Download or read book Roma Invicta Est written by Alfonso Solís and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-04-23 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ROMA INVICTA EST «It is during the most dramatic moments when the courage of an Empire reemerges» In 451 AD Rome is harassed by dozens of barbarian tribes and threatened by the hosts of Attila, «God's scourge.» The Roman general Aetius, allied with the Visigoths and other foederati, confront the King of the Huns on an immense plain in the North of Gaul. Two formidable armies fight in those lands, and also two ways of understanding civilization, culture and religion: the world of light represented by Rome, against the world of darkness and the unknown, Attila's world. Guided by Salvio Adriano, a young recruit from Tarraco who became an involuntary protagonist in the transcendental battle, the reader will witness the ruthless decay that devastates an Empire that is dying but refuses to succumb to the constant barbarian onslaughts. Salvio Adriano, accompanied by his friends Sextilius Arcadius and Lucius Calerus, will discover the meaning of friendship, loyalty and honor in a turbulent time impregnated with the infamy of corruption, greed and betrayal. Meanwhile, the irruption of an old druid named Lughdyr and, especially, of Alana, an enigmatic and beautiful Suevian, will mark the destiny of Salvio Adriano wrapping his life in a halo of magic and mystery. Written in a fast-paced and attractive way, «Roma invicta est» takes us back to the last years of the Roman Empire, rigorously describing the events that favored the invasion of Hispania by the Goth peoples and, later, the fall of Rome. For passionate readers of historical novels and writers like Simon Scarrow, Ken Follet or Bernard Cornwell.
Download or read book Renaissance Studies written by Malcolm Smith and published by Librairie Droz. This book was released on 1999 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Les articles de Malcolm Smith sur la littérature française de la Renaissance, études qui n'ont jamais négligé les dimensions polémiques et religieuses.
Download or read book Epic in Republican Rome written by Sander M. Goldberg and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1995-03-23 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a major new study of the epic poetry of Republican Rome. Goldberg treats the creators of these now-fragmentary works not simply as predecessors of Vergil, but as pioneers and poets in their own right. But Goldberg goes beyond practical criticism, exploring in the literary experiments of Andronicus, Naevius, Ennius, and Cicero issues of poetry and patronage, cultural assimilation and national ideology, modeling and originality that both come to characterize Roman literature of all periods and continue to shape modern responses to that literature. What emerges from Goldberg's study is both a fresh perspective on Vergil's achievement and new insights into the cultural dynamics of second-century Rome.
Download or read book Architecture for Spain s Recovered Democracy written by Manuel López Segura and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-03-30 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historical studies on the involvement of architecture in twentieth-century politics have overlooked its contribution to building Spain’s democracy. This pioneering book seeks to fill that void. Between the late 1970s and early 1990s, Spain founded representative institutions, launched its welfare state, and devolved autonomy to its regions. The study brings forth the architectural incarnation of that threefold program as it deployed in the Valencian Country, a Catalan-speaking region on Spain’s Mediterranean shores. There, social democratic authorities mobilized architects, planners, and graphic artists to devise a newly open public sphere and to recover a local identity that Franco’s dictatorship had repressed for decades. The research follows the impetus of reform and its contradictions through urban projects, designs for cultural amenities, and the renovation of governmental and professional bodies. Architecture for Spain’s Recovered Democracy contributes to current debates on nationalism and the arts, the environments of democratic socialism, and postmodernism and neoliberalism. As a result, it widens our understanding of how peripheral regions may yield egalitarian architectures of resistance. This book is written for students and researchers in architecture and planning, art history, spatial politics, and Hispanic studies, as well as for a general readership interested in inclusive politics in the built environment.
Download or read book Invicta written by Chris Hackett and published by Invicta. This book was released on 2023-10-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seventeen years after the last Western Roman Emperor was deposed by the barbarian general Odoacer, the last demigod must travel the collapsing Roman Empire to reclaim his birthright, while an aging Roman general fights to reclaim the throne.
Download or read book University Studies written by University of Cincinnati and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book University Studies written by Cincinnati (Ohio). University and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Ruins Lesson written by Susan Stewart and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2021-06-02 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In 'The Ruins Lesson,' the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning poet-critic Susan Stewart explores the West's fascination with ruins in literature, visual art, and architecture, covering a vast chronological and geographical range from the ancient Egyptians to T. S. Eliot. In the multiplication of images of ruins, artists, and writers she surveys, Stewart shows how these thinkers struggled to recover lessons out of the fragility or our cultural remains. She tries to understand the appeal in the West of ruins and ruination, particularly Roman ruins, in the work and thought of Goethe, Piranesi, Blake, and Wordsworth, whom she returns to throughout the book. Her sweeping, deeply felt study encompasses the founding legends of broken covenants and original sin; Christian transformations of the classical past; the myths and rituals of human fertility; images of ruins in Renaissance allegory, eighteenth-century melancholy, and nineteenth-century cataloguing; and new gardens that eventually emerged from ancient sites of disaster"--
Download or read book Glossemata de Prudentio written by John Miller Burnam and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Dramatic Element in the Popular Ballad written by George Morey Miller and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book University of Cincinnati Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Chaste Muse written by Dorothy Gabe Coleman and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-12-14 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Notes and Queries written by and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ezra Pound and Europe written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-10-16 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The papers included were selected from those given at the 14th international Ezra Pound Conference held at Brunnenburg, Tirolo di Merano, 16-18 July 1991. The guiding principle for organizing the volume was thematic coherence and quality of thought as well as presentation. The articles are gathered under five headings: General Impressions, Traditional Affiliations, Contemporary Connections, Constructing Continuities, and Specific Texts. The exhibitions accompanying the conference are represented and Pound's involvement with Europe is reflected in studies of his relationship with traditional authors as well as his contemporaries. Larger considerations and analysis is offered in Section Four and Cathay, Cantos LXXIII, and Drafts and Fragments are given individual attention.
Download or read book The Presence of Rome in Medieval and Early Modern Britain written by Andrew Wallace and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-17 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the cultural and intellectual stakes of medieval and renaissance Britain's sense of itself as living in the shadow of Rome: a city whose name could designate the ancient, fallen, quintessentially human power that had conquered and colonized Britain, and also the alternately sanctified and demonized Roman Church. Wallace takes medieval texts in a range of languages (including Latin, medieval Welsh, Old English and Old French) and places them in conversation with early modern English and humanistic Latin texts (including works by Gildas, Bede, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Bacon, St. Augustine, Dante, Erasmus, Luther and Montaigne). 'The Ordinary', 'The Self', 'The Word', and 'The Dead' are taken as compass points by which individuals lived out their orientations to, and against, Rome, isolating important dimensions of Rome's enduring ability to shape and complicate the effort to come to terms with the nature of self and the structure of human community.
