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Books on: historiography roman

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Historiography at the End of the Republic: Provincial Perspectives on Roman Rule

Book by Liv Mariah Yarrow; Oxford University Press, 2005

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Rome--History--Republic, 265-30 B.C--Historiography

Collections: History, Entire Library

...cultural landmark: the first Roman known to have written history...Wiseman, The Origins of Roman Historiography in his Historiography and Imagination (1994...Pictor and Greco-Roman Historiography at Rome in J. E. Miller...
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Ancient Histories of Medicine: Essays in Medical Doxography and Historiography in Classical Antiquity

Book by Philip J. Van Der Eijk; Brill, 1999

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Authors, Greek, Authors, Latin, Medicine, Greek And Roman--Historiography

Collections: History, Entire Library

...strong belief, among Greek and Roman physicians, in the relevance...to realize this, as Greek and Roman historiography in general was inspired by a...On the purposes of ancient historiography see also A. Momigfiano. 7lrr...
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Roman Invasions: The British History, Protestant Anti-Romanism, and the Historical Imagination in England, 1530-1660

Book by John E. Curran Jr.; University of Delaware Press, 2002

Subjects:

Catholic Church--In Literature, Catholics In Literature, English Literature--Early Modern, 1500-1700--History And Criticism, English Literature--Protestant Authors--History And Criticism, Great Britain--History--Invasions--Historiography, Great Britain--History--Roman Period, 55 B.C.-449 A.D--Historiography, Literature And History--Great Britain--History--16th Century, Literature And History--Great Britain--History--17th Century, Protestantism And Literature--History--16th Century, Protestantism And Literature--History--17th Century, Romans--Great Britain--Historiography, Rome--In Literature

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Literature, Entire Library

...stands against Roman tyranny in historiography mirroring Roman tyranny in...unleashes a salvo against Roman domination, even while the...world : those who would hold Roman histories superior to their...disproven by its absence from Roman accounts: such people say that they the Romans who most doe strive, / From...
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Roman Historical Myths: The Regal Period in Augustan Literature

Book by Matthew Fox; Clarendon Press, 1996

Subjects:

Historical Poetry, Latin--History And Criticism, Latin Literature--History And Criticism, Legends--Rome--Historiography, Literature And History--Rome--History, Mythology, Roman, Mythology, Roman, In Literature, Narration (Rhetoric), Rhetoric, Ancient, Rome--Historiography, Rome--History--Augustus, 30 B.C.-14 A.D

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Heurgon, J. 132 historical relativism 31 -4, 38 , 39 , 42 historicism 17 , 37 , 39 n. 17, 41 , 70 , 231 historiography, anti-Roman 10 n. 11, 51 - 2 , 53 , 116 -17 Homer 18 -19 Horace 147 n. 8, 152 Horatii and Curiatii 81 idealization...
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Roman Honor: The Fire in the Bones

Book by Carlin A. Barton; University of California Press, 2001

Subjects:

Honor In Literature, Honor--Rome--History, Latin Literature--History And Criticism, National Characteristics, Roman, Rome--Historiography

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...of Hannibals defeat of the Romans at Cannae in 216 B. C. E...the magnus animus, of the Romans was revealed in their unwillingness...horde, having smashed the Romans at the battle of the Alia...on no other occasion, true Roman virtus was revealed 1.7...Valerius Maximus and Roman Historiography: A Study of the exempla Tradition...

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Journal Articles on: historiography roman

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Spenser and the Historical Revolution: Briton Moniments and the Problem of Roman Britain

Journal article by John E. Curran Jr.; CLIO, Vol. 25, 1996

Subjects:

Briton Moniments--Criticism, interpretation, etc., English literature--16th century, Historiography--Literature, Spenser, Edmund--Criticism, interpretation, etc., United Kingdom--History, 43-449 (Roman period)

Collections: History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Britain and Arthurs conquest of the Romans. That Spenser refers to the latter event in the midst of his Roman Britain section(9) clearly suggests...and who were no match at all for the Romans. The discovery of Roman Britain demanded of Englishmen an exercise...perfidy of Androgeus, who invited the Romans back, permitted a third trip and a Roman victory.(10) The notion that Caesar...
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The Rhetoric of Literary Realism in Leopold Von Ranke's Historiography

