War Rebellion And Epic In Byzantine North Africa

Author : Andy Merrills
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009391984
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book War, Rebellion and Epic in Byzantine North Africa written by Andy Merrills and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-10-26 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In around 550 CE, a Latin poet in North Africa chose to celebrate the forgotten wars of a Byzantine general against the region's Berber peoples. This book explores the epic that he wrote and a neglected political, social and religious world on the southern fringes of the dying Roman Empire.

Author : Andrew H. Merrills
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781009392020
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Author : Andy Merrills
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009391992
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book War, Rebellion and Epic in Byzantine North Africa written by Andy Merrills and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-10-26 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In around 550 CE, a Latin poet in North Africa chose to celebrate the forgotten wars of a Byzantine general against the region's Berber peoples. This book explores the epic that he wrote and a neglected political, social and religious world on the southern fringes of the dying Roman Empire.

Author : D. Graham J. Shipley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009207180
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Geographers of the Ancient Greek World: Volume 2 written by D. Graham J. Shipley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-04-18 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancient Greek geographical writing is represented not just by the surviving works of the well-known authors Strabo, Pausanias, and Ptolemy, but also by many other texts dating from the Archaic to the Late Antique period. Most of these texts are, however, hard for non-specialists to find, and many have never been translated into English. This volume, the work of an international team of experts, presents the most important thirty-six texts in new, accurate translations. In addition, there are explanatory notes and authoritative introductions to each text, which offer a new understanding of the individual writings and demonstrate their importance: no longer marginal, but in the mainstream of Greek literature and science. The book includes twenty-eight newly drawn maps, images of the medieval manuscripts in which most of these works survive, and a full Introduction providing a comprehensive survey of the field of Greek and Roman geography.

Author : Walter E. Kaegi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521196779
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Muslim Expansion and Byzantine Collapse in North Africa written by Walter E. Kaegi and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-11-04 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the failure of the Byzantine Empire to develop successful resistance to the Muslim conquest of North Africa.

Author : D. Graham J. Shipley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009239864
Total Pages : 666 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Geographers of the Ancient Greek World: Volume 1 written by D. Graham J. Shipley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-04-18 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancient Greek geographical writing is represented not just by the surviving works of the well-known authors Strabo, Pausanias, and Ptolemy, but also by many other texts dating from the Archaic to the Late Antique period. Most of these texts are, however, hard for non-specialists to find, and many have never been translated into English. This volume, the work of an international team of experts, presents the most important thirty-six texts in new, accurate translations. In addition, there are explanatory notes and authoritative introductions to each text, which offer a new understanding of the individual writings and demonstrate their importance: no longer marginal, but in the mainstream of Greek literature and science. The book includes twenty-eight newly drawn maps, images of the medieval manuscripts in which most of these works survive, and a full Introduction providing a comprehensive survey of the field of Greek and Roman geography.

Author : Murray Dahm
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472853709
Total Pages : 81 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Byzantine Cavalryman Vs Vandal Warrior written by Murray Dahm and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-05-23 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fully illustrated, this enthralling study explores how the Vandals in North Africa attempted to defend their kingdom against the resurgent Byzantine Empire during 533–36. In AD 533, the Byzantine Emperor Justinian I launched the first of his campaigns to reconquer the Western Roman Empire. This effort began in North Africa (modern Algeria and Tunisia), targeting the Vandal kingdom established there a century earlier, which also included Sardinia, Corsica and the Balearic Islands. Featuring full-colour artwork and mapping alongside carefully chosen archive illustrations, this book shows how the Byzantine general Belisarius established his formidable reputation in the lightning-fast campaign that ensued, exploring the origins, tactics and reputation of the two sides' forces as they fought for control of North Africa. The landing of Belisarius' forces took the Vandal king, Gelimer, completely by surprise; in September 533 the two sides met in battle near Carthage in an encounter known to posterity as Ad Decimum, with Gelimer ambitiously attempting to trap Belisarius' forces as they advanced. In December, the two sides fought again in a momentous clash at Tricamarum, where the fate of Gelimer's regime would be determined. A third battle ensued in 536, when the rebel Stotzas' Byzantine and Vandal troops confronted Belisarius' forces, the outcome sealing the Byzantine general's standing as the foremost soldier of his age. Featuring specially commissioned artwork and mapping alongside archive illustrations and photographs, this vivid account compares and assesses the two sides' fighting men as they vied for supremacy in North Africa.

Author : Denys Pringle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 748 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Defence of Byzantine Africa from Justinian to the Arab Conquest written by Denys Pringle and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Haldon
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752496522
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Byzantine Wars written by John Haldon and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2008-07-14 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the middle of the sixth century the Byzantine emperor ruled a mighty empire that straddled Europe, Asia and North Africa. Within 100 years, this powerful empire had been cut in half. Two centuries later the Byzantine empire was once again a power to be reckoned with, and soon recovered its position as the paramount East Mediterranean and Balkan power, whose fabulous wealth attracted Viking mercenaries and central Asian nomad warriors to its armies, whose very appearance on the field of battle was sometimes enough to bring enemies to terms. No book has ever attempted a survey of Byzantine wars, and few accounts of Byzantine battles have ever been translated into a modern language. This book will provide essential support for those interested in Byzantine history in general as well as a useful corrective to the more usual highly romanticised views of Byzantine civilisation.

Author : Vassilios Christides
Publisher : British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book ليبيا البيزنطية و اندفاع العرب نحو شمال أفريقيا written by Vassilios Christides and published by British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited. This book was released on 2000 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed study of Byzantine Africa and its conquest by the Arabs beginning in 641/642. Professor Christides assesses the political situation on the eve of the first Arab raid, the raids themselves and the sources available for studying them, as well as the causes and consequences of the Byzantine loss of North Africa and the integration of Arabic and Islamic cultures. The study focuses primarily on the regions of Cyrenaica, Tripolitania and Fezzan (roughly modern-day Libya).