1177 B.C. : the year civilization collapsed /
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"In 1177 B.C., marauding groups known only as the "Sea Peoples" invaded Egypt. The pharaoh's army and navy managed to defeat them, but the victory so weakened Egypt that it soon slid into decline, as did most of the surrounding civilizations. After centuries of brilliance, the civilized world of the Bronze Age came to an abrupt and cataclysmic end. Kingdoms fell like dominoes over the course of just a few decades. No more Minoans or Mycenaeans. No more Trojans, Hittites, or Babylonians. The thriving economy and cultures of the late second millennium B.C., which had stretched from Greece to Egypt and Mesopotamia, suddenly ceased to exist, along with writing systems, technology, and monumental architecture. But the Sea Peoples alone could not have caused such widespread breakdown. How did it happen? In this major new account of the causes of this "First Dark Ages," Eric Cline tells the gripping story of how the end was brought about by multiple interconnected failures, ranging from invasion and revolt to earthquakes, drought, and the cutting of international trade routes. Bringing to life the vibrant multicultural world of these great civilizations, he draws a sweeping panorama of the empires and globalized peoples of the Late Bronze Age and shows that it was their very interdependence that hastened their dramatic collapse and ushered in a dark age that lasted centuries. A compelling combination of narrative and the latest scholarship, 1177 B.C. sheds new light on the complex ties that gave rise to, and ultimately destroyed, the flourishing civilizations of the Late Bronze Age -- and that set the stage for the emergence of classical Greece" --
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OCLC 861542115 :
xx, 237 pages : illustrations, Maps ; 24 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references (pages [201]-228) and index. :
9780691140896
Destruction and its impact on ancient societies at the end of the Bronze Age /
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"This volume offers a groundbreaking reassessment of the destructions that allegedly occurred at sites across the eastern Mediterranean at the end of the Late Bronze Age, and challenges the numerous grand theories that have been put forward to account for them. The author demonstrates that earthquakes, warfare, and destruction all played a much smaller role in this period than the literature of the past several decades has claimed, and makes the case that the end of the Late Bronze Age was a far less dramatic and more protracted process than is generally believed"--
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xiv, 387 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9781948488839
The birth of the middle ages, 395-814 /
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Map (p. 43)--accompanied by transparent leaf with outline drawing.
"Reprinted photographically in Great Britain in 1937, 1945, 1947, 1950 ... from corrected sheets of the first edition 1935." :
xviii, 291 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references (pages [283]-287) and index.
al-Dawlah wa-al-imbarāṭūrīyah fī al-ʻuṣūr al-wusṭá.
: Translation of The Early mediaeval state : Byzantium, Italy and the West / L.M. Hartmann ; translation of The Mediaeval empire : idea and reality / G. Barraclough. : 329 pages : maps ; 24 cm. : Includes bibliographical references and index.
Tra Montaccianico e Firenze : gli Ubaldini e la città : atti del convegno di studi, Firenze-Scarperia, 28-29 Settembre, 2012 /
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The central theme The Ubaldini and the City is the classic confrontation between feudal society and a resurgent urban form as the central instrument of organisation of European society, which is crucial to the origins of Europe as we know it today. The analysis starts from a reconstruction of the historical role played by the Ubaldini on the basis of a critical reconsideration of the available documentary evidence, and the results appear to be perfectly consistent with the general pattern for the Florentine aristocracy. The theme is one of 'boundaries': between historical and archaeological evidence, between the late Middle Ages and the birth of modernity; it concerns space with the establishment of new 'borders' which evolve from Terra Nuova and become completely territorial.
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Previously issued in print: 2016. :
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white). :
Specialized. :
9781784912642 (ebook) :
Dinamiche insediative nelle campagne dell'Italia tra Tarda Antichità e Alto Medioevo /
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A series of selected contributions about settlement patterns in the Italian countryside between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, providing a critical overview of the most recent research on the subject.
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Previously issued in print: 2018. :
1 online resource (ii, 180 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
Specialized. :
9781784918248 (ebook) :