Los secretos de Roma

historias, lugares y personajes de una capital

Pocas ciudades en el mundo tienen el encanto, la tradición y el sabor de la capital italiana. Paseando por sus calles se siente y se comprende una parte muy importante de la historia de Occidente. Entre sus muros, junto al río, en el Trastevere o ...

El hecho colonial romano en el área circumpirenaica occidental

INDICE: Prólogo. Acotaciones al tema. Hitos capitales en las relaciones del Estado Romano con el área. Las evidencias de presencia romana y su reparto por zonas. El impacto de Roma en las formas de vida del área. Índices.

Technology and culture in greek and roman antiquity

The technological achievements of the Greeks and Romans continue to fascinate and excite admiration. But what was the place of technology in their cultures? Through five case-studies, this book sets ancient technical knowledge in its political, social and intellectual context. It explores the definition of ...

De Grecia a Roma y de Roma a Grecia

un camino de ida y vuelta

En este tiempo de encuentro entre civilizaciones parece oportuno reflexionar desde una perspectiva diferente sobre las relaciones culturales que mediaron entre Roma y Grecia en la Antigüedad. Habitualmente se ha entendido que esas relaciones operaron en un único sentido, como influjo de la cultura griega ...

The roman amphitheatre

from its origins to the Colosseum

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 B.C ...

The roman revolution of Constantine

The reign of the emperor Constantine (306--337) was as revolutionary for the transformation of Rome's Mediterranean empire as that of Augustus, the first emperor three centuries earlier. The abandonment of Rome signalled the increasing importance of frontier zones in northern and central Europe and ...

The Cambridge economic history of the greco-roman world

In this, the first comprehensive one-volume survey of the economies of classical antiquity, twenty-eight chapters summarise the current state of scholarship in their specialised fields and sketch new directions for research. The approach taken is both thematic, with chapters on the underlying determinants of economic ...

The Cambridge history of greek and roman warfare. Vol. I.

Greece, the hellenistic world and the rise of Rome

Systematic account of the various themes underlying the warfare of the Greek and Roman worlds from the Archaic Age of Greece to the Arab conquests of the seventh century AD. It reflects recent developments resulting from new evidence and fresh analyses emphasising social, economic, political ...

Conaige and identity in the roman provinces

Coins were the most deliberate of all symbols of public communal identities, yet the Roman historian will look in vain for any good introduction to, or systematic treatment of, the subject. Sixteen leading international scholars have sought to address this need by producing this authoritative ...

Prisciliano y el priscilianismo

historiografía y realidad

¿Puede decirse todavía algo nuevo sobre Prisciliano y el priscilianismo? Todos los especialistas de historia antigua, concretamente los que se ocupan de la tardorromanidad, han tenido la necesidad de enfrentarse con la persona y la obra de este líder, que fue capaz de promover un ...

Erotica antiqua

sexualidad y erotismo en Grecia y Roma

Constantino

la invención del cristianismo

El emperador Constantino vivió en una época de transición de las más dramáticas de la historia. El paso del Bajo Imperio Romano hacia la Edad Media provocó numerosos cambios en la escena social y política de todo Occidente. A partir del siglo IV, se icorporan ...

The roman revolution of Constantine

The reign of the emperor Constantine (306-337) was as revolutionary for the transformation of Rome's Mediterranean empire as that of Augustus, the first emperor three centuries earlier. The abandonment of Rome signaled the increasing importance of frontier zones in northern and central Europe and ...

Hannibal´s Last Battle

Zama and the Fall of Carthage

At Zama in what is now Tunisia in 202 BC the armies of two empires clashed. The Romans under Scipio Africanus won a bloody, decisive victory over Hannibal's Carthaginians. Scipio's victory signalled a shift in the balance of power in the ancient world ...

Roma S.P.Q.R

Senatus Populus Que Romanus

Catálogo de la Exposición. La exposición ha sido concebida como un yacimiento abierto al público en el Centro de Exposiciones Arte Canal, ROMA SPQR muestra 500 piezas procedentes de 29 instituciones nacionales y extranjeras y ofrece los logros de una civilización que aún hoy nos ...

Crusader castles and modern histories

For the last 150 years the historiography of the Crusades has been dominated by nationalist and colonialist discourses in Europe and the Levant. These modern histories have interpreted the Crusades in terms of dichotomous camps, Frankish and Muslim. In this revisionist study, Ronnie Ellenblum presents ...

Rulers, warriors, traders, clerics

the Central Sahel and the North Sea, 800-1500

What do we learn if we look in parallel at the past of two distinct parts of the world? Anne Haour weighs this question by considering both the central Sahel of West Africa and the European countries around the North Sea, for the period 800-1500 ...

The Early Middle Ages

the birth of Europe

As a global perspective grows and Eurocentricism wanes, it becomes more important, not less, to see where Europe came from. Lynette Olson offers an exploration of the fascinating original formation of Europe from the fall of Rome to the First Crusade. Written in an easy-to-follow ...

The Valois

kings of France 1328-1589

The house of Valois ruled France for 250 years, playing a crucial role in its establishment as a major European power. When Philip VI came to the throne, in 1328, France was a weak country, with much of its modern area under English rule. Victory ...

Introduction to medieval Europe 300-1550

Surveying the years between 300 and 1550, this outstanding new textbook brings a long, complex and varied period of European history vividly to life for students, researchers and general readers of this period. Covering themes as diverse as barbarian migrations, the growth of cities, kingship ...