Author: Edward Gibbon
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
ISBN: 9780146001710
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 96

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Author: Edward Gibbon
Publisher: Palala Press
ISBN: 9781347421888
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 498

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Author: Éamonn Ó Carragáin
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351902628
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 671

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After the Roman empire fell, medieval Europe continued to be fascinated by Rome itself, the 'chief of cities'. Once the hub of empire, in the early medieval period Rome became an important centre for western Christianity, first of all as the place where Peter, Paul and many other important early Christian saints were martyred: their deaths for the Christian faith gave the city the appellation 'Roma Felix', 'Happy Rome'. But in Rome the history of the faith, embodied in the shrines of the martyrs, coexisted with the living centre of the western Latin church. Because Peter had been recognised by Christ as chief among the apostles and was understood to have been the first bishop of Rome, his successors were acknowledged as patriarchs of the West and Rome became the focal point around which the western Latin church came to be organised. This book explores ways in which Rome itself was preserved, envisioned, and transformed by its residents, and also by the many pilgrims who flocked to the shrines of the martyrs. It considers how northern European cultures (in particular, the Irish and English) imagined and imitated the city as they understood it. The fourteen articles presented here range from the fourth to the twelfth century and span the fields of history, art history, urban topography, liturgical studies and numismatics. They provide an introduction to current thinking about the ways in which medieval people responded to the material remains of Rome's classical and early Christian past, and to the associations of centrality, spirituality, and authority which the city of Rome embodied for the earlier Middle Ages. Acknowledgements for grants in aid of publication are due to the Publication Fund of the College of Arts, Humanities, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences at University College Cork; to the Publication Fund of the National University of Ireland, Dublin; and to the Office of the Provost, Ohio Wesleyan University.

Author: Edward Wortley Montagu
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History, Ancient
Languages : en
Pages : 410

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Author: Baron Charles De Secondat Montesquieu, Bar
Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC
ISBN: 9781498156387
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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This Is A New Release Of The Original 1825 Edition.

Author: Edward J. Watts
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0465093825
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 355

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Learn why the Roman Republic collapsed -- and how it could have continued to thrive -- with this insightful history from an award-winning author. In Mortal Republic, prize-winning historian Edward J. Watts offers a new history of the fall of the Roman Republic that explains why Rome exchanged freedom for autocracy. For centuries, even as Rome grew into the Mediterranean's premier military and political power, its governing institutions, parliamentary rules, and political customs successfully fostered negotiation and compromise. By the 130s BC, however, Rome's leaders increasingly used these same tools to cynically pursue individual gain and obstruct their opponents. As the center decayed and dysfunction grew, arguments between politicians gave way to political violence in the streets. The stage was set for destructive civil wars -- and ultimately the imperial reign of Augustus. The death of Rome's Republic was not inevitable. In Mortal Republic, Watts shows it died because it was allowed to, from thousands of small wounds inflicted by Romans who assumed that it would last forever.

Author: Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 318

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Author: Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 404

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Author: Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 296

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Author: Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rome
Languages : en
Pages : 288

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