"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"--
"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"--Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Andy Merrills is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Leicester. He is the author of several books including Roman Geographies of the Nile (Cambridge, 2017), and (with Richard Miles), The Vandals (2010). He has written many articles and book chapters on the history, archaeology and literature of late Roman, Vandal and Byzantine North Africa and was editor of the agenda-setting volume Vandals, Romans, and Berbers (2004).
Inhaltsangabe
1. I sing of things that are not unknown: epic and history in Byzantine Africa 2. Prelude to a war: Byzantine Africa 533-546 3. Past and future in the Iohannis 4. Corippus and the Moorish World 5. For every blade was red war and bloodshed in the Iohannis 6. Christianity and paganism in the Iohannis Conclusions.
1. I sing of things that are not unknown: epic and history in Byzantine Africa 2. Prelude to a war: Byzantine Africa 533-546 3. Past and future in the Iohannis 4. Corippus and the Moorish World 5. For every blade was red war and bloodshed in the Iohannis 6. Christianity and paganism in the Iohannis Conclusions.
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