Resultados para "1,000" en Antigua

Bloomsbury presents Domesday, written and read by Max Adams. The Domesday Book describes the furniture of a culture and its economy – the legacy of Anglo-Saxon England. When King William I sent his agents to survey every shire in England, he asked them to list his holdings and calculate what...

This tenth anniversary revised edition of the authoritative text on Christianity's first thousand years of history features a new preface and an updated bibliography. The essential general survey of medieval European Christendom, Brown's vivid prose charts the compelling and tumultuous rise of an institution that came to wield enormous religious and secular power.

Beginning with the life of Jesus, Robert Louis Wilken narrates the dramatic spread and development of Christianity over the first thousand years of its history. Moving through the formation of early institutions, practices, and beliefs to the transformations of the Roman world after the conversion of Constantine, he sheds new light on the subsequent stories of Christianity in the Latin West, the Byzantine and Slavic East, the Middle East, and Central Asia. 

*A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice* From celebrated Yale professor Valerie Hansen, a “vivid” and “astonishingly comprehensive account [that] casts world history in a brilliant new light” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) and shows how bold explorations and daring trade...

Step into the ancient political theater where emperors clashed and the Roman Republic was forged in marble and blood. Transform your daily commute into an immersive walk across the original paving stones of antiquity. Feel the epic weight of history as a drained marsh evolves into the vibrant...

Witness the epic military history and devastating political collapse of ancient civilization's most ruthless superpower. Perfect for your daily commute or deep focus learning, this dramatic narrative transports you from muddy settlements along the Tiber to a sprawling Mediterranean conqueror...

Step into epic ancient history where fierce warrior tribes and mystical druids clash against the mighty Roman Empire. Perfect for a captivating daily commute, this immersive historical journey transports you to the iron-age hillforts and sacred groves of a deeply alien yet strangely familiar...

Stand upon the impregnable medieval fortress that defied relentless sieges and protected an empire for a millennium. Perfect for your daily commute, this immersive military history transports you directly to the legendary battlements of the Bosporus. Discover the dramatic engineering marvels...

Transform your commute with the awe-inspiring ancient history of a sunken Egyptian metropolis swallowed by the ocean. Step onto the bustling maritime docks where Greek and Egyptian cultures collided at the grand gateway to the Nile. This mysterious narrative resurrects a thriving cosmopolitan...

Experience the epic military history of a besieged metropolis shattered by revolutionary gunpowder artillery. Perfect for an immersive commute, this dramatic chronological narrative transports you straight to the bloody ramparts of 1453. Witness the terrifying dawn of modern warfare as ancient...

It is a story like no other: an epic of endurance against destruction, of creativity in oppression, joy amidst grief, the affirmation of life against the steepest of odds. It spans the millennia and the continents - from India to Andalusia and from the bazaars of Cairo to the streets of Oxford. It takes you to unimagined places: to a Jewish kingdom in the mountains of southern Arabia; a Syrian synagogue glowing with radiant wall paintings; the palm groves of the Jewish dead in the Roman catacombs.

Er valt veel te vertellen over het vrouwenleven in 1000 jaar Griekse oudheid, van Homerus tot en met Plutarchus, ondanks dat de geschriften van mannelijke auteurs onze belangrijkste bron van informatie vormen. Classicus Hein van Dolen begint zijn hoorcollege met de verhalen over de schepping van de vrouw en de redenen van de opkomende vrouwenhaat bij de antieke Griekse mannen. De positie van de vrouw zoals Homerus die heeft beschreven komt aan bod, evenals de huwelijkssluiting in de epische tijd. Wat waren hun plichten en (weinige) rechten voor en na het huwelijk?

Explore the rich story of Europe's past, from ancient times to the modern era. This audiobook offers a wide view of Europe's most important periods, from prehistoric civilizations to the European Union. Each chapter promises to enlighten, engage, and educate.