The Roman Empire

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Ronald A. BleekerIllustration(s): 10 bw illusNumber of pages: 248Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 1...

Is music just matter of hearing and producing notes? This book explores different ways in which, in the Roman Imperial period, music was rather a f...

Early in the third century, a small group of Greek Christians began to gain prominence and legitimacy as intellectuals in the Roman Empire. Examini...

Offers commentary and an illustrated history of the representations of people of African descent ranging from the ancient images of Pharaohs create...

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...

About the AuthorKenneth Atkinson is a professor of history at the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls. The author of several books, he is re...

Reducere. DescriptionIn this volume, Hugh Elton offers a detailed and up to date history of the last centuries of the Roman Empire. Beginning with the crisis...

This study investigates the development of urbanism in the north-western provinces of the Roman empire. Key themes include continuity and discontin...

Reducere. The Romans depicted the civil law as a body of rules crafted through communal deliberation for the purpose of self-government. Yet, as Clifford And...

A fascinating history of illuminated manuscripts within the Holy Roman Empire.Publisher: D Giles LtdAuthor(s): Joshua O'DriscollIllustration(s): 15...

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...

Easily the most celebrated historical work in English, Gibbon's account of the Roman empire was in its time a landmark in classical and historical ...

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. During recent years, there has been a noticeable increase in interest in the nineteenth century, resulting in many fine monographs. However, these ...

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Theater, spectacle, and performance played significant roles in the political and social structure of the Roman Empire, which was diverse in popula...

The River Nile fascinated the Romans and appeared in maps, written descriptions, philosophical texts, poems and landscape paintings. This book exam...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Herodian of AntiochTranslator: Edward C. EcholsNumber of pages: 234Publication date: 2021Dimens...

Is music just matter of hearing and producing notes? This book explores different ways in which, in the Roman Imperial period, music was rather a f...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Richard SallerIllustration(s): 11 colour and 5 bw illusNumber of pages: 352Publication date: 2014Dim...

For many years, scholars struggled to write the history of the constitution and political structure of the Holy Roman Empire. This book argues that...

Reducere. Examining issues of power, gender, and religion in the ancient world, Perpetua's Journey: Faith, Gender, and Power in the Roman Empire is a graphic...

DescriptionRome - Urbs Roma city of patricians and plebeians, emperors and gladiators, slaves and concubines - was the epicentre of a far-flung imp...

A fresh new look at the Roman Empire, from the point of view of those regarded by the Romans as 'barbarians'. Kershaw builds a narrative around the...

An action-packed narrative of Roman imperial politics, from Constantine's empire to the destruction of Roman Italy across 363 to 568 AD.

This book offers a fresh assessment of the Western Roman Empire's ostensible decline. Neil Christie presents a compelling argument that the Roman E...

The Holy Roman Empire has always caused tremendous confusion for students of European history, and this book sets out to provide a clear account of...

DescriptionThough Scotland was never successfully conquered by the Roman Empire, the lands north of Hadrian's Wall nonetheless include many Roman s...

At the height of its power, the Roman Empire encompassed the entire Mediterranean basin, extending much beyond it from Britain to Mesopotamia, from...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: PriscusTranslator: John GivenAttila, king of the Huns, is a name almost universally known even 1, 500 years after his death...

Reducere. The controversial history of the Holy Roman Empire is back in print. Attacked by revisionist historians for its integration of church history and t...

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...

Reducere. If you want to discover captivating stories of people and events of ancient Rome then keep reading...Three captivating manuscripts in one book: The...

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

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Holy Roman Empire, then keep reading...Two captivating manuscripts in one book: The Holy Rom...

This is a dual biography of the emperors Marcus Antonius Gordianus ('Gordian III', reigned 238-244) and Marcus Julius Philippus Augustus ('Philip t...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Dark Ages, then keep reading...Following the fall of Rome in 476 CE, the entire dynamic of E...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Middle Ages, then keep reading...One of the least understood periods of European history occ...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Middle Ages, then keep reading...One of the least understood periods of European history occ...

Reducere. If you want to discover captivating stories of people and events of the Byzantine Empire then keep reading...The Byzantine Empire was founded durin...

Reducere. If you want to discover captivating stories of people and events of ancient Rome then keep reading...The Roman civilization is probably the single ...

Reducere. Explore the Captivating History of the Roman EmpireThe Roman Empire was one of the most powerful forces the world has ever seen. But this isn't jus...

The chapters have been carefully structured by the editors so that this wide array of scholarship combines to give a coherent, comprehensive study ...

If you want to discover the captivating history of Attila the Hun, then keep reading...In the popular imagination, Attila the Hun is among the most...

If you want to discover the captivating life of Nero, then keep reading...Nero's extravagance has become nothing short of legendary. In its day, it...

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

Reducere. Discover the captivating history of Europe's second-oldest dynasty-the Habsburgs!The Habsburg family ruled central Europe since the early medieval ...

How and why did the early church grow in the first four hundred years despite disincentives, harassment, and occasional persecution? In this unique...

Edward Gibbon's six-volume History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776-88) is among the most magnificent and ambitious narratives in ...

Reducere. DescriptionIn scandals and power struggles obscured by time and legend, the wives, mistresses, mothers, sisters, and daughters of the Caesars have ...

Reducere. Did you know that the barbarian tribe known as the Franks were the founders of present-day France?After assimilating with the Romans in the imperia...

Reducere. Presents the broader movements of European history, emphasizing the main factors which have gone into the formation and development of the various ...

Reducere. "Kings Dethroned" is a history of the evolution of astronomy from the Roman Empire to the early twentieth century. From Copernicus to Einstein, thi...

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...

DescriptionThis guide to the Late Roman Army focusses on the dramatic and crucial period that started with the accession of Diocletian and ended wi...

Edward Gibbon's six-volume History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776-88) is among the most magnificent and ambitious narratives in ...

In the late 4th century, pressure from the Huns forced the Goths to cross the Danube into the Roman Empire. The resultant Battle of Adrianople in 3...

Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire compresses thirteen turbulent centuries into an epic narrative shot through with insight, iron...

A.D. 57. Rebellion and plague simmer in Roman Sardinia in the thrilling new Eagles of the Empire drama from the Sunday Times bestselling author of ...

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

A narrative history of Roman Britain. From the rebellious chiefs and druids who led native British resistance, to the experiences of the Roman mili...

Reducere. Description"Strong evidence that the Roman Empire is of Edomite origin ... left our minds in bewilderment ... is one to be studied." -Church of Eng...

Reducere. A fresh and vivid narrative history of the Roman Empire from the point of view of the "barbarian" enemies of Rome. History is written by the victor...

An abridged edition of Edward Gibbon's THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE, which compresses thirteen turbulent centuries into ...

DescriptionThis book is about the section of the Thirty-Year War, relating primarily to the struggle between the Holy Roman Empire, Sweden, and Fra...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Holy Roman Empire, then keep reading...Two captivating manuscripts in one book: The Holy Rom...

The first ever travel guide to the Roman Empire.Publisher: Profile Books LtdAuthor(s): Dr. Jerry (Fellow Teacher and Director of Studies in Classic...

A major new narrative account of one of history's greatest and most epic mysteries: the strange death of the Roman Empire.

Reducere. Bestselling author Norman Cantor delivers this compact but magisterial survey of the ancient world -- from the birth of Sumerian civilization aroun...

Reducere. DescriptionIf you want to discover captivating stories of people and events of ancient Rome then keep reading... Three captivating manuscripts in o...