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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1. Verfasser: Merrills, A. H. (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: 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"--
Beschreibung:xxii, 293 pages
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24 cm
ISBN:9781009391986
9781009392020