• Contos de uma insurreição. A Batalha do Rio Nedao e a Revolta Fictícia dos Povos Germanos

    Author(s):
    Otávio Luiz Vieira Pinto (see profile)
    Date:
    2015
    Group(s):
    History, Late Antiquity
    Subject(s):
    History, Ancient, Middle Ages, World politics
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Attila, Barbarians, Huns, Nedao, Ancient history, Medieval history, Political history
    Permanent URL:
    http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M62J6J
    Abstract:
    The aim of this paper is to explore and call into question the account of the insurrection of a number of Germanic tribes against the Huns, in the so called Battle of Nedao River (second half of the fifth century). The testimony of this battle, recorded by Jordanes, represents the end of the submission of many Germanic and nomadic groups and the end of the excessive oppression of Attila’s sons, Elac, Hernac and Dengzic. According to Jordanes, after the death of the famous Hunnic king, his sons started treating their subject nations as slaves, which led Ardaric, the Gepid king, to foment a revolt that claimed Elac’s life and ended the Hunnic hegemony in the Balkans. I believe that this battle is a rhetorical creation of Jordanes: as the only author who mentions this fact, Jordanes wanted to create a historiographical explanation to delimit the end of real Hunnic authority and, at the same, to elucidate the social and political chaos in the Balkans during the end of the fifth and most of the sixth centuries.
    Metadata:
    xml
    Published as:
    Journal article     Show details
    Publisher:
    UEMA
    Pub. Date:
    2015
    Journal:
    Brathair
    Volume:
    15
    Issue:
    2
    Page Range:
    115 - 131
    ISSN:
    1519-9053
    Status:
    Published
    Last Updated:
    7 years ago
    License:
    All Rights Reserved
    Share this:

    Downloads

    Item Name: pdf contos_de_uma_insurreicao._a_batalha_do.pdf
      Download View in browser
    Activity: Downloads: 200

    Back to Deposits