Blathering about books since 2001
November 23rd, 2011, No Comments
Indo-Roman Trade Roberta Tomber 216 pages including index published in 2008 Indo-Roman Trade: From Pots to Pepper is less a history book than an overview of the state of archaeological evidence for trade between the Roman Empire and the Indian subcontinent. It’s short and very much a synopsis; I think for serious students of this [...]
November 17th, 2011, No Comments
Europe after Rome Julia M. H. Smith 384 pages including index published in 2005 To be honest I only took this book out of the library because there was little else in the way of good history books that day. Europe after Rome was a bit of a safe choice, on a subject I’d already [...]
August 14th, 2011, No Comments
Barbarian Migrations and the Roman West 376-568 Guy Halsall 591 pages including index published in 2007 I spent the week between Christmas and New Year’s Eve with my parents in Middelburg and took advantage of this visit to check out the town’s library, which used to supply most of my reading back before I moved [...]
April 17th, 2011, 2 Comments
The Inheritance of Rome 400-1000 Chris Wickham 651 pages including index published in 2009 The way you learn about history as a kid, both in school and through pop culture is as discrete chunks. You got your prehistory, your Bronze Age, your Greeks and Romans, your Biblical Times if you’re in an Christian school, your [...]
February 12th, 2011, No Comments
The Goths Peter Heather 358 pages including index published in 1996 Most of Peter Heather’s professional output has, in one way or another, featured the Goths. Usually this has been in the context of their contribution to the fall of the Roman Empire in the west, which Heather has long argued they played a central [...]
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