The Later Roman Empire, 284-602
Author: Arnold Hugh Martin Jones
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 792
ISBN-13: 9780801833533
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The Later Roman Empire 284-602
Author: Arnold Hugh Martin Jones
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Published: 1986
Total Pages: 794
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKLand As an Economic Factor and Its Biblical Origins
Author: Kenneth Wenzer
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: 2003-11
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 0595299814
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOur homage to freedom is a mockery, for the blinding glare of riches and power have made of democracy an illusion. The consequence is life without social and economic justice and a false view-we are chained to monetary acquisitiveness, group identities, and other limited perspectives. Power and influence coupled with technology, bureaucracy, and greed have masked accumulated wisdom-the bedrock of individual integrity. Even social injustice masked as property rights takes on a look of integrity, liberty, and prosperity. At the root of our problems is the relation of man to the land and his mental and physical separation from it. The most endurable structure would be built upon the Fatherhood of God, which the ancient Hebrews perceived as requiring the sharing among the entire people of the divine gift of land. While land rent has been acknowledged to be socially created, a theft by private interests of natural resources that belong to mankind in common, is protected and exalted as the fruit of effort and a basis of personal rights. The First Definitive History of Land Economics stands in a tradition of social criticism that recognizes that land-rent income should be the tax base of the community and the means to eliminate poverty. The author hopes to do something towards overcoming a way of thinking that in the guise of defending property rights defends privilege in its robbery of Nature, labor, and life.
The Monks of the Nag Hammadi Codices
Author: Paula Tutty
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2024-10-02
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9004699082
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work tells the story of a community of fourth-century monks living in Egypt. The letters they wrote and received were found within the covers of works that changed our understanding of early religious thought - the Nag Hammadi Codices. This book seeks to contextualise the letters and answer questions about monastic life. Significantly, new evidence is presented that links the letters directly to the authors and creators of the codices in which they were discovered.
Documentary Culture and the Laity in the Early Middle Ages
Author: Warren Brown
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 407
ISBN-13: 110702529X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis revealing study explores how people at all social levels, whether laity or clergy, needed, used and kept documents.
Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing
Author: Kelly Boyd
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-10-09
Total Pages: 864
ISBN-13: 113678764X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing contains over 800 entries ranging from Lord Acton and Anna Comnena to Howard Zinn and from Herodotus to Simon Schama. Over 300 contributors from around the world have composed critical assessments of historians from the beginning of historical writing to the present day, including individuals from related disciplines like Jürgen Habermas and Clifford Geertz, whose theoretical contributions have informed historical debate. Additionally, the Encyclopedia includes some 200 essays treating the development of national, regional and topical historiographies, from the Ancient Near East to the history of sexuality. In addition to the Western tradition, it includes substantial assessments of African, Asian, and Latin American historians and debates on gender and subaltern studies.
The Romans and Their World
Author: Brian Campbell
Publisher: Yale.ORIM
Published: 2016-04-26
Total Pages: 444
ISBN-13: 0300220278
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA concise and accessible account of one of the largest, longest-lasting, and most influential empires in world history, ancient Rome. This one-volume history of the Roman world begins with the early years of the republic and carries the story nearly a thousand years forward to 476, when Romulus Augustus, the last Western Roman emperor, was deposed. Brian Campbell, respected scholar and teacher, presents a fascinating and wide-ranging introduction to Rome, drawing on an array of ancient sources and covering topics of interest to readers with little prior background in Roman history as well as those already familiar with the great civilization. Campbell explores several themes, including the fall of the republic, the impact of colorful and diverse emperors on imperial politics, the administrative structure of empire, and the Roman army and how warfare affected the Roman world. He also surveys cultural and social life, including religion and the rise of Christianity. Generously enhanced with maps and illustrations, this book is a rich and inspiring account of a mighty civilization and the citizens who made it so. “A lucid survey of Roman history.” —Adam Kirsch, New Yorker “One of the great joys of Campbell’s unfailingly readable account is the readiness with which it returns to the Roman record, drawing on ancient sources to give a lively and immediate feel for Roman life and culture.” —Michael Kerrigan, Scotsman “[Campbell] masterfully discusses military affairs (as expected from this scholar) . . . Excellent translations of ancient sources enliven the text. . . . Rare will be the scholar who also does not learn from Campbell.” —P.B. Harvey Jr., Choice
Two Romes
Author: Lucy Grig
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 482
ISBN-13: 019024108X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn integrated collection of essays by leading scholars, Two Romes explores the changing roles and perceptions of Rome and Constantinople in Late Antiquity. This important examination of the "two Romes" in comparative perspective illuminates our understanding not just of both cities but of the whole late Roman world.
Methods in the Mediterranean
Author: David Small
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2018-07-17
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9004329404
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection of essays treats the fundamental issue of the correlation of archaeology and texts in recreating the ancient Mediterranean world. Contributions from Classical and Near Eastern archaeologists and historians address specific points of correlation, and their potential for future productive research in the Mediterranean. After an introduction to the issue of texts and archaeology, the essays treat concepts such as: site as text, artifactual contingency of meaning, correlating survey with documents, contextual independence of evidence, textual bases for archaeological approaches, and correlating faunal evidence with texts. This book will be of important use to archaeologists and historians of the Mediterranean, and scholars of archaeological research in historical archaeology in general.
The Oxford Handbook of Papyrology
Author: Roger S. Bagnall
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
Published: 2009-07-27
Total Pages: 711
ISBN-13: 0195178386
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThousands of documentary and literary texts written on papyri and potsherds, in Egyptian, Greek, Latin, Aramaic, Hebrew, and Persian, have transformed our knowledge of many aspects of life in the ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern worlds. In The Oxford Handbook of Papyrology, twenty-seven experts provide a comprehensive and authoritative guide to understanding this ancient documentary evidence.
