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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      October 2014
      September 2014
      ISBN:
      9781139128964
      9781107021754
      9781107633889
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CCO9781139128964
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.85kg, 504 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.73kg, 528 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Ancient History, Literature, Classical Studies, Area Studies, Classical Studies (General), History, European Studies, European History 450-1000
      Collection:
      Cambridge Companions to Literature and Classics
      Series:
      Cambridge Companions to the Ancient World
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    Subjects:
    Ancient History, Literature, Classical Studies, Area Studies, Classical Studies (General), History, European Studies, European History 450-1000
    Collection:
    Cambridge Companions to Literature and Classics
    Series:
    Cambridge Companions to the Ancient World
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    Book description

    This book examines the age of Attila, roughly the fifth century CE, an era in which western Eurasia experienced significant geopolitical and cultural changes. The Roman Empire collapsed in western Europe, replaced by new 'barbarian' kingdoms, but it continued in Christian Byzantine guise in the eastern Mediterranean. New states and peoples changed the face of northern Europe, while in Iran, the Sasanian Empire developed new theories of power and government. At the same time, the great Eurasian steppe became a permanent presence in the European world. This book treats Attila, the notorious king of the Huns, as both an agent of change and a symbol of the wreck of the old world order.

    Reviews

    'This work is transformational. Although focused on the Roman Empire, it also encompasses Eurasia, including the geopolitical dilemmas of Iran. Systematic treatment of subjects ranging from law and learning to climate change and mass migration serves to calibrate the Huns’ impact and identifies a shift in the stance of classical civilizations toward steppe peoples, from aloofness to fertile interaction.'

    Jonathan Shepard - University of Oxford

    'The ‘long fifth century’ comes to life on a global scale as the internal workings of Roman government and society are treated within the context of larger geopolitical shifts, for which Attila - leader of the Asian steppe nomads who threatened the very existence of the Roman Empire, while at the same time aspiring to appropriate its ways - stands as a cipher.'

    Claudia Rapp - University of Vienna

    'This excellent volume brings together a group of expert scholars who present a detailed and penetrating account of key developments in the history of the fifth-century Roman world. Michael Maas is to be warmly congratulated on putting this helpful collection together. It will surely become a standard companion for all scholars and interested general readers who want to learn more about this crucial period in the history of the Roman world and its neighbors.'

    John Haldon - Princeton University, New Jersey

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    • 1: - Reversals of Fortune: An Overview of the Age of Attila
      pp 3-25
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    • 3: - Urban and Rural Economies in the Age of Attila
      pp 44-60
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