World History Rome - Antiquity’s superpower

In 52 BC, after six years of war against the Gallic tribes, Julius Caesar had tamed another enemy of the Roman Republic. Almost one million Gauls were taken as slaves, while their land became just another Roman province. Soon tonnes of grain along with lucrative taxes were flowing towards the imperial capital, whose inhabitants enjoyed all the luxuries of the provinces. Everything had changed since outlaws had founded Rome almost 500 years earlier. The small city on the seven hills had grown powerful...

Engels | 4 uur 55 minuten (217 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2024

Luisterboek (digitaal)

"Cui dono lepidum novum libellum?"

dedicating Latin works and motets in the sixteenth century; proceedings of the International conference held at the Academia Belgica, Rome, 18-20 August 2005

During the sixteenth century, the traditional act of dedicating a text took on a new meaning due to the wider dissemination of the printed book. As the dedication and other paratexts thus became an almost indispensable part of the publication, they merit careful examination by those who study the presentation and impact of any printed work in its context. Paratexts bridge the gap between the outside World of the reading public and the enclosed world of the book, and often present biographical information...

Non-fictie

Engels | Frans | 334 pagina's (PDF, 14 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017

E-book

Peter Heather | John Rapley Why empires fall

Rome, America and the future of the West

Engels | 188 pagina's | Penguin Books, [London] | 2024

Gedrukt boek

Koninklijk Nederlands Instituut te Rome Your humble servant

agents in early modern Europe

Kaleidoscopic tableau of 'agents' wearing the professional cloak of secretaries, diplomats, clergymen, merchants, bankers, aritsts, librarians or soldiers. These agents were active participants in the early modern process of cultural transfer, within the context of art, literature and science. Survey of art agents and the Arundel Collection; the Colonna agents in Italy and Iberia, 1555-1600; art broker Francesco Feroni (17th century); artists-agents Michel le Blon and Pieter Isaacsz; the patronage...

Non-fictie

Engels | 167 pagina's | Verloren, Hilversum | 2006

Gedrukt boek

Philip Matyszak The enemies of Rome

from Hannibal to Attila the Hun

Engels | 304 pagina's | Thames & Hudson, London | 2023

Gedrukt boek

Richard Abdy Legion

life in the Roman army

Het leven van soldaten in het Romeinse rijk.

Non-fictie

Engels | 320 pagina's | British Museum Press, London, UK | 2024

Gedrukt boek

Rome in the ancient world

from Romulus to Justinian

Engels | 368 pagina's | Thames and Hudson, London | 2018

Gedrukt boek

Robin Lane Fox The classical world

an epic history from Greece and Rome

Engels | 703 pagina's | Penguin, London [etc.] | 2006

Gedrukt boek

Mary Beard Twelve Caesars

images of power from the ancient world to the modern

Het verhaal over hoe afbeeldingen van Romeinse autocraten, vooral de Twaalf Caesars: van Julius Caesar tot Domitianus, al meer dan 2000 jaar kunst, cultuur en de representatie van macht hebben beïnvloed.

Non-fictie

Engels | 376 pagina's | Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey | 2021

Gedrukt boek

Caroline Campbell The power of art

a world history in fifteen cities

Non-fictie

Engels | 503 pagina's | The Bridge Street Press, London | 2023

Gedrukt boek