Andy Merrills

War, Rebellion and Epic in Byzantine North Africa (eBook, ePUB)

A Historical Study of Corippus' Iohannis

• Format: ePub

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009391993
• Artikelnr.: 70910449

Autorenporträt

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.