The Huns

Author : Hyun Jin Kim
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317340904

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The Huns by Hyun Jin Kim Pdf

This volume is a concise introduction to the history and culture of the Huns. This ancient people had a famous reputation in Eurasian Late Antiquity. However, their history has often been evaluated as a footnote in the histories of the later Roman Empire and early Germanic peoples. Kim addresses this imbalance and challenges the commonly held assumption that the Huns were a savage people who contributed little to world history, examining striking geopolitical changes brought about by the Hunnic expansion over much of continental Eurasia and revealing the Huns' contribution to European, Iranian, Chinese and Indian civilization and statecraft. By examining Hunnic culture as a Eurasian whole, The Huns provides a full picture of their society which demonstrates that this was a complex group with a wide variety of ethnic and linguistic identities. Making available critical information from both primary and secondary sources regarding the Huns' Inner Asian origins, which would otherwise be largely unavailable to most English speaking students and Classical scholars, this is a crucial tool for those interested in the study of Eurasian Late Antiquity.

Author : Otto J. Maenchen-Helfen
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 634 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520310773

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The World of the Huns by Otto J. Maenchen-Helfen Pdf

An extensive study of the origins and culture of the mysterious Huns and the civilizations affected by their invasions. The first part of the book deals with the political history of the Huns, however, they are not a narrative. The second part of the book consists of monographs on the economy, society, warfare, art, and religion of the Huns. What distinguishes these studies from previous treatments is the extensive use of archaeological material. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1973.

Author : Hyun Jin Kim
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107067226

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The Huns, Rome and the Birth of Europe by Hyun Jin Kim Pdf

The Huns have often been treated as primitive barbarians with no advanced political organisation. Their place of origin was the so-called 'backward steppe'. It has been argued that whatever political organisation they achieved they owed to the 'civilizing influence' of the Germanic peoples they encountered as they moved west. This book argues that the steppes of Inner Asia were far from 'backward' and that the image of the primitive Huns is vastly misleading. They already possessed a highly sophisticated political culture while still in Inner Asia and, far from being passive recipients of advanced culture from the West, they passed on important elements of Central Eurasian culture to early medieval Europe, which they helped create. Their expansion also marked the beginning of a millennium of virtual monopoly of world power by empires originating in the steppes of Inner Asia. The rise of the Hunnic Empire was truly a geopolitical revolution.

Author : Edward Arthur Thompson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Huns
ISBN : OCLC:222028533

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A History of Attila and the Huns by Edward Arthur Thompson Pdf

Author : Priscus of Panium
Publisher : Arx Publishing, LLC
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781935228141

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The Fragmentary History of Priscus by Priscus of Panium Pdf

Attila, king of the Huns, is a name universally known even 1,500 years after his death. His meteoric rise and legendary career of conquest left a trail of destroyed cities across the Roman Empire. At its height, his vast domain commanded more territory than the Romans themselves, and those he threatened with attack sent desperate embassies loaded with rich tributes to purchase a tenuous peace. Yet as quickly he appeared, Attila and his empire vanished with startling rapidity. His two decades of terror, however, had left an indelible mark upon the pages of European history. Priscus was a late Roman historian who had the ill luck to be born during a time when Roman political and military fortunes had reached a nadir. An eye-witness to many of the events he records, Priscus's history is a sequence of intrigues, assassinations, betrayals, military disasters, barbarian incursions, enslaved Romans and sacked cities. Perhaps because of its gloomy subject matter, the History of Priscus was not preserved in its entirety. What remains of the work consists of scattered fragments culled from a variety of later sources. Yet, from these fragments emerge the most detailed and insightful first-hand account of the decline of the Roman Empire, and nearly all of the information about Attila’s life and exploits that has come down to us from antiquity. Translated by classics scholar Professor John Given of East Carolina University, this new translation of the Fragmentary History of Priscus arranges the fragments in chronological order, complete with intervening historical commentary to preserve the narrative flow. It represents the first translation of this important historical source that is easily approachable for both students and general readers.

Author : James Hawes
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 595 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857205308

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Englanders and Huns by James Hawes Pdf

A completely fresh look at the culture clash between Britain and Germany that all but destroyed Europe. Half a century before 1914, most Britons saw the Germans as poor and rather comical cousins - and most Germans looked up to the British as their natural mentors. Over the next five decades, each came to think that the other simply had to be confronted - in Europe, in Africa, in the Pacific and at last in the deadly race to cover the North Sea with dreadnoughts. But why? Why did so many Britons come to see in Germany everything that was fearful and abhorrent? Why did so many Germans come to see any German who called dobbel fohltwhile playing Das Lawn Tennisas the dupe of a global conspiracy? Packed with long-forgotten stories such as the murder of Queen Victoria's cook in Bohn, the disaster to Germany's ironclads under the White Cliffs, bizarre early colonial clashes and the precise, dark moment when Anglophobia begat modern anti-Semitism, this is the fifty-year saga of the tragic, and often tragicomic, delusions and miscalculations that led to the defining cataclysm of our times - the breaking of empires and the womb of horrors, the Great War. Richly illustrated with the words and pictures that formed our ancestors' disastrous opinions, it will forever change the telling of this fateful tale.

