Pox Romana

Pox Romana
Title Pox Romana PDF eBook
Author Colin Elliott
Publisher Princeton University Press
Pages 328
Release 2024-02-06
Genre History
ISBN 069121915X

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"A new account of the Antonine plague and its long-lasting effects on the history of the Roman empire"--

Pax Romana

Pax Romana
Title Pax Romana PDF eBook
Author Adrian Goldsworthy
Publisher Yale University Press
Pages 653
Release 2016-09-06
Genre History
ISBN 0300222262

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The leading ancient world historian and author of Caesar presents “an engrossing account of how the Roman Empire grew and operated” (Kirkus). Renowned for his biographies of Julius Caesar and Augustus, Adrian Goldsworthy turns his attention to the Roman Empire as a whole during its height in the first and second centuries AD. Though this time is known as the Roman Peace, or Pax Romana, the Romans were fierce imperialists who took by force vast lands stretching from the Euphrates to the Atlantic coast. The Romans ruthlessly won peace not through coexistence but through dominance; millions died and were enslaved during the creation of their empire. Pax Romana examines how the Romans came to control so much of the world and asks whether traditionally favorable images of the Roman peace are true. Goldsworthy vividly recounts the rebellions of the conquered, examining why they broke out, why most failed, and how they became exceedingly rare. He reveals that hostility was just one reaction to the arrival of Rome and that from the outset, conquered peoples collaborated, formed alliances, and joined invaders, causing resistance movements to fade away.

Pox Americana

Pox Americana
Title Pox Americana PDF eBook
Author Elizabeth A. Fenn
Publisher Macmillan
Pages 388
Release 2002-10-02
Genre History
ISBN 9780809078219

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A horrifying epidemic of smallpox was sweeping across the Americas when the War of Independence began, and yet little is known about it. Fenn reveals how deeply "variola" affected the outcome of the war in every colony and the lives of everyone in North America. Illustrations.

Rome Is Burning

Rome Is Burning
Title Rome Is Burning PDF eBook
Author Anthony A. Barrett
Publisher Princeton University Press
Pages 368
Release 2022-02-22
Genre History
ISBN 0691233942

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"Nero became Emperor in A.D 54. On the evening of July 18, 64 A. D., it seems that a lamp was left unextinguished in a stall still heaped with piles of combustible material. Whether this was accidental or deliberate we cannot now determine, and normally it would not have led to anything that would have attracted even local attention. But there was a gusty wind that night, and the flickering flame was fanned onto the flammable wares. The ensuing fire quickly spread. Before the onlookers could absorb what was happening one of the most catastrophic disasters ever to be endured by Rome was already underway. It was a disaster that brought death and misery to thousands. In Nero and the Great Fire of Rome, Anthony Barrett draws on new textual interpretations and the latest archaeological evidence, to tell the story of this pivotal moment in Rome's history and its lasting significance. Barrett argues that the Great Fire, which destroyed much of the city, changed the course of Roman History. The fire led to the collapse of Nero's regime, and his disorderly exit brought an end to Rome's first imperial dynasty, transforming from thereto, the way that emperors were selected. It also led to the first systematic persecution of the Christians, who were blamed for the blaze. Barrett provides the first comprehensive study of this dramatic event, which remains a fascination of the public imagination, and continues to be a persistent theme in the art and literature of popular culture today"--

Pax Romana journal

Pax Romana journal
Title Pax Romana journal PDF eBook
Author
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Pages 364
Release 1975
Genre Church and social problems
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The Great Pox

The Great Pox
Title The Great Pox PDF eBook
Author Jon Arrizabalaga
Publisher Yale University Press
Pages 378
Release 1997-01-01
Genre History
ISBN 9780300069341

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A century and a half after the Black Death killed over a third of the population of Western Europe, a new plague swept across the continent. The Great Pox - commonly known as the French Disease - brought a different kind of horror: instead of killing its victims rapidly, it endured in their bodies for years, causing acute pain, disfigurement and ultimately an agonising death. The authors analyse the symptoms of the Great Pox and the identity of patients, richly documented in the records of the massive hospital of 'incurables' established in early sixteenth-century Rome. They show how the disease threw accepted medical theory and practice into confusion and provoked public disputations among university teachers. And at the most practical level they reveal the plight of its victims at all levels of society, from ecclesiastical lords to the poor who begged in the streets. Examining a range of contexts from princely courts and republics to university faculties, confraternities and hospitals, the authors argue powerfully for a historical understanding of the Great Pox based on contemporary perceptions rather than on a retrospective diagnosis of what later generations came to know as 'syphilis'.

The Jacquerie of 1358

The Jacquerie of 1358
Title The Jacquerie of 1358 PDF eBook
Author Justine Firnhaber-Baker
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 330
Release 2021
Genre History
ISBN 0198856415

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The Jacquerie of 1358 is one of the most famous and mysterious peasant uprisings of the Middle Ages. This book, the first extended study of the Jacquerie in over a century, resolves long-standing controversies about whether the revolt was just an irrational explosion of peasant hatred or simply an extension of the Parisian revolt.