Chi erano gli Unni?

In our imagination, the Huns are the barbarians par excellence, and their name has been associated with uncontrolled ferocity and destruction. In the Roman sources the Huns seem to have a decidedly more alien and negative connotation than the other Barbarians, and what is striking is the sense of otherness that permeates their descriptions. Yet from a strictly chronological point of view, the period in which the Huns interacted intensively with the Roman world lasted less than a hundred years, and what one wonders is how it is possible that in a relatively short period of time they have managed to leave such an indelible mark. Above all for this reason, historians have scrambled to try to better understand the identity of this people of the Eurasian steppes, which have however proved elusive as much as their deadly riders. In this video we will therefore try to aexamine a complex question, the answer to which requires a detailed analysis: who were the Huns? =========================================== 50 - WHO WERE THE HUNS? =========================================== 00:00 - Introduction 01:47 - The Huns in modern imagination 03:22 - Historical overview 07:47 - A Turanian people? 12:02 - An elusive identity 16:01 - A change of perspective 20:48 - The cranial deformation ========================================= On the cover: Georges-Antoine Rochegrosse, "Attila et les Huns", c. 1885 Curated by Gioal Canestrelli Institute of Experimental Archeology "Fianna ap Palug" of Verona Editing by Angela Ruggero