404 Pages
by
Routledge
404 Pages
by
Routledge
404 Pages
by
Routledge
Also available as eBook on:
Republished in 1949, Jacob Burckhardt’s brilliant study, first published in Germany in 1852, has survived all its critics and presents today perhaps a more intelligible and a more valid picture of events, their nexus, and their relevance than any later study. This English version is apt to the moment. No epoch of remote history can be so relevant to modern interests as the period of transition... Read more
1. The Imperial Power in the Third Century. 2. Diocletian: His System of Adoptions and His Reign. 3. Individual Provinces and Neighbouring Countries: The West. 4. Individual Provinces and Neighbouring Countries: The East. 5. Paganism: Intermingling of Gods. 6. Immortality and its Mysteries: The Daimonization of Paganism. 7. Senescence of Ancient Life and its Culture. 8. The Persecution of Christians. 9. Constantine and the Church. 10. Court, Administration, and Army: Constantinople, Rome, Athens, and Jerusalem. 11. Addenda et Corrigenda on the Ancient Sources. 12. Chronology of the Emperors.
Biography
Jacob Burckhardt
