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  • The End of the Ancient World

    by Ferdinand Lot ...
    Originally published between 1920-70,The History of Civilization was a landmark in early twentieth century publishing. It was published at a formative time within the social sciences, and during a period of decisive historical discovery. The aim of the general editor, C.K. Ogden, was to summarize the most up to date findings and theories of historians, anthropologists, archaeologists and ... Read more

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    Western Europe in the Dark Ages

    by Norman Baynes, Christian Pfister, Rafael Altamira, L.M. Hartmann ...
    AT the accession of Clovis, who succeeded his father Childeric about the year 481, the Salian Franks had advanced as far as the Somme. Between the Somme and the Loire the suzerainty of the Roman Empire was still maintained. The various Gallo-Roman cities preserved a certain independence, while a Roman official, by name Syagrius, exercised a kind of protection over them. Syagrius was the son of ... Read more

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  • Livia

    First Lady of Imperial Rome

    by Anthony A. Barrett ...
    The author of Rome Is Burning separates fact from fiction as he examines the life of an ancient Roman figure made famous in the TV miniseries I Claudius.Livia—wife of the first Roman emperor, Caesar Augustus, and mother of the second, Tiberius—wielded extraordinary power at the center of Roman politics. In this biography of Livia, the first in English, Anthony Barrett sets aside the portrait of a ... Read more

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  • A History of Germany in the Middle Ages

    by Ernest F. Henderson ...
    "The fortunes and misfortunes of a Charlemagne and Henry IV., of a Barbarossa, a Henry VI. and an Emperor Frederick II... The rise and fall of the mediæval German Empire is in itself a subject boundlessly interesting, boundlessly important. ...See how Europe has come to be what it is, and how near it came to being something quite different! If Italy had remained under the sway of Germany, if ... Read more

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  • FEUDAL SOCIETY Vol. I

    The Growth of Ties of Dependence

    by Marc Bloch ...
    Feudal Society is a great work of historical synthesis in the finest French tradition. The author treats feudalism as a living and vitalising force in the society of Western Europe from the ninth to the thirteenth century. After surveying the social and intellectual conditions in which feudalism developed, Bloch examines the nature of the bond of kinship both as a predecessor and as a concomitant ... Read more

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  • Constantine the Emperor

    by David Potter ...
    This year Christians worldwide will celebrate the 1700th anniversary of Constantine's conversion and victory at the Battle of the Milvian Bridge. No Roman emperor had a greater impact on the modern world than did Constantine. The reason is not simply that he converted to Christianity but that he did so in a way that brought his subjects along after him. Indeed, this major new biography argues that ... Read more

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  • Medieval Cities

    Their Origins and the Revival of Trade - Updated Edition

    by Henri Pirenne ...
    Series series Princeton Classics
    Nearly a century after it was first published in 1925, Medieval Cities remains one of the most provocative works of medieval history ever written. Here, Henri Pirenne argues that it was not the invasion of the Germanic tribes that destroyed the civilization of antiquity, but rather the closing of Mediterranean trade by Arab conquest in the seventh century. The consequent interruption of long ... Read more

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  • Religions of Rome: Volume 1, A History

    by Mary Beard, John North, Simon Price ...
    This book offers a radical new survey of more than a thousand years of religious life at Rome. It sets religion in its full cultural context, between the primitive hamlet of the eighth century BC and the cosmopolitan, multicultural society of the first centuries of the Christian era. The narrative account is structured around a series of broad themes: how to interpret the Romans' own theories of ... Read more

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  • The Battle for Christendom

    The Council of Constance, the East-West Conflict, and the Dawn of Modern Europe

    by Frank Welsh ...
    The fifteenth century Council of Constance ends the Catholic Church's papal schism and sets Europe on its path to the Renaissance in this in-depth history.At the dawn of the fifteenth century, the Ottoman Empire posed an existential threat to Christian Europe. Meanwhile, the Catholic Church was in chaos, with three Popes claiming the Chair of Saint Peter and dangerous stirrings of reform. In an ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Medieval History - Book XIII

    Learning and Literature in the Early Middle Ages

    by Louis Halphen, Paul Vinogradoff, W.R. Lethaby, Montague James ...
    The alluring dream of Charles the Great has vanished; after his death no temporal prince was found capable of carrying on his work, and it fell to ruins. Nevertheless, the root idea which had inspired him still persisted: the idea of the unity of the Christian world, bound together and grouped round a single head, ready to give battle to the infidel, and to undertake the conversion of the ... Read more

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  • FEUDAL SOCIETY Vol. II

    Social Classes and Political Organisation

    by Marc Bloch ...
    Feudalism — which was essentially a political and military system — was above all a personal set of mutual obligations between lord and vassal. At its heart was the oath of loyalty. Before witnesses, a vassal placed his clasped hands between those of the lord and pledged to become "his man," a relationship usually sealed by a kiss between the two men. The vassal then took an oath of faithfulness. ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Medieval History - Book IX

    Charles the Great and the Holy Roman Empire

    by Paul Vinogradoff, G.L. Burr, Gerhard Seeliger, F.G. Foakes-Jackson ...
    THE eighth century had hardly entered on its second half when the last of the long-haired Merovingians was thrust from the throne of the Franks, and Pepin the mayor of the palace hailed as king. The change seemed slight, for the new dynasty had served a long apprenticeship. For more than a century the descendants of Clovis had been mere puppets in a king's seat, while the descendants of St Arnulf, ... Read more

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