Editorial: Cambridge University Press
Número de páginas: 320 págs. 15.0 x 22.0 cm
Fecha de edición: 01-10-2023
EAN: 9781009391986
ISBN: 978-1-009-39198-6
Precio (sin IVA): 113,66 €
Precio (IVA incluído): 118,21 €
In around 550 the Latin poet Corippus composed his epic Iohannis to celebrate the forgotten wars of a Byzantine general against the 'Moorish' or 'Berber' peoples of North Africa. This book explores the rich narrative of that poem and the changing political, social and cultural environment within which he worked. It reappraises the dramatic first decades of Byzantine North Africa (533-550) and discusses the ethnography of Moorish Africa, the diplomatic and military history of the imperial administration, and the religious transformations (both Christian and 'pagan') of this period.