How the barbarian invasions shaped the modern world : the Vikings, Vandals, Huns, Mongols, Goths, and Tartars who razed the old world and formed the new /
Craughwell, Thomas J.,1956-
Beverly, Mass. : Fair Winds Press,
2008.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 304-308) and index.
"The brightest light of the whole world is extinguished": The Goths sack Rome, 410 -- "They filled the whole earth with slaughter and panic": The arrival of the Huns, 369 -- The scourge of God: Attila the Hun, c. 406-453 -- King of the land and the sea: Gaiseric and the glory days of the Vandals, 406-439 -- An Empire of their own: The Vandals and the Second Sacking of Rome, 455 -- The groans of the Britons: The Angle, Saxon, and Jute Invasion of Britain, 449 -- The long-haired Kings: The Franks, 270-511 -- The First Viking Invasion of England: the sacking of Lindisfarne Abbey, 793 -- The last king: Alfred the Great, 849-899 -- "Floods of Danes and pirates": The Vikings in Ireland, 795-980 -- The wasteland: The Vikings in the Frankish Empire, 820-911 -- The resurrection of Hastein: Vikings in the Mediterranean, 844-851 -- The blood of heroes: Irish and Vikings at the Battle of Clontarf, 1014 -- The end of the Viking Age: The Battle of Stamford Bridge, 1066 -- Vengeance on her mind: Olga of Kiev, c. 879-969 -- The prince who made Kiev Christian: Vladimir of Kiev, 956-1015 -- Spitting on the Emperor: The Mongols in China, 1215 -- The Golden Horde: The Mongols in Russia, 1238-1240 -- Sacks full of ears: The Mongols in Eastern Europe, 1241-1242.
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Migrations of nations.
Middle Ages.