War, rebellion and epic in Byzantine North Africa a historical study of Corippus' Iohannis
'I sing of things that are not unknown' : epic and history in Byzantine Africa -- Prelude to a war : Byzantine Africa 533-546 -- Past and future in the Iohannis -- Corippus and the Moorish world -- 'For every blade was red' : war and bloodshed in the Iohannis -- Christianity and...
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Sprache: | eng |
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Cambridge ; New York, NY
Cambridge University Press
2023
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Zusammenfassung: | 'I sing of things that are not unknown' : epic and history in Byzantine Africa -- Prelude to a war : Byzantine Africa 533-546 -- Past and future in the Iohannis -- Corippus and the Moorish world -- 'For every blade was red' : war and bloodshed in the Iohannis -- Christianity and paganism in the Iohannis "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"-- |
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Beschreibung: | xxii, 293 pages maps 24 cm |
ISBN: | 9781009391986 9781009392020 |