The World of Late Antiquity 150-750
10 best books like The World of Late Antiquity 150-750 (Peter R.L. Brown): The Secret History, The Fall of Rome and the End of Civilization, The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians, Empires and Barbarians: The Fall of Rome and the Birth of Europe, The Measure of Reality: Quantification in Western Europe, 1250-1600, The Making of the Middle Ages, Roman Art: Romulus to Constantine, History of the Ancient Near East, The First Crusade: A New History, The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Books III-IV
| Author | Procopius |
| ISBN | 0140441824 |
Having dutifully written the official war history of Justinian's reign, Procopius turned round and revealed in The Secret History the other faces of the leading men and women of Byzantium in the sixth century. Justinian, the great law-giver, appears as a hateful tyrant, wedded to an ex-prostitute,...
| Author | Bryan Ward-Perkins |
| ISBN | 0192807285 |
Was the fall of Rome a great catastrophe that cast the West into darkness for centuries to come? Or, as scholars argue today, was there no crisis at all, but simply a peaceful blending of barbarians into Roman culture, an essentially positive transformation?
In The Fall of Rome, eminent historian...
| Author | Peter Heather |
| ISBN | 0195325419 |
A leading authority on the late Roman Empire and on the barbarians, Heather relates the extraordinary story of how Europe's barbarians, transformed by centuries of contact with Rome on every possible level, eventually pulled the empire apart. He shows first how the Huns overtuned the existing strategic...
| 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...
| Author | Alfred W. Crosby |
| ISBN | 0521639905 |
The Measure of Reality discusses the epochal shift from qualitative to quantitative perception in Western Europe during the late Middle Ages and Renaissance. This shift made modern science, technology, business practice, and bureaucracy possible. It affected not only the obvious - such as measurements...
| Author | R.W. Southern |
| ISBN | 0300002300 |
An acknolwedged classic of european history, R.W. Southern's "The Middle Ages" focuses on the period between 900 and 1200 A.D. His geopgraphic focus is mostly northern france, with some asides to Germany, Italy, Southern France and England. His main thesis is the idea that this period saw the emergence...
Roman Art: Romulus to Constantine
| Author | Nancy H. Ramage |
| ISBN | 0131504878 |
Ideal for students who are studying Roman art for the first time, this exceptionally well-illustrated text explores Roman art in the traditional historical manner - with a focus on painting, sculpture, architecture, and minor arts. It assumes no prior acquaintance with the classical world, and...
History of the Ancient Near East
| Author | Marc Van De Mieroop |
| ISBN | 1405149116 |
If the history of the Near East has always seemed a little daunting and confusing, this book by one of the best known writers on the subject should show you the light at the end of the tunnel. Beginning c.3000 BC with the advent of the first writing system, Van De Mieroop traces the emergence and development...
The First Crusade: A New History
| Author | Thomas Asbridge |
| ISBN | 0195189051 |
On the last Tuesday of November 1095, Pope Urban II delivered an electrifying speech that launched the First Crusade. His words set Christendom afire. Some 100,000 men, from knights to paupers, took up the call--the largest mobilization of manpower since the fall of the Roman Empire.
Now, in The...
The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Books III-IV
| Author | Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn |
Drawing on his own incarceration and exile, as well as on evidence from more than 200 fellow prisoners and Soviet archives, Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn reveals the entire apparatus of Soviet repression -- the state within the state that ruled all-powerfully. Through truly Shakespearean portraits...
The Age of Capital, 1848-1875
| Author | Eric Hobsbawm |
| ISBN | 0679772545 |
In the wake of the French Revolution & the Industrial Revolution, Europe underwent another revolution--this time a revolution of values. The author examines the rise of industrial capitalism and the consolidation of bourgeois culture, exploring the effects of mounting concentration of wealth,...
