Time Vandals

Author : Torsten Cumberland Jacobsen
Publisher : Westholme Pub Llc
ISBN 13 : 9781594161599
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of the Vandals written by Torsten Cumberland Jacobsen and published by Westholme Pub Llc. This book was released on 2012 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The fifth century AD was a time of great changes in the Mediterranean world. In the early 400s, the Roman Empire ranged from the lowlands of Scotland to the Upper Nile and from Portugal to the Caucasus. It was almost at its widest extent, and although ruled by two emperors—one in the West and one in the East—it was still a single empire. One hundred years later, Roman control of Western Europe and Western North Africa had been lost. In its place, a number of Germanic kingdoms had been established in these regions, with hundreds of thousands of Germanic and other peoples settling permanently inside the former borders of the Western Roman Empire.

Author : Simon MacDowall
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 147388022X
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Vandals written by Simon MacDowall and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2016-07-31 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An up-close look at the Germanic people who sacked Rome in the fifth century AD. On 31 December AD 406, a group of German tribes crossed the Rhine, pierced the Roman defensive lines, and began a rampage across Roman Gaul, sacking cities such as Metz, Arras, and Strasbourg. Foremost amongst them were the Vandals, and their search for a new homeland took them on the most remarkable odyssey. The Romans were unable to stop them and their closest allies, the Alans, marching the breadth of Gaul, crossing the Pyrenees, and making themselves masters of Spain. However, this kingdom of the Vandals and Alans soon came under intense pressure from Rome’s Visigothic allies. In 429, under their new king, Gaiseric, they crossed the straits of Gibraltar to North Africa. They quickly overran this rich Roman province and established a stable kingdom. Taking to the seas, they soon dominated the Western Mediterranean and raided Italy, famously sacking Rome itself in 455. Eventually, however, they were utterly conquered by Belisarius in 533 and vanished from history. Simon MacDowall narrates and analyzes these events, with particular focus on the evolution of Vandal armies and warfare.

Author : Andrew Merrills
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 9781444318081
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Vandals written by Andrew Merrills and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-12-23 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Vandals is the first book available in the EnglishLanguage dedicated to exploring the sudden rise and dramatic fallof this complex North African Kingdom. This complete historyprovides a full account of the Vandals and re-evaluates key aspectsof the society including: Political and economic structures such as the complexforeign policy which combined diplomatic alliances and marriageswith brutal raiding The extraordinary cultural development of secular learning,and the religious struggles that threatened to tear the stateapart The nature of Vandal identity from a social and genderperspective.

Author : Craig Cormick
Publisher : Omnibus Books
ISBN 13 : 9781862919471
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Time Vandals written by Craig Cormick and published by Omnibus Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine that you had a unique set of genes that allowed you to travel to alternative worlds safely-when nobody else could. And imagine that somebody had opened a hole between our world and a very similar world, causing time to have changed. You would be recruited to join a secret agency to travel to their worlds and repair the changes. But would you be prepared for all the things that could cause even bigger changes to our world? And who exactly are the Time Vandals who are changing times? Join Jack and Mei-the Time Warp Rangers-on their first action-filled adventure.

Author : Francesco Stella
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027247293
Total Pages : 726 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Latin Literatures of Medieval and Early Modern Times in Europe and Beyond written by Francesco Stella and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2024-07-15 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The textual heritage of Medieval Latin is one of the greatest reservoirs of human culture. Repertories list more than 16,000 authors from about 20 modern countries. Until now, there has been no introduction to this world in its full geographical extension. Forty contributors fill this gap by adopting a new perspective, making available to specialists (but also to the interested public) new materials and insights. The project presents an overview of Medieval (and post-medieval) Latin Literatures as a global phenomenon including both Europe and extra-European regions. It serves as an introduction to medieval Latin's complex and multi-layered culture, whose attraction has been underestimated until now. Traditional overviews mostly flatten specificities, yet in many countries medieval Latin literature is still studied with reference to the local history. Thus the first section presents 20 regional surveys, including chapters on authors and works of Latin Literature in Eastern, Central and Northern Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and the Americas. Subsequent chapters highlight shared patterns of circulation, adaptation, and exchange, and underline the appeal of medieval intermediality, as evidenced in manuscripts, maps, scientific treatises and iconotexts, and its performativity in narrations, theatre, sermons and music. The last section deals with literary “interfaces,” that is motifs or characters that exemplify the double-sided or the long-term transformations of medieval Latin mythologemes in vernacular culture, both early modern and modern, such as the legends about King Arthur, Faust, and Hamlet.

Author : Active 6th century Jordanes
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Origin and Deeds of the Goths written by Active 6th century Jordanes and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-08-12 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Origin and Deeds of the Goths" by Active 6th century Jordanes (translated by Charles Christopher Mierow). Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004288600
Total Pages : 1121 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Culture and Society in Medieval Galicia written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-07-28 with total page 1121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Culture and Society in Medieval Galicia, twenty-three international authors examine Galicia’s changing place in Iberia, Europe, and the Mediterranean and Atlantic worlds from late antiquity through the thirteenth century. With articles on art and architecture; religion and the church; law and society; politics and historiography; language and literature; and learning and textual culture, the authors introduce medieval Galicia and current research on the region to medievalists, Hispanists, and students of regional culture and society. The cult of St. James, Santiago Cathedral, and the pilgrimage to Compostela are highlighted and contextualized to show how Galicia’s remoteness became the basis for a paradoxical centrality in medieval art, culture, and religion. Contributors are Jeffrey A. Bowman, Manuel Castiñeiras, James D'Emilio, Thomas Deswarte, Pablo C. Díaz, Emma Falque, Amélia P. Hutchinson, Amancio Isla, Henrik Karge, Melissa R. Katz, Michael Kulikowski, Fernando López Sánchez, Luis R. Menéndez Bueyes, William D. Paden, Francisco Javier Pérez Rodríguez, Ermelindo Portela, Rocío Sánchez Ameijeiras, Adeline Rucquoi, Ana Suárez González, Purificación Ubric, Ramón Villares, John Williams †, and Roger Wright.

Author : Karen Eva Carr
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472108916
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vandals to Visigoths written by Karen Eva Carr and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sheds light on settlement patterns in early medieval Spain and demonstrates the local effect of the collapse of Roman Government

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Publisher : Rough Guides
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rough Guide to Scandinavia written by and published by Rough Guides. This book was released on 2006 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jon C. Hall
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1468506544
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shoestring written by Jon C. Hall and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2008-10-30 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Steve Andrews had it made, a successful law practice in Miami, a young, beautiful wife and a sailboat to enjoy his leisure time. Then one day he woke up to find his world turned upside down. His law practice was failing and he was informed his wife was not legally his wife. To make matters worse, his wife had emptied all of his escrow and trust accounts, turned the money over to her real husband who had exchanged the funds for gold, and the authorities wanted to talk with him. In a desperate attempt to recover some money, Steve contracted to sell his sailboat to a buyer in Key West. The adventure begins when Steve decides to deliver the boat to Key West by sailing down the Intercoastal Waterway, passing through the protected area known as the backcountry on the Gulf side of the Florida Keys. Beginning his journey, Steve meets Shoestring, a common cormorant who stands as sentry on the bow of his sailboat. As he passes through natures country, Steve shares his desires and fears with Shoestring. Complicating his goal to reach Key West safely and transfer ownership of his cherished sailboat, he is informed that the missing gold is hidden on his sailboat and his wifes real husband is tracking him to recapture the missing gold.