In The Shadow Of The Sword: The Battle for Global Empire and the End of the Ancient World - Softcover

Holland, Tom

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1408700085 ISBN 13: 9781408700082

Verlag: Little, Brown, 2012

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In the 6th century AD, the Near East was divided between two venerable empires: the Persian and the Roman. A hundred years on, and one had vanished forever, while the other seemed almost finished. Ruling in their place were the Arabs: an upheaval so profound that it spelt, in effect, the end of the ancient world.
In The Shadow of the Sword, Tom Holland explores how this came about. Spanning Constantinople to the Arabian desert, and starring some of the most remarkable rulers who ever lived, he tells a story vivid with drama, horror and startling achievement.

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In the 6th century AD, the Near East was divided between two great empires: the Persian and the Roman. A hundred years on, one had vanished for ever, while the other was a dismembered, bleeding trunk. In their place, a new superpower had arisen: the empire of the Arabs. So profound was this upheaval that it spelled, in effect, the end of the ancient world.

But the changes were more than merely political or even cultural. Today, over half the world's population subscribes to one of the various religions that took on something like their final form during the final centuries of antiquity. Wherever men or women are inspired by belief in a single god to think or behave in a certain way, they bear witness to the abiding impact of this extraordinary, convulsive age - though as Tom Holland demonstrates, much of what Jews, Christians and Muslims believe about the origins of their religion is open to debate.

In the Shadow of the Sword explores how a succession of great empires came to identify themselves with a new and revolutionary understanding of the divine. It is a story vivid with drama, horror and startling achievement, and stars many of history's the most remarkable rulers ever seen.

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• Verlag: Little, Brown
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1408700085
• ISBN 13: 9781408700082
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 544