Late Roman Warlords

Zusatztext The author has provided a generally intelligent guide through the tangled web of sources and events for the final decades of the western empire, and in so doing has helped to shed further light on the important theme of late Roman warlords. There is still scope for a comprehensive, analytical study of this phenomenon, but any such study will find the volume under review an invaluable source. Informationen zum Autor Penny MacGeorge teaches History at Carisbrooke High School, the Isle of Wight Klappentext Late Roman Warlords reconstructs the lives of some of the men who shaped events in the final controversial years of the Western Roman Empire during the fifth century AD. Ranging from the Balkans and Italy to northern France, this study uses a wide range of historical evidence, folklore, letters, poems, sermons, archaeology, and coins. Recent historical theories are discussed and new interpretations offered, including how these warlords may throw light on post-Roman Britain. Zusammenfassung Reconstructs the lives of some of the men who shaped events in the final controversial years of the Western Roman Empire during the fifth century AD. Ranging from the Balkans and Italy to northern France, this study uses a wide range of historical evidence, folklore, letters, poems, sermons, archaeology, and coins.

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• Authors: Penny Macgeorge, Penny ( Macgeorge, Penny (Carisbrooke High School Macgeorge, MacGeorge Penny
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.12.2002
• EAN: 9780199252442
• ISBN: 978-0-19-925244-2
• No. of pages: 368
• Series: Oxford Classical Monographs; Oxford Classical Monographs
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; European History, HISTORY / Ancient / Rome, HISTORY / Europe / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, Political leaders & leadership, Ancient Rome, Ancient History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Political leaders and leadership, BCE to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory