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Book Synopsis War, Rebellion and Epic in Byzantine North Africa by : Andy Merrills
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.
Book Synopsis War, Rebellion and Epic in Byzantine North Africa by : Andrew H. Merrills
Download or read book War, Rebellion and Epic in Byzantine North Africa written by Andrew H. Merrills and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 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"--
Book Synopsis War, Rebellion and Epic in Byzantine North Africa by : Andy Merrills
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.
Book Synopsis Geographers of the Ancient Greek World: Volume 2 by : D. Graham J. Shipley
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.
Book Synopsis Muslim Expansion and Byzantine Collapse in North Africa by : Walter E. Kaegi
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.
Book Synopsis Geographers of the Ancient Greek World: Volume 1 by : D. Graham J. Shipley
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.
Book Synopsis Byzantine Cavalryman Vs Vandal Warrior by : Murray Dahm
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.
Book Synopsis The Defence of Byzantine Africa from Justinian to the Arab Conquest by : Denys Pringle
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:
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.
Book Synopsis ليبيا البيزنطية و اندفاع العرب نحو شمال أفريقيا by : Vassilios Christides
Download or read book ليبيا البيزنطية و اندفاع العرب نحو شمال أفريقيا written by Vassilios Christides and published by BAR International Series. 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).
Book Synopsis A Companion to North Africa in Antiquity by : R. Bruce Hitchner
Download or read book A Companion to North Africa in Antiquity written by R. Bruce Hitchner and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore a one-of-a-kind and authoritative resource on Ancient North Africa A Companion to North Africa in Antiquity, edited by a recognized leader in the field, is the first reference work of its kind in English. It provides a comprehensive introduction to all aspects of North Africa's rich history from the Protohistoric period through Late Antiquity (1000 BCE to the 800 CE). Comprised of twenty-four thematic and topical essays by established and emerging scholars covering the area between ancient Tripolitania and the Atlantic Ocean, including the Sahara, the volume introduces readers to Ancient North Africa's environment, peoples, institutions, literature, art, economy and more, taking into account the significant body of new research and fieldwork that has been produced over the last fifty years. A Companion to North Africa in Antiquity is an essential resource for anyone interested in this important region of the Ancient World.
Download or read book Belisarius written by PETER. KEATING and published by Vanguard Press. This book was released on 2021-05-26 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Success breeds enemies.Constantinople, 533. Emperor Justinian charges General Belisarius with a mission, to bring Vandal held North Africa back into the imperial fold.Set in the Golden Age of Byzantium, this is Belisarius' account of his early life in Middle Dacia, his rise through the ranks of the Roman army, epic battles with the Persians and the fight for control of lost Mediterranean lands. But in Byzantine politics, sometimes the enemy within is as dangerous as one on the field of battle.
Author :Simon Huston Publisher :Simon Huston (alias / nom de plume: Peter Haig) ISBN 13 :1480289981 Total Pages :350 pages Book Rating :4.4/5 (82 download)
Download or read book Byzantine warrior written by Simon Huston and published by Simon Huston (alias / nom de plume: Peter Haig). This book was released on 2021-06-30 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IIn 527AD Justinian is crowned Emperor but sends his young relative, Vitalian, to study in Alexandria. The youth falls in love with the exotic pagan, Passara. Disillusioned with academia, Vitalian enlists in the Legions. Fighting in in Syria and the Caucasus transforms the pampered legate into a battle-hardened cavalry officer. In 529, Vitalian arrives on the Danube front but that winter the barbarians swarm across the frozen river and capture him. Meanwhile, in the East, General Belisarius withstands a Persian onslaught against the isolated fortress at Daras. When the Emperor hears of Vitalian’s fate, he orders the veteran, Zimarchus, to rescue him from the Dacian mines. Zimarchus dies in the operation but Vitalian escapes the war-ravaged Bulgarian frontier and returns to the luxuriant court at Constantinople. He becomes the personal bodyguard of the glittering Empress and former prostitute, Theodora. As Egyptian and Orthodox priests squabble, rivalry