Author: Denys PringlePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 748
Book Description
The Defence of Byzantine Africa from Justinian to the Arab Conquest
Author: Denys PringlePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 748
Book Description
Muslim Expansion and Byzantine Collapse in North Africa
Author: Walter E. KaegiPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521196779
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
This book investigates the failure of the Byzantine Empire to develop successful resistance to the Muslim conquest of North Africa.
Byzantium in the Seventh Century
Author: John F. HaldonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521319171
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
An analytical account of developments within Byzantine culture, society and the state from c. 610 to 717.
The Defence of Byzantine Africa from Justinian to the Arab Conquest
Author: Denys PringlePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 748
Book Description
The Great Arab Conquests
Author: Hugh KennedyPublisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN: 0297865595
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
A popular history of the Arab invasions that carved out an empire from Spain to China Today's Arab world was created at breathtaking speed. Whereas the Roman Empire took over 200 years to reach its fullest extent, the Arab armies overran the whole Middle East, North Africa and Spain within a generation. They annihilated the thousand-year-old Persian Empire and reduced the Byzantine Empire to little more than a city-state based around Constantinople. Within a hundred years of the Prophet's death, Muslim armies destroyed the Visigoth kingdom of Spain, and crossed the Pyrenees to occupy southern France. This is the first popular English language account of this astonishing remaking of the political and religious map of the world. Hugh Kennedy's sweeping narrative reveals how the Arab armies conquered almost everything in their path. One of the few academic historians with a genuine talent for story telling, he offers a compelling mix of larger-than-life characters, battles, treachery and the clash of civilizations.
Post-Roman Towns, Trade and Settlement in Europe and Byzantium: Byzantium, Pliska, and the Balkans
Author: Joachim HenningPublisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110183587
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 765
Book Description
In this collection leading international authorities analyse the structures and economic functions of non-agrarian centres between ca. 500 and 1000 A.D. - their trade, their surrounding settlements, and the agricultural and cultural milieux. The thirty-one papers presented at an international conference held in Bad Homburg focus on recent archaeological discoveries in Central Europe (Vol. 1), as well as on those from southeastern Europe to Asia Minor (Vol. 2).
A Companion to North Africa in Antiquity
Author: R. Bruce HitchnerPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1119072085
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
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.
Where Three Worlds Met
Author: Sarah Davis-SecordPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501712586
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
In Where Three Worlds Met, Sarah Davis-Secord investigates Sicily's place within the religious, diplomatic, military, commercial, and intellectual networks of the Mediterranean by tracing the patterns of travel, trade, and communication among Christians (Latin and Greek), Muslims, and Jews. By looking at the island across this long expanse of time and during the periods of transition from one dominant culture to another, Davis-Secord uncovers the patterns that defined and redefined the broader Muslim-Christian encounter in the Middle Ages.
War and Warfare in Late Antiquity (2 vols.)
Author: Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004252584
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1119
Book Description
This collection of papers, arising from the Late Antique Archaeology conference series, explores war and warfare in Late Antiquity. Papers examine strategy and intelligence, weaponry, literary sources and topography, the West Roman Empire, the East Roman Empire, the Balkans, civil war and Italy.
Staying Roman
Author: Jonathan ConantPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521196973
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 457
Book Description
This is the first systematic study of the changing nature of Roman identity in post-Roman North Africa.