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“jill harries”

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  • Imperial Rome AD 284 to 363

    The New Empire

    by Jill Harries ...
    Series series The Edinburgh History of Ancient Rome

    $36.89 USD

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  • The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians

    A New History of Rome and the Barbarians

    by Peter Heather ...
    The death of the Roman Empire is one of the perennial mysteries of world history. Now, in this groundbreaking book, Peter Heather proposes a stunning new solution: Rome generated its own nemesis. Centuries of imperialism turned the neighbors it called barbarians into an enemy capable of dismantling the Empire that had dominated their lives for so long. Heather is a leading authority on the late ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • Stilicho

    The Vandal Who Saved Rome

    by Ian Hughes ...
    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 ... Read more

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  • If Rome Hadn't Fallen

    How the Survival of Rome Might Have Changed World History

    by Timothy Venning ...
    "Fascinating . . . if Rome had survived the in-fighting back at home in the fourth and fifth centuries, European and world history could be different today." —Dover ExpressThis is an intriguing exploration of how the history of Europe, and indeed the world, might have been different if the Western Roman Empire had survived the crises that pulled it apart in the 4th and 5th centuries.Dr. Timothy ... Read more

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  • Aetius

    Attila's Nemesis

    by Ian Hughes ...
    "The history of Aetius' life and his dealings with Attila . . . [and] of the (western) Roman Empire throughout the pivotal fifth century." — Ancient Warfare MagazineIn AD 453, Attila—with a huge force composed of Huns, allies, and vassals drawn from his already-vast empire—was rampaging westward across Gaul (essentially modern France), then still nominally part of the Western Roman Empire. Laying ... Read more

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  • Constantine the Emperor

    by David Potter ...
    No Roman emperor had a greater impact on the modern world than did Constantine. The reason is not simply that he converted to Christianity, but that he did so in a way that brought his subjects along after him. Indeed, this major new biography argues that Constantine's conversion is but one feature of a unique administrative style that enabled him to take control of an empire beset by internal ... Read more

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  • History of Holland

    by George Edmundson ...
    A comprehensive look at over half a millennia of Dutch history, including some of the Netherlands' most important kings, queens, politicians and wars. ... Read more

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  • The Later Roman Empire (Text Only)

    by Averil Cameron ...
    A comprehensive study – recently updated for the eBook edition – which introduces the reader to the vigour and variety of the fourth century AD.After being beset by invasion, civil war and internal difficulties for a century, the Roman Empire that Diocletian inherited in AD 284 desperately needed the organizational drive he brought to the task of putting its administration and defences on a newly ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Byzantium

    A History

    by John Haldon ...
    Originally the eastern half of the mighty Roman Empire, Byzantium grew to be one of the longest-surviving empires in world history, spanning nine centuries and three continents. It was a land of contrasts – from the glittering centre at Constantinople, to the rural majority, to the heartland of the Orthodox Church – and one surrounded by enemies: Persians, Arabs and Ottoman Turks to the east, ... Read more

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  • Constantine the Great General

    A Military Biography

    by Elizabeth James, Stephen English ...
    Constantine the Great is a titanic figure in Roman, and indeed world history. Most famed for making Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire (and thus ensuring its survival and spread), and for moving the seat of imperial rule to 'New Rome' (Constantinople), he is most often studied for his religious and political impact. But it is often forgotten that his power and success was made ... Read more

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  • Religion and the Rise of Western Culture

    The Classic Study of Medieval Civilization

    by Christopher Dawson ...
    In this new edition of his classic work, Religion and the Rise of Western Culture, Christopher Dawson addresses two of the most pressing subjects of our day: the origin of Europe and the religious roots of Western culture. With the magisterial sweep of Toynbee, to whom he is often compared, Dawson tells here the tale of medieval Christendom. From the brave travels of sixth-century Irish monks to ... Read more

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  • Medieval Cities

    Their Origins and the Revival of Trade - Updated Edition

    by Henri Pirenne ...
    Series series Princeton Classics
    Nearly a century after it was first published in 1925, Medieval Cities remains one of the most provocative works of medieval history ever written. Here, Henri Pirenne argues that it was not the invasion of the Germanic tribes that destroyed the civilization of antiquity, but rather the closing of Mediterranean trade by Arab conquest in the seventh century. The consequent interruption of long ... Read more

    $12.99 USD