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PublisherWiley & Sons, Incorporated, John

ISBN-100631214437

ISBN-139780631214434

eBay Product ID (ePID)947558

Product Key Features

Number of Pages336 Pages

Publication NameHuns

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year1999

SubjectAncient / General, Europe / Medieval

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaHistory

AuthorE. A. Thompson

SeriesThe Peoples of Europe Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.8 in

Item Weight17.3 Oz

Item Length9.1 in

Item Width6.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

Dewey Edition21

TitleLeadingThe

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal936

Table Of ContentIntroduction. 1. Sources. 2. The History of the Huns Before Attila. 3. Hun Society Before Attila. 4. The Victories of Attila. 5. Peace on the Danube Frontier. 6. The Defeats of Attila. 7. Hun Society Under Attila. 8. Roman Foreign Policy and the Huns. 9. Conclusion. Appendixes:. A: The Songs of the Huns. B: The Causes of the War of 441. C: Valips. D: The Campaign of 441-3. E: Chronological Note on the Years 449-50. F: The Site of Attila's Headquarters. G: The Alleged Gothic Names of the Huns. Afterword by Peter Heather. Further Reading. Index.

SynopsisThis is a history of the Huns in Europe from their first attacks on the Goths north of the Black Sea to the collapse of their central European empire after the death of the legendary Attila., This is a history of the Huns in Europe from their first attacks on the Goths north of the Black Sea to the collapse of their central European empire after the death of the legendary Attila. In the only connected narrative account of the rise and fall of the Huns in English, Professor Thompson reconstructs their campaigns in detail from disparate and often fragmentary sources. In the process, there emerges a clear picture of their dramatic successes, and failures, against the non-Roman peoples of central and eastern Europe, and of their many invasions of the eastern and western halves of the Roman Empire. This dramatic narrative is punctuated by analytical chapters which chart the transformations wrought in Hunnic society by contact with the more developed world of the Roman Mediterranean. In these chapters, the author sets himself the task of explaining the sudden rise and equally sudden fall of the Huns in the fourth and fifth centuries. He finds his answer in the impact of Roman wealth upon the original social structures of the Huns. The Huns includes an Afterword by Peter Heather, Lecturer in Early Medieval History at University College London, which sets Professor Thompsons book in the broad context of recent studies on the Huns., This is a history of the Huns in Europe from their first attacks on the Goths north of the Black Sea to the collapse of their central European empire after the death of the legendary Attila. In the only connected narrative account of the rise and fall of the Huns in English, Professor Thompson reconstructs their campaigns in detail from disparate and often fragmentary sources. In the process, there emerges a clear picture of their dramatic successes, and failures, against the non-Roman peoples of central and eastern Europe, and of their many invasions of the eastern and western halves of the Roman Empire.

LC Classification NumberD141