Tag: Roman

December 29, 2023

Risk in the Roman World

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English | 2024 | ISBN: 1108481744 | 157 Pages | PDF | 1 MB
Modern risk studies have viewed the inhabitants of the ancient world as being both dominated by fate and exposed to fewer risks, but this very readable and groundbreaking new book challenges these views. It shows that the Romans inhabited a world full of danger and also that they not only understood uncertainty but employed a variety of ways to help to affect future outcomes. The first section focuses on the range of cultural attitudes and traditional practices that served to help control risk, particularly among the non-elite population. The book also examines the increasingly sophisticated areas of expertise, such as the law, logistics and maritime loans, which served to limit uncertainty in a systematic manner. Religious expertise in the form of dream interpretation and oracles also developed new ways of dealing with the future and the implicit biases of these sources can reveal much about ancient attitudes to risk.

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December 29, 2023

From Roman to Merovingian Gaul A Reader

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Free Download Alexander Callander Murray, "From Roman to Merovingian Gaul: A Reader"
English | 1999 | pages: 697 | ISBN: 1442600950 | PDF | 112,6 mb
Including such remarkable accounts as Attila the Hun’s meeting with the Pope, Queen Balthild’s life, and Gregory of Tours’ vivid descriptions of what happens when daily life is enmeshed with politics, From Roman to Merovingian Gaul documents events that are both remarkable in themselves and that demonstrate what made this era of history distinct.

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September 28, 2023

Siege Warfare in the Roman World 146 BC-AD 378

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Free Download Adam Hook, "Siege Warfare in the Roman World: 146 BC-AD 378"
English | 2005 | pages: 68 | ISBN: 1841767824 | PDF | 29,6 mb
Osprey’s study of various siegesin Rome, from 146 BC to 378 AD. Sieges were often pivotal in Rome’s wars, including its conflicts with the Macedonians and Carthaginians in the 2nd century BC; the civil wars of the Republic; and the late Roman wars against the Sassanid Persians, who, alone amongst Rome’s adversaries, were equally skilled in siegecraft. This book discusses the siege techniques employed by Roman armies and their opponents throughout the Republic and Empire. It shows that although the 1st century AD has long been considered the golden age of siegecraft, followed by a decline, new and effective siege techniques were in fact used in the following centuries.

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September 28, 2023

Religion in Late Roman Britain Forces of Change

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Free Download Dorothy Watts, "Religion in Late Roman Britain: Forces of Change"
English | 2002 | pages: 221 | ISBN: 0415118557, 0415620023 | PDF | 2,1 mb
Religion in Late Roman Britain explores the changes in religion over the fourth century; the historical background for these changes and the forces which contributed to them.

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September 16, 2023

The Roman Empire in Crisis, 248-260 When the Gods Abandoned Rome [Audiobook]

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Free Download The Roman Empire in Crisis, 248-260: When the Gods Abandoned Rome (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CCQL3LH9 | 2023 | 12 hours and 24 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 364 MB
Author: Paul N. Pearson
Narrator: Roger Clark
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 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.

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