The Roman World From Romulus To Muhammad

Author : Greg Fisher
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 760 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08
Category : Egypt
ISBN : 0415842875

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This volume provides a detailed examination of nearly 1,400 years of Roman history, from the foundation of the city in the eighth century BC until the evacuation of Roman troops from Alexandria in AD 642 in the face of the Arab conquests. Drawing on a vast array of ancient texts written in Latin, Greek, Syriac, Armenian, and Arabic, and relying on a host of inscriptions, archaeological data, and the evidence from ancient art, architecture, and coinage, The Roman World from Romulus to Muhammad brings to the fore the men and women who chronicled the story of the city and its empire. Richly illustrated with 71 maps and 228 illustrations--including 20 in colour--and featuring a detailed glossary and suggestions for further reading, this volume examines a vast array of topics including ancient climate change, literature, historiography, slavery, war and conquest, the development of Christianity, the Jewish revolts, and the role of powerful imperial women. The author also considers the development of Islam within a Roman historical context, examines the events that led to the formation of the post-Roman states in western Europe, and contemplates affairs on the imperial periphery in the Caucasus, Ethiopia, and the Arabian Peninsula. Emphasising the voices of antiquity throughout, The Roman World from Romulus to Muhammad is an invaluable resource for students and scholars interested in the beguiling history of the world's most famous empire.

Author : Greg Fisher
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 801 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000432695

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This volume provides a detailed examination of nearly 1,400 years of Roman history, from the foundation of the city in the eighth century BC until the evacuation of Roman troops from Alexandria in AD 642 in the face of the Arab conquests. Drawing on a vast array of ancient texts written in Latin, Greek, Syriac, Armenian, and Arabic, and relying on a host of inscriptions, archaeological data, and the evidence from ancient art, architecture, and coinage, The Roman World from Romulus to Muhammad brings to the fore the men and women who chronicled the story of the city and its empire. Richly illustrated with 71 maps and 228 illustrations—including 20 in colour—and featuring a detailed glossary and suggestions for further reading, this volume examines a broad range of topics, including ancient climate change, literature, historiography, slavery, war and conquest, the development of Christianity, the Jewish revolts, and the role of powerful imperial women. The author also considers the development of Islam within a Roman historical context, examines the events that led to the formation of the post-Roman states in Western Europe, and contemplates aff airs on the imperial periphery in the Caucasus, Ethiopia, and the Arabian Peninsula. Emphasising the voices of antiquity throughout, The Roman World from Romulus to Muhammad is an invaluable resource for students and scholars interested in the beguiling history of the world’s most famous empire.

Author : Michael Gehler,Robert Rollinger,Philipp Strobl
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 737 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2022-11-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9783658368760

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The End of Empires by Michael Gehler,Robert Rollinger,Philipp Strobl Pdf

The articles of this comprehensive edited volume offer a multidisciplinary, global and comparative approach to the history of empires. They analyze their ends over a long spectrum of humankind’s history, ranging from Ancient History through Modern Times. As the main guiding question, every author of this volume scrutinizes the reasons for the decline, the erosion, and the implosion of individual empires. All contributions locate and highlight different factors that triggered or at least supported the ending or the implosion of empires. This overall question makes all the contributions to this volume comparable and allows to detect similarities, differences as well as inconsistencies of historical processes.

Author : Adrian Murdoch
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2006-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780752496085

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The Last Roman by Adrian Murdoch Pdf

The Last Roman is the only biography about Romulus Augustulus. It focuses on the personalities behind this powerful story and reveals the world into which Romulus was born - an empire that was about to die. Author Adrian Murdoch explores how Romulus's father Orestes, secretary to Attila the Hun, rose through the ranks to become kingmaker; how all was lost to another usurper in an Italy wracked with civil war; and how Romulus found peace at last, founding a monastery. This dramatic and poignant story of politics, decline and loss has inspired. Drawing on extensive new archaeological and historical research and using numerous contemporary sources, many translated for the first time since the nineteenth century, The Last Roman is the vivid story of an empire breathing its last.

