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  • The Cambridge Medieval History - Book XI

    The Holy Roman Empire Triumphant

    “THE future of the realm”, Conrad is said to have declared with his dying words, “lies with the Saxons”, and he bade his brother Everard to bear the royal insignia to Henry, the Saxon Duke, as the one man capable of restoring the glory of the German name. The union of Frank and Saxon had given the throne to Conrad on the death of Louis the Child; the same alliance was responsible for the ... Leer más

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  • The Cambridge Medieval History - Book IX

    Charles the Great and the Holy Roman Empire

    THE eighth century had hardly entered on its second half when the last of the long-haired Merovingians was thrust from the throne of the Franks, and Pepin the mayor of the palace hailed as king. The change seemed slight, for the new dynasty had served a long apprenticeship. For more than a century the descendants of Clovis had been mere puppets in a king's seat, while the descendants of St Arnulf, ... Leer más

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  • The Cambridge Medieval History - Book X

    The Carolingian Empire and the Rise of France

    IT was at his winter home at Doué, early in February 814, that Louis of Aquitaine received the news of his father's death, which had been immediately sent to him by his sisters and the magnates who had espoused his cause. It is a difficult matter to discern through the self-interested encomiums of biographers and the calumnies set afloat by political opponents, the real character of the man who ... Leer más

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  • The Cambridge Medieval History - Book VI

    Western Europe in the Dark Ages

    AT the accession of Clovis, who succeeded his father Childeric about the year 481, the Salian Franks had advanced as far as the Somme. Between the Somme and the Loire the suzerainty of the Roman Empire was still maintained. The various Gallo-Roman cities preserved a certain independence, while a Roman official, by name Syagrius, exercised a kind of protection over them. Syagrius was the son of ... Leer más

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  • The Cambridge Medieval History - Book II

    The Triumph of Christianity

    THE old or official religions of Greece and of Rome had lost most of their power long before Constantine first declared that Christianity was henceforth to be recognized as a religio licita and then proceeded to bestow the Imperial favor on the faith which his predecessors had persecuted. Hellenism had destroyed their influence over the cultivated classes, and other religions, coming from the East ... Leer más

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  • Complete Works of Sir Thomas Malory. Illustrated

    Le Morte Darthur

    First published in 1485 by the pioneering printer William Caxton, Sir Thomas Malory’s monumental masterpiece, "Le Morte Darthur," has stood for over five centuries as the preeminent canon of Arthurian literature in the English language. Rather than a mere collection of disparate folklore, Malory’s work represents a grand synthesis of chivalric romance. By masterfully weaving together various ... Leer más

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  • Delphi Complete Works of Velleius Paterculus (Illustrated)

    Series Libro 98 - Delphi Ancient Classics
    The Roman historian Velleius Paterculus lived during the reigns of Augustus and Tiberius, serving as a military tribune and later as a cavalry officer and legatus in Germany and Pannonia. Written in a highly rhetorical style, his ‘Compendium of Roman History’ is a summary of Roman history from the mythical fall of Troy to AD 29. As Paterculus approaches his own times, he becomes much fuller in his ... Leer más

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  • The Empire of Alexander the Great

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    Most of the great changes in the world's history come about gradually and wise men can see them coming, for it is very hard to run counter to the nature of average men, and all great advances and degradations of society are the result of persistent causes; but a few times, since our records have been kept, there has arisen a single genius, who has done what no number of lesser men could accomplish ... Leer más

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  • The History of Rome: Mommsen's Rome, volumes 1 to 5 in a single file, in English translation

    Mommsen's history of the Roman Republic in five volumes. These volumes cover from the founding of Rome up to the disintegration of the First Triumvirate (Caesar, Pompey, Crassus). The author cites dates in the Roman style, AUC, from the founding of the city in 753 BC. A table at the end shows modern-day equivalents. According to Wikipedia, Mommsen is "generally regarded as the greatest classicist ... Leer más

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  • The Thirty Years War

    It was the misfortune of Germany in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries that, with most of the conditions requisite for the formation of national unity, she had no really national institutions. There was an emperor, who looked something like an English king, and a Diet, or General Assembly, which looked something like an English Parliament, but the resemblance was far greater in appearance ... Leer más

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  • A People's History of the Civil War

    Struggles for the Meaning of Freedom

    "Does for the Civil War period what Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States did for the study of American history in general." — Library JournalHistorian David Williams has written the first account of the American Civil War as viewed though the eyes of ordinary people—foot soldiers, slaves, women, prisoners of war, draft resisters, Native Americans, and others. Richly illustrated ... Leer más

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  • The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus

    Enriched edition. During the Reigns of the Emperors Constantius, Julian, Jovianus, Valentinian, and Valens

    The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus is a monumental historical narrative that intricately weaves the late Roman Empire's political, military, and social landscapes into a compelling tapestry. Written in elegant and sophisticated Latin prose, Ammianus transcends mere chronicle to provide penetrating insights into the complexities of imperial governance and the enduring legacies of Hellenistic ... Leer más

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