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New Rome

Autor Paul Stephenson
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 noi 2023
Modern states have ever looked to antiquity for lessons, coveting Rome¿s power and fearing its decline. So why did Rome collapse? Scientific study is providing novel answers. Placing texts and artifacts alongside evidence from ice cores and ancient DNA, Paul Stephenson shows the key roles of environmental disaster and pandemics in the fall of Rome.
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ISBN-13: 9780674294042
ISBN-10: 0674294041
Pagini: 464
Dimensiuni: 155 x 234 x 36 mm
Greutate: 0.57 kg
Editura: Harvard University Press

Notă biografică

Paul Stephenson has held teaching and research posts at universities, museums and institutes around the world, including at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and Princeton University. He has held chairs at the Universities of Wisconsin, Nijmegen and Durham. He is author or editor of ten books, including Constantine: Unconquered Emperor, Christian Victor.

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Brings the world of New Rome alive with exceptional learning and a magnificent openness to modern scientific methods that breathe life into conventional narratives of political and social history.
A wonderfully sharp eye for data and detail. ... I have been quoting passages and surprising facts to everyone around me ever since putting it down.
Conventional histories of the last days of the Roman Empire will no longer suffice after you read this book.
The most compelling fusion yet of narrative history with the recent findings of environmental research and scientific data.
Stephenson's gift for narrative is matched by an eye for arresting images and quirky anecdotes that will surprise and delight even jaded readers.
Casts brilliant shafts of light on the material conditions and spiritual quests of the ruling and the ruled ... masterly
A new book from the historian Paul Stephenson centers on the Byzantine world in the period 395-700 A.D., combining modern scientific methods with traditional history to explain which parts of Rome migrated east and what became of them.
Stephenson explores evidence of climate change caused by volcanic eruption and earthquakes not so much as an engine for political change as a permanent threat to the human environment ... [he] draws with great skill and an eye for detail on the stories embedded in surviving papyri, on laws, and on saints' lives.