The Christians as the Romans Saw Them

8 best books like The Christians as the Romans Saw Them (Robert L. Wilken): Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas, The Inverted World, Hellboy, Vol. 3: The Chained Coffin and Others, The Early Church, Jonathan Wild, The World of Late Antiquity 150-750, Empires and Barbarians: The Fall of Rome and the Birth of Europe, The Politics of Obedience: The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude

Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas

Author	Machado de Assis
ISBN	0850515025

a sick chicken and the voluptuousness of misery

we read an author and wonder 'how is it possible that this genius is not known?'... yes, only a species as cretinous as ours could ignore machado. along with carpentier and mutis, he takes the top 'what the fuck' spot.

here are three reasons...

The Inverted World

Author	Christopher Priest
ISBN	0060134216

The city is winched along tracks through a devastated land full of hostile tribes. Rails must be freshly laid ahead of the city & carefully removed in its wake. Rivers & mountains present nearly insurmountable challenges to the ingenuity of the city's engineers. But if the city does not move,...

Hellboy, Vol. 3: The Chained Coffin and Others

Author	Mike Mignola
ISBN	1593070918

The heat is on!!!


This third TPB edition features “Hellboy” #5-6, 12-14, along with a pin-up gallery.


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The Early Church

Author

Henry Chadwick

This is the first volume of the penguin history of the church and not the beginning of a history of Christianity.

Implicit in this book is the idea that orthodoxy has always existed. This is a problem and a grave weakness. In the absence of a creed, a canon of agreed genuine holy books there is only...

Jonathan Wild

Author	Henry Fielding
ISBN	0192804081

The real-life Jonathan Wild, gangland godfather and self-styled "Thieftaker General," controlled much of the London underworld until he was executed for his crimes in 1725. Even during his lifetime his achievements attracted attention; after his death balladeers sang of his exploits, and satirists...

The World of Late Antiquity 150-750

Author	Peter R.L. Brown
ISBN	0393958035

This remarkable study in social and cultural change explains how and why the Late Antique world, between c. 150 and c. 750, came to differ from "Classical civilization."

These centuries, as the author demonstrates, were the era in which the most deeply rooted of ancient institutions disappeared...

Empires and Barbarians: The Fall of Rome and the Birth of Europe

Author	Peter Heather
ISBN	0199752729

Here is a fresh, provocative look at how a recognizable Europe came into being in the first millennium AD. With sharp analytic insight, Peter Heather explores the dynamics of migration and social and economic interaction that changed two vastly different worlds—the undeveloped barbarian world...

The Politics of Obedience: The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude

Author	Étienne de La Boétie
ISBN	1551640880

Proust takes me many time but I try to read other books. I wanted to re reread Montaigne but I begin by it. Short text but genius.

"À vrai dire, il est bien inutile de se demander si la liberté est naturelle, puisqu’on ne peut tenir aucun être en servitude sans lui faire tort : il n’y a rien au...