History

ISBN: 9780415642330
Published by : Routledge Ltd
This collection of papers analyses the writings of Ammianus Marcellinus from a variety of perspective, including Ammianus as historian of, and participant in, Julian's Persian campaign, his identification with traditional religiou... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9789774165443
Published by : American Univ. in Cairo Press
This book examines the historic process traditionally referred to as the fall of Rome and rise of Islam from the perspective of the Red Sea, a strategic waterway linking the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean and a distinct region ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781107009455
Published by : Cambridge University Press
Nikephoros Bryennios' history of the Byzantine Empire in the 1070s is a story of civil war and aristocratic rebellion in the midst of the Turkish conquest of Anatolia. Commonly remembered as the passive and unambitious husband of ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780754665625
Published by : Ashgate Publishing Ltd
This volume explores the phenomenon of urban loss and abandonment from Roman to medieval times across the former Roman Empire. Through a series of case studies two main aspects are examined: firstly, the sequences and chronologies... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780812244458
Published by : Pennsylvania University Press
The literature of late ancient Christianity is rich both in saints who lead lives of almost Edenic health and in saints who court and endure horrifying diseases. In Thorns in the Flesh, Andrew Crislip draws on a wide range of text... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780415642293
Published by : Routledge Ltd
Grant asserts that it was a miracle that the third century Roman empire did not collapse, and expresses amazement at its continuing for another 200 years in the west, and for far longer in the east. The reasons for both collapse and recovery, ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780415642354
Published by : Routledge Ltd
Focusing on the period between the 1st century BC and the 6th century AD, Alston's detailed study draws on a wealth of papyrological and documentary evidence to look at the impact of Roman and then Christian influences on the architecture and ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781905125500
Published by : Classical Press of Wales
This volume offers the first comprehensive analysis in English of all the writings of Julian (r. AD 361-363), the last pagan emperor of Rome, noted for his frontal and self-conscious challenge to Christianity. The book also contains treatments ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780415645140
Published by : Routledge Ltd
For thirty years Charles Matson Odahl has traced Constantine's footsteps around Britain, continental Europe and the Middle East, in a quest to understand this most astute of emperors as well as his role in solving the troubles of the 3rd centur... .... Learn More