ANST - book: Chronicles of the Barbarians
j'lynn yeates
jyeates at realtime.net
Mon Aug 30 11:14:17 PDT 1999
all the brouhaha about 13th Warrior ties in nicely with a excellent book i just
finsihed (why in a followup posting) that should be on the shelves of anyone
interested in the end of the great ancient empires and transitions that allowed
the medieval period to be born.
Chronicles of the Barbarians
edited by David Willis McCullough
History Book Club, 1998
this work is a compliation of translated excerpts from *period* primary
sources, primarily through various contemporary eye's (and few modern), of the
"barbarian's" that ravaged "civilization" from the Greek hsitorian Heroditus
(424BC on the Scythians and Thracian's) to the fall of Constantinople in 1453
by the Ottoman Turks (ending the eastern Roman Empire).
the book is structured in an interesting way. during the older period when the
barbarian ages ripped apart the weastern roman empire and civilization faced a
celtic/germanic threat with many varying facets, it's broken down by problem
region. in the more historically rich period, it's broken down by peoples.
here's a breakdown of the boosk structure for those intested:
Introduction
- with a *excellent* "Barbarian Chronology"
(... for my early period cynn)
I Barbarians On The Landscape
Strabo, "Geography", 24 AD
II The Greeks' Barbarians
Herodotus, "Scythians and Thracian", 424 BC
III Rome Encounters The Celts
Diodorus Siculus, "Romans and Celts Battle in Umbria", ca. 390 BC
Livy, "The Celts Enter Rome", ca. 390 BC
Polybius, "The Early Celtic-Roman Wars", 225 BC
IV Gaul
Julius Caesar, "On The Gauls", 58 BC
Diodorus Siculus, "On the Peoples and Customs of Gaul", ca. 50 BC
Julius Caesar, "Border Battles", 55BC
V Germany
Julius Caesar, "On the Germans", 55 BC
Tacitus, "Germania", 98 AD
VI Britain
Julius caesar, "The First Invasion of Britain", 55 BC
Diodorus Siculus, "The People and Customs of Britain", ca. 50 BC
Tacitus, "A battle Between Romans and Caledonians in Southern Scotland", ca.
80 AD
VII The Goths Turn South To Rome
Ammianus Marcellinus, "The Gothic Invasion and the Battle of Hadrianople", 378
AD
Procopius, "Alaric Sacks Rome", 410 AD
Edward Gibbon, "The Death and Funeral of Alaric"
VIII The Huns
Claudian, "The Huns", ca. 400 AD
Priscus, "Negotiating and Dining with Attila", 449 AD
Jordanes, "A Goth's Biography of Attila", 551 AD
IX The Vandals
Edward Gibbon, "from "The History of the Decline and Fall of teh Roman Empire"
(... for the later types)
X The Vikings
"The Battle of Maldon", 991
"Viking Raids", from "The Annals of St. Bertin), 843-859
"Viking Raids", from "The Anglo Saxon Chronicle", 994-1016
Ibn Fadlan, "A Viking Funeral", 922
Procopius, "The Beastly Eruli", ca 560
XI Ireland
Geraldus Cambrensis, "The Customs of the Irish", 1185
"Bricrius's Feast" and "The War of the Words of the Women of Ulster", from
"Cuchulainn of Muirthemne", 12th Century
(... for my eastern cynn)
XII Genhis Khan
Juvaini, from "The History of the World Conqueror", 1260
"Some Incidents During Genghis's War with the Tatars", from "The Secret
History of the Mongols", 13th century
XIII Mongols and Tartars
C. De Bridia, from "The Tartar Relation", 1247
from "The Chronicle of Novgorod". 1224-1259
Matthew Paris, from "Chronicles", 1240-1243
XIV Tamerlane
Ahmed Ibn Mohammed Ibn' Arabshah, from "The Life of Timur", 15th century
Johann Schiltberger, from "Travels and Bondage", ca. 1430
XV The Crusades: Infidel Against Infidel
Robert The Month, "Pope Urban II Calls for a Crusade", 1095
Anonymous Norman Knight and Raymond, Canon of Le Puy, The Captures
of Jerusalem", 1099
Usamah Ibn-Murshid, "Encounters with Crisaders in Syria", ca 1150
Doukas, "The Fall of Constantinople"
Epilogue:
Doukas, "At the Gates of Hadrianople", 1453
Sources
Selected Biliographies of Secondary Sources
Index
... two sets of illustrations from period sources, many in color
highly suggested aas a addition to most SCAdian libraries ...
'wolf
... truth is the sword of us all (lords of the new church)
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