Author : Otto J. Maenchen-Helfen
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 634 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520357204

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The World of the Huns by Otto J. Maenchen-Helfen Pdf

An extensive study of the origins and culture of the mysterious Huns and the civilizations affected by their invasions. The first part of the book deals with the political history of the Huns, however, they are not a narrative. The second part of the book consists of monographs on the economy, society, warfare, art, and religion of the Huns. What distinguishes these studies from previous treatments is the extensive use of archaeological material. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1973.

Author : Thomas Hodgkin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 694 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Germanic peoples
ISBN : MINN:31951P010452305

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Huns, Vandals, and the Fall of the Roman Empire by Thomas Hodgkin Pdf

This work explores Attila's rise and rule over the Huns in the 440s, when Vandals, Ostrogoths, Gepids and Franks were also fighting under his banner.

Author : E. A. Thompson
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1999-05-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0631214437

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The Huns by E. A. Thompson Pdf

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.

Author : Michael Maas
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781107021754

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The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Attila by Michael Maas Pdf

This book considers the great cultural and geopolitical changes in western Eurasia in the fifth century CE. It focuses on the Roman Empire, but it also examines the changes taking place in northern Europe, in Iran under the Sasanian Empire, and on the great Eurasian steppe. Attila is presented as a contributor to and a symbol of these transformations.

Author : Hyun Jin Kim
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107009066

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The Huns, Rome and the Birth of Europe by Hyun Jin Kim Pdf

A comparative and interdisciplinary study arguing for a more sophisticated appreciation of the rise of the Hunnic Empire.

Author : Сергей Соловьев
Publisher : Litres
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9785042276934

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Attila Kagan of the Huns from the kind of Velsung by Сергей Соловьев Pdf

The book will not leave anyone indifferent to the history of our country. In this essay, it is consistently proved that the Huns came from Yamal, and this people has repeatedly appeared on the world stage, and moreover, it never disappeared. The Huns were first called the people of the Andronov culture, who reached the Baltic and reached as far as China. It was the Scandinavian sagas that allowed us to explore the history of this people, in the Russian Federation.

Author : Ben O. Williams
Publisher : Willow Creek Press
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-12
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781623430429

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Huns & Hun Hunting by Ben O. Williams Pdf

Hungarian partridge were first introduced to Saskatchewan 100 years ago. The birds flourished and soon expanded their range to include the American West and Midwest. Only in the last several decades have hunters turned serious attention to these tremendous game birds, but due to their fickle and often mysterious nature, the challenge has proven difficult at best for the majority of us. Ben O. Williams, however, has been writing about and hunting Huns for over 30 years, having accumulated over 5,000 hours afield in their pursuit with his ever evolving line of Brittany spaniels. Ben is the most accomplished and eloquent mentor for Hungarian partridge hunters presently found on planet earth, and this information packed book is the proof. Don't lend it to anyone, and don't lose it, for it provides you with all the distilled knowledge required to attain consistent success on your own Hun hunts.

Author : Ian Hughes
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473890329

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Attila the Hun by Ian Hughes Pdf

A biography of the notorious tribal leader whose empire challenged the Romans. Most know the name Attila the Hun—but few are familiar with the full history behind this historical figure. Rising to the Hunnic kingship around 434, he dominated European history for the next two decades. Attila bullied and manipulated both halves of the Roman Empire, forcing successive emperors to make tribute payments or face invasion. Here, Ian Hughes recounts Attila’s rise to power, attempting to untangle his character and motivations so far as the imperfect sources allow. A major theme is how the two halves of the empire finally united against Attila, prompting his fateful decision to invade Gaul and his subsequent defeat at the Battle of the Catalaunian Plain in 451. Integral to the narrative is analysis of the history of the rise of the Hunnic Empire; the reasons for the Huns’ military success; relations between the Huns and the two halves of the Roman Empire; Attila’s rise to sole power; and Attila’s doomed attempt to bring both halves of the Roman Empire under his dominion.

Author : Bonnie Harvey
Publisher : Infobase Learning
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Biography
ISBN : 9781438148007

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Attila the Hun by Bonnie Harvey Pdf

Using what he learned from Roman soldiers as a child hostage, Attila the Hun eventually returned to his native tribe of the Huns and unified them into a powerful army.