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Author | : James J O'Donnell |
Publisher | : Profile Books |
Total Pages | : 768 |
Release | : 2011-05-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1847653960 |
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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 | : James Joseph O'Donnell |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 752 |
Release | : 2008-09-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0061982466 |
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“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 | : Edward J. Watts |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2023-10-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0197691951 |
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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 | : Edward Gibbon |
Publisher | : Palala Press |
Total Pages | : 498 |
Release | : 2015-12-05 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781347421888 |
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Author | : Arthur Dent |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 490 |
Release | : 1798 |
Genre | : Bible |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : James Gerrard |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 365 |
Release | : 2013-10-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107038634 |
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This book employs new archaeological and historical evidence to explain how and why Roman Britain became Anglo-Saxon England.
Author | : Nathaniel Hooke |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 762 |
Release | : 1738 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : David Karmon |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 2011-06-09 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0199766894 |
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The Ruin of the Eternal City provides the first systematic analysis of the preservation practices of the popes, civic magistrates, and ordinary citizens of Renaissance Rome. This study offers a new understanding of historic preservation as it occurred during the extraordinary rebuilding of a great European capital city.
Author | : Michael Grant |
Publisher | : Scribner Paper Fiction |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Adrian Goldsworthy |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 558 |
Release | : 2009-05-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0300155603 |
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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.