The Roman Empire Divided
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Author | : John Moorhead |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 2013-11-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1317861434 |
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In 400 the mighty Roman Empire was almost as large as it had ever been; within three centuries, advances by Germanic peoples in western Europe, Slavs in eastern Europe and Arabs around the eastern and southern shores of the Mediterranean had brought about the loss of most of its territory. Ranging from Britain to Mesopotamia, this book explores the changes that resulted from these movements. It shows the different paths away from the classical past that were taken, and how the relatively unified civilization of the ancient Mediterranean gave place to the very different civilizations that cluster around the sea today. This comprehensive and authoritative second edition has been thoroughly revised and updated line-by-line, and contains several new sections dealing for instance with the new evidence provided by recent finds like the Staffordshire Treasure and the widespread effects of the plague. As well as a completely new bibliographical essay, The Roman Empire Divided now also includes six maps and an expanded selection of illustrations fully integrated in the text.
Author | : John Moorhead |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Byzantine Empire |
ISBN | : 9781299317673 |
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In 400 the mighty Roman Empire was almost as large as it had ever been; within three centuries, advances by Germanic peoples in western Europe, Slavs in eastern Europe and Arabs around the eastern and southern shores of the Mediterranean had brought about the loss of most of its territory. Ranging from Britain to Mesopotamia, this book explores the changes that resulted from these movements. It shows the different paths away from the classical past that were taken, and how the relatively unified civilization of the ancient Mediterranean gave place to the very different civilizations that c.
Author | : Peter Turchin |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 405 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780452288195 |
Download War and Peace and War Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Argues that the key to the formation of an empire lies in a society's capacity for collective action, resulting from people banding together to confront a common enemy, and describing how the growth of empires leads to a growing dichotomy between rich and poor, increasing conflict instead of cooperation, and inevitable dissolution. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.
Author | : Daniëlle Slootjes |
Publisher | : Brill Academic Publishers |
Total Pages | : 186 |
Release | : 2015-08-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9789004291928 |
Download East and West in the Roman Empire of the Fourth Century Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
In "East and West in the Roman Empire of the Fourth Century" scholars examine from different angles to which degree the empire was still unified and whether it was perceived as such in the fourth century AD.
Author | : Gerard Friell |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 452 |
Release | : 2005-08-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 113578261X |
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Emperor Theodosius (379-95) was the last Roman emperor to rule a unified empire of East and West and his reign represents a turning point in the policies and fortunes of the Late Roman Empire. In this imperial biography, Stephen Williams and Gerry Friell bring together literary, archaeological and numismatic evidence concerning this Roman emperor, studying his military and political struggles, which he fought heroically but ultimately in vain. Summoned from retirement to the throne after the disastrous Roman defeat by the Goths at Adrianople, Theodosius was called on to rebuild the armies and put the shattered state back together. He instituted a new policy towards the barbarians, in which diplomacy played a larger role than military might, at a time of increasing frontier dangers and acute manpower shortage. He was also the founder of the established Apostolic Catholic Church. Unlike other Christian emperors, he suppressed both heresy and paganism and enforced orthodoxy by law. The path was a diffucult one, but Theodosius (and his successor, Stilicho) had little choice. This new study convincingly demonstrates how a series of political misfortunes led to the separation of the Eastern and Western empires which meant that the overlordship of Rome in Europe dwindled into mere ceremonial. The authors examine the emperor and his character and the state of the Roman empire, putting his reign in the context of the troubled times.
Author | : Andrzej Nowak |
Publisher | : PISM |
Total Pages | : 363 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Europe, Eastern |
ISBN | : 838960728X |
Download History and Geopolitics Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Author | : Greg Woolf |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 383 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199325189 |
Download Rome Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
A major new history of the spectacular rise and fall of the ancient world's greatest empire
Author | : Edward J. Watts |
Publisher | : Basic Books |
Total Pages | : 339 |
Release | : 2018-11-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0465093825 |
Download Mortal Republic Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Learn why the Roman Republic collapsed -- and how it could have continued to thrive -- with this insightful history from an award-winning author. In Mortal Republic, prize-winning historian Edward J. Watts offers a new history of the fall of the Roman Republic that explains why Rome exchanged freedom for autocracy. For centuries, even as Rome grew into the Mediterranean's premier military and political power, its governing institutions, parliamentary rules, and political customs successfully fostered negotiation and compromise. By the 130s BC, however, Rome's leaders increasingly used these same tools to cynically pursue individual gain and obstruct their opponents. As the center decayed and dysfunction grew, arguments between politicians gave way to political violence in the streets. The stage was set for destructive civil wars -- and ultimately the imperial reign of Augustus. The death of Rome's Republic was not inevitable. In Mortal Republic, Watts shows it died because it was allowed to, from thousands of small wounds inflicted by Romans who assumed that it would last forever.
Author | : Edward Gibbon |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 474 |
Release | : 1789 |
Genre | : Byzantine Empire |
ISBN | : |
Download The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Author | : Guy D. Middleton |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 463 |
Release | : 2017-06-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 110715149X |
Download Understanding Collapse Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
In this lively survey, Guy D. Middleton critically examines our ideas about collapse - how we explain it and how we have constructed potentially misleading myths around collapses - showing how and why collapse of societies was a much more complex phenomenon than is often admitted.