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.

List of contents

Introduction.
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.

About the author

Peter Heather, geboren 1960, ist Professor für mittelalterliche Geschichte am King's College in London. Zuvor lehrte er an der Universität Yale und in Oxford, wo er auch studiert hat.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: P. J. Heather, Peter Heather, THOMPSON, Arthur Thompson, E. A. Thompson, E. A. (Formerly University of Nottingham Thompson, E. A. (Formerly University of Nottingham) Thompson, E.A. Thompson, Ea Thompson, Jr. Arthur Thompson
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.03.1999
• EAN: 9780631214434
• ISBN: 978-0-631-21443-4
• No. of pages: 336
• Series: The Peoples of Europe; The Peoples of Europe
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; Europe, European History, HISTORY / Ancient / Rome, HISTORY / Europe / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, Ancient Rome, Social and cultural history, Ancient History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, BCE to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory