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Cargando... The Roman Empire Divided: 400 - 700por John Moorhead
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Definitely geared to the college textbook survey, Moorhead is a strict "gradualist", viz. he holds that the end of Antiquity was a gradual not necessarily tramatic process. See Peter Brown and Henri Pirenne for this concept. Overall, not bad: he takes account of some archaeological evidence, which is sorely needed in histories of this period and takes a region by region approach in his chapters. The writing is not great and sentences like this can use some help: "Such events were a reminder that the surviving Empire hovered like a gigantic cloud to the east of the first post-Roman states around the western shores of the Mediterranean, and there were voices encouraging any imperial ambitions to recover lost ground." There are better books but the 2001 publishing date definitely takes account of later research. Worth a look. ( ) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
In 400 the mighty Roman Empire was almost as large as it had ever been; within three centuries, advances by Germanic peoples in western Europe, Slavs in eastern Europe and Arabs around the eastern and southern shores of the Mediterranean had brought about the loss of most of its territory. Ranging from Britain to Mesopotamia, this book explores the changes that resulted from these movements. nbsp;It shows the different paths away from the classical past that were taken, and how the relatively unified civilization of the ancient Mediterranean gave place to the very different civilizations that cluster around the sea today.nbsp; This comprehensive and authoritative second edition has been thoroughly revised and updated line-by-line, and contains several new sections dealing for instance with the new evidence provided by recent finds like the Staffordshire Treasure and the widespread effects ofnbsp; the plague. As well as a completely new bibliographical essay, The Roman Empire Divided now also includes six maps and an expanded selection of illustrations fully integrated in the text. nbsp; No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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