The Later Roman Empire

Reducere. The Second Edition of A History of the Later Roman Empire features extensive revisions and updates to the highly-acclaimed, sweeping historical sur...

Barbarian Tides The Migration Age and the Later Roman Empire Walter Goffart "Goffart has produced yet another major study on the migration of the N...

DescriptionA Roman historian chronicles Rome on the brink of collapse Ammianus Marcellinus was the last great Roman historian, and his writings ran...

This volume is the much larger companion to Roger Blockley's similarly-titled monograph, published in 1981 (ARCA 6). The earlier volume gave a comm...

Sheds new light on the relationship between the emperor and his senators in the later Roman Empire, focusing on Constantius II, son of Constantine ...

For four centuries Britain was an integral part of the Roman Empire, a political system stretching from Turkey to Portugal and from the Red Sea to ...

Reducere. R. W. Morgan proposes that St. Paul introduced Christianity to Celtic Britain, and that the Christian church and the first ancestors of the modern ...

The eastern Roman Empire was the largest state in western Eurasia in the sixth century. A century later, it was a fraction of its former size. Rava...

DescriptionA leading historian argues that in the empire we know as Byzantium, the Greek-speaking population was actually Roman, and scholars have ...

DescriptionThe Roman long sword, the spatha, was central to the Romans' defense of their empire--this title investigates the origins, development, ...

Reducere. The Roman Empire lasted for more than a millennia. From a small city it grew to encompass almost 1.7 million miles. It's innovations in warfare, po...

"Ancient Rome" is the story of the greatest empire the world has ever known. Focusing on six turning points in Roman history, Simon Baker's absorbi...

Reducere. Saint Gregory of Tours' comprehensive history of the Frankish people, who ruled over much of what is modern-day France and Germany, is published he...

Reducere. The entire Amiculus Trilogy is now in one volume. In A.D. 476, Rome fell.The last emperor of the Western Roman Empire, a 12-year-old boy namedRomul...

DescriptionThe passage from Imperial Rome to the era of late antiquity, when the Roman Empire underwent a religious conversion to Christianity, saw...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: PlutarchTranslator: John DrydenPlutarch, later named, on his becoming a Roman citizen, Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus, c. 46 - ...

In less than fifty-three years, Rome subjected most of the known world to its rule. This authoritative and compelling work tells the story of the r...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Etruscans, then keep reading...The importance of the Etruscans can be traced back to Rome. T...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Continental Saxons developed from a subsistence economy, practiced up to the Carolingian conquest in the late eighth century, to bec...

The first three volumes of Gibbon's Decline And Fall (the western empire) were published by Everyman in 1993. Volumes 4-6 complete the set which is...

Reducere. DescriptionThis book draws upon the latest research to identify, explain, and illustrate the standards used by the Roman armies of the Late Empire....

Description Ammianus Marcellinus, ca. 325ca. 395 CE, a Greek of Antioch, joined the army when still young and served under the governor Ursicinus a...

Reducere. DescriptionIf you want to discover the captivating history of the Etruscans, then keep reading... The importance of the Etruscans can be traced bac...

Reducere. New York Times Bestseller - National Book Critics Circle Finalist - Wall Street Journal Best Books of 2015 - Kirkus Reviews Best Books of 2015 - Ec...

DescriptionCould the secret to economic success be reduced to four words? A country that has the "magic formula" - Low Taxes, Stable Money - finds ...

DescriptionPaul was a Roman. Yes, the apostle was raised as a devout Jew and later became a Christian, but he was a citizen of the Roman Empire. He...

Reducere. Marcus Aurelius was chosen by Emporer Hadrian to be his eventual successor. In 161, Aurelius took control of the Roman Empire along with his brothe...

Reducere. By any measure, Seneca (?4-65AD) is one of the most significant figures in both Roman literature and ancient philosophy. His writings are voluminou...

Reducere. The late second and early third century was a turbulent time in the Roman Empire and in the relationship between the empire and the church. Origen ...

Reducere. When the Roman historian Tacitus wrote the Germania, a none-too-flattering little book about the ancient Germans, he could not have foreseen that c...

DescriptionNine biographies that illuminate the careers, personalities and military campaigns of some of Rome's greatest statesmen The lives of the...

Reducere. This book reconsiders the question of Martin Luther's relationship with Rome in all its sixteenth-century manifestations: the early-modern city he ...

Graeco-Roman religion in its classic form was polytheistic; on the other hand, monotheistic ideas enjoyed wide currency in ancient philosophy. This...

Reducere. The Latin term ?enchiridion? connotes a small, essential handbook that sums up a particular matter or subject. So it was with the well-regarded enc...

Reducere. Michael Psellus (1018 - 1178 C.E) forms the bridge between the ancient classical view of the daemon as a beneficial guiding spiritual presence (a l...

When Luca went to Sicily in search of his parents' roots, he didn't count on meeting Vito: a wizened old man who seemed to embody the history of th...

Reducere. The authoritative edition of Antony and Cleopatra from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students ...

"With a single announcement from a herald, all the cities of Greece and Asia had been set free; only an intrepid soul could formulate such an ambit...

Reducere. *Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the fighting *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading When various revolutions mo...

Reducere. Steven Saylor's Roma Sub Rosa series of novels, set in the later Roman Republic and featuring Gordianus the Finder, has garnered unusual acclaim fr...

DescriptionEvery aspect of ancient Egyptian society-from education and law to medicine, birth, and death-was permeated by religion and magic, and d...

Reducere. DescriptionGerrard Dickson proposes here a series of alternative theories of astronomy, the place of the Earth and Sun in the universe, and the mat...

The son of a former slave, Pertinax was the Roman Emperor who proved that no matter how lowly your birth, you could rise to the very top through ha...

Reducere. "Is there anyone on earth who is so narrow-minded or uninquisitive that he could fail to want to know how and thanks to what kind of political syst...

Reducere. This Companion presents both an introduction to the history of the ancient philosophical school of Epicureanism and also a critical account of the ...

Reducere. The present volume includes the majority of Lucian Blaga's poetry written before the Communist era. Missing are only the posthumous poems. The geni...

Reducere. Why are so many people fascinated by treasure? Is it purely a desire for wealth, or is it also the romantic appeal of tales of lost ancient artifac...

Reducere. The world often misunderstands its greatest men while neglecting others entirely. Scipio Africanus, surely the greatest general that Rome produced,...

DescriptionThe impeachment trial of Warren Hastings lasted from 1788 until 1795. Hastings was the first Governor-General of Bengal and his trial ha...

Horace's first book of Satires is his debut work, a document of one man's self-fashioning on the cusp between Republic and Empire and a pivotal tex...

Reducere. Written by one of the most brilliant and provocative historians at work today, The Isles is a revolutionary narrative history that presents a new p...

DescriptionAcross western Europe the long tradition of castle-building took on its most sophisticated form in the later Medieval period and then, i...

Reducere. How much Eastern European history do you know?The story of Eastern Europe is one of successes and failures, competing interests, and the rise and f...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Sarmatians and Scythians, then keep reading...Masters of the horse, the Scythians and Sarmat...

If you want to discover the captivating history of the Sarmatians and Scythians, then keep reading...Masters of the horse, the Scythians and Sarmat...

From one of the leading historians of Christianity comes this sweeping reassessment of religious freedom, from the church fathers to John Locke "Ro...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Anglo-Saxons, then keep reading...There was a time before England was united. This was a tim...

Reducere. DescriptionIf you want to discover the captivating history of the Anglo-Saxons, then keep reading... There was a time before England was united. Th...