Journal article by Kathrin Maurer; CLIO, Vol. 35, 2006

Subjects:

Historiography--Analysis, Ranke, Leopold von--Criticism and interpretation, Ranke, Leopold von--Works

Collections: History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...itself. Through purging historiography of its rhetorical stains...device of narration from Roman antiquity, namely...emergence of modern German historiography 1760-1860) (Berlin...Geschichtsschreibung oder Roman? Zur Konstitutionslogik...Schiller und Ranke (Historiography or novel? about the...
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Spatial Historiography and Empire in Michel Butor's Degres

Journal article by Paul Haacke; French Forum, Vol. 34, 2009

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Butor, Michel--Works, Degrees (Novel)--Criticism and interpretation, French literature--Criticism and interpretation, Historiography, Narrative perspectives

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

Spatial Historiography and Empire in Michel...theoretical essays on the "roman comme recherche." Of...be that materialistic historiography differs in method more...time. Materialistic historiography, on the other hand...
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Reflections on John Webster Grant's Influence on Catholic Historiography in Canada

Journal article by Mark G. Mcgowan; Historical Studies, Vol. 74, 2008

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Apologetics--Middle Ages, 600-1500, Apologetics--Social aspects, Catholic Church--History, Church history--Social aspects, Grant, John Webster--Influence, Historiography--Social aspects

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Grants Influence on Catholic Historiography in Canada. by Mark G. McGowan...subjects germane to Non-Roman Catholic Churches. John Grant...an overtly and singularly Roman Catholic subject (although...work and Canadian Catholic historiography is not such a far fetched...
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Inventing a Tradition: The Cronica D'espayna De Garcia De Eugui and the Beginnings of Navarrese Historiography

Journal article by Aengus Ward; Medium Aevum, Vol. 68, 1999

Subjects:

Historiography--Technique, Middle Ages--Historiography, Spain--Literature

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...this masterpiece of Castilian historiography, and her main points make...throughout. By the time of the Roman Civil War, Eugui has become...the reigns of emperors in the Roman period, Visigothic/Asturian...western European/Greek and Roman works.(13) In addition...

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Magazine Articles on: historiography roman

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Who Built the First Organ in America? a Historiography

Magazine article by Michael D. Friesen; The Tracker, Vol. 50, Summer 2006

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...their adjacent islands. Because the historiography is uneven, however, a complete survey...does not claim to present a complete historiography of sources that have in some fashion...for the winter), destined for the Roman Catholic Church of Notre-Dame de Quebec...
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The Decline of a Discipline: David Womersley Revisits an Article, First Published in History Today in 1969, in Which J.H. Plumb Contrasts Edward Gibbon's Approach to the Study of History with That of the Modern Academic

Magazine article by David Womersley; History Today, Vol. 60, October 2010

Subjects:

Gibbon, Edward--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Gibbon, Edward--Criticism and interpretation, Gibbon, Edward--Works, Historians--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Historians--Criticism and interpretation, Historians--Works, Historiography--Analysis, Plumb, J.H.--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Nonfiction work)--Criticism and interpretation

Collections: History, Entire Library

...The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire the honour of marking...with erudition to create an historiography at once powerful and popular...of the history of European historiography followed this Gibbonian trajectory...undermine the possibility of an historiography both sound in scholarship...
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And Now for the News: The Disturbing Freshness of Gibbon's 'Decline and Fall.'

Magazine article by Robert D. Kaplan; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 279, March 1997

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Gibbons, Edward--Criticism and interpretation, Historiography--Criticism and interpretation, Rome (Ancient state)--History, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Book)--Criticism and interpretation

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Edward Gibbons The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. I decided to hold out three of the six volumes for...second century A.D., under Trajan (the first and last Roman general to navigate the Persian Gulf), to the dissolution...Gibbon wrote about the Crimean Chersonites, who, helped by the Romans, attacked the Goths in A.D. 335, he captured well the...
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The Ideal of Unity; Russell Chamberlin Examines the Origins and Development of Europe's Persistent Vision of Unity from the Birth of the Holy Roman Empire to Its Fall

Magazine article by Russell Chamberlin; History Today, Vol. 53, November 2003

Subjects:

