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The Goths by Peter Heather 9780631165361
RRP: £100.95Booksplease Price: £92.66The volume is divided into three parts, corresponding to the three main phases in Gothic history: their early history down to the fourth century, the revolution in Gothic society set in motion by the... -
The Goths in the Fourth Century by Peter Heather
RRP: £32.50Booksplease Price: £30.74This volume brings together many important historical texts, the majority of them (speeches of Themistius, the Passion of St Saba, and evidence relating to the life and work of Ulfila) not previously... -
Empires and Barbarians by Peter Heather 9781509888689
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £17.01At the start of the first millennium AD, southern and western Europe formed part of the Mediterranean-based Roman Empire, the largest state western Eurasia has ever known, and was set firmly on a... -
Christendom: The Triumph of a Religion by Peter Heather 9780141988535
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.73'A fascinating story about a religion in a surprisingly precarious position' Dan Jones, Sunday Times'Superb storytelling ... captivating and profound' Literary Review'A page-turner' The SpectatorIn... -
The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History by Peter Heather
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.38In AD 378 the Roman Empire had been the unrivalled superpower of Europe for well over four hundred years. And yet, August that year saw a small group of German-speaking asylum-seekers rout a vast... -
The Goths Peter Heather (Worcester College, Oxford) 9780631209324
RRP: £36.95Booksplease Price: £35.41The volume is divided into three parts, corresponding to the three main phases in Gothic history: their early history down to the fourth century, the revolution in Gothic society set in motion by the... -
Goths and Romans 332-489 by Peter Heather 9780198205357
Booksplease Price: £74.86This book examines the collision of Goths and Romans in the fourth and fifth centuries. In these years Gothic tribes played a major role in the destruction of the western half of the Roman Empire,... -
Rome Resurgent: War and Empire in the Age of Justinian by Peter Heather
RRP: £28.49Booksplease Price: £24.07Between the fall of the western Roman Empire in the fifth century and the collapse of the east in the face of the Arab invasions in the seventh, the remarkable era of the Emperor Justinian (527-568)... -
The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians by Peter Heather
RRP: £19.49Booksplease Price: £15.75The death of the Roman Empire is one of the perennial mysteries of world history. Now, in this groundbreaking book, Peter Heather proposes a stunning new solution: Centuries of imperialism turned the... -
Christendom: The Triumph of a Religion, AD 300-1300 by Peter Heather 9781101974100
RRP: £23.00Booksplease Price: £13.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101974100Author Peter HeatherFormat PaperbackPage Count 752Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random... -
Rome Resurgent: War and Empire in the Age of Justinian by Peter Heather 9780197500538
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £15.84Between the fall of the western Roman Empire in the fifth century and the collapse of the east in the face of the Arab invasions in the seventh, the remarkable era of the Emperor Justinian (527-568)... -
The Restoration of Rome: Barbarian Popes & Imperial Pretenders by Peter Heather 9781447241072
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £15.39In 476 AD the last of Rome's emperors was deposed by a barbarian general, the son of one of Attila the Hun's henchmen, and the imperial vestments were despatched to Constantinople. The curtain fell... -
Empires and Barbarians: The Fall of Rome and the Birth of Europe by Peter Heather 9780199735600
RRP: £31.49Booksplease Price: £30.48Empires and Barbarians presents 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... -
Politics, Philosophy and Empire in the Fourth Century: Themistius’ Select Orations by Peter Heather
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £32.91Around the year 350, a young orator and philosopher called Themistius delivered a speech to the Emperor Constantius II in Ancyra (modern Ankara). Themistius found great favour with the Emperor, who... -
Empires and Barbarians: The Fall of Rome and the Birth of Europe by Professor of Medieval History Peter Heather 9780199892266
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £21.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780199892266Author Professor of Medieval History Peter HeatherFormat PaperbackPage Count 752Imprint... -
The Restoration of Rome: Barbarian Popes and Imperial Pretenders by Professor of Medieval History Peter Heather 9780199368518
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £26.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780199368518Author Professor of Medieval History Peter HeatherFormat HardbackPage Count 488Imprint... -
History, Memory and Public Life: The Past in the Present Anna Maerker 9781138905849
