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Invasion of Europe by the Barbarians

AvJ. B. Bury

Häftad, Engelska, 2000

300 kr

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In print for more than thirty years, this book has long served as a standard text on the Germanic penetration of the Roman Empire. Bury's history is indispensable to anyone who seeks to understand the connection between the barbarian migrations of the third to the ninth century and the framework of modern Europe.

Hellenistic Age

Aspects of Hellenistic Civilization

AvJ. B. Bury,E. A. Barberm. fl.

Häftad, Engelska, 1970

272 kr

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In “the Hellenistic Age and History of Civilization,” J.B. Bury discusses important advances made in mathematics, astronomy, and geography; the pattern of the hellenization of Rome; and changing Greek ideas of barbarianism and cosmopolitanism.E. A. Barber’s essay, “Alexandrian Literature,” deals with the characteristic styles of the period, Alexandrian poetry, and the new prose forms. Besides the scientific and learned writing it is known for, Professor Barber demonstrates, the age produced much popular satiric and moralizing poetry, realistic mime, epigrams, and parodies.As the system of the city states declined, increasing social instability fostered the rise of a number of popular philosophies. In another chapter, Edwyn Bevan outlines the similarities and differences between the Platonic, Peripatetic, Stoic, Epicurean, Sceptic, and Cynic schools and the effect of Christianity on their society.W. W. Tarn’s “The Social Question in the Third Century” examines the conditions that led to revolution in the century after Alexander. The author describes the economic disturbances leading to the polarization of classes, and assesses the phases of social revolution as exemplified in the uprisings at Sparta.

Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (vol. 1)

AvEdward Gibbon,J. B. Bury

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

300 kr

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Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (vol. 2)

AvEdward Gibbon,J. B. Bury

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

318 kr

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Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (vol. 3)

AvEdward Gibbon,J. B. Bury

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

318 kr

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Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (vol. 4)

AvEdward Gibbon,J. B. Bury

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

329 kr

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Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (vol. 5)

AvEdward Gibbon,J. B. Bury

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

329 kr

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Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (vol. 6)

AvEdward Gibbon,J. B. Bury

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

332 kr

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Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (vol. 7)

AvEdward Gibbon,J. B. Bury

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

329 kr

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St Patrick

The Life and World of Ireland's Saint

AvJ. B. Bury

E-bok

PDF, Engelska, 2010

164 kr

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J.B. Bury's classic biography dispels many of the myths around the saint and paints a vivid and exacting portrait of the world around St Patrick.St Patrick is perhaps the most venerated saint of the modern age, whose feast day is marked each year by massive celebrations across the world, from Dublin to New York and Sydney to Rio de Janeiro. Yet, in spite of his popularity, very little is known of his life, which is clouded by myth and uncertainty.The facts that are known - that he was born in the late fourth century in Roman Britain, was captured by Irish raiders at the age of 16 and sold into slavery, escaped six years later to Britain where he became a priest and later a bishop before returning to Ireland to proselytise - give only a vague sense of the man behind the legends.This biography reveals the influences and inspirations that transformed him from a minor fifth century missionary into the patron saint of Ireland and a source of living inspiration for countless people - the Irish above all - some 1,500 years after his death, and remains the definitive work on St Patrick.

St Patrick

The Life and World of Ireland's Saint

AvJ. B. Bury

E-bok

Engelska, 2010

155 kr

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J.B. Bury's classic biography dispels many of the myths around the saint and paints a vivid and exacting portrait of the world around St Patrick. St Patrick is perhaps the most venerated saint of the modern age, whose feast day is marked each year by massive celebrations across the world, from Dublin to New York and Sydney to Rio de Janeiro. Yet, in spite of his popularity, very little is known of his life, which is clouded by myth and uncertainty. The facts that are known - that he was born in the late fourth century in Roman Britain, was captured by Irish raiders at the age of 16 and sold into slavery, escaped six years later to Britain where he became a priest and later a bishop before returning to Ireland to proselytise - give only a vague sense of the man behind the legends. This biography reveals the influences and inspirations that transformed him from a minor fifth century missionary into the patron saint of Ireland and a source of living inspiration for countless people - the Irish above all - some 1,500 years after his death, and remains the definitive work on St Patrick.