Europe--History, Europe--Political aspects, European federation--History, European federation--Political aspects, European federation--Social aspects

Collections: History, Entire Library

...is the portrayal of the Fall of the Roman Empire as a Hollywood-type scenario...themselves upon elegant, toga-clad Romans, raping, murdering, destroying what...nothing to resolve the secular one. The Romans had seen their bishop, their prince...The papal crown was the symbol of Roman sovereignty and, to gain control of...swore to restore the splendours of the Roman empire infused with Christian belief...Renovatio Imperii Romanorum. But the Romans rose against him, drove him and his...
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What Do We Mean by Europe

Magazine article by J.G.A. Pocock; The Wilson Quarterly, Vol. 21, Winter 1997

Subjects:

Civilization, Western--History, Europe--History, European Union--Evaluation, Geographical perception--Evaluation, Historiography--Europe

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...not as Asia. In central Germany, the Romans were closer than they knew to the vast...sense, created in the last group of Roman provinces after the disintegration of...most prominent, was the collapse of Roman control over the far western provinces...and Rhine in greater numbers than the Romans could absorb. This extinction of the...an entity that had pre-existed the Romans themselves, had been half-destroyed and yet half-civilized by Roman conquest, flung into barbarism half...

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Newspaper Articles on: historiography roman

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When Barbarians Were Not

Newspaper article; The Washington Times (Washington, DC), October 23, 2009

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Roman Empire, 30 BC-476 AD

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire in 1776, perhaps...ODonnell turns older historiography on its head by showing...preserved the Western Roman Empire. Most notably...scarcely aware that the Romans were their rulers...effort needed for the Romans monumental buildings...Franks, who invaded the Roman province of Gaul eventually...
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A Kidnapping and Church History

Newspaper article by Colin Walters; The Washington Times, June 15, 1997

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...and church history by Colin Walters As far back as 417, the Roman Empires Christian rulers prohibited Jews from employing Christian...Kertzer reasons, is its falling between two schools of Italian historiography that take their charge from church and Risorgimento respectively...
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Arthur Well below Ex-Calibre

Newspaper article; Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England), July 30, 2004

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...undertaking one final mission: to rescue a boy, important to the Roman empire, from the advancing Saxon hordes, led by Cerdic...A stand-off ensues. Theres no doubting the earnest historiography thats gone into this King Arthur ( the Press notes list countless...
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Vanderbilt Goes PC; Ties to Confederacy under Reconstruction

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, July 21, 2005

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Vanderbilt University

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...old and, in some quarters, honorable practice. From the Roman historian Tacitus politicization of his account of the Germans...the past," then the price for allowing the triumph of a historiography that borrows more heavily from Lenin than from honest historians...
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Arthur Lacks Magic; King Arthur (12A, 125mins) Clive Owen, Keira Knightley, Ioan Gruffudd, Stellan Skarsgard, Ray Winstone, Hugh Dancy, Ray Stevenson, Stephen Dillane, Til Schweiger, Joel Edgerton, Mads Mikkelsen. Rating: 3/10 the Stepford Wives (12A, 93mins) Comedy/Thriller. Nicole Kidman, Matthew Broderick, Bette Midler, Jon Lovitz, Christopher Walken, Glenn Close, Roger Bart, David Marshall Grant, Faith Hill Rating: 7/10

Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), July 30, 2004

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...undertaking one final mission: to rescue a boy, important to the Roman empire, from the advancing Saxon hordes. En route, Arthur...princess Guinevere (Knightley). Theres no doubting the earnest historiography thats gone into this King Arthur -- the press notes list...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: historiography roman

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History

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...genealogical interests as the king lists of other peoples. Western Historiography Greek and Roman Historiography It was not until the time of the Greeks that historiography, the writing of organic history, emerged. The compilations of the...
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Rostovtzeff, Michael Ivanovich

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...was professor of Latin and of Roman history from 1898 to 1918...and Economic History of the Roman Empire (1926) and A History...archaeological research to an aspect of Roman history that until then had...modern contributions to Roman historiography, as has his parallel study...
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Petrarch

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...considered by many to be the first modern poet. He influenced contemporary historiography through his epic Africa, which brought attention to the virtues of the Roman republic. Petrarch had less pride in the "vulgar tongue" than in Latin...

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