Muslim expansion and Byzantine collapse in North Africa
| 1. Verfasser: |
Kaegi, Walter Emil.
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2010.
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| Umfang/Format: |
xx, 345 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| Schlagworte: | |
| iDAI.gazetteer: |
Nord-Afrika Africa Sbeitla Oströmisches Reich |
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Challenges of the subject and the sources
- Historiographical hurdles
- Fragmented geographical and logistical realities
- Christian contexts in seventh-century North Africa
- The military heritage of Heraclius on the eve of Muslim military operations
- The shock of Sbeitla
- Options for offensives and resistance
- The riddle of Constans II
- Muslim interests, calculations, and leadership
- The shift to tribal resistance, 669-95
- The fall of Carthage and its aftermath, 695-711
- The failures of two cities of Constantine.
