A History of the Alans in the West
Author | : Bernard S. Bachrach |
Publisher | : U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages | : 187 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Alani |
ISBN | : 1452912157 |
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Author | : Bernard S. Bachrach |
Publisher | : U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages | : 187 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Alani |
ISBN | : 1452912157 |
Author | : Torsten Cumberland Jacobsen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2019-04-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781594163319 |
The First General History in English of the Germanic People Who Sacked Rome in the Fifth Century AD and Established a Kingdom in North Africa One of the most fascinating of late antiquity were the Vandals, who over a period of six hundred years had migrated from the woodland regions of Scandinavia across Europe and ended in the deserts of North Africa. In A History of the Vandals, the first general account in English covering the entire story of the Vandals from their emergence to the end of their kingdom, historian Torsten Cumberland Jacobsen pieces together what we know about the Vandals, sifting fact from fiction.
Author | : Agustí Alemany |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 496 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9789004114425 |
"Sources on the Alans" now for the first time gives an exhaustive overview of all reports on the Alans written in Greek, Latin, Medieval Latin, Byzantine, Arabic, Armenian, Catalan, Georgian, Hebrew, Iranian, Mongol, Russian, Syriac and Chinese languages. From ancient up to medieval times. With an extensive Onomasticon, time tables and indices on authors and passages. A reference work in the truest sense.
Author | : Guy Halsall |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 519 |
Release | : 2007-12-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107393329 |
This is a major survey of the barbarian migrations and their role in the fall of the Roman Empire and the creation of early medieval Europe, one of the key events in European history. Unlike previous studies it integrates historical and archaeological evidence and discusses Britain, Ireland, mainland Europe and North Africa, demonstrating that the Roman Empire and its neighbours were inextricably linked. A narrative account of the turbulent fifth and early sixth centuries is followed by a description of society and politics during the migration period and an analysis of the mechanisms of settlement and the changes of identity. Guy Halsall reveals that the creation and maintenance of kingdoms and empires was impossible without the active involvement of people in the communities of Europe and North Africa. He concludes that, contrary to most opinions, the fall of the Roman Empire produced the barbarian migrations, not vice versa.
Author | : Ehsan Yarshater |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 112 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Iran |
ISBN | : 9780710090904 |
Author | : Hyun Jin Kim |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 347 |
Release | : 2013-04-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107067227 |
The Huns have often been treated as primitive barbarians with no advanced political organisation. Their place of origin was the so-called 'backward steppe'. It has been argued that whatever political organisation they achieved they owed to the 'civilizing influence' of the Germanic peoples they encountered as they moved west. This book argues that the steppes of Inner Asia were far from 'backward' and that the image of the primitive Huns is vastly misleading. They already possessed a highly sophisticated political culture while still in Inner Asia and, far from being passive recipients of advanced culture from the West, they passed on important elements of Central Eurasian culture to early medieval Europe, which they helped create. Their expansion also marked the beginning of a millennium of virtual monopoly of world power by empires originating in the steppes of Inner Asia. The rise of the Hunnic Empire was truly a geopolitical revolution.
Author | : |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 1108 |
Release | : 2020-03-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004422420 |
This collection of studies is the result of a six-year interdisciplinary research project undertaken by an international team, and constitutes a completely new approach to environmental, cultural and settlement changes around the mid-first millennium AD in Central Europe.
Author | : E. A. Thompson |
Publisher | : Univ of Wisconsin Press |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780299087043 |
This collection of twelve essays examines the fall of the Roman Empire in the West from the barbarian perspective and experience.
Author | : Andrew Gillett |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 365 |
Release | : 2003-08-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1139440039 |
Warfare and dislocation are obvious features of the break-up of the late Roman West, but this crucial period of change was characterized also by communication and diplomacy. The great events of the late antique West were determined by the quieter labours of countless envoys, who travelled between emperors, kings, generals, high officials, bishops, provincial councils, and cities. This book examines the role of envoys in the period from the establishment of the first 'barbarian kingdoms' in the West, to the eve of Justinian's wars of re-conquest. It shows how ongoing practices of Roman imperial administration shaped new patterns of political interaction in the novel context of the earliest medieval states. Close analysis of sources with special interest in embassies offers insight into a variety of genres: chronicles, panegyrics, hagiographies, letters and epitaph. This study makes a significant contribution to the developing field of ancient and medieval communications.
Author | : Barry Cunliffe |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2019-09-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0192551868 |
Brilliant horsemen and great fighters, the Scythians were nomadic horsemen who ranged wide across the grasslands of the Asian steppe from the Altai mountains in the east to the Great Hungarian Plain in the first millennium BC. Their steppe homeland bordered on a number of sedentary states to the south - the Chinese, the Persians and the Greeks - and there were, inevitably, numerous interactions between the nomads and their neighbours. The Scythians fought the Persians on a number of occasions, in one battle killing their king and on another occasion driving the invading army of Darius the Great from the steppe. Relations with the Greeks around the shores of the Black Sea were rather different - both communities benefiting from trading with each other. This led to the development of a brilliant art style, often depicting scenes from Scythian mythology and everyday life. It is from the writings of Greeks like the historian Herodotus that we learn of Scythian life: their beliefs, their burial practices, their love of fighting, and their ambivalent attitudes to gender. It is a world that is also brilliantly illuminated by the rich material culture recovered from Scythian burials, from the graves of kings on the Pontic steppe, with their elaborate gold work and vividly coloured fabrics, to the frozen tombs of the Altai mountains, where all the organic material - wooden carvings, carpets, saddles and even tattooed human bodies - is amazingly well preserved. Barry Cunliffe here marshals this vast array of evidence - both archaeological and textual - in a masterful reconstruction of the lost world of the Scythians, allowing them to emerge in all their considerable vigour and splendour for the first time in over two millennia.