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Author | : Julian Reynolds |
Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 2011-06-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 147716460X |
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For its last eighty years, the Western Roman Empire was ruled by emperors who were unable to provide the leadership demanded by the crisis the Empire faced throughout this period. Power was exercised instead by the commanders of the Western armies, the magisteri militum or Masters of the Soldiers, four of whom stood out – Stilicho, Constantius, Aetius and Ricimer. Challenged by barbarian invasions, constantly diminishing resources, and indifference and sometimes hostility from the imperial court, the Senate and the Roman people, these men prolonged the existence of the Empire in the West beyond what would otherwise have been its natural span. This book tells the story of the collapse of the Western Empire, as seen through the lives of these individuals, a collapse that ended more than political and military structures, that encompassed the end of an ancient pagan culture and the inception of the age of Christianity.
Author | : Christopher J. Fuhrmann |
Publisher | : OUP USA |
Total Pages | : 355 |
Release | : 2012-01-12 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0199737843 |
Download Policing the Roman Empire Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Drawing on a wide variety of source material from art archaeology, administrative documents, Egyptian papyri, laws Jewish and Christian religious texts and ancient narratives this book provides a comprehensive overview of Roman imperial policing practices.
Author | : Jonathan Master |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2016-03-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0472119834 |
Download Provincial Soldiers and Imperial Instability in the Histories of Tacitus Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Tacitus’ narrative of 69 CE, the year of the four emperors, is famous for its description of a series of coups that sees one man after another crowned. Many scholars seem to read Tacitus as though he wrote only about the constricted world of imperial Rome and the machinations of emperors, courtiers, and victims of the principate; even recent work on the Histories either passes over or lightly touches upon civil unrest and revolts in the provinces. In Provincial Soldiers and Imperial Instability in the Histories of Tacitus, Jonathan Master looks beyond imperial politics and finds threats to the Empire’s stability among unassimilated foreign subjects who were made to fight in the Roman army. Master draws on scholarship in political theory, Latin historiography, Roman history, and ethnic identity to demonstrate how Tacitus presented to his contemporary audience in Trajanic Rome the dangerous consequences of the city’s failure to reward and incorporate its provincial subjects. Master argues that Tacitus’ presentation of the Vitellian and Flavian armies, and especially the Batavian auxiliary soldiers, reflects a central lesson of the Histories: the Empire’s exploitation of provincial manpower (increasingly the majority of all soldiers under Roman banners) while offering little in return, set the stage for civil wars and ultimately the separatist Batavian revolt.
Author | : James Mace |
Publisher | : James Mace |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2008-12-06 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1440100276 |
Download Soldier of Rome: The Legionary Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Rome's Vengeance In the year A.D. 9, three Roman Legions under Quintilius Varus were betrayed by the Germanic war chief, Arminius, and destroyed in the forest known as Teutoburger Wald. Six years later Rome is finally ready to unleash Her vengeance on the barbarians. The Emperor Tiberius has sent his adopted son, Germanicus Caesar, into Germania with an army of forty-thousand legionaries. The come not on a mission of conquest, but one of annihilation. With them is a young legionary named Artorius. For him the war is a personal vendetta; a chance to avenge his brother, who was killed in Teutoburger Wald. In Germania Arminius knows the Romans are coming. He realizes that the only way to fight the legions is through deceit, cunning, and plenty of well-placed brute force. In truth he is leery of Germanicus, knowing that he was trained to be a master of war by the Emperor himself. The entire Roman Empire held its collective breath as Germanicus and Arminius faced each other in what would become the most brutal and savage campaign the world had seen in a generation; a campaign that could only end in a holocaust of fire and blood.
Author | : David Levering Lewis |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 528 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780393064728 |
Download God's Crucible Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In this panoramic history of Islamic culture in early Europe, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian reexamines the fall of the Persian and Roman empires, followed by the rise of the prophet Muhammad and the creation of Muslim Spain. color illustrations.
