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The Fall of the Roman Empireby Peter Heather
Oxford University Press, USA 2005; US$ 17.95The 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 Roman Empire and on the barbarians. In The Fall of the Roman Empire, he explores the extraordinary success story that was the Roman Empire and uses a new understanding of its continued strength and enduring limitations to show how Europe's barbarians, transformed by centuries of contact with Rome on every possible level, eventually pulled it apart.... more...
Byzantine Empressesby Lynda Garland
Routledge 1998; US$ 44.95Byzantine Empresses provides a series of biographical portraits of the most significant Byzantine women who ruled or shared the throne between 527 and 1204. more...
Earliest English Kingsby D.P. Kirby
Routledge 2000; US$ 37.95A fascinating survey of Anglo-Saxon history from the sixth century to the eighth century and the death of King Alfred. This book reveals the complex, distant and tumultuous events of Anglo-Saxon politics. more...
Mediterranean World in Late Antiquityby Averil Cameron
Routledge 1993; US$ 39.95This book provides both a detailed introduction to the vivid and exciting period of `late antiquity' and a direct challenge to conventional views of the end of the Empire. more...
City in Late Antiquityby John Rich
Routledge 1996; US$ 41.95Examines the changes undergone by Roman cities in the Late Roman empire and seeks to explain why urban life disappeared in some regions, while elsewhere cities survived through to the Middle Ages and beyond. more...
Aurelian and the Third Centuryby Alaric Watson
Routledge 1999; US$ 39.95Aurelian and the Third Century provides a re-evaluation in the light of recent scholarship of the difficulties facing the Roman empire in the AD 260s and 270s, concentrating upon the reign of emperor Aurelian and his part in surmounting them. more...
From Constantine to Julianby Samuel Lieu; Dominic Montserrat
Routledge 1996; US$ 44.95Provides students with important source material covering an age of major transition in Europe - the establishment of Rome as a Christian empire. Most of the material was previously unavailable in English. more...
Historians of Late Antiquityby David Rohrbacher
Routledge 2002; US$ 35.95The fourth and fifth centuries AD were an era of religious conflict and political change. This volume offers an accessible survey of the varied lives and works of the contemporary historians whose responses reflected these turbulent times. more...
Warfare, State And Society In The Byzantine World 560-1204by Manjiri Prabhu
Routledge 1999; US$ 41.95This work examines the nature of Byzantine warfare and its relationship with society at large. more...
Break-Out from the Crystal Palaceby John Carroll
Routledge 2009; US$ 130.00Before Marcuse and Laing, before Heidegger and Sartre, even before Freud, the way was prepared for the anarcho-psychological critique of economic man, of all codes of ideology or absolute morality, and of scientific habits of mind. First published in 1974, this title traces this philosophical tradition to its roots in the nineteenth century, to the figures of Stirner, Nietzsche and Dostoevsky, and to their psychological demolition of the two alternative axes of social theory and practice, a critique which today reads more pertinently than ever, and remains unanswered. To understand this critique is crucial for an age which has shown a mounting revulsion at the consequences of the Crystal Palace, symbol at once of technologico-industrial... more...









