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Author : Fergus Millar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 684 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Emperor in the Roman World, 31 BC-AD 337 written by Fergus Millar and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Harald Kleinschmidt
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752474405
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)
Download or read book Charles V written by Harald Kleinschmidt and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2011-10-24 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles V (1500-1558), King of Spain (1516-1556) and Holy Roman Emperor (1519-1556) is one of the most interesting and perplexing of the great European monarchs. The son of Philip the Handsome (son of the the Holy Roman Emperor Maximillian I) and Joanna the Mad (daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain), he became King of Spain at a time when the Valois and Habsburgs were involved in bitter disputes over northern European territories. When he was elected Holy Roman Emperor and united to the old Habsburg lands the empire of Spain, it seemed that the family might well be on the way to the universal monarchy. of Charles V it may truthfully be said that he ruled an empire on which the sun never set. he set out with high aims and ideals but found himself overwhelmed. The demands of ruling over the greatest number of territories ever accumulated by any European ruler role and the seeming impossibility of achieving peace in Europe proved too great, and the disillusioned Emperor retired to the monastery of San Yuste, where legend has it his ghost continues to advise the Spanish monarchs. This book offers a chance to see Charles against the background of turmoil and unprecedented European expansion. It is an important study in ideas of kingship and dynasty, showing the last medieval emperor defending the ideals of Christian Christendom.
Author : Anne A. Latowsky
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801467780
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)
Download or read book Emperor of the World written by Anne A. Latowsky and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-15 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emperor of the World, traces the curious history of the story of the alliances forged by Charlemagne while visiting Jerusalem and Constantinople, revealing how the memory of the Frankish Emperor was manipulated to shape the institutions of kingship and empire in the High Middle Ages. The legend incorporates apocalyptic themes such as the succession of world monarchies at the End of Days and the prophecy of the Last Roman Emperor. Charlemagne's apocryphal journey to the East increasingly resembled the eschatological final journey of the Last Emperor, who was expected to end his reign in Jerusalem after reuniting the Roman Empire prior to the Last Judgment. Latowsky finds that the writers who incorporated this legend did so to support, or in certain cases to criticize, the imperial pretentions of the regimes under which they wrote. Latowsky removes Charlemagne's encounters with the East from their long-presumed Crusading context and shows how a story that began as a rhetorical commonplace of imperial praise evolved over the centuries as an expression of Christian Roman universalism.
Author : Fergus Millar
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)
Download or read book Emperor in the Roman World written by Fergus Millar and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dominic Lieven
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0735222193
Total Pages : 545 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)
Download or read book In the Shadow of the Gods written by Dominic Lieven and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-06-07 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dazzling account of the men (and occasional woman) who led the world’s empires, a book that probes the essence of leadership and power through the centuries and around the world. From the rise of Sargon of Akkad, who in the third millennium BCE ruled what is now Iraq and Syria, to the collapse of the great European empires in the twentieth century, the empire has been the dominant form of power in history. Dominic Lieven’s expansive book explores strengths and failings of the human beings who held those empires together (or let them crumble). He projects the power, terror, magnificence, and confidence of imperial monarchy, tracking what they had in common as well as what made some rise to glory and others fail spectacularly, and at what price each destiny was reached. Lieven’s characters—Constantine, Chinggis Khan, Trajan, Suleyman, Hadrian, Louis XIV, Maria Theresa, Peter the Great, Queen Victoria, and dozens more—come alive with color, energy, and detail: their upbringings, their loves, their crucial spouses, their dreadful children. They illustrate how politics and government are a gruelling business: a ruler needed stamina, mental and physical toughness, and self-confidence. He or she needed the sound judgement of problems and people which is partly innate but also the product of education and experience. A good brain was essential for setting priorities, weighing conflicting advice, and matching ends to needs. A diplomatically astute marriage was often even more essential. Emperors (and the rare empresses) could be sacred symbols, warrior kings, political leaders, chief executive officers of the government machine, heads of a family, and impresarios directing the many elements of "soft power" essential to any regime’s survival. What was it like to live and work in such an extraordinary role? What qualities did it take to perform this role successfully? Lieven traces the shifting balance among these elements across eras that encompass a staggering array of events from the rise of the world’s great religions to the scientific revolution, the expansion of European empires across oceans, the great twentieth century conflicts, and the triumph of nationalism over imperialism. The rule of the emperor may be over, but Lieven shows us how we live with its poltical and cultural legacies today.
Author : Anne A. Latowsky
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781501748516
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)
Download or read book Emperor of the World written by Anne A. Latowsky and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-15 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring how the historical memory of Charlemagne was used to shape the institutions of kingship and empire in the High Middle Ages.
Author : John F. White
Publisher : Spellmount, Limited Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781862273924
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)
Download or read book Restorer of the World written by John F. White and published by Spellmount, Limited Publishers. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ancient Sibylline Books had predicted that Rome would last one thousand years. The millennial celebrations had already been held (AD 248) and the anxious population of the empire, shaken by civil wars and battered by the Gothic incursions, fearfully awaited the worst. Then the barbarians poured across the frontiers.
Author : Gareth Russell
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445634392
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Emperors written by Gareth Russell and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fascinating story of the Austrian, German and Russian imperial families during the four years of the First World War and the political and personal struggles that brought about their ruin
Author : Ferdinand Gregorovius
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Emperor Hadrian written by Ferdinand Gregorovius and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne
Publisher : Ayer Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780405062988
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)
Download or read book Empire of the World written by Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne and published by Ayer Publishing. This book was released on 1975 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