Author | : Vegetius |
Publisher | : Tales End Press |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 2012-08-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1623580439 |
Download The Military Institutions of the Romans Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Also known as “De Re Militari” (On Military Matters), this is the only handbook of Roman warfare to survive to modern times. Written when the power of the Roman empire was already waning, it was intended to educate a new emperor on the capabilities of the Roman legions. Vegetius touches on all military matters, including the selection and training of recruits, the importance of logistics and supply, how to develop leadership qualities, the maintenance of army discipline, the use of arms and armor, and various battlefield tactics. It is also the source of many military and political maxims still used to this day, including “He who aspires to peace should prepare for war,” and “Few men are born brave; many become so through training and force of discipline.” Copied and recopied countless times, it was required military reading until the advent of gunpowder, and has been carried into battle by kings and generals.
Author | : Stephanie A. Nelson Boston University |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 1998-05-18 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0195353579 |
Download God and the Land : The Metaphysics of Farming in Hesiod and Vergil Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In this pathbreaking book, which includes a powerful new translation of Hesiod's Works and Days by esteemed translator David Grene, Stephanie Nelson argues that a society's vision of farming contains deep indications about its view of the human place within nature, and our relationship to the divine. She contends that both Hesiod in the Works and Days and Vergil in the Georgics saw farming in this way, and so wrote their poems not only about farming itself, but also about its deeper ethical and religious implications. Hesiod, Nelson argues, saw farming as revealing that man must live by the sweat of his brow, and that good, for human beings, must always be accompanied by hardship. Within this vision justice, competition, cooperation, and the need for labor take their place alongside the uncertainties of the seasons and even of particular lucky and unlucky days to form a meaningful whole within which human life is an integral part. Vergil, Nelson argues, deliberately modeled his poem upon the Works and Days, and did so in order to reveal that his is a very different vision. Hesiod saw the hardship in farming; Vergil sees its violence as well. Farming is for him both our life within nature, and also our battle against her. Against the background of Hesiods poem, which found a single meaning for human life, Vergil thus creates a split vision and suggests that human beings may be radically alienated from both nature and the divine. Nelson argues that both the Georgics and the Works and Days have been misread because scholars have not seen the importance of the connection between the two poems, and because they have not seen that farming is the true concern of both, farming in its deepest and most profoundly unsettling sense.
Author | : Flavius Vegetius Renatus |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 72 |
Release | : 2017-01-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1365714292 |
Download The Military Institutions of the Romans Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Military Institutions of the Romans (De Re Militari - "Concerning Military Matters") is a treatise by the late Latin writer Flavius Renatus about Roman warfare and military principles as a presentation of methods and practices in use during the height of Rome's power. Renatus emphasized things such as training of soldiers as a disciplined force, orderly strategy, maintenance of supply lines and logistics, quality leadership and use of tactics and even deceit to ensure advantage over the opposition.
Author | : R. Alan Streett |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 2018-01-24 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1498228402 |
Download Caesar and the Sacrament Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
When the earliest Christ-followers were baptized they participated in a politically subversive act. Rejecting the Empire’s claim that it had a divine right to rule the world, they pledged their allegiance to a kingdom other than Rome and a king other than Caesar (Acts 17:7). Many books explore baptism from doctrinal or theological perspectives, and focus on issues such as the correct mode of baptism, the proper candidate for baptism, who has the authority to baptize, and whether or not baptism is a symbol or means of grace. By contrast, Caesar and the Sacrament investigates the political nature of baptism. Very few contemporary Christians consider baptism’s original purpose or political significance. Only by studying baptism in its historical context, can we discover its impact on first-century believers and the adverse reaction it engendered among Roman and Jewish officials. Since baptism was initially a rite of non-violent resistance, what should its function be today?
Author | : Charles W. Maynard |
Publisher | : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc |
Total Pages | : 56 |
Release | : 2006-01-15 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9781404205567 |
Download The Technology of Ancient Rome Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Describes the technology developed and used in the Roman Empire, including technology involving agriculture, transportation, construction, communication, and medicine.