The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome
The History of a Dangerous Idea
(Sprache: Englisch)
The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome tells the story of 2200 years of the use and misuse of the idea of Roman decline by ambitious politicians, authors, and autocrats as well as the people scapegoated and victimized in the name of Roman renewal. It focuses...
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The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome tells the story of 2200 years of the use and misuse of the idea of Roman decline by ambitious politicians, authors, and autocrats as well as the people scapegoated and victimized in the name of Roman renewal. It focuses on the long history of a way of describing change that might seem innocuous, but which has cost countless people their lives, liberty, or property across two millennia.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome “
- Chapter 1 A Snapshot and a Story
- Chapter 2 The Decline and Fall of the Roman Republic, c. 200 BC-14 AD
- Chapter 3 Manufacturing the Golden Age of Trajan, 14 -117 AD
- Chapter 4 Renewal without Decline: The Antonines and Severans, 117-235 AD
- Chapter 5 Decline and False Renewal: The Third Century Crisis, 235-284 AD
- Chapter 6 Decline, Renewal, and the Invention of Christian Progress, 284-337 AD
- Chapter 7 Roman Renewal versus Christian Progress, 337-363 AD
- Chapter 8 When Renewal Fails to Arrive, 363-384 AD
- Chapter 9 The Loss of the Roman West and the Christian Future, 384-c. 470 AD
- Chapter 10 Justinian, Roman Progress, and the Death of the Western Roman Empire, c. 470-565 AD
- Chapter 11 Rome, the Arabs, and Iconoclasm, 565-c. 750 AD
- Chapter 12 Old Rome, New Rome, and Future Rome, c. 750-814 AD
- Chapter 13 The Retrenchment of One Roman Empire, the Resurgence of Another, 814-1085 AD
- Chapter 14 The Captures of Constantinople, 1085-1282 AD
- Chapter 15 The Fall of Roman Constantinople and the End of Roman Renewal, 1282-1461 AD
- Chapter 16 Roman Renewal After the Fall, c.1450-c. 1560 AD
- Chapter 17 The Dangerous Idea
Autoren-Porträt von Edward Watts
Edward J. Watts is Alkiviadis Vassiliadis Endowed Chair and Professor of History at the University of California, San Diego. His previous books include Mortal Republic: How Rome Fell into Tyranny, The Final Pagan Generation, and Hypatia: The Life and Legend of an Ancient Philosopher.Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Edward Watts
- 2024, 328 Seiten, Maße: 15,8 x 23,6 cm, Taschenbuch, Englisch
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 0197691951
- ISBN-13: 9780197691953
- Erscheinungsdatum: 22.04.2024
Sprache:
Englisch
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