Warriors of the Dark Ages
- Auteur: Jennifer Laing (Engeland)
- Soort boek: vroeg middeleeuwse geschiedenis
- Taal: Engels
- Uitgever: The History Press
- Verschijnt: 18 december 2025
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- Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
- Prijs: £18,99
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris
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Boek van Jennifer Laing over de val van het Romeinse Rijk
Examines the barbarians from Europe and beyond who harassed, eroded and eventually caused the disintegration of the Roman Empire.
It includes the Huns, Mongolian horsemen who swept into Europe to form a short-lived empire from the Urals to the Rhine; the Visigoths, or western Goths, who sacked Rome in 410 and ruled Spain from Toledo until the Moorish conquest in 711; the Ostrogoths, or eastern Goths, who ruled Italy from 493 until the Emperor Justinian drove them out in 534; the Franks, a group of Germanic tribes who came to rule France under the Merovingians; and the Vandals, fierce Arian Christians who invaded Gaul and Spain around 400 and sacked Rome in 455.
As the author shows, some, such as the Vandals in North Africa, had shortlived periods of supremacy and relatively insignificant effect on the areas they settled; others, such as the Franks, adapted to Roman ways to create the strong foundations of medieval and later nations. Throughout the text, the authors reconstruct the volatile world of pitched battle and invasion.
Jennifer Laing was born 30 March 19 48. She has written many books on the past, often in conjunction with Lloyd Laing. Her overriding interest has always been the way the past has moulded the present. She is the author of Art and Society in Roman Britain and, with Lloyd Laing, The Picts and the Scots, Art of the Celts, Medieval Britain: The Age of Chivalry and Celtic Britain and Ireland: Art and Society.