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Barbarians: Rebellion and Resistance to the Roman Empire de Dr Stephen P. Kershaw

Barbarians: Rebellion and Resistance to the Roman Empire

Autor Dr Stephen P. Kershaw
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 9 iul 2020

Notăm cu interes apariția volumului Barbarians, o lucrare esențială pentru studenții la istorie, cercetătorii perioadei clasice și practicienii din domeniul arheologiei, oferindu-le o perspectivă inversată asupra hegemoniei romane. În timp ce istoria tradițională este scrisă de învingători, Dr Stephen P. Kershaw reconstruiește narațiunea ascensiunii și declinului Romei prin ochii celor pe care aceasta i-a etichetat drept „barbari”. Remarcăm structura riguroasă care urmărește rezistența și rebeliunea unor figuri emblematice, de la Hannibal și Spartacus, până la Boudicca și Attila Hunul, integrând dovezi arheologice recente pentru a completa lacunele lăsate de istoricii elocvenți ai Romei. Autorul propune o viziune nuanțată: acolo unde Gibbon vedea o distrugere a civilizației, Kershaw analizează o transformare culturală și religioasă profundă. Această abordare rezonează cu temele explorate anterior de autor în A Brief History of the Roman Empire, dar mută centrul de greutate de la centrul imperial spre periferiile care au forțat evoluția acestuia. Subliniem faptul că, deși acoperă o arie similară cu Terry Jones' Barbarians de Alan Ereira, volumul de față adoptă o abordare mai academică și mai axată pe evoluția istoriografică, fără a pierde însă din dinamismul narativ. Stilul este precis, ancorat în rigoarea cursurilor pe care Kershaw le susține la Oxford, oferind o analiză critică a modului în care identitatea „barbară” a fost construită în imaginația romană.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781472142139
ISBN-10: 1472142136
Pagini: 592
Dimensiuni: 130 x 196 x 40 mm
Greutate: 0.46 kg
Editura: Little Brown
Colecția Robinson
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

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Recomandăm această carte cititorilor care doresc să înțeleagă complexitatea Imperiului Roman dincolo de propaganda oficială a epocii. Câștigați o perspectivă proaspătă asupra modului în care rezistența externă și rebeliunea internă au modelat Europa. Este o resursă valoroasă pentru cei pasionați de istorie militară și politică, oferind o sinteză actualizată între izvoarele scrise și descoperirile arheologice, semnată de un expert recunoscut în studiile clasice.

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A fresh new look at the Roman Empire, from the point of view of those regarded by the Romans as 'barbarians'. Kershaw builds a narrative around the lives, personalities, successes and failures both of the key opponents of Rome's rise and dominance, and of the those who ultimately brought the empire down. 'And now what will become of us without barbarians?Those people were a sort of solution.' 'Waiting for the Barbarians' C.

P. CavafyHistory is written by the victors, and Rome had some very eloquent historians. Those the Romans regarded as barbarians left few records of their own, but they had a tremendous impact on the Roman imagination.

Resisting from outside Rome's borders or rebelling from within, they emerge vividly in Rome's historical tradition, and left a significant footprint in archaeology. Rome's history, as written by the Romans, follows a remarkable trajectory from its origins as a tiny village of refugees from a conflict zone to a dominant superpower, before being transformed into the medieval and Byzantine worlds. But throughout this history, Rome faced significant resistance and rebellion from peoples whom it regarded as barbarians.

Gibbon saw the Roman Empire as one of the highest points of human achievement destroyed by barbarian invaders: Ostrogoths, Visigoths, Goths, Vandals, Huns, Picts and Scots. To others, as Rome was ravaged, new life was infused into an expiring Italy. Gibbon's 'decline and fall' has been reappraised as transformation, through religious and cultural revolution.

Based both on ancient historical writings and modern archaeological research, this new history takes a fresh look at the Roman Empire, through the personalities and lives of key opponents of Rome's rise, dominance and fall - or transformation. These include: Brennus, the Gaul who sacked Rome; the Plebs, those barbarous insiders and internal resistors; Hannibal; Viriathus, the Iberian shepherd and skilled guerilla; Jugurtha and the struggle to free Africa; the Germanic threat from the Cimbri and the Teutones; Spartacus, the gladiator; Vercingetorix and rebellion in Gaul; Cleopatra; Boudicca, the Queen of the Iceni and the scourge of Rome; the Great Jewish Revolt; Alaric the Goth and the Sack of Rome; Attila the Hun, 'Born to Shake the Nations'; and the Vandals and the fall of Rome.

Recenzii

Praise for the author's A Brief Guide to the Greek Myths:
Eminently sane, highly informative, and reasonably priced.

Praise for the author's A Brief History of Atlantis:
As his exhaustive survey shows, Atlantis has been adapted to countless ideologies and agendas over time, serving the needs of every sort of reader - "harmless hippies or Heinrich Himmler", in Mr Kershaw's memorable phrase.

Praise for the author:
The experts interviewed (a diverse bunch that includes academics, military leaders, civil-rights figures and more) [for TV documentary series Barbarians Rising] are both entertaining and illuminating, framing the barbarian cause, broadly, as a struggle for freedom against an iron-fisted opponent with unparalleled resources.

'And now what will become of us without barbarians?
Those people were a sort of solution.'

'Waiting for the Barbarians'
C. P. Cavafy

History is written by the victors, and Rome had some very eloquent historians. Those the Romans
regarded as barbarians left few records of their own, but they had a tremendous impact on the Roman imagination. Resisting from outside Rome's borders or rebelling from within, they emerge vividly in Rome's historical tradition, and left a significant footprint in archaeology.

Rome's history, as written by the Romans, follows a remarkable trajectory from its origins as a tiny
village of refugees from a conflict zone to a dominant superpower, before being transformed into the medieval and Byzantine worlds. But throughout this history, Rome faced significant resistance and rebellion from peoples whom it regarded as barbarians.

Gibbon saw the Roman Empire as one of the highest points of human achievement destroyed by
barbarian invaders. But this 'decline and fall' has been reappraised by some as transformation, through religious and cultural revolution.

Based both on ancient historical writings and modern archaeological research, this new history takes a fresh look at the Roman Empire through the personalities and lives of key opponents of Rome's rise, dominance and fall - or transformation. These include, among many others: Brennus,
the Gaul who sacked Rome; the Plebs, those barbarous insiders and internal resistors; Viriathus,
the Iberian shepherd and skilled guerilla; and Boudicca, the Queen of the Iceni and the scourge of
Rome.