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This book studies the problem of Christianisation in southern France during the early sixth century AD, and of the transformation of the pagan Roman empire, from the perspective of the career and writings of Bishop Caesarius of Arles (470–542).
Tarn's Alexander the Great, first published in 1948, has become a classic and its importance for subsequent Alexander studies can hardly be exaggerated.... Læs mere
The women discuss their work as writers, their political views and... Læs mere
Plutarch and Arrian are the ancient writers who tell us most about Alexander the Great. This 1993 book is an attempt to analyse and evaluate in detail the sources of information they themselves drew on, a necessary first step to appreciating the value of their own accounts.
Vaclav Havel is revered as one of the 20th-century's great playwrights, dissidents, and honest champions of democracy. This study reveals a Havel, dramatising the key moments of joy, misery, triumph and tragedy on which his life has turned.
This significant critical anthology explores the life of Anne Komnene, the Byzantine context in which she wrote, and the impact of the Alexiad on her times and on subsequent historical works of literature.
First published in 1935, this book presents an account of Alexander the Great drawn almost exclusively from the writings of the Roman... Læs mere
The author of 'monumental and supreme' histories, Edward Gibbon was a son of the Enlightenment and the father of modern historical scholarship. Published in 1878, Morison's biography provides a... Læs mere
Edward William Lane (1801–76) is best remembered for his mighty Arabic–English Lexicon and classic translation of One Thousand and One Nights. This 1877 biography by his... Læs mere
This book, first published in 1914, examines the life of Socrates and his teaching, and also details the world in which he lived, the Greece of the time experiencing a breakdown of authority in religion, morality and society.