Readings in Late Antiquity

Readings in Late Antiquity
Author: Michael Maas
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 452
Release: 2000
Genre: Byzantine Empire
ISBN: 9780415159876
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This volume seeks to make accessible to students a multiplicity of texts which illuminate the history, culture, medicine, philosophy, religion and peoples of late antiquity.

The Lives of the Saints: Complete Edition

The Lives of the Saints: Complete Edition
Author: Reverend Alban Butler
Publisher: Catholic Way Publishing
Total Pages: 6654
Release: 2015-03-19
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1783794100
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THE LIVES OF THE SAINTS: COMPLETE EDITION REVEREND ALBAN BUTLER — One of the Greatest Catholic Classic! — Complete Edition: 2.2 Million Words — 1,458 Saint Biographies — Includes 5,393 Active Linked Endnotes. — Includes an Active Index, Table of Contents and Layered NCX Navigation — Includes Illustrations by Gustave Dore Alban Butler was a Catholic priest in the 18th century who's still remembered today for his biographies of the Catholic Church's greatest figures. Decades of work went into his seminal work, The Lives of the Saints, commonly referred to as "Butler's Lives.” Hundreds of years later, it is still the most comprehensive collection of biographies of saints, and it is a must read for anyone interested in Christianity and the religion's history. PUBLISHER: CATHOLIC WAY PUBLISHING

After Rome's Fall

After Rome's Fall
Author: Walter Goffart
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 412
Release: 1998-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780802007797
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This collection of essays deals with a broad range of issues within the study, past and present, of the early Middle Ages. Subjects include war, power, ethnicity, gender, Charlemagne and Carolingian history. The book is largely concerned with reading the sources, both medieval and modern, and interpreting their narrators.