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Rome in Late Antiquity - Everyday Life and Urban Change, AD 312-609 - Bok av Bertrand Lancon - Inbunden

This is a history of life in ancient Rome from the third to the seventh centuries AD

SEK 1556.00

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Dynastic Politics in the Age of Diocletian, Ad 284-311 - Bok av Byron Waldron - Inbunden

How did military politics influence dynastic norms during the reign of Diocletian? In AD 293 the Roman world was plunged into a bold new experiment in government. Four soldiers shared the empire between them: two senior emperors, Diocletian and Maximian, and two junior emperors, Constantius and Galerius. This regime, now known as the Tetrarchy, engaged with dynastic power in thoroughly unconventional ways: Diocletian and Maximian presented themselves as brothers despite being unrelated; Diocletian..

SEK 1186.00

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The History of Islamic Political Thought - From the Prophet to the Present - Bok av Antony Black - Inbunden

Second edition of the history of Islamic political thought that traces its roots from early Islam to the current age of Fundamentalism (622 AD to 2010 AD).

SEK 1246.00

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Imperial Rome AD 284 to 363 - The New Empire - Bok av Jill Harries - Inbunden

This book is about the reinvention of the Roman Empire during the eighty years between the accession of Diocletian and the death of Julian.

SEK 1497.00

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Imperial Rome AD 193 to 284 - The Critical Century - Bok av Clifford Ando - Inbunden

The Roman empire during the period framed by the accession of Septimus Severus in 193 and the rise of Diocletian in 284 has conventionally been regarded as one of crisis. This book describes and integrates the contrasting histories of different parts of the empire and assesses the impacts of administrative, political and religious change.

SEK 1496.00

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From Rome to Byzantium AD 363 to 565 - The Transformation of Ancient Rome - Bok av A. D. Lee - Inbunden

Looks at the transformation of the Roman world under the combined impact of Christianity and barbarian incomers. This book charts these and other significant developments which marked the transformation of Ancient Rome into medieval Byzantium. It provides a clear analytical narrative of pivotal political, military, and religious developments.

SEK 1310.00

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The Moorlands of England and Wales - An Environmental History 8, 000 BC-AD 2, 000 - Bok av I.G. Simmons - Inbunden

This is a history of the moorlands and the part they have played in English and Welsh history over ten millennia. Ian Simmons combines the perspectives of natural science, archaeology, social history and historical geography, and draws on forty years of exploring and studying the moorlands.

SEK 1746.00

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Astronomy and Astrology in the Islamic World - Bok av Stephen Blake - Inbunden

Surveys the contributions of Islamic astronomers and mathematicians to the development of astronomy and astrology It was the astronomers and mathematicians of the Islamic world who provided the theories and concepts that paved the way from the geocentric theories of Claudius Ptolemy in the second century AD to the heliocentric breakthroughs of Nicholas Copernicus and Johannes Kepler in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Algebra, the Arabic numeral system and trigonometry: all these and more..

SEK 1310.00

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Generalship in Ancient Greece, Rome and Byzantium - The Art of Generalship - Bok - Inbunden

Considers the ideals and realities of generalship across the Greek, Roman and Byzantine worlds This volume is unique in addressing a key aspect of ancient warfare across a broad chronological and cultural span, focusing on generalship from Archaic Greece to the Byzantine Empire in the twelfth century AD. Across this broad span, it explores a range of ideas on how to be a successful general, showing how the art of generalship - a profession that has been occupied variously by the political elite,..

SEK 1796.00

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Rumi - A Life in Pictures - Bok av John Renard - Inbunden

Studies the illustrated 16th-century Ottoman manuscripts of a major hagiography of Rumi and his spiritual descendants Picturing the life story of Jalal ad-Din Rumi, an outstanding poet, mystic and founder of the Sufi Mawlawi order (later popularly known as 'The Whirling Dervishes'), the paintings in three extant manuscripts of Aflaki's Wondrous Feats of the Knowers of God provide a unique way to interpret the text. Part One's three chapters, under the heading 'History and Context', provide the medieval..