The Triumph Of Empire
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The Triumph Of Empire
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Author : Michael Kulikowski
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2016-11-14
The Triumph Of Empire written by Michael Kulikowski and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-14 with History categories.
Michael Kulikowski takes readers into the political heart of imperial Rome, beginning with the reign of Hadrian, who visited the farthest reaches of his domain and created stable frontiers, to the decades after Constantine the Great, who overhauled the government, introduced a new state religion, and founded a second Rome.
The Tragedy Of Empire
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Author : Michael Kulikowski
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2019-11-19
The Tragedy Of Empire written by Michael Kulikowski and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-19 with History categories.
Michael Kulikowski traces two hundred years of Roman history during which the Empire became ungovernable and succumbed to turbulence and change. A sweeping political narrative, The Tragedy of Empire tells the story of the Western Roman Empire’s downfall, even as the Eastern Empire remained politically strong and culturally vibrant.
The Triumph Of Human Empire
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Author : Rosalind Williams
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2013-09-30
The Triumph Of Human Empire written by Rosalind Williams and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-30 with History categories.
In the early 1600s, in a haunting tale titled New Atlantis, Sir Francis Bacon imagined the discovery of an uncharted island. This island was home to the descendants of the lost realm of Atlantis, who had organized themselves to seek “the knowledge of Causes, and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of Human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible.” Bacon’s make-believe island was not an empire in the usual sense, marked by territorial control; instead, it was the center of a vast general expansion of human knowledge and power. Rosalind Williams uses Bacon’s island as a jumping-off point to explore the overarching historical event of our time: the rise and triumph of human empire, the apotheosis of the modern ambition to increase knowledge and power in order to achieve world domination. Confronting an intensely humanized world was a singular event of consciousness, which Williams explores through the lives and works of three writers of the late nineteenth century: Jules Verne, William Morris, and Robert Louis Stevenson. As the century drew to a close, these writers were unhappy with the direction in which their world seemed to be headed and worried that organized humanity would use knowledge and power for unworthy ends. In response, Williams shows, each engaged in a lifelong quest to make a home in the midst of human empire, to transcend it, and most of all to understand it. They accomplished this first by taking to the water: in life and in art, the transition from land to water offered them release from the condition of human domination. At the same time, each writer transformed his world by exploring the literary boundary between realism and romance. Williams shows how Verne, Morris, and Stevenson experimented with romance and fantasy and how these traditions allowed them to express their growing awareness of the need for a new relationship between humans and Earth. The Triumph of Human Empire shows that for these writers and their readers romance was an exceptionally powerful way of grappling with the political, technical, and environmental situations of modernity. As environmental consciousness rises in our time, along with evidence that our seeming control over nature is pathological and unpredictable, Williams’s history is one that speaks very much to the present.
Imperial Triumph
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Author : Michael Kulikowski
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016
Imperial Triumph written by Michael Kulikowski and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Rome categories.
Imperial Triumph presents the history of Rome at the height of its imperial power. Beginning with the reign of Hadrian in Rome and ending with the death of Julian the Apostate on campaign in Persia, it offers an intimate account of the twists and often deadly turns of imperial politics in which successive emperors rose and fell with sometimes bewildering rapidity. Yet, despite this volatility, the Romans were able to see off successive attacks by Parthians, Germans, Persians and Goths and to extend and entrench their position as masters of Europe and the Mediterranean. This books shows how they managed to do it. Professor Michael Kulikowski describes the empire's cultural integration in the second century, the political crises of the third when Rome's Mediterranean world became subject to the larger forces of Eurasian history, and the remaking of Roman imperial institutions in the fourth century under Constantine and his son Constantius II. The Constantinian revolution, Professor Kulikowski argues, was the pivot on which imperial fortunes turned - and the beginning of the parting of ways between the eastern and western empires.
Constantine The Great The Reorganization Of The Empire And The Triumph Of The Church
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Author : John B. Firth
language : en
Publisher: Good Press
Release Date : 2023-07-09
Constantine The Great The Reorganization Of The Empire And The Triumph Of The Church written by John B. Firth and has been published by Good Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-09 with History categories.
"Constantine the Great: The reorganization of the Empire and the triumph of the Church" by John B. Firth. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Imperial Rome And Christian Triumph
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Author : Jaś Elsner
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 1998
Imperial Rome And Christian Triumph written by Jaś Elsner and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Art categories.
Western culture saw some of the most significant and innovative developments take place during the passage from antiquity to the middle ages. This stimulating new book investigates the role of the visual arts as both reflections and agents of those changes. It tackles two inter-related periodsof internal transformation within the Roman Empire: the phenomenon known as the 'Second Sophistic' (c. ad 100300)two centuries of self-conscious and enthusiastic hellenism, and the era of late antiquity (c. ad 250450) when the empire underwent a religious conversion to Christianity. Vases, murals, statues, and masonry are explored in relation to such issues as power, death, society, acculturation, and religion. By examining questions of reception, viewing, and the culture of spectacle alongside the more traditional art-historical themes of imperial patronage and stylisticchange, Jas Elsner presents a fresh and challenging account of an extraordinarily rich cultural crucible in which many fundamental developments of later European art had their origins. 'a highly individual work . . . wonderful visual and comparative analysis . . . I can think of no other general book on Roman art that deals so elegantly and informatively with the theme of visuality and visual desire.' Professor Natalie Boymel Kampen, Barnard College, New York 'exciting and original . . . a vibrant impression of creative energy and innovation held in constant tension by the persistence of more traditional motifs and techniques. Elsner constantly surprises and intrigues the reader by approaching familiar material in new ways.' Professor Averil Cameron,Keble College, Oxford
The Excellent Empire The Fall Of Rome And The Triumph Of The Church
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Author : Jaroslav Pelikan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1987
The Excellent Empire The Fall Of Rome And The Triumph Of The Church written by Jaroslav Pelikan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with categories.
Empire Of Illusion
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Author : Chris Hedges
language : en
Publisher: Bold Type Books
Release Date : 2009-07-14
Empire Of Illusion written by Chris Hedges and has been published by Bold Type Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-07-14 with Social Science categories.
A prescient book that forecast the culture that gave rise to Trump -- a society beholden to empty spectacle and obsession with image at the expense of reality, reason, and truth. An instant bestseller, Empire of Illusion is a striking and unsettling exploration of illusion and fantasy in contemporary American culture. Traveling to the ringside of professional wrestling bouts at Madison Square Garden, to Las Vegas to write about the pornographic film industry, and to academic conferences held by positive psychologists who claim to be able to engineer happiness, Hedges chronicles our flight from an ever-worsening reality. The cultural embrace of illusion and celebrity culture have accompanied a growing system of casino capitalism, which creates vast wealth for elites. Corporations have ruthlessly dismantled and destroyed our manufacturing base and impoverished our working class. Hedges exposes the mechanisms that undermine our democracy and divert us from the economic, environmental, political, and moral collapse around us. A culture that cannot distinguish between reality and illusion dies, Hedges argues, and we are dying now.
The Successor
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Author : Willemijn van Dijk
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019
The Successor written by Willemijn van Dijk and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Rome categories.
Vivid, scandalous, and thought-provoking, The Successor tells the story of a somber man--a figure neither wholly sympathetic nor entirely repulsive--who became an emperor, and of an emperor who became a tyrant.
Constantine The Great
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Author : John Benjamin Firth
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1971
Constantine The Great written by John Benjamin Firth and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1971 with Church history categories.