Allen Lane, 2001. — 432 p. One of France's foremost post-war historians and an authority on the Mediterranean world of the 16th century, Fernand Braudel was surprised, but immediately tempted, when he was asked to write on the region's ancient history. But, believing that "history cannot really be understood unless it is extended to cover the entire human past", he seized the...
Counter Punch Books, 2023. — 512 p. The Collapse of Antiquity, the sequel to Michael's "and forgive them their debts, is the second and latest book in his trilogy on the history of debt. It describes how the dynamics of interest-bearing debt led to the rise of rentier oligarchies in classical Greece and Rome, causing economic polarization, widespread austerity, revolts, wars...
Basic Books, 2008. — 672 p. The classical civilizations of Greece and Rome once dominated the world, and they continue to fascinate and inspire us. Classical art and architecture, drama and epic, philosophy and politics -- these are the foundations of Western civilization. In The Classical World, eminent classicist Robin Lane Fox brilliantly chronicles this vast sweep of...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. — 734 p. An accessible and authoritative overview capturing the vitality and diversity of scholarship that exists on the transformative time period known as late antiquity. Provides an essential overview of current scholarship on late antiquity - from between the accession of Diocletian in AD 284 and the end of Roman rule in the Mediterranean Comprises 39...
Cambridge University Press, 2012. — 198 p. In ancient Greece and Rome an ambiguous relationship developed between man and nature, and this decisively determined the manner in which they treated the environment. On the one hand, nature was conceived as a space characterized and inhabited by divine powers, which deserved appropriate respect. On the other, a rationalist view...
Penguin, 2010. — 416 p. To an extraordinary extent we continue to live in the shadow of the classical world. At every level from languages to calendars to political systems, we are the descendants of a 'classical Europe', using frames of reference created by ancient Mediterranean cultures. As this consistently fresh and surprising new book makes clear, however, this was no less...
Acta Diurna, Сидорович, 2019. — 312 с. — (AntiQuitas). — ISBN: 978-5-905909-46-7. Вы держите в руках книгу о временах кровавой трансформации античного мира и рождении Европы, книгу, повествующую о трагических и загадочных пяти веках, разделивших христианизацию Рима и принятие Карлом Великим императорского титула. Это эпоха ужасов и опустошительных экологических катастроф,...
М.: Новое литературное обозрение, 2023. — 256 с. — (Studia Religiosa) — ISBN 978-5-4448-2164-0. Период между 150 и 750 годами н. э. – эпоха, в которую навсегда исчезают казалось бы самые незыблемые античные институты. К 476 году в Западной Европе прекратила свое существование Римская империя, а к 655 году на Ближнем Востоке – Персидская империя. Ставшее уже классическим...
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