11,674円 This book teaches students and scholars of Greco-Roman medical history how to use and critically assess archaeological materials. Ancient medicine is a subject dominated by textual sources, yet there is a wealth of archaeological remains that can be used to broaden our understanding of medicine i...

1,657円 In the eighth century, The Vikings, the water-borne warriors of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, conquered much of the British Isles. They pillaged the coast of France, pushed inland to sack Paris, and seized Normandy. Sweeping south down the great rivers of central Europe, they overwhelmed the Slavs...

599円 2 works of Karl Otfried Müller German scholar and Philodorian (1797-1840) This ebook presents a collection of 2 works of Karl Otfried Müller. A dynamic table of contents allows you to jump directly to the work selected. Table of Contents: The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race ...

2,588円 Attila the Hun - godless barbarian and near-mythical warrior king - has become a byword for mindless ferocity. His brutal attacks smashed through the frontiers of the Roman empire in a savage wave of death and destruction. His reign of terror shattered an imperial world that had been securely uni...

322円 Ce livre est parfaitement mis en page pour une lecture sur Kobo. Extrait : Où êtes-vous, à cette minute, ô voyageuse que j’attends ? Sur quelle page de l’atlas faut-il que je cherche le lac, la forêt couronnée d’or, la plaine vêtue de pampres, la petite ville blottie sous l’automne, qui se mirent...

330円 When Pope Leo rode out of Rome in 452 to meet Attila the Hun, he had no arms, no army, no bodyguards, no great retinue of ambassadors and advisers. Only a few churchmen and lesser officials of the enfeebled and fading Roman Empire accompanied him. Attila came to the encounter leading a large, wel...

4,378円 Jesus taught his followers that it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter heaven. Yet by the fall of Rome, the church was becoming rich beyond measure. Through the Eye of a Needle is a sweeping intellectual and social history of the vexing problem of ...

496円 The Enuma Elish (The Epic of Creation) translated by L. W. King When in the height heaven was not named, And the earth beneath did not yet bear a name, And the primeval Apsu, who begat them, And chaos, Tiamut, the mother of them both Their waters were mingled together, And no field was formed, no...

9,616円 Like other volumes in this series, Ancient History from Coins demystifies a specialism, introducing students (from first year upwards) to the techniques, methods, problems and advantages of using coins to do ancient history. Coins are a fertile source of information for the ancient historian; yet...

1,969円 First published in 1973, Arena discusses the Year AD 80, when the Colosseum opened with quite the longest and most nauseating organized mass orgy in history. It was a mammoth celebration on the grandest scale, a fitting inauguration for an arena built to epitomize all the majesty and power of the...

299円 Plutarque - Les Vies Parallèles Traduction de Alexis Pierron (1814-1878) Ce livre numérique présente Les Vies Parallèles des Hommes Illustres de Plutarque, éditées en texte intégral. Une table des matières dynamique permet d'accéde...

496円 The Vita Merlini by Geoffrey of Monmouth Translated by John Jay Parry "Vita Merlini, or The Life of Merlin, is a work by Geoffrey of Monmouth composed in Latin around AD 1150. It retells incidents from the life of the Brython Merlin, and is based on traditional material about the character. Merli...