The Roman Emperor Aurelian - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Roman Emperor Aurelian write by John F. White. This book was released on 2015-11-30. The Roman Emperor Aurelian available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The leader who helped keep the Dark Ages at bay: “An excellent picture of the Crisis of the Third Century and the life and work of Aurelian” (StrategyPage). The ancient Sibylline prophecies had foretold that the Roman Empire would last for one thousand years. As the time for the expected dissolution approached in the middle of the third century AD, the empire was lapsing into chaos, with seemingly interminable civil wars over the imperial succession. The western empire had seceded under a rebel emperor, and the eastern empire was controlled by another usurper. Barbarians took advantage of the anarchy to kill and plunder all over the provinces. Yet within the space of just five years, the general, and later emperor, Aurelian had expelled all the barbarians from within the Roman frontiers, reunited the entire empire, and inaugurated major reforms of the currency, pagan religion, and civil administration. His accomplishments have been hailed by classical scholars as those of a superman, yet Aurelian himself remains little known to a wider audience. His achievements enabled the Roman Empire to survive for another two centuries, ensuring a lasting legacy of Roman civilization for the successor European states. Without Aurelian, the Dark Ages would probably have lasted centuries longer.
Restorer of the World
Restorer of the World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Restorer of the World write by John F. White. This book was released on 2007. Restorer of the World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The ancient Sibylline Books had predicted that Rome would last one thousand years. The millennial celebrations had already been held (AD 248) and the anxious population of the empire, shaken by civil wars and battered by the Gothic incursions, fearfully awaited the worst. Then the barbarians poured across the frontiers.
Aurelian and the Third Century
Aurelian and the Third Century - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Aurelian and the Third Century write by Alaric Watson. This book was released on 2004-01-14. Aurelian and the Third Century available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Aurelian and the Third Century provides a re-evaluation, in the light of recent scholarship, of the difficulties facing the Roman empire in the AD 260s and 270s, concentrating upon the reign of the Emperor Aurelian and his part in summoning them. With introduction examining the situation in the mid third century, the book is divided into two parts: * Part 1: deals chronologically with the military and political events of the period from 268 to 276 * Part 2: analyzes the other achievements and events of Aurelian's reign and assesses their importance. A key supplement to the study of the Roman Empire.
Theoderic and the Roman Imperial Restoration
Theoderic and the Roman Imperial Restoration - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Theoderic and the Roman Imperial Restoration write by Jonathan J. Arnold. This book was released on 2014-02-24. Theoderic and the Roman Imperial Restoration available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Theoderic and the Roman Imperial Restoration offers a new interpretation of the fall of Rome and the "barbarian" successor state known as Ostrogothic Italy. Relying primarily on Italian textual and material evidence, Jonathan J. Arnold demonstrates that the subjects of the Ostrogothic kingdom viewed it as a revived Roman Empire and its king, Theoderic, as its emperor. Most accounts of Roman history end with the fall of Rome in 476 or see the Ostrogothic kingdom as a barbarous imitator. This book, however, challenges such views, placing the Theoderican epoch firmly within the continuum of Roman history.
The Roman Empire in Crisis, 248–260
The Roman Empire in Crisis, 248–260 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Roman Empire in Crisis, 248–260 write by Paul N. Pearson. This book was released on 2022-05-05. The Roman Empire in Crisis, 248–260 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “A clear, brisk writer, Pearson is also quite thorough, taking a holistic attitude to the many facets of a confused, turbulent period.” —NYMAS Review This book is a narrative history of a dozen years of turmoil that begins with Rome’s millennium celebrations of 248 CE and ends with the capture of the emperor Valerian by the Persians in 260. It was a period of almost unremitting disaster for Rome, involving a series of civil wars, several major invasions by Goths and Persians, economic crisis, and an empire-wide pandemic, the “plague of Cyprian.” There was also sustained persecution of the Christians. A central theme of the book is that this was a period of moral and spiritual crisis in which the traditional state religion suffered greatly in prestige, paving the way for the eventual triumph of Christianity. The sensational recent discovery of extensive fragments of the lost Scythica of Dexippus sheds much new light on the Gothic Wars of the period. The author has used this new evidence in combination with in-depth investigations in the field to develop a revised account of events surrounding the great Battle of Abritus, in which the army of the emperor Decius was annihilated by Cniva’s Goths. The Roman Empire in Crisis, 248-260 sheds new light on a period that is pivotal for understanding the transition between Classical civilization and the period known as Late Antiquity.
