La formación del campesinado en el Oriente antiguo y medieval

análisis de los cambios en las condiciones de trabajo desde la Roma clásica al feudalismmo

El campesinado es una clase social que existe desde la Antigüedad pero cuyo papel histórico se circunscribe a la época feudal. El objetivo de este libro es el estudio de a formación del campesindo como clase antagónica de la señorial. A lo largo de sus ...

Las migraciones bárbaras y la creación de los primeros reinos de Occidente

Este libro está dirigido a un lector poco familiarizado con el tema, pero a la vez interesado en el conocimiento de una serie de sucesos históricos que enfrentan a dos mundos considerados antagónicos. Se centra en la presentación del contacto entre los bárbaros y los ...

Murder was not a crime

homicide and power in the roman republic

Embarking on a unique study of Roman criminal law, Judy Gaughan has developed a novel understanding of the nature of social and political power dynamics in republican government. Revealing the significant relationship between political power and attitudes toward homicide in the Roman republic, Murder Was ...

La caída de Roma

(Revista Desperta Ferro. Antigua y Medieval, Nº1, año 2010)

Lives behind the laws

the world of the 'Codex Hermogenianus'

In this exploration of the administration of law and its role in the lives of ordinary people in the northern provinces of the Roman Empire, Serena Connolly draws upon a rich but little-known legal collection from the late 3rd century known as the Codex Hermogenianus ...

The Edinburgh companion to ancient Greece and Rome

Eds. Edward Bispham, Thomas Harrison and Brian A. Sparkes. The Edinburgh Companion, newly available in paperback, is a gateway to the fascinating worlds of ancient Greece and Rome. Wide-ranging in its approach, it demonstrates the multifaceted nature of classical civilisation and enables readers to gain ...

Roma

la forja de un Imperio. Expansionismo romano y resistencia indígena (ss. I a.C-II d.C.)

INDICE:El imperialismo romano y la resistencia indígena en Occidente # El ejército romano como instrumento del expansionismo y los factores del rechazo a Roma # Conquista romana y resistencia indígena: Hispania y el norte de África # La Galia sometida y el fracaso del Imperium Galliarum # La ...

Rome

the autobiography

Edited by Jon E. Lewis. The history of Ancient Rome has been passed down to us through official accounts, personal letters, annotated words of great orators and considered histories of powerful men. This title collects over 150 pieces of Ancient Rome, from the written accounts ...

The romans in the age of Augustus

Providing a snapshot of the ancient Romans as they were at the height of their success, The Romans in the Age of Augustus is a fascinating history of Rome and the Roman peoples during the pivotal transition from Republic to Empire. The rule of the ...

Christianity in Ancient Rome

the first three centuries

The reader is taken from the very first generation of Christians in Rome, a tiny group of Jews who acknowledged Jesus as the Messiah, down to the point when Christianity had triumphed over savage persecution and was on the verge of becoming the religion of ...

The emperor´s needles

egyptian obelisks and Rome

Obelisks#the ubiquitous, four-sided monuments with pyramid tops that dotted the landscapes of ancient Egypt#reached their heyday between 2000 and 1500 BC, when they transformed from emblems of the sun cult to everyday objects proclaiming the splendor of the pharaohs. Today, only twenty-seven Egyptian ...

Julio César

textos, contextos y recepción: de la Roma clásica al mundo actual

Coord., Antonio Moreno Hernández. Este libro recoge las aportaciones aprobadas por el Comité Científico del Coloquio Internacional sobre la figura y la Obra de Julio César celebrado en la UNED y en la Fundación Pastor de Estudios Clásicos. Recoge 25 colaboraciones de profesores de una ...

Roman battle tactics

390-110 BC

Illustrated by Gerry and Sam Embleton. By 390 BC, the Roman army was in need of change, as Greek-style tactics of fighting with a heavy infantry phalanx were proving increasingly outdated. A military revolution was born in the form of the legion, a tool of ...

La ruina del Imperio romano

Ésta es la historia de cómo uno de los mayores imperios de nuestra historia acabó de desmoronarse y con él el sueño de Alejandro Magno y Julio César de unificar Europa, el Mediterráneo y Oriente Medio en una sola comunidad. Durante el siglo VI, en ...

La leggenda di Roma

Vol. 2: Dal ratto delle donne al regno di Romolo e Tito Tazio

0ttorno alle origini di Roma esiste una complessa, affascinante leggenda che l'opera della Fondazione Valla intende ricostruire su basi nuove. Essa si articola in quattro volumi e offre al lettore un'ampia raccolta di fonti (annalistiche, antiquarie e poetiche; da Esiodo ai padri della ...

Pompeya

vida, muerte y resurrección de la ciudad sepultada por el Vesubio

El 24 de agosto del año 79 de nuestra era, Pompeya quedó sepultada bajo la lava del Vesubio y el mundo perdió su memoria. Dieciocho siglos después, fue descubierta de manera fortuita y comenzaron las excavaciones arqueológicas que la han devuelto a la vida y ...

Rome and the Distant East

Trade Routes to the Ancient Lands of Arabia, India and China

In ancient times there were several major trade routes that connected the Roman Empire to exotic lands in the distant East. Ancient sources reveal that after the Augustan conquest of Egypt, valued commodities from India, Arabia and China became increasingly available to Roman society. These ...

The myth of sacred prostitution in Antiquity

Stephanie Budin demonstrates that sacred prostitution, the sale of a person's body for sex in which some or all of the money earned was devoted to a deity or a temple, did not exist in the ancient world. Reconsidering the evidence from the ancient ...

Calígula

Se ha tratado a lo largo de estas páginas de dar una visión diferente de lo que estamos acostumbrados de ver de Calígula como un loco sanguinario y cruel, únicamente preocupado por matar y organizar orgías de todo tipo en la línea de lo escrito ...

Roman imperialism

This book examines the course and nature of Roman expansion during the Republic and Early Empire, focusing on the impact of Roman rule on the subject, and the effect of empire on the imperial power. These are topics which have long generated considerable controversy among ...