at court pits the ruthless and debauched praetorian prefect, John the Cappadocian, against the Empress' protégés: Peter the Patrician, the eunuch Narses and Belisarius’ unfaithful wife, Antonina. Austerity, corruption and court machinations cripple the Byzantine economy. In 532, the Nika revolt convulses the regime. To cling on to power, mercenaries slaughter 30,000 rebels in the Hippodrome. In the massacre's aftermath, Justinian cements his authority by rebuilding Hagia Sophia, denouncing heresy and planning reconquest. The Arian Vandals in Africa are his first target. Carthage becomes a hotbed of espionage as the Byzantines gather intelligence for their planned invasion. In 532, Euphemia - the Cappadocian’s daughter - seduces the Vandal king, Gelimer. The following summer, General Belisarius sets sail with a Byzantine expeditionary force. Despite corruption, food contamination and Antonina’s shameless perfidy, Belisarius routes the dissolute Germans. Vitalian garrisons Corsica but, in 535, the Empress orders him to kill her rival, Amalsuintha. The Goths have imprisoned their Italian Queen on Lake Bolsena. Her murder provides the Byzantines a convenient pretext for invasion. However, Belisarius initial victories fizzle out. The Emperor, jealous of his now famous general, emasculates the Italian expeditionary force and muddles its command structure. The inevitable consequences are civilian massacres and a stalemate. In the East, the Sasanids ravage the frontier. Not until Artabanes returns from Eastern Africa is peace eventually restored to Armenia. Meanwhile, in Italy the Gothic war drags on interminably. Farms are abandoned and Rome’s population falls to 500. Vitalian returns to Constantinople to beg Justinian for finance and reinforcements but Narses, now Chamberlain, frustrates him. Languishing at court, the commander falls in love with the aristocratic and nubile Justina. The couple return to Italy but their relationship sours as Narses power waxes. In 553, the last Gothic king mortally wounds Vitalian. The dying Byzantine commander dictates his memories but remains estranged from his beguiling spouse. Vitalian's autobiography spans war in the East, Imperial adventure and the Italian debacle. Priests urge Vitalian to confess - did he kill Amalsuintha as Theodora ordered?
Author :U.s. Army Command and General Staff College Publisher :CreateSpace ISBN 13 :9781500753900 Total Pages :104 pages Book Rating :4.7/5 (539 download)
Book Synopsis Arab-byzantine War, 629-644 Ad by : U.s. Army Command and General Staff College
Download or read book Arab-byzantine War, 629-644 Ad written by U.s. Army Command and General Staff College and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-08-06 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Islam arose out of a cataclysmic change in society and economics in the Arabian Peninsula during the early seventh century. The adherents of the new religion immediately launched a campaign against the Byzantine Empire, the military, cultural and economic superpower of the age. In the course of just a few years the Arabs had conquered the valuable territories of modern day Palestine, Syria, Jordan and Lebanon from the Byzantines who in turn withdrew to Anatolia after great losses. This was the first encounter between Islamic and Christian people and the aftermath set the stage for the Islamic conquest of North Africa, the Crusades and many other historical conflicts. The paper seeks to answer the question “Why did the Byzantine Empire fail in the defense of these territories” by looking at diplomatic, military, economic and social differences between the Arab and Byzantine sides. The research is based on a variety of secondary sources and several translated primary sources. The conclusion is that the Byzantines failed to recognize and address the great social changes that were taking place in the contested region while the Arabs expertly exploited the dynamic situation.
Book Synopsis Harmsworth History of the World by : Arthur Mee
Download or read book Harmsworth History of the World written by Arthur Mee and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 926 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis America. The triumph of the mind of man. Complete indexes by : Arthur Mee
Download or read book America. The triumph of the mind of man. Complete indexes written by Arthur Mee and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 954 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Harmsworth History of the World: America. The triumph of the mind of man. Complete indexes by : Arthur Mee
Download or read book Harmsworth History of the World: America. The triumph of the mind of man. Complete indexes written by Arthur Mee and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 930 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
