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  • John Skylitzes: A Synopsis of Byzantine History, 811–1057

    Translation and Notes

    by John Skylitzes, John Wortley ...
    John Skylitzes' extraordinary Middle Byzantine chronicle covers the reigns of the Byzantine emperors from the death of Nicephorus I in 811 to the deposition of Michael VI in 1057, and provides the only surviving continuous narrative of the late tenth and early eleventh centuries. A high official living in the late eleventh century, Skylitzes used a number of existing Greek histories (some of them ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

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    by John Julius Norwich ...
    With wit, intelligence and his trademark eye for riveting detail, John Julius Norwich has brought together the most important and fascinating events from his trilogy of the rise and fall of the Byzantine empire. ... Read more

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  • Terry Jones' Barbarians

    by Alan Ereira, Terry Jones ...
    Terry Jones' Barbarians takes a completely fresh approach to Roman history. Not only does it offer us the chance to see the Romans from a non-Roman perspective, it also reveals that most of those written off by the Romans as uncivilized, savage and barbaric were in fact organized, motivated and intelligent groups of people, with no intentions of overthrowing Rome and plundering its Empire.This ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Medieval History - Book VI

    Western Europe in the Dark Ages

    by Norman Baynes, Christian Pfister, Rafael Altamira, L.M. Hartmann ...
    AT the accession of Clovis, who succeeded his father Childeric about the year 481, the Salian Franks had advanced as far as the Somme. Between the Somme and the Loire the suzerainty of the Roman Empire was still maintained. The various Gallo-Roman cities preserved a certain independence, while a Roman official, by name Syagrius, exercised a kind of protection over them. Syagrius was the son of ... Read more

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  • If Rome Hadn't Fallen

    How the Survival of Rome Might Have Changed World History

    by Timothy Venning ...
    "Fascinating . . . if Rome had survived the in-fighting back at home in the fourth and fifth centuries, European and world history could be different today." —Dover ExpressThis is an intriguing exploration of how the history of Europe, and indeed the world, might have been different if the Western Roman Empire had survived the crises that pulled it apart in the 4th and 5th centuries.Dr. Timothy ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Military History of Late Rome 425–457

    by Ilkka Syvänne ...
    A history of pivotal military and political events in Ancient Rome from 425 to 457 BC.Military History of Late Rome 425–457 analyses in great detail how the Romans coped with the challenge posed by masses of Huns in a situation in which the Germanic tribes had gained a permanent foothold in the territories of West Rome. This analysis reassesses the strategy and tactics of the period. The book ... Read more

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  • A Brief History of the Roman Empire

    by Dr Stephen P. Kershaw ...
    Series series Brief Histories
    In this lively and very readable history of the Roman Empire from its establishment in 27 BC to the barbarian incursions and the fall of Rome in AD 476, Kershaw draws on a range of evidence, from Juvenal's Satires to recent archaeological finds.He examines extraordinary personalities such as Caligula and Nero and seismic events such as the conquest of Britain and the establishment of a 'New Rome' ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • A History of Byzantium

    by Timothy E. Gregory ...
    Series Book 14 - Blackwell History of the Ancient World
    This revised and expanded edition of the widely-praised A History of Byzantium covers the time of Constantine the Great in AD 306 to the fall of Constantinople in 1453.Expands treatment of the middle and later Byzantine periods, incorporating new archaeological evidenceIncludes additional maps and photographs, and a newly annotated, updated bibliographyIncorporates a new section on web resources ... Read more

    $58.99 CAD

  • The Military Orders of the Middle Ages

    by Frederick Woodhouse ...
    In a rude and primitive condition of mankind might constitute right and strength and daring give rank. The aristocracy, therefore, will consist of the warriors while the weak, the young, the old and the women will occupy an inferior position. An uncivilized race is always at war. A system of mutual fear, hatred and injury seems to be the normal condition of savage man, in all ages and in every ... Read more

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  • The Fourth Crusade 1202–04

    The betrayal of Byzantium

    by Dr David Nicolle ...
    Series Book 237 - Campaign
    A fascinating, illustrated account of the betrayal of Byzantium, the clash of Western and Eastern Christian factions and the sacking of Constantinople.The Fourth Crusade was the first, and most famous of the 'diverted' Crusades, which saw the Crusade diverted from its original target, Ayyubi Egypt, to attack the Christian city of Zadar in modern Croatia instead, an attack that was little more than ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Imperial Brothers

    Valentinian, Valens and the Disaster at Adrianople

    by Ian Hughes ...
    The latest of Ian Hughes' Late Roman biographies here tackles the careers of the brother emperors, Valentinian and Valens. Valentian was selected and proclaimed as emperor in AD 364, when the Empire was still reeling from the disastrous defeat and death in battle of Julian the Apostate (363) and the short reign of his murdered successor, Jovian (364). With the Empire weakened and vulnerable to a ... Read more

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  • The Crusades: A History

    by Professor Jonathan Riley-Smith ...
    The Crusades: A History is the definitive account of a key topic in medieval and religious history. Jonathan Riley-Smith, a world authority on the subject, explores the organisation of a crusade, the experience of crusading and the crusaders themselves, producing a textbook that is as accessible as it is comprehensive.This exciting new third edition includes:- Substantial new material on crusade ... Read more

    $199.99 CAD