Author : Thomas R. Martin
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300160048

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Ancient Rome by Thomas R. Martin Pdf

Presents a history of the ancient Roman civilization, with a focus on the values that propelled its rise and fall.

Author : Captivating History
Publisher : Captivating History
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1647489938

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History of Rome by Captivating History Pdf

Rome started as a kingdom, thrived as a republic, conquered vast territories when it was an empire, and became the Holy City during the Middle Ages.

Author : Lynda J. Spini
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2009-05
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781440130335

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One Infinity; a Visible Universe of Invisible Energy by Lynda J. Spini Pdf

In the movie Don Juan DeMarco, Johnny Depp's character is in a psychiatric hospital receiving treatment because he believes he is Don Juan, a.k.a. "The Greatest Lover the World has Ever Known." In one of the scenes Don Juan says to his Doctor, "There are only Four Questions of Value in Life: What is sacred? Of what is the Spirit made? What is worth living for? And what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same: Only Love." Since September 11, 2001 many of us have been searching for the ultimate meaning of our lives, where three additional questions have been consuming our thoughts: Where did I come from? Why am I here? And what will become of me when this life is over? The answer to each is the same: Only Love. This book is a love story in a very non-traditional sense. It's a love story to remind us who we are, and what our minds are capable of when we remove our egos and fill the void with thoughts of kindness and love. It's love story to get us thinking about you, and me, and the Eternity we will spend together as One. Even though there are many questions to consider as we embark upon this journey together as One, the answer to each is the same: Only Love.

Author : Henri Pirenne
Publisher : ACLS History E-Book Project
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2008-11
Category : History
ISBN : 159740487X

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Mohammed and Charlemagne by Henri Pirenne Pdf

Remarkable classic that developed the revolutionary theory of how the advance and influence of Islam caused the Europe of the Roman Empire to evolve into the Europe of the Middle Ages. An important...seminal book, worthy to close one of the most distinguished careers in European scholarship. -- Saturday Review of Literature,

Author : Greg Fisher
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000740905

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Rome, Persia, and Arabia by Greg Fisher Pdf

Rome, Persia, and Arabia traces the enormous impact that the Great Powers of antiquity exerted on Arabia and the Arabs, between the arrival of Roman forces in the Middle East in 63 BC and the death of the Prophet Muhammad in AD 632. Richly illustrated and covering a vast area from the fertile lands of South Arabia to the bleak deserts of Iraq and Syria, this book provides a detailed and captivating narrative of the way that the empires of antiquity affected the politics, culture, and religion of the Arabs. It examines Rome’s first tentative contacts in the Syrian steppe and the controversial mission of Aelius Gallus to Yemen, and takes in the city states, kingdoms, and tribes caught up in the struggle for supremacy between Rome and Persia, including the city state of Hatra, one of the many archaeological sites in the Middle East that have suffered deliberate vandalism at the hands of the ‘Islamic State’. The development of an Arab Christianity spanning the Middle East, the emergence of Arab fiefdoms at the edges of imperial power, and the crucial appearance of strong Arab leadership in the century before Islam provide a clear picture of the importance of pre-Islamic Arabia and the Arabs to understanding world and regional history. Rome, Persia, and Arabia includes discussions of heritage destruction in the Middle East, the emergence of Islam, and modern research into the anthropology of ancient tribal societies and their relationship with the states around them. This comprehensive and wide-ranging book delivers an authoritative chronicle of a crucial but little known era in world history, and is for any reader with an interest in the ancient Middle East, Arabia, and the Roman and Persian empires.

Author : Kelly Roscoe
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781680486254

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The Fall of the Roman World and the Rise of Christianity by Kelly Roscoe Pdf

Although once regarded as a time of uninterrupted ignorance, superstition, and social oppression, the Middle Ages are now understood as a dynamic period during which the idea of Europe as a distinct cultural unit emerged. This title dives into late antiquity and the early Middle Ages, a time when political, social, economic, and cultural structures were profoundly reorganized. As Roman imperial traditions gave way to those of the Germanic peoples who established kingdoms in the former Western Empire, new forms of political leadership were introduced, and the population of Europe was gradually Christianized.

