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David Willis McCullough, ed.
Chronicles of the Barbarians: Firsthand Accounts of Pillage and Conquest, from the Ancient World to the Fall of Constantinople.
Published New York: History Book Club, 1998.
ISBN 0965067202;
ISBN-13: 9780965067201.
Binding: hardback, perfect bound.
Printed in the USA.
Size: 186x259x30g.
Page count: xxiv,392pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition good: this copy has some scuffs and rumples to the dustjacket, not too severe; some mild scuffs and stains to the page edges, otherwise the book itself is in good order, text appears to be free of marking.

This item £14.50
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Weight without packaging: 928g.

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Contents: Barbarians on the landscape [Strabo]; The Greeks' Barbarians [Herodotus]; Rome encounters the Celts [Diodorus Siculus; Livy; Polybius]; Gaul [Caesar; Diodorus Siculus]; Germany [Caesar; Tacitus]; Britain [Caesar; Diodorus Siculus; Tacitus]; The Goths turn south to Rome [Amianus Marcellinus; Procopius; Gibbon]; Huns [Claudian; Priscus; Jordanes]; Vandals [Gibbon]; Vikings [Battle of Maldon; Annals of St. Bertin; Anglo-Saxon Chronicle; Ibn Fadlan; Procopius]; Ireland [Giraldus; Bricriu's Feast]; Genghis Khan [Juvaini; Secret History]; Mongols & Tartars [Tartar Relation; Chronicle of Novgorod; Matthew Paris]; Tamerlane [Ibn' Arabshah; Schiltberger]; Crusades [Robert the Monk; Capture of Jerusalem; Ibn-Murshid; Doukas]; Epilogue [Doukas].

Illustrations: 16 pages of colour plates
Maps & plans: 2

Introduction: general intro. 8pp, plus introductory comments to each main section.
Notes: no
Tables: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: yes
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 4pp
Index: no

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