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The Restoration of Rome: Barbarian Popes & Imperial Pretenders - Softcover

Heather, Peter

 
9781447241072: The Restoration of Rome: Barbarian Popes & Imperial Pretenders
Softcover
ISBN 10: 144724107X ISBN 13: 9781447241072
Verlag: Macmillan, 2014

Inhaltsangabe

In 476 AD the last of Rome’s emperors was deposed by a barbarian general, the son of one of Attila the Hun’s henchmen, and the imperial vestments were despatched to Constantinople. The curtain fell on the Roman Empire in Western Europe, its territories divided between successor kingdoms constructed around barbarian military manpower. But if the Roman Empire was dead, the dream of restoring it refused to die. In many parts of the old Empire, real Romans still lived, holding on to their lands, the values of their civilisation, its institutions; the barbarians were ready to reignite the imperial flame and to enjoy the benefits of Roman civilization, the three greatest contenders being Theoderic, Justinian and Charlemagne. But, ultimately, they would fail and it was not until the reinvention of the papacy in the eleventh century that Europe’s barbarians found the means to generate a new Roman Empire, an empire which has lasted a thousand years.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Peter Heather was born in Northern Ireland in 1960 and educated at Maidstone Grammar School and New College, Oxford. He has taught at University College, London, and Yale University, and is currently a Fellow of Medieval History at Worcester College Oxford. He is the author of a number of acclaimed works of history, including The Fall of the Roman Empire, published by Pan Macmillan in 2005.

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Verlag
Macmillan
Erscheinungsdatum
2014
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
144724107X
ISBN 13 
9781447241072
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
513
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