Author : John Wacher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 872 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Rome
ISBN : 0415053218

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The Roman World by John Wacher Pdf

Author : Associate Professor in the College of the Humanities and Department of History Greg Fisher,Greg Fisher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-03
Category : Middle East
ISBN : 1482311453

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Rome and the Arabs Before the Rise of Islam by Associate Professor in the College of the Humanities and Department of History Greg Fisher,Greg Fisher Pdf

In this book, historian Dr. Greg Fisher discusses the relationship between the Roman Empire and its Arab allies in the fourth, fifth, and sixth centuries. He examines the political and military alliances between the two groups and the role of Christianity in creating shared allegiances and loyalty. He also analyses the role of language and culture in building 'identity' for the Arabs before the emergence of Islam. The book also considers the relationship between the Empire of Sasanian Iran and its own Arab allies at al-Hirah in Iraq, and the role played by the kingdoms of Himyar (Yemen), and Axum (Ethiopia), in the wider world of superpower competition in the dying days of Rome's Middle Eastern empire.

Author : Ori Z. Soltes
Publisher : Skyhorse
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781510717817

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Untangling the Middle East by Ori Z. Soltes Pdf

A lucid and engaging breakdown of the history, culture, and politics that define today’s Middle East. Untangling the Middle East is a layman’s guide to the history—political, religious, and cultural—that led us to the current challenges plaguing the Middle East. It covers the major interests and actors in the region, and helps to spin a narrative of the evolution of violence and conflict in this age-old hotbed of unrest. There are no easy answers or simple explanations to be found here, only a clear-eyed and engaging recounting of the many factors that have brought this region to where it is today. Whether he is discussing the history of the Semitic peoples or the birth of Islam in the region, Soltes brings insight and much needed context to the people, places, and things that make up the inheritance of today’s Middle East. He possesses the historian’s appreciation for detail and the teacher’s knack for fashioning coherence out of complex material. This book should be a go-to resource for a solid foundation in understanding the Middle East and a bulwark against the disinformation regarding this region that is often found on cable television or in speeches on the campaign trail. The Middle East may be a mess but it need not be a mystery, with the help of this indispensable guide.

Author : Sarah Ifft Decker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000586404

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Jewish Women in the Medieval World by Sarah Ifft Decker Pdf

Jewish Women in the Medieval World offers a thematic overview of the lived experiences of Jewish women in both Europe and the Middle East from 500 to 1500 CE, a group often ignored in general surveys on both medieval Jewish life and medieval women. The volume blends current scholarship with evidence drawn from primary sources, originally written in languages including Hebrew, Latin, Aramaic, and Judeo-Arabic, to introduce both the state of scholarship on women and gender in medieval Jewish communities, and the ways in which Jewish women experienced family, love, sex, work, faith, and crisis in the medieval past. From the well-known Dolce of Worms to the less famed Bonadona, widow of Astrug Caravida of Girona, to the many nameless women referred to in medieval texts, Jewish Women tells the stories of individual women alongside discussions of wider trends in different parts of the medieval world. Even through texts written about women by men, the intelligence, courage, and perseverance of medieval Jewish women become clear to modern readers. With the inclusion of a Chronology, Who’s Who, Documents section, and Glossary, this study is an essential resource for students and other readers interested in both Jewish history and women’s history.

Author : Henri Pirenne,Jacques Pirenne
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1939
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015004306141

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Mohammed and Charlemagne by Henri Pirenne,Jacques Pirenne Pdf

Remarkable classic that developed the revolutionary theory of how the advance and influence of Islam caused the Europe of the Roman Empire to evolve into the Europe of the Middle Ages. .,."an important...seminal book, worthy to close one of the most distinguished careers in European scholarship." -- "Saturday Review of Literature,"