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The history of Spain in late antiquity offers important insights into the dissolution of the western Roman empire and the emergence of medieval Europe. Nonetheless, scholarship on Spain in this period has lagged behind that on other Roman provinces. Michael Kulikowski draws on the most recent archeological and literary evidence to integrate late antique Spain into the broader history of the Roman empire, providing a definitive narrative and analytical account of the Iberian peninsula from A.D. 300 to 600. Kulikowski begins with a concise introduction to the early history of Roman Spain, and then turns to the Diocletianic reforms of 293 and their long-term implications for Roman administration and the political ambitions of post-Roman contenders. He goes on to examine the settlement of barbarian peoples in Spain, the end of Roman rule, and the imposition of Gothic power in the fifth and sixth centuries. In parallel to this narrative account, Kulikowski offers a wide-ranging thematic history, focusing on political power, Christianity, and urbanism. Kulikowski''s portrait of late Roman Spain offers some surprising conclusions. With new archeological evidence and a fresh interpretation of well-known literary sources, Kulikowski contradicts earlier assertions of a catastrophic decline of urbanism, finding that the physical and social world of the Roman city continued well into the sixth century despite the decline of Roman power. This groundbreaking study will prompt further reassessments of the other Roman provinces and of medieval Spanish history.

This is the first book to analyze the evolution of the Roman amphitheatre as an architectural form. Katherine Welch addresses the critical period in the history of this building type: its origins and dissemination under the Republic, from the third to first centuries BC; its monumentalization as an architectural form under Augustus; and its canonization as a building type with the Colosseum (AD 80). She explores the social and political contexts of each of these phases in detail. The study then shifts focus to the reception of the amphitheatre and the games in the Greek East, a part of the Empire that was, initially, deeply fractured about the new realities of Roman rule. First book to address the critical period in the history of the Roman amphitheatre; its origins and development under the Republic Traces history of the amphitheatre from its early period to its canonization as a building type with the Colosseum in Rome Discusses the reception of the Colosseum and its games during the imperial period

The new Collins Dictionary of the English Language is a comprehensive and authoritative dictionary, and an endlessly browsable 'good read' for language lovers. Elegantly packaged, with attractive yet durable binding, this is the perfect gift for the dictionary buff or language lover in your life.This dictionary contains all the words and definitions you need every day, plus over 200 essays and special features on a wide range of language topics. With essays on topics such as the history of English, the influence of other languages on English, English as it is used around the world, the language of historically important writers (including Chaucer and Shakespeare), and grammar controversies, this dictionary is also a 'good read'.

Robert Ingpen y Philip Wilkinson investigan ochenta grandes acontecimiento históricos. Entre ellos se cuentan la fundación de religiones, batallas decisivas, destacados inventos y hechos esenciales de la politica. A pesar de la heterogeneidad, todos tienen una cosa en comun: han cambiado la historia.

.El Llibre de l¿any 2005 continua la col·lecció iniciada l¿any 2003 i concebuda per substituir el Dia a dia, el clàssic anuari que Edicions 62 publicava des de 1978. L¿edició del 2005 conté fets tan

L'Historia Alphonsi primi regis di Gaspare Pellegrino, che fu protomedico e storico del re di Napoli Alfonso il Magnanimo, e tramandata solo dal codice IX C 22 della Biblioteca Nazionale di Napoli "Vittorio Emanuele III": questo manoscritto, pur se molto parzialmente letto, usato e anche trascritto, e rimasto finora inedito. Eppure l'opera, che qui si offre per la prima volta in edizione critica e integrale, offre ininterrottamente notizie nuove, attendibili e significative, dando la possibilita, innanzitutto, di arricchire, per un arco cronologico di piu di venti anni (dal 1419 al 1443), la storia di Alfonso il Magnanimo con informazioni di prima mano; e inoltre di verificare lo svolgimento delle vicende narrate in altre fonti, sia storico-narrative, sia documentarie. Gaspare Pellegrino partecipo personalmente alle imprese di cui fu protagonista Alfonso d'Aragona, e la sua testimonianza autoptica costituisce senz'altro una fonte di primaria importanza per la ricostruzione non solo degli eventi, ma anche della temperie culturale e del modo in cui la propaganda politica venne organizzata, sviluppata e veicolata. Dunque, l'edizione dell'Historia Alphonsi primi regis offre l'opportunita di recuperare un'importante tessera, imprescindibile alla ricomposizione del piu ampio mosaico non solo delle vicende politico-istituzionali dell'Italia meridionale, ma anche della produzione storiografica degli inizi del dominio aragonese. L'opera, infatti, da un lato costituisce l'unica fonte che ci parla dettagliatamente di vicende fino ad oggi assolutamente sconosciute; dall'altro, contribuisce, anzi addirittura apre la strada alla fondazione del mito 'magnanimo' di Alfonso, costantemente rappresentato come un alter Aeneas, che, altrettanto pius, assume le fatiche e i rischi connessi con l'impresa italiana per volere di Dio e per aiutare Giovanna II, mulier debole e irrimediabilmente oppressa dai nemici interni.