Attila the Hun (41 page)

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This section is based on works by Bäuml and Birnbaum; Thierry; Cordt; and Daim et al.: for details, see the bibliography.

Detailed bibliographies are contained in Thompson and Maenchen-Helfen. The following are the sources I found most useful.

Altheim, Franz:
Attila und die Hunnen
. Verlag für Kunst und Wissenschaft, Baden-Baden, 1951.

Ammianus Marcellinus:
The Later Roman Empire
, trans. and ed. Walter Hamilton. Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1986 (and later editions).

Ascherson, Neal:
Black Sea
. Jonathan Cape/Random House, London, 1995.

Bachrach, Bernard:
A History of Alans in the West
. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 1973.

Bäuml, Franz and Marianna Birnbaum:
Attila: The Man and his Image
. Corvina, Budapest, 1993.

Bierbach, Karl: ‘Die letzten Jahre Attilas’. Dissertation, Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, Berlin, 1906.

Blockley, R. C. (trans. and ed.):
The Fragmentary Classicising Historians of the Later Roman Empire: Eunapius, Olympiodorus, Priscus and Malchus
. Francis Cairns, Leeds, 1981–3.

Bóna, István:
Das Hunnenreich
. Konrad Theiss, Stuttgart, 1991.

Boor, Helmut de:
Das Attilabild in Geschichte, Legende und Heroischer Dichtung
. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt, 1962.

Bury, J. B:
The Invasion of Europe by the Barbarians
. Macmillan, London, 1928.

Byock, Jesse (trans. and intro.):
The Saga of the Volsungs
. University of California Press, Berkeley, 1990.

Cameron, Averil:
The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity
AD
395–600
. Routledge, London, 1993.

Campbell, Duncan:
Greek and Roman Siege Machinery 399
BC–AD
363
. Osprey, Oxford, 2003.

Cordt, Ernst: ‘Attila: Flagellum Dei, Etzel, Atli’. Unpublished paper. Quaderni dell’Istituto di Filologia Germanica, University of Trieste, 1984.

Daim, Falko et al.:
Reitervölker aus dem Osten: Hunnen + Awaren
. Burgenländische Landesregierung, Eisenstadt, 1996.

de Guignes, Joseph:
Histoire générale des Huns, des Turcs, des Mogols et des autres Tartares occidentaux
. Desaint & Saillant, Paris, 1856–8.

Dingwall, Eric John:
Artificial Cranial Deformation: A Contribution to the Study of Ethnic Mutilation
. John Bale, London, 1931.

Gárdonyi, Géza:
Slave of the Huns
. Corvina, Budapest, 2000. Trans. from the Hungarian
A Láthatatlan ember
[
The Invisible Man
], 1902.

Gibbon, Edward:
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
, mainly vol. 3. 1776–88. Numerous editions.

Gillett, Andrew:
Envoys and Political Communication in the Late Antique West
,
411–533
. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2003.

Gordon, C. D:
The Age of Attila
. University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, 1960, 1966.

Grosvenor, Edwin:
Constantinople
. London, 1895.

Harries, Jill:
Sidonius Apollinaris and the Fall of Rome
AD
407–485
. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1994.

Hudiakov, U.S. and D. Tseveendorj: ‘New Finds of Hun Bows in the Altai of the Gobi’, in
Journal of the Society of Archer-Antiquaries
, 36, 1993. Original in
Information of the Siberian Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences
. Trans. and with a valuable introduction by George Vitt.

Jordanes:
see
Mierow.

Kassai, Lajos:
Horseback Archery
. Püski Kiadó, Budapest, 2002.

Kurinsky, Samuel: ‘The Jews of Aquileia: A Judaic Community Lost to History’. Fact Paper 28, Hebrew History Federation, 2000 (
www.hebrewhistory.org
).

Macartney, C. [Carlile] A.:
Studies on Early Hungarian and Pontic History
. Ashgate, Aldershot, 1999.

MacDowall, Simon:
Adrianople
AD
378
. Osprey, Oxford, 2001.

MacDowall, Simon:
Germanic Warrior 236–568
AD
. Osprey, Oxford, 1996.

Maenchen-Helfen, Otto:
The World of the Huns
, ed. Max Knight. University of California Press, Berkeley, 1973.
An extraordinary labour of love, completed as far as possible from notes after the author’s death by the editor, with a vast bibliography. Also contains a survey of the fifth-century Roman empire by Paul Alexander.

Mierow, Charles (trans. and ed.):
The Gothic History of Jordanes
. Princeton University Press/Oxford University Press, Princeton and Oxford, 1915.

Muhlberger, Steven:
The Fifth Century Chroniclers: Prosper, Hydatius and the Gallic Chronicler of 452
. Francis Cairns, Leeds, 1990.

Nicolle, David:
Attila and the Nomad Hordes
. Osprey, Oxford, 1990.

Nicolle, David:
Romano-Byzantine Armies 4th–9th Centuries
. Osprey, Oxford, 1992.

Peigné-Delacourt, Achille:
Recherches sur le lieu de la bataille d’Attile en 451
. Paris, 1860 (
Supplément
: Troyes, 1866).

Rudenko, S. I.:
Die Kultur der Hsiung-Nu und die Hügelgräber von Noin Ula
. Trans. from the Russian by Helmut Pollems. Rudolf Habelt, Bonn, 1969.

Selby, Stephen:
Chinese Archery
. Hong Kong University Press, Hong Kong, 2000.

Sidonius Apollinaris:
The Letters of Sidonius
. Trans. and ed. O. M. Dalton. Oxford University Press, London, 1915.

Sidonius Apollinaris:
Poems and Letters.
Trans. W. B. Anderson. Heinemann, London/Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1963.

Sinor, Denis (ed.):
Cambridge History of Early Inner Asia
. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1990.

Sitwell, Nigel:
Roman Roads of Europe
, Cassell, London, 1981.

Thierry, Amédée:
Histoire d’Attila et de ses successeurs
. Didier, Paris, 1856.

Thompson, Edward A.:
The Visigoths in the Time of Ulfila
, Oxford University Press, London, 1966.

Thompson, Edward A.:
The Huns
, Blackwell, Oxford, 1999. A revised and updated version by Peter Heather of Thompson’s original 1948 edition.

Tomka, Peter: ‘Der Hunnische Fürstenfund von Pannonhalma’, in
Acta Archaeologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae
38, 1986.

Trever, Camilla:
Excavations in Northern Mongolia (1924–1925)
. Leningrad, 1932.

Underwood, F. A.: ‘The Hun at the Gate: Kipling’s Obsession with the German Threat’,
Kipling Journal
308, December 2003.

Whitby, Michael:
Rome at War
AD
293–696
. Osprey, Oxford, 2002.

Wilcox, Peter:
Rome’s Enemies (1): Germanics and Dacians
. Osprey, Oxford, 1982.

Yetts, W. Perceval: ‘Discoveries of the Kozlov Expedition’, in
The Burlington Magazine
, vol. 48, no. 277, April 1926.