Christianity, philosophy, and Roman power

Constantine, Julian, and the bishops on exegesis and empire

This book rethinks the Christianisation of the late Roman empire as a crisis of knowledge, pointing to competitive cultural re-assessment as a major driving force in the making of the Constantinian and post-Constantinian state. Emperor Julian's writings are re-assessed as key to accessing the ...

Articulating resistance under the Roman Empire

This book explores the many strategies by which elite Greeks and Romans resisted the cultural and political hegemony of the Roman Empire in ways that avoided direct confrontation or simple warfare. By resistance is meant a range of responses including 'opposition', 'subversion', 'antagonism', 'dissent', and ...

Trajano

El mejor emperador

Nacido el año 53 d. C. en Itálica, en la fértil Bética, el corazón de la Hispania romana, Marco Ulpio Trajano estaba llamado a ser honrado por sus coetáneos como Optimus Princeps, el «mejor emperador», un epíteto que permanece vivo hasta hoy. Como militar echó ...

Atila: azote de Dios

(Revista Desperta Ferro. Antigua y Medieval, Nº 89, año 2025)

'Era un hombre nacido para conmocionar a los pueblos e infundir pavor a todo el universo'. Así describía el historiador Jordanes en su Gética (35.182) el estremecimiento que causó en Roma, en las décadas centrales del siglo V, la llegada de Atila, terrorífico y ...

El amanecer de una nueva era

El convulso siglo XVI

La historia del convulso siglo que configuró las bases de nuestro mundo moderno.En el siglo XVI el mundo cambió de manera radical dando paso a una era de descubrimientos, conflictos y transformaciones. Desde la conquista de América y las pretensiones europeas sobre el Nuevo ...

Enmity and violence in early modern Europe

In this original study Stuart Carroll transforms our understanding of Europe between 1500 and 1800 by exploring how ordinary people felt about their enemies and the violence it engendered. Enmity, a state or feeling of mutual opposition or hostility, became a major social problem during ...

The German Empire, 1871-1918

Furious economic growth and social change resulted in pervasive civic conflict in Imperial Germany. Roger Chickering presents a wide-ranging history of this fractious period, from German national unification to the close of the First World War. Throughout this time, national unity remained an acute issue ...

La guerra del rey

Alfonso XIII y la diplomacia humanitaria durante la Primera Guerra Mundial

Durante la Primera Guerra Mundial, mientras Europa se desangraba en los campos de batalla, Alfonso XIII se erigía como un faro de esperanza. Soberano de un país neutral, utilizó su influencia para aliviar el sufrimiento de miles de familias afectadas por el conflicto. En La ...

Overlord

El Día D y la batalla de Normandía. 1944

Los desembarcos del 6 de junio de 1944, el Día D, marcaron el comienzo de la Operación Overlord, la batalla inicial por la liberación de Europa. Max Hastings, uno de los principales y más aclamados historiadores del periodo, cuestiona y desmonta muchas leyendas en este ...

La última batalla

Cuando estadounidenses y alemanes combatieron juntos contra las Waffen-SS

5 de mayo de 1945. Hitler está muerto y del Reich de los mil años quedan poco más que escombros humeantes y una indeleble huella de dolor. Ningún soldado quiere ser el último hombre muerto en acción contra los nazis, pero a algunos todavía les ...

Materialismo dialéctico

Fundamento teórico del marxismo-leninismo

El presente volumen es un manual editado por International Publishers en Estados Unidos 1934, como recopilación de escritos incluidos en manuales publicados originalmente en ruso y empleados para la formación de cuadros en la Unión Soviética. Este manual es uno de los primeros en su ...

Building socialism

the communist party and the making of the soviet system, 1921-1941

By placing the party grassroots at the centre of its focus, Building Socialism presents an original account of the formative first two decades of the Soviet system. Assembled in a large network of primary party organisations (PPO), the Bolshevik rank-and-file was an army of activists ...

Pre-Islamic Arabia

societies, politics, cults and identities during late antiquity

This book delves into the political and cultural developments of pre-Islamic Arabia, focusing on the religious attitudes of the inhabitants of the Arabian Peninsula and its northern extension into the Syrian desert. Between the third and the Seventh Century, Arabia was on the edge of ...

Etruria and Anatolia

material connections and artistic exchange

Striking similarities in Etruscan and Anatolian material culture reveal various forms of contact and exchange between these regions on opposite sides of the Mediterranean. This is the first comprehensive investigation of these connections, approaching both cultures as agents of artistic exchange rather than as side ...

The Greeks and their histories

myth, history, and society

In this concise but stimulating book on history and Greek culture, Hans-Joachim Gehrke continues to refine his work on 'intentional history', which he defines as a history in the self-understanding of social groups and communities - connected to a corresponding understanding of the other - which is ...

Connecting communities in Archaic Greece

exploring economic and political networks through data modelling

This is a new history of Greece in the seventh and sixth centuries BC written for the twenty-first century. It brings together archaeological data from over 100 years of 'Big Dig' excavation in Greece, employing experimental data analysis techniques from the digital humanities to identify ...

The local horizon of ancient Greek religion

Which dimensions of the religious experience of the ancient Greeks become tangible only if we foreground its local horizons? This book explores the manifold ways in which Greek religious beliefs and practices are encoded in and communicate with various local environments. Its individual chapters explore ...

Imagining the Roman emperor

perceptions of rulers in the high empire

How was the Roman emperor viewed by his subjects? How strongly did their perception of his role shape his behaviour? Adopting a fresh approach, Panayiotis Christoforou focuses on the emperor from the perspective of his subjects across the Roman Empire. Stress lies on the imagination ...

Making the middle Republic

new approaches to Rome and Italy, c.400-200 BCE

During the fourth and third centuries BCE, Roman expansion into Italy reshaped the peninsula's Archaic societies and prompted new political relationships, new economic practices, and new sociocultural structures. Rural landscapes and urban spaces throughout Latium saw intensified use amidst novel principles of land management ...

The politics of immorality in ancient Rome

The question this book addresses is not how immoral the ancient Romans were, but why the literature they produced is so preoccupied with immorality. The modern image of immoral Rome derives from ancient accounts which are largely critical rather than celebratory. Far from being empty ...