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £37.14History, Memory and Public Life introduces readers to key themes in the study of historical memory and its significance by considering the role of historical expertise and understanding in... -
City of Echoes: A New History of Rome, its Popes and its People by Jessica Wärnberg 9781837731053
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.23In Rome the echoes of the past resound clearly in its palaces and monuments, and in the remains of the ancient imperial city. But another presence has dominated Rome for 2,000 years -the pope, whose... -
City of Echoes: A New History of Rome, its Popes and its People Jessica Wärnberg 9781837731824
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.10In Rome the echoes of the past resound clearly in its palaces and monuments, and in the remains of the ancient imperial city. But another presence has dominated Rome for 2,000 years -the pope, whose... -
The Huns E. A. Thompson (Formerly University of Nottingham) 9780631214434
RRP: £40.95Booksplease Price: £38.81This is a history of the Huns in Europe from their first attacks on the Goths north of the Black Sea to the collapse of their central European empire after the death of the legendary Attila. In the... -
Why Empires Fall: Rome, America and the Future of the West by John Rapley 9780141991160
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.11What can the fall of Rome teach us about the decline of the West today? A historian and a political economist, both experts in their field, investigateOver the last three centuries, the West rose to... -
The Making of a Christian Aristocracy: Social and Religious Change in the Western Roman Empire by Michele Renee Salzman 9780674016033
RRP: £35.95Booksplease Price: £30.14What did it take to cause the Roman aristocracy to turn to Christianity, changing centuries-old beliefs and religious traditions? Michele Salzman takes a fresh approach to this much-debated question... -
The Huns, Rome and the Birth of Europe by Hyun Jin Kim 9781107009066
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £89.99The Huns have often been treated as primitive barbarians with no advanced political organisation. Their place of origin was the so-called 'backward steppe'. It has been argued that whatever political... -
Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire Simon Baker 9781846072840
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.41This is the story of the greatest empire the world has ever known. Simon Baker charts the rise and fall of the world's first superpower, focusing on six momentous turning points that shaped Roman... -
The Letters of Libanius from the Age of Theodosius by Scott Bradbury
Booksplease Price: £119.22Libanius of Antioch (AD 314-93), teacher, rhetorician and eloquent exponent of Greek paideia, was one of the most prolific letter writers of late antiquity with more than 1500 surviving letters... -
The Letters of Libanius from the Age of Theodosius Scott Bradbury 9781835538074
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £37.29Libanius of Antioch (AD 314-93), teacher, rhetorician and eloquent exponent of Greek paideia, was one of the most prolific letter writers of late antiquity with more than 1500 surviving letters... -
The New Roman Empire: A History of Byzantium by Anthony Kaldellis 9780197549322
RRP: £36.49Booksplease Price: £28.36A major new history of the eastern Roman Empire, from Constantine to 1453. In recent decades, the study of the Eastern Roman Empire, also known as Byzantium, has been revolutionized by new... -
Antony and Cleopatra Adrian Goldsworthy 9780753828632
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.38The epic story of one of the most famous love affairs in history, by the bestselling author of Caesar.The love affair between Antony and Cleopatra is one of the most famous stories from the ancient... -
Rome Strategy of Empire Lacey 9780197782170
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.83The first work to lay out Roman strategic thinking from its start under Augustus until its final demise in 476 CE From Octavian's victory at Actium (31 bc) to its traditional endpoint in the West... -
Theodora: Actress, Empress, Saint by David Potter 9780199740765
RRP: £32.49Booksplease Price: £27.88Two of the most famous mosaics from the Byzantine period, from the church of San Vitale in Ravenna, depict the sixth-century Emperor Justinian and, on the wall facing him, his wife, Theodora... -
Theodora: Actress, Empress, Saint by David Potter 9780190692759
RRP: £19.49Booksplease Price: £16.21Two of the most famous mosaics from the ancient world, in the church of San Vitale in Ravenna, depict the sixth-century emperor Justinian and, on the wall facing him, his wife, Theodora (497-548)... -
The Roman Triumph by Mary Beard 9780674032187
RRP: £23.95Booksplease Price: £20.64It followed every major military victory in ancient Rome: the successful general drove through the streets to the temple of Jupiter on the Capitoline Hill; behind him streamed his raucous soldiers;...