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Author : Simon Young
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780297848059
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A.D. 500 written by Simon Young and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AD 500 is written as a practical survival guide for the use of civilised visitors to the barbaric islands of Britain and Ireland. It describes a journey which begins in Cornwall and continues through Wales and Ireland, then across to Scotland and eventually down to London and southern Britain. The Romans have left, and the islands are now fought over by Irish, British Celts, Picts and Saxons. It is a dangerous world, full of tribal war. The British Celts are enthusiastic head-hunters, while the Saxon gods require regular blood sacrifices, animal and sometimes human. There are social pitfals too (`Do not make fun of the Celts' beliefs about Arthur'... `The traveller must not fall asleep while a saga poem is being recited'....'Don't refuse a place in a Welsh collective bed') Cheviot bandits, bizarre forms of Christianity, boat burials, peculiar haircuts, human sacrifice, poetry competitions, slave markets, the legend of King Arthur - these are the realities of life in the sixth century AD.

Author : Raffaele D’Amato
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1780960395
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Roman Centurions 31 BC–AD 500 written by Raffaele D’Amato and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-02-20 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the years between 31 BC and AD 500 the Romans carved out a mighty empire stretching from Britain to the deserts of North Africa. The men who spearheaded this expansion were the centurions, the tough, professional warriors who led from the front, exerted savage discipline and provided a role model for the legionaries under their command. This book, the second volume of a two-part study, reveals the appearance, weaponry, role and impact of these legendary soldiers during the five centuries that saw the Roman Empire reach its greatest geographical extent under Trajan and Hadrian, only to experience a long decline in the West in the face of sustained pressure from its 'barbarian' neighbours. Featuring spectacular full-colour artwork, written by an authority on the army of the Caesars and informed by a wide range of sculptural, written and pictorial evidence from right across the Roman world, this book overturns established wisdom and sheds new light on Rome's most famous soldiers during the best-known era in its history.

Author : Jerrilynn D. Dodds
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 0810964333
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art of Medieval Spain, A.D. 500-1200 written by Jerrilynn D. Dodds and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1993 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles Thomas
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520043923
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Christianity in Roman Britain to AD 500 written by Charles Thomas and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1981-01-01 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John William Charles Wand
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134948182
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of the Early Church to AD 500 written by John William Charles Wand and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-03-07 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr Wand's classic treatment of the early church is concise, comprehensive and makes use of specialist treatises. The organisation of material and lucid style make accessible what is at times a complex subject. In addition, the book is full of vignettes of prominent personages and curious items of information. Interesting and informative, A History of Early Church caters for the general reader with an interest in history as well as the religious studies student fow whom it is principally intended.

Author : Barrie J. Cook
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004147772
Total Pages : 809 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Coinage And History in the North Sea World, C. AD 500-1250 written by Barrie J. Cook and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2006 with total page 809 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This themed volume contains 28 papers by leading authorities on numismatics and monetary history. It covers a variety of topics concerning the design, use and circulation of coinage in northern Europe in the late fifth to early thirteenth centuries.

Author : Andrei Evgenevich Negin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 147283948X
Total Pages : 65 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Roman Heavy Cavalry (2) written by Andrei Evgenevich Negin and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-11-26 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the twilight of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th–6th centuries, the elite of the field armies was the heavy armoured cavalry – the cataphracts, clad in lamellar, scale, mail and padded fabric armour. After the fall of the West, the Greek-speaking Eastern or Byzantine Empire survived for nearly a thousand years, and cavalry remained predominant in its armies, with the heaviest armoured regiments continuing to provide the ultimate shock-force in battle. Accounts from Muslim chroniclers show that the ironclad cataphract on his armoured horse was an awe-inspiring enemy: '...they advanced against you, iron-covered – one would have said that they advanced on horses which seemed to have no legs'. This new study, replete with stunning full-colour illustrations of the various units, offers an engaging insight into the fearsome heavy cavalry units that battled against the enemies of Rome's Eastern Empire.

Author : Bas van Bavel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191017671
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Invisible Hand? written by Bas van Bavel and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-24 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Invisible Hand offers a radical departure from the conventional wisdom of economists and economic historians, by showing that 'factor markets' and the economies dominated by them — the market economies — are not modern, but have existed at various times in the past. They rise, stagnate, and decline; and consist of very different combinations of institutions embedded in very different societies. These market economies create flexibility and high mobility in the exchange of land, labour, and capital, and initially they generate economic growth, although they also build on existing social structures, as well as existing exchange and allocation systems. The dynamism that results from the rise of factor markets leads to the rise of new market elites who accumulate land and capital, and use wage labour extensively to make their wealth profitable. In the long term, this creates social polarization and a decline of average welfare. As these new elites gradually translate their economic wealth into political leverage, it also creates institutional sclerosis, and finally makes these markets stagnate or decline again. This process is analysed across the three major, pre-industrial examples of successful market economies in western Eurasia: Iraq in the early Middle Ages, Italy in the high Middle Ages, and the Low Countries in the late Middle Ages and the early modern period, and then parallels drawn to England and the United States in the modern period. These areas successively saw a rapid rise of factor markets and the associated dynamism, followed by stagnation, which enables an in-depth investigation of the causes and results of this process.

Author : Samuel Eliot Morison
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 786 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The European Discovery of America written by Samuel Eliot Morison and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emphasizes the discoveries and explorations of Columbus, Magellan and Drake during the period.

Author : B H Slicher Van Bath
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781013697784
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Agrarian History of Western Europe, A.D. 500-1850 written by B H Slicher Van Bath and published by Hassell Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.