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This is a history of the Huns in Europe from their first attacks on the Goths north of the Black Sea to the collapse of their central European empire after the death of the legendary Attila. In the only connected narrative account of the rise and fall of the Huns in English, Professor Thompson reconstructs their campaigns in detail from disparate and often fragmentary sources. In the process, there emerges a clear picture of their dramatic successes, and failures, against the non-Roman peoples of central and eastern Europe, and of their many invasions of the eastern and western halves of the Roman Empire.

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This dramatic narrative is punctuated by analytical chapters which chart the transformations wrought in Hunnic society by contact with the more developed world of the Roman Mediterranean. In these chapters, the author sets himself the task of explaining the sudden rise and equally sudden fall of the Huns in the fourth and fifth centuries. He finds his answer in the impact of Roman wealth upon the original social structures of the Huns.

The Huns includes an Afterword by Peter Heather, Lecturer in Early Medieval History at University College London, which sets Professor Thompson's book in the broad context of recent studies on the Huns.

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CONTENTS

Maps = ⅷ

Introduction = 1

1 Sources = 6

 1 Impossibility of using archaeological evidence at present = 6

 2 Ammianus Marcellinus = 9

 3 Olympiodorus of Thebes = 11

 4 Priscus of Panium = 12

 5 Later authorities = 16

2 The History of the Huns before Attila = 19

 1 Roman theories of the origin of the Huns = 19

 2 The Huns' Absence from Classical Literature before the fourth century = 24

 3 The destruction of the Ostrogothic kingdom = 26

 4 Hun attacks on the Roman Empire from 378 to 434 = 29

 5 Huns in the service of the Romans in the same period = 36

 6 Attitude of the Romans to the Huns before Attila = 40

3 Hun Society before Attila = 46

 1 The material civilization of the Huns in the fourth century = 47

 2 Their social organization = 48

 3 Their numbers = 51

 4 Their military strength = 56

 5 The development of kingship = 62

 6 The transformation of Hun society = 67

4 The Victories of Attila = 69

 1 Aetius and the Huns in Gaul = 69

 2 The death of Rua = 79

 3 The Treaty of Margus and the extent of the Hun empire = 81

 4 Invasion of the Eastern Empire, 441-3, and the first Treaty of Anatolius = 86

 5 The troubles of the East Romans and the death of Bleda = 95

 6 The invasion of 447 = 98

5 Peace on the Danube Frontier = 104

 1 The subjection of the Acatziri = 104

 2 The second Treaty of Anatolius = 108

 3 The embassy of Maximinus and the plot to murder Attila = 112

 4 The third and final Treaty of Anatolius = 132

6 The Defeats of Attila = 137

 1 Attila, Aetius, and the West = 137

 2 The antecedents of the invasion of Gaul = 143

 3 The repulse from Gaul = 148

 4 Hun failure in Italy = 156

 5 The death of Attila = 163

 6 The end of the Huns = 167

 7 New nomadic influx into eastern Europe = 175

7 Hun Society under Attila = 177

 1 Growth of wealth among the Huns = 177

 2 The exploitation of the subject peoples = 179

 3 Women in Hun society = 185

 4 The position of Attila = 187

 5 Trade = 189

 6 The causes of the collapse of the Hun empire = 195

8 Roman Foreign Policy and the Huns = 203

 1 Priscus' social views = 205

 2 Contemporary criticisms of Theodosius' ministers = 207

 3 Senatorial opposition to the payment of subsidies to the Huns = 211

 4 Military difficulty of attacking the nomads = 218

 5 Theodosius' policy in the historical tradition = 222

9 Conclusion = 225

 1 The limited greatness of Attila = 226

 2 Roman support for the Huns = 231

 3 The Huns and European history = 235

Afterword by Peter Heather = 238

Appendix A The Songs of the Huns = 265

Appendix B The Causes of the War of 441 = 267

Appendix C Valips = 269

Appendix D The Campaign of 441-3 = 271

Appendix E Chronological Note on the Years 449-50 = 273

Appendix F The Site of Attila's Headquarters = 276

Appendix G The Alleged Gothic Names of the Huns = 278

Notes = 280

Further Reading by Peter Heather = 312

Bibliography = 315

Index = 321