2010, Paris) was a French historian, a professor of
Roman history
The history of Rome includes the history of the city of Rome as well as the civilisation of ancient Rome. Roman history has been influential on the modern world, especially in the history of the Catholic Church, and Roman law has influenced m ...
at the
University of Caen Normandy.
Agrégé d'histoire in 1978, he was a specialist of
North Africa during Antiquity
The History of North Africa during the period of Classical Antiquity (c. 8th century BCE – 5th century CE) can be divided roughly into the history of Egypt in the east, the history of Ancient Libya in the middle and the history of Numidia and Ma ...
and later, in particular of the
Vandals
The Vandals were a Germanic people who first inhabited what is now southern Poland. They established Vandal kingdoms on the Iberian Peninsula, Mediterranean islands, and North Africa in the fifth century.
The Vandals migrated to the area be ...
period. He took part to the excavations at
Bulla Regia
Bulla Regia was a Berber, Punic, and Roman town near present-day Jendouba, Tunisia. Its surviving ruins and archaeological site are noted for their Hadrianic-era semi-subterranean housing, a protection from the fierce heat and effects of the ...
as part of studies organized by the
École française de Rome.
p. ''Rapport sur les activités de l'École française de Rome pendant l'année 1988-1989'', CRAI, 1989, 1989, volume 133, n°3 (pp. 625)
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Works (partial list)
*1987: ''"Qui montana Gurubi colunt". Corrippe et le mythe des Maures du cap Bon'', MEFRA, volume 99, n°99-2, (pp. 963-989
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*1989: ''Gildon, les Maures et l'Afrique romaine'', MEFRA, volume 101, n°101-2, (pp. 821-872
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*1993: ''La chronologie de la Vie de saint Fulgence de Ruspe et ses incidences sur l'histoire de l'Afrique vandale'', MEFRA, volume 105, n°105-1, (pp. 135-188
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*2003: ''Les Maures et l'Afrique romaine, IVe–VIIe.'', ed. '' Bibliothèque des Ecoles françaises d'Athènes et de Rome''
*2003: ''L'Empire romain tardif (235-395)'', éd. Ellipses Marketing, Paris,
*2014: ''Les Vandales et l'Empire romain'', (with Michel-Yves Perrin) éd. Errance - Actes Sud
Actes Sud is a French publishing house based in Arles. It was founded in 1978 by author Hubert Nyssen. By 2013, the company, then headed by Nyssen's daughter, Françoise Nyssen, had an annual turnover of 60 million euros and 60 staff members.
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References
External links
Publications d'Yves Modéran d'après le site du CRAHAM
Publications de Yves Modéran (Bibliographie du Maghreb antique et médiéval)
* Yves Modéran
APHG Caen, juin 2001
* Les Vandales, "le plus délicat des peuples" ''L'Histoire'' n° 327 - 12/2007
Hommage de Jehan Desanges à Yves Modéran
on the site of the Encyclopédie berbère
''Encyclopédie berbère'' (English: ''Berber Encyclopaedia'') is a French-language encyclopaedia dealing with subjects related to the Berber peoples (''Imazighen'' in Berber language), published both in print editions and in a partial onlin ...
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20th-century French historians
21st-century French historians
French scholars of Roman history
Academic staff of the University of Caen Normandy
1955 births
2010 deaths