A Chronicle Of The Roman Twilight

Author : John Ranger
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 819 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781532045189

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A Chronicle of the Roman Twilight by John Ranger Pdf

The story begins in A.D. 364 when the author of this memoir, Marcus Cedranus, is born into a middle class landowners family in western Britain. While his material prospects are promising, his deteriorating relationship with his parents causes him to leave home for the continent. In Gaul he becomes a teamster for a freight hauling company, meets an older woman who will eventually play a major role in his life and is drafted into the Roman army in 382. He is assigned to Legion XXII in Mainz and in 383 is temporarily transferred to Belgrade on the Danube. A revolt in the west makes this transfer permanent. He participates in several military campaigns and takes part in a triumph in Constantinople in 386. In 388 his regiment takes part in the eastern offensive against the revolt in the west that has by now spread to Italy. With the revolt suppressed, he is assigned to a new imperial guard regiment for the restored western emperor, Valentinian II. During another transfer to the east Marcus suffers a terrible personal tragedy from which it is impossible to recover. Another civil war breaks out in the west and is suppressed with terrible casualties. Marcus is appointed tribune and made a member of the personal staff of Stilicho, the new generalissimo of the west. Further military adventures take place in Greece, Britain and Italy. A massive barbarian invasion of the west on December 31, 406 triggers political instability leading to revolts in both Britain and Italy. This inevitably leads to the sack of Rome by Alaric and his Visigoths in 410.

Author : Justice Faith L. (author)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1901
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1370214715

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Twilight Empress by Justice Faith L. (author) Pdf

Author : Ian James Ross
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1468316230

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Battle For Rome by Ian James Ross Pdf

In the thrilling third installment of the "hugely enjoyable" (Conn Iggulden) Twilight of Empire series, the Roman Empire is on the brink of civil war.

Author : Martijn Nicasie
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2023-01-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004525801

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Twilight of Empire by Martijn Nicasie Pdf

Nicasie, Martijn Twilight of Empire. The Roman Army from the Reign of Diocletian until the Battle of Adrianople. 1998 This book discusses the development of the Roman army during the fourth century. The author argues that the Roman army of the fourth century was by no means inferior to its early Imperial counterpart, and in some ways even much superior. Drawing on a wide variety of sources, the book discusses the development of the Roman army in the period immediately preceding the reign of Diocletian, the massive reorganization of the army in the fourth century under Diocletian and Constantine, recruitment and barbariza tion, and the Grand Strategy of the Empire in the fourth century. The final chapter is devoted to an analysis of battlefield tactics and of two important fourth-century battles, the Battle of Strasbourg in 357 and the Battle of Adrianople in 378. DMAHA 19 (1998), 330 p. Cloth. - 66.00 EURO, ISBN: 9050634486

Author : R.W. Burgess
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2023-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000942125

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Chronicles, Consuls, and Coins: Historiography and History in the Later Roman Empire by R.W. Burgess Pdf

The papers collected in this volume focus on the sources for reconstructing the history of the third to fifth centuries AD. The first section, 'Historiography', looks at a small group of chronicles and breviaria whose texts are fundamental for our reconstruction of the history of the third and fourth centuries, some well known, others much less so: Eusebius of Caesarea, Jerome, the lost Kaisergeschichte, and Eutropius. In this section the goal in each case is a specific attempt to come to a better understanding of the structure, composition, date, or author of these historical texts. The second section, 'History', presents a group of historical studies, ranging in time from the death of Constantine in 337 to the vicennalia of Anastasius in 511. In these papers the keys to the conclusions offered arise from a better understanding of the literary sources - particularly chronicles and consularia -, an understanding of the evolution of historical accounts over time, or the employment of sources that are either new or unusual in these particular contexts: consular fasti, coins, papyri, and itineraries.

Author : Ian James Ross
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781468312270

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War at the Edge of the World by Ian James Ross Pdf

A Roman centurion sent to the empire’s distant northern edge encounters treachery beyond Hadrian’s Wall in this historical epic series debut. Roman Britain, Fourth Century AD. Once a soldier in an elite legion from the Danube, newly promoted centurion Aurelius Castus now finds himself stuck in the provincial backwater of Britannia. Just beyond Hadrian’s Wall are a savage people allied with Rome known as the Picts. When their king dies under mysterious circumstances, an envoy must be sent to negotiate with their new leader. And Castus is selected to command the envoy’s bodyguard. What starts as a simple diplomatic mission ends in bloody tragedy. As Castus and his men fight for their lives, the legionnaire discovers that nothing about his doomed mission was ever what it seemed. The first book in Ian James Ross’s Twilight of Empire series, War at the Edge of the World is an exciting debut from an author as gifted at telling a story as he is at bringing the Late Roman Empire to life.

Author : Paul A. Cantor
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226462516

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Shakespeare's Roman Trilogy by Paul A. Cantor Pdf

Paul A. Cantor first probed Shakespeare’s Roman plays—Coriolanus, Julius Caeser, and Antony and Cleopatra—in his landmark Shakespeare’s Rome (1976). With Shakespeare’s Roman Trilogy, he now argues that these plays form an integrated trilogy that portrays the tragedy not simply of their protagonists but of an entire political community. Cantor analyzes the way Shakespeare chronicles the rise and fall of the Roman Republic and the emergence of the Roman Empire. The transformation of the ancient city into a cosmopolitan empire marks the end of the era of civic virtue in antiquity, but it also opens up new spiritual possibilities that Shakespeare correlates with the rise of Christianity and thus the first stirrings of the medieval and the modern worlds. More broadly, Cantor places Shakespeare’s plays in a long tradition of philosophical speculation about Rome, with special emphasis on Machiavelli and Nietzsche, two thinkers who provide important clues on how to read Shakespeare’s works. In a pathbreaking chapter, he undertakes the first systematic comparison of Shakespeare and Nietzsche on Rome, exploring their central point of contention: Did Christianity corrupt the Roman Empire or was the corruption of the Empire the precondition of the rise of Christianity? Bringing Shakespeare into dialogue with other major thinkers about Rome, Shakespeare’s Roman Trilogy reveals the true profundity of the Roman Plays.

Author : Paul Harvey
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1441421785

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Twilight of Rome by Paul Harvey Pdf

A civilisation confronted by forces it cannot control. Could the Roman empire, built over a thousand years, be swept from history?..... It was unthinkable, yet its greatest challenge was about to begin. This is a story from the twilight years of Imperial rule. The future of the Mediterranean world would be settled. Who would be victorious? Who would survive? A young Gothic warrior, a Roman noblewoman and her Legionary Commander brother are thrown together, by the storm of events that threatens everything they held dear. The first book of the twilight of Rome trilogy offers a glimpse of those desperate times. When the old certainties were lost, a new era dawned and the struggle to survive, would be too much for some.

Author : Dawson William Turner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1861
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044080867989

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Heads of an Analysis of Roman History by Dawson William Turner Pdf

Author : Francis Young
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781316512401

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Magic in Merlin's Realm by Francis Young Pdf

Boldly argues that magic has throughout the history of Britain been at times as culturally and politically significant as religion.

Author : Paul A. Cantor
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-06-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226462653

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Shakespeare's Roman Trilogy by Paul A. Cantor Pdf

Paul A. Cantor first probed Shakespeare’s Roman plays—Coriolanus, Julius Caeser, and Antony and Cleopatra—in his landmark Shakespeare’s Rome (1976). With Shakespeare’s Roman Trilogy, he now argues that these plays form an integrated trilogy that portrays the tragedy not simply of their protagonists but of an entire political community. Cantor analyzes the way Shakespeare chronicles the rise and fall of the Roman Republic and the emergence of the Roman Empire. The transformation of the ancient city into a cosmopolitan empire marks the end of the era of civic virtue in antiquity, but it also opens up new spiritual possibilities that Shakespeare correlates with the rise of Christianity and thus the first stirrings of the medieval and the modern worlds. More broadly, Cantor places Shakespeare’s plays in a long tradition of philosophical speculation about Rome, with special emphasis on Machiavelli and Nietzsche, two thinkers who provide important clues on how to read Shakespeare’s works. In a pathbreaking chapter, he undertakes the first systematic comparison of Shakespeare and Nietzsche on Rome, exploring their central point of contention: Did Christianity corrupt the Roman Empire or was the corruption of the Empire the precondition of the rise of Christianity? Bringing Shakespeare into dialogue with other major thinkers about Rome, Shakespeare’s Roman Trilogy reveals the true profundity of the Roman Plays.

Author : Thomas S. Burns,Thomas Samuel Burns
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 0253312884

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Barbarians Within the Gates of Rome by Thomas S. Burns,Thomas Samuel Burns Pdf

Barbarians serving in the Roman army, like all other Roman soldiers, faced difficult choices as political events buffeted their leaders and threatened their livelihoods. Honorius, Stilicho, Alaric, Galla Placidia, Constantius III and usurpers like Constantine III and Attalus left their imprints upon these years - coloring the fabric of political and spiritual life as much as they affected military affairs.

Author : Tom Holland
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307427519

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Rubicon by Tom Holland Pdf

A vivid historical account of the social world of Rome as it moved from republic to empire. In 49 B.C., the seven hundred fifth year since the founding of Rome, Julius Caesar crossed a small border river called the Rubicon and plunged Rome into cataclysmic civil war. Tom Holland’s enthralling account tells the story of Caesar’s generation, witness to the twilight of the Republic and its bloody transformation into an empire. From Cicero, Spartacus, and Brutus, to Cleopatra, Virgil, and Augustus, here are some of the most legendary figures in history brought thrillingly to life. Combining verve and freshness with scrupulous scholarship, Rubicon is not only an engrossing history of this pivotal era but a uniquely resonant portrait of a great civilization in all its extremes of self-sacrifice and rivalry, decadence and catastrophe, intrigue, war, and world-shaking ambition.

Author : Christopher A. Snyder
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0271043628

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Age of Tyrants by Christopher A. Snyder Pdf

By the waning of Roman rule, Britain was called a "province fertile with tyrants". Christopher Snyder's history of Britain during the two centuries after Rome's withdrawal reveals a hybrid society of Celtic, Roman, and Christian elements and documents the transition from magisterial to monarchical power. An appendix explores the Arthur and Merlin myths. 30 illustrations.

Author : E. A. Thompson
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0299087042

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Romans and Barbarians by E. A. Thompson Pdf

This collection of twelve essays examines the fall of the Roman Empire in the West from the barbarian perspective and experience.