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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Watts, Edward Jay (1975-....)
Titre(s) : The eternal decline and fall of Rome [Texte imprimé] : the history of a dangerous idea / Edward J. Watts
Publication : New York (N. Y.) : Oxford University Press, copyright 2021
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XI-301 p.) : ill. ; 25 cm
Note(s) : Notes bibliogr. Index
"[This book] tells the stories of the people who built their political and literary
careers around promises of Roman renewal as well as those of the victims they blamed
for causing Rome's decline. Each chapter offers the historical context necessary to
understand a moment or a series of moments in which Romans, aspiring Romans, and non--Romans
used ideas of Roman decline and restoration to seize power and remake the world around
them. The story begins during the Roman Republic just after 200 BC. It proceeds through
the empire of Augustus and his successors, traces the Roman loss of much of western
Europe in the fifth century AD, and then follows Roman history as it runs through
the Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantium) until its fall in 1453. The final two chapters
look at ideas of Roman decline and renewal from the fifteenth century until today.
If Rome illustrates the profound danger of the rhetoric of decline, it also demonstrates
the rehabilitative potential of a rhetoric that focuses on collaborative restoration,
a lesson of great relevance to our world today."--Dust jacket flap
Sujet(s) : Historiographie -- Rome
Décadence -- Rome
Indice(s) Dewey :
937 (23e éd.) = Histoire antique - Péninsule italienne - Des origines jusqu'à 0476 ap. J.-C.
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780190076719 (rel.). - ISBN 0190076712 (erroné). - ISBN 9780190076733 (erroné).
- ISBN 9780190076740 (erroné). - ISBN 9780190076726 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb46872055w
Notice n° :
FRBNF46872055
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Introduction: A snapshot and a story ; Decline in the Roman Republic ; The republic
of violence and the empire of peace ; Manufacturing the Golden Age of Trajan ; Renewal
without decline : the Antonines and Severans ; Decline and false renewal : the third
century crisis ; Decline, renewal, and the invention of Christian progress ; Roman
renewal versus Christian progress ; When renewal fails to arrive ; The loss of the
Roman West and the Christian future ; Justinian, Roman progress, and the death of
the Western Roman Empire ; Rome, the Arabs, and iconoclasm ; Old Rome, new Rome,
and future Rome ; The retrenchment of one Roman Empire, the resurgence of another
; The captures of Constantinople ; The fall of Roman Constantinople and the end of
Roman renewal ; Roman renewal after the fall ; The dangerous idea ; Conclusion:
Roman