| The Lombards: The Ancient Longobards Revised Edition Contributor(s): Christie, Neil (Author) |
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ISBN: 0631211977 ISBN-13: 9780631211976 Publisher: Blackwell Publishers OUR PRICE: $52.42 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2002 Annotation: The Lombards, also known as the Longobards, were a Germanis tribe whose fabled origins lay in the barbarian realm of Scandinavia. After centuries of obscurity during the long period of Roman domination in Europe, the Lombards began a concerted migration south-eastwards, coming to prominence immediately after the fall of Rome. Pushing across the Danube to occupy Hungary, the tribe emerged as a powerful protagonist in the former heartland of the Empire in the early sixth century AD. The Lombards subsequently invaded Italy in AD 568-9, where they successfully countered the Byzantines and established a kingdom based on the fertile north Italian plains. This endured for more than two centuries before its conquest by Charlemagne, and even after this defeat, a Lombard state continued to exist in southern Italy until the eleventh century. In this book, the author combines many sources, archaeological and historical, to offer a fresh and vividly detailed picture of Lombard society - its people, settlements, material and spiritual culture - and its evolution from martial 'barbarian' tribe to complex urbanized state. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Italy - History | Europe - Medieval |
| Dewey: 945.01 |
| Series: Peoples of Europe |
| Physical Information: 0.73" H x 6.08" W x 9.06" (0.98 lbs) 292 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Medieval (500-1453) - Cultural Region - Italy |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book offers a survey of the history and archaeology of the Longobards (known until recently as the Lombards), one of the many barbarian tribes who exploited the collapse of the Roman Empire. |