The Huns, Rome and the birth of Europe /
The Huns have often been treated as primitive barbarians with no advanced political organisation. Their place of origin was the so-called "backward steppe." It has been argued that whatever political organisation they achieved they owed to the "civilizing influence" of the German...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2013
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| Summary: | The Huns have often been treated as primitive barbarians with no advanced political organisation. Their place of origin was the so-called "backward steppe." It has been argued that whatever political organisation they achieved they owed to the "civilizing influence" of the Germanic peoples they encountered as they moved west. This book argues that the steppes of Inner Asia were far from backward and that the image of the primitive Huns is vastly misleading. They already possessed a highly sophisticated political culture while still in Inner Asia and, far from being passive recipients of advanced culture from the West, they passed on important elements of Central Eurasian culture to early medieval Europe, which they helped create.--publisher's description. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 338 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 276-332) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1107058848 9781107058842 9781107055407 1107055407 9780511920493 0511920490 9781107057593 1107057590 1139888307 9781139888301 1107064899 9781107064898 1107056497 9781107056497 1107054389 9781107054387 |
| Language: | English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |