Attila The Hun : Barbarian Terror and the Fall of the Roman Empire

ISBN-13: 9781844139156 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 320 str.

Christopher Kelly

Opis

Seeking to change our notions of Attila, and perhaps of what it means to be 'civilized', Christopher Kelly goes in search of the real Attila the Hun, revealing the history of an astute politician and first-rate military commander who brilliantly exploited the strengths and weaknesses of the Roman Empire.

Recenzje

Christopher Kelly...gives a fine account of this complex story, unpicking its strands cleanly and persuasively Literary Review

O autorze

Christopher Kelly is a historian and classicist. He read classics and law at the University of Sydney in Australia before taking his doctorate at Trinity College, Cambridge. He stayed at Cambridge and is now a Fellow of Corpus Christi College, and was for five years its Senior Tutor. In 2006 he was awarded a Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship. His previous books include Ruling the Later Roman Empire (Harvard, 2004) and The Roman Empire: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford, 2006).