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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough...

First published in 1957, France is a collection of essays which cover the interaction of government and society over the whole range of French history from the earliest times to the 1950s.

Since time immemorial, The Venerable Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the British People (completed in 791) has been recognized as a masterpiece of medieval historical literature. This companion to the landmark 1969 Clarendon Press edition is a new commentary by the late Professor J.M. Wallace-Hadrill. Among the finest and most mature examples of Wallace-Hadrill's scholarship, the commentary unifies and enriches the findings of numerous modern...

Originally published in 1962, The Long-Haired Kings iis concerned with the history of France in the period of gestation between the end of Roman imperial room in Gaul and the emergence of medieval France in the tenth century.

This book, the first of its kind in English, surveys the development of the Frankish Church under the Merovingian and Carolingian kings (c.500-900 AD) and the special difficulties it encountered.

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In 1969 the Clarendon Press published the new edition of Bede's classic history in Oxford Medieval Texts, edited by Bertram Colgrave and Sir Roger Mynors. Mynors's masterly text and textual introduction replaced much of Charles Plummer's great edition of 1896, but the historical notes did not attempt to match in scale and detail Plummer's second volume of commentary. To fill this gap the late Professor J. M. Wallace-Hadrill devoted the last ye...

This thought-provoking and concise volume sets political changes during the era of Augustus in the context of their impact on Roman values, on the imaginative world of poetry, on the visual world of art, and on the fabric of the city of Rome. Written by a world expert, this is a vital book for students at school and university level. The second edition features a new introductory section on literary figures under Augustus, a final chapter on t...

This translation of the fourth book of the Chronicle of Fredegar with its Continuations, has Latin and English on opposite pages.

79 n. Chr. brach eine Naturkatastrophe ungeahnten Ausmaßes über Herculaneum herein. Doch der Ausbruch des Vesuvs stellt sich aus heutiger Sicht als Glücksfall der Archäologie dar, da er große Teile der Stadt für die Forschung konservierte. Andrew Wallace-Hadrill bringt neben den archäologischen Hinterlassenschaften aus Architektur, Alltag sowie der Entwicklung der städtebaulichen Entwicklung insbesondere das städtische Leben der Stadt nahe. Du...

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Original interpretation of the fundamental transformations of Rome's society, culture and identity during the period of its imperial expansion.

This book is a comprehensive survey of the history and, more particularly, of the thought of Antioch from the second to the eighth centuries of the Christian era.

In the fourth century the Roman Empire was under threat. The Barbarians were becoming a powerful force in Europe, and the Huns, the most savage of these tribesmen, were sweeping south towards the imperial frontiers. At the same time the Empire faced growing internal social and economic problems: plague and war had diminished the agricultural population and productivity was falling, the army was under increasing strain in defending the extensiv...