War, Rebellion and Epic in Byzantine North Africa - A Historical Study of Corippus'' Iohannis

"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"--

List of contents

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.

About the author

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).

Product details

• Authors: Andy Merrills, Andy (University of Leicester) Merrills
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2023
• EAN: 9781009391986
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0939198-6
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; HISTORY / Ancient / General, Ancient History, c 500 to c 1000 CE, North Africa, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, European history: medieval period, middle ages, Classic and pre-20th century poetry, Byzantine Empire, Ancient Greek and Roman literature