Stilicho

Author : Ian Hughes
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1848849109
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stilicho written by Ian Hughes and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2010-06-19 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A military history of the campaigns of Stilicho, the army general who became one of the most powerful men in the Western Roman Empire. Flavius Stilicho lived in one of the most turbulent periods in European history. The Western Empire was finally giving way under pressure from external threats, especially from Germanic tribes crossing the Rhine and Danube, as well as from seemingly ever-present internal revolts and rebellions. Ian Hughes explains how a Vandal (actually, Stilicho had a Vandal father and Roman mother) came to be given almost total control of the Western Empire and describes his attempts to save both the Western Empire and Rome itself from the attacks of Alaric the Goth and other barbarian invaders. Stilicho is one of the major figures in the history of the Late Roman Empire, and his actions following the death of the emperor Theodosius the Great in 395 may have helped to divide the Western and Eastern halves of the Roman Empire on a permanent basis. Yet he is also the individual who helped maintain the integrity of the West before the rebellion of Constantine III in Britain, and the crossing of the Rhine by a major force of Vandals, Sueves, and Alans—both in A.D. 406—set the scene for both his downfall and execution in 408, and the later disintegration of the West. Despite his role in this fascinating and crucial period of history, there is no other full-length biography of him in print.

Author : Robin George Collingwood
Publisher : Biblo & Tannen Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780819611604
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Roman Britain and the English Settlements written by Robin George Collingwood and published by Biblo & Tannen Publishers. This book was released on 1936 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of English history from the Roman to Anglo Saxon period.

Author : Charles Knight
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The English Cyclopædia written by Charles Knight and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles William Previté-Orton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 926 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Medieval History written by Charles William Previté-Orton and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 926 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Thomas Fletcher
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Death of Stilicho written by David Thomas Fletcher and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Rieuwerd Buitenwerf
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004128613
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Book Three of the Sibylline Oracles and Its Social Setting written by Rieuwerd Buitenwerf and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains a detailed study of the third Sibylline book. This Jewish work was written sometime between 80 and 40 BCE in Asia Minor. It provides valuable information on the position and self-image of Jews in a non-Jewish, Graeco-Roman environment.

Author : Martha Malamud
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317296648
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rutilius Namatianus' Going Home written by Martha Malamud and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-14 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Martha Malamud provides the only scholarly English translation of De Reditu Suo with significant notes and commentary that explore historical, literary, cultural, and mythical references, as well as commenting on literary allusions, the structure, diction, and style of the poem, and textual issues. De Reditu Suo provides fascinating insights into travel and communications networks in the rapidly changing, fragmented world of the fifth century. A substantial introductory essay explores Rutilius’ place in several intellectual and literary traditions, as the poem is a sophisticated piece of literature that both draws on the rich tradition of classical Latin poetry and reflects the distinctive formal features of late antique poetry. The poem also conveys the thoughts of a man passionately devoted to Rome and its cultural heritage, enmeshed in the tumultuous political and social upheaval of his day, caught between his hopes for Rome’s restoration and his fear of its disintegration. With line-for-line translation from the Latin and a scholarly introduction, extensive notes, and comprehensive bibliography, Martha Malamud makes this important text accessible and relevant for students and scholars in Classics, Comparative Literature, Religious Studies, Medieval Studies, and Ancient History, as well as independent readers with an interest in the literature of the period.

Author : Michael Frassetto
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 613 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Early Medieval World [2 volumes] written by Michael Frassetto and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-03-14 with total page 613 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines a pivotal period in ancient human history: the fall of the Roman Empire and the birth of a new European civilization in the early Middle Ages. The Early Medieval World: From the Fall of Rome to the Time of Charlemagne addresses the social and material culture of this critical period in the evolution of Western society, covering the social, political, cultural, and religious history of the Mediterranean world and northern Europe. The two-volume set explains how invading and migrating barbarian tribes—spurred by raiding Huns from the steppes of Central Asia—contributed to the fall of the Western Roman Empire, and documents how the blending of Greco-Roman, Germanic, and Christian cultures birthed a new civilization in Western Europe, creating the Christian Church and the modern nation-state. A-Z entries discuss political transformation, changing religious practices in daily life, sculpture and the arts, material culture, and social structure, and provide biographies of important men and women in the transitional period of late antiquity. The work will be extremely helpful to students learning about the factors that contributed to the decline of the Roman Empire—an important and common topic in world history curricula.

Author : Edward Gibbon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 632 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire written by Edward Gibbon and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Meaghan A. McEvoy
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 019164210X
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Child Emperor Rule in the Late Roman West, AD 367-455 written by Meaghan A. McEvoy and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, McEvoy explodes the myth that the remarkable phenomenon of the late Roman child-emperor reflected mere dynastic sentiment or historical accident. Tracing the course of the frequently tumultuous, but nevertheless lengthy, reigns of young western emperors in the years AD 367-455, she looks at the way in which the sophistication of the Roman system made their accessions and survival possible. The book highlights how these reigns allowed for individual generals to dominate the Roman state and in what manner the crucial role of Christianity, together with the vested interests of various factions within the imperial elite, contributed to a transformation of the imperial image - enabling and facilitating the adaptation of existing imperial ideology to portray boys as young as six as viable rulers. It also analyses the struggles which ensued upon a child-emperor reaching adulthood and seeking to take up functions which had long been delegated during his childhood. Through the phenomenon of child-emperor rule, McEvoy demonstrates the major changes taking place in the nature of the imperial office in late antiquity, which had significant long-term impacts upon the way the Roman state came to be ruled and, in turn, the nature of rulership in the early medieval and Byzantine worlds to follow.