Kuosmanen P. The nature of nomadic power. Contacts between the Huns and the Romans during the Fourth and Fifth Centuries

Turku : University of Turku, PhD thesis, 2013. - 252 P. ISBN: 978-951-29-5586-2This fundamental dissertation is dedicated to the history of interrelations between the Huns and the Roman Empire since first appearance of the Huns on the Roman horizon in 370 AD to their defeat and subsequent retreat back to steppes in about a hundred years later.
1. Introduction.
2. Roman authors' ways of writing about the Huns.
3. New nomadic arrivals? The first descriptions of the Huns.
4. Groups of Huns and first contacts with the Romans.
5. Aims to increase the power of Hun leaders? A Hun leader Uldin.
6. Variations in the titles of nomad leaders.
7. Uniting groups of Huns and locals - Rua and Octar.
8. Strengthening the might of the confederation - the Hun brothers Bleda and Attila in the 440s.
9. The rise of a supercomplex chiefdom among the Huns?
10. The fall and dispersal of the Huns.
11. The Huns and the nomadic way of life.