Author: Glen Warren BowersockPublisher: UPNE
ISBN: 161168322X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Political and military developments in the Arabian Peninsula on the eve of Islam
Empires in Collision in Late Antiquity
Author: Glen Warren BowersockPublisher: UPNE
ISBN: 161168322X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Political and military developments in the Arabian Peninsula on the eve of Islam
Empires and Exchanges in Eurasian Late Antiquity
Author: Nicola Di CosmoPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108548105
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Empires and Exchanges in Eurasian Late Antiquity offers an integrated picture of Rome, China, Iran, and the Steppes during a formative period of world history. In the half millennium between 250 and 750 CE, settled empires underwent deep structural changes, while various nomadic peoples of the steppes (Huns, Avars, Turks, and others) experienced significant interactions and movements that changed their societies, cultures, and economies. This was a transformational era, a time when Roman, Persian, and Chinese monarchs were mutually aware of court practices, and when Christians and Buddhists criss-crossed the Eurasian lands together with merchants and armies. It was a time of greater circulation of ideas as well as material goods. This volume provides a conceptual frame for locating these developments in the same space and time. Without arguing for uniformity, it illuminates the interconnections and networks that tied countless local cultural expressions to far-reaching inter-regional ones.
Empire to Commonwealth
Author: Garth FowdenPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 140084424X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
In this bold approach to late antiquity, Garth Fowden shows how, from the second-century peak of Rome's prosperity to the ninth-century onset of the Islamic Empire's decline, powerful beliefs in One God were used to justify and strengthen "world empires." But tensions between orthodoxy and heresy that were inherent in monotheism broke the unitary empires of Byzantium and Baghdad into the looser, more pluralistic commonwealths of Eastern Christendom and Islam. With rare breadth of vision, Fowden traces this transition from empire to commonwealth, and in the process exposes the sources of major cultural contours that still play a determining role in Europe and southwest Asia.
East and West in Late Antiquity
Author: J.H.W.F. LiebeschuetzPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004289526
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 507
Book Description
East and West in Late Antiquity combines published and unpublished articles by emeritus professor Wolf Liebeschuetz. Among the topics discussed are defensive strategies, the settlement inside the Empire of invaders and immigrants, and the modification of identities with the formation of new communities.
War in Late Antiquity
Author: A. D. LeePublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0470766239
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
The first book to focus on the social impact of warfare and theRoman army in Late Antiquity. Explores the implications of war and the army in a broad rangeof areas encompassing politics, the economy, and social life Pays particular attention to the experience of war from theperspective of non-combatants Investigates the religious dimension of military life and therole of the army in implementing religious policy Approaches familiar subjects from new perspectives, offeringnovel insights into the many facets of late Roman history
The Throne of Adulis
Author: G.W. BowersockPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199739323
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Leading historian G.W. Bowersock provides a narrative account of a fascinating but overlooked chapter in pre-Islamic Arabian history — the holy war between Christian Ethiopians and Jewish Arabs in the sixth century AD.
Rome and Persia in Late Antiquity
Author: Beate DignasPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 052184925X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
A narrative history, with sourcebook, of the turbulent relations between Rome and the Sasanian Empire.
Ancient Empires
Author: Eric H. ClinePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521717809
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Ancient Empires is a relatively brief yet comprehensive and even-handed overview of the ancient Near East, the Mediterranean, and Europe, including the Greco-Roman world, Late Antiquity, and the early Muslim period. Taking a focused and thematic approach, it aims to provoke a discussion of an explicit set of themes supplemented by the reading of ancient sources. By focusing on empires and imperialism as well as modes of response and resistance, it is relevant to current discussions about order, justice, and freedom. The book concludes that some of the ancient world's most enduring ideas, value systems, and institutions were formulated by peoples who were resisting the great empires. It analyzes the central, if problematic, connection between political and ideological power in both empire formation and resistance. The intricate interrelations among ideological, economic, military, and political power are explored for every empire and resisting group.
Empires of Ancient Eurasia
Author: Craig BenjaminPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107114969
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
Introduces a crucial period of world history when the vast exchange network of the Silk Roads connected most of Eurasia.
Empires
Author: Herfried MünklerPublisher: Polity
ISBN: 0745638716
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
This overview of Empire is from an eminent German scholar working in the field of imperialism. It also discusses the critical debates surrounding Empire by scholars such as Negri, Mann and Ingatieff.