Author : James J. O'Donnell
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 10,42 MB
Release : 2008-09-16
Category : History
ISBN : 0060787376
Recounts the sixth-century events and circumstances that led to the fall of the Roman Empire.
Author : James Joseph O'Donnell
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 752 pages
File Size : 11,15 MB
Release : 2008-09-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0061982466
“Anexotic and instructive tale, told with life, learning and just the right measure of laughter on every page. O’Donnell combines a historian’s mastery of substance with a born storyteller’s sense of style to create a magnificent work of art.” — Madeleine K. Albright, former U.S. Secretary of State The dream Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar shared of uniting Europe, the Medi-terranean, and the Middle East in a single community shuddered and then collapsed in the wars and disasters of the sixth century. Historian and classicist James J. O'Donnell—who last brought readers his masterful, disturbing, and revelatory biography of Saint Augustine—revisits this old story in a fresh way, bringing home its sometimes painful relevance to today's issues. With unexpected detail and in his hauntingly vivid style, O'Donnell begins at a time of apparent Roman revival and brings readers to the moment of imminent collapse that just preceded the rise of Islam. Illegal migrations of peoples, religious wars, global pandemics, and the temptations of empire: Rome's end foreshadows today's crises and offers hints how to navigate them—if present leaders will heed this story.
Author : Julia Hell
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 633 pages
File Size : 17,3 MB
Release : 2019-03-19
Category : History
ISBN : 022658819X
The Roman Empire has been a source of inspiration and a model for imitation for Western empires practically since the moment Rome fell. Yet, as Julia Hell shows in The Conquest of Ruins, what has had the strongest grip on aspiring imperial imaginations isn’t that empire’s glory but its fall—and the haunting monuments left in its wake. Hell examines centuries of European empire-building—from Charles V in the sixteenth century and Napoleon’s campaigns of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries to the atrocities of Mussolini and the Third Reich in the 1930s and ’40s—and sees a similar fascination with recreating the Roman past in the contemporary image. In every case—particularly that of the Nazi regime—the ruins of Rome seem to represent a mystery to be solved: how could an empire so powerful be brought so low? Hell argues that this fascination with the ruins of greatness expresses a need on the part of would-be conquerors to find something to ward off a similar demise for their particular empire.
Author : James J O'Donnell
Publisher : Profile Books
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 20,50 MB
Release : 2011-05-26
Category : History
ISBN : 1847653960
What really marked the end of the Roman Empire? James O'Donnell's magnificent new book takes us back to the sixth century and the last time the Empire could be regarded as a single community. Two figures dominate his narrative - Theodoric the 'barbarian', whose civilized rule in Italy with his philosopher minister Boethius might have been an inspiration, and in Constantinople Justinian, who destroyed the Empire with his rigid passion for orthodoxy and his restless inability to secure his frontiers with peace. The book closes with Pope Gregory the Great, the polished product of ancient Roman schools, presiding over a Rome in ruins.
Author : Edward Gibbon
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 35,6 MB
Release : 2015-12-05
Category :
ISBN : 9781347421888
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Author : Adrian Goldsworthy
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 43,99 MB
Release : 2009-05-12
Category : History
ISBN : 0300155603
The author discusses how the Roman Empire--an empire without a serious rival--rotted from within, its rulers and institutions putting short-term ambition and personal survival over the wider good of the state.
Author : Edward J. Watts
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 19,25 MB
Release : 2023-10-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0197691951
The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome tells the story of 2200 years of the use and misuse of the idea of Roman decline by ambitious politicians, authors, and autocrats as well as the people scapegoated and victimized in the name of Roman renewal. It focuses on the long history of a way of describing change that might seem innocuous, but which has cost countless people their lives, liberty, or property across two millennia.
Author : James Gerrard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 48,18 MB
Release : 2013-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 1107038634
This book employs new archaeological and historical evidence to explain how and why Roman Britain became Anglo-Saxon England.
Author : Antonino Di Vita
Publisher : Conran Octopus
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 23,13 MB
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN :
Brings to life a group of Greco-Roman cities long lost under the desert sands of North Africa. The discoveries of these sites offer a unique view of both Africa and the Greco-Roman world.
Author : Mary Beard
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 743 pages
File Size : 41,77 MB
Release : 2015-11-09
Category : History
ISBN : 1631491253
New York Times Bestseller A New York Times Notable Book Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the Wall Street Journal, the Economist, Foreign Affairs, and Kirkus Reviews Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award (Nonfiction) Shortlisted for the Cundill Prize in Historical Literature Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize (History) A San Francisco Chronicle Holiday Gift Guide Selection A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice Selection A sweeping, "magisterial" history of the Roman Empire from one of our foremost classicists shows why Rome remains "relevant to people many centuries later" (Atlantic). In SPQR, an instant classic, Mary Beard narrates the history of Rome "with passion and without technical jargon" and demonstrates how "a slightly shabby Iron Age village" rose to become the "undisputed hegemon of the Mediterranean" (Wall Street Journal). Hailed by critics as animating "the grand sweep and the intimate details that bring the distant past vividly to life" (Economist) in a way that makes "your hair stand on end" (Christian Science Monitor) and spanning nearly a thousand years of history, this "highly informative, highly readable" (Dallas Morning News) work examines not just how we think of ancient Rome but challenges the comfortable historical perspectives that have existed for centuries. With its nuanced attention to class, democratic struggles, and the lives of entire groups of people omitted from the historical narrative for centuries, SPQR will to shape our view of Roman history for decades to come.
