The Inheritance of Rome
内容简介
The world known as the 'Dark Ages', often seen as a time of barbarism, was in fact the crucible in which modern Europe would be created. Chris Wickham's acclaimed history shows how this period, encompassing people such as Goths, Franks, Vandals, Byzantines, Arabs, Anglo-Saxons and Vikings, was central to the development of our history and culture. From the collapse of the Roman Empire to the establishment of new European states, and from Ireland to Constantinople, the Baltic to the Mediterranean, this landmark work makes sense of a time of invasion and turbulence, but also of continuity, creativity and achievement.
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作者简介
Chris Wickham is Chichele Professor of Medieval History at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of All Souls College. His book Framing the Middle Ages, which was published in 2005, won the Wolfson Prize, the Deutscher Memorial Prize and the James Henry Breasted Prize of the American Historical Association. He taught for many years at the University of Birmingham and is a Fellow of the British Academy.
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读书文摘
....基督徒還為羅馬世界帶來了三項重要的革新：教會制度、正確的信仰在政治上的重要性、以及嚴守教義者和禁慾主義者的社會空間。
…馬克西穆斯在他40多年的政治生涯中，擔任正式官職的時間似乎只有10年左右，所以他確實擁有大量的“清閒”時間。當時的作家也常常在著作中將“清閒”列為元老院精英生活的特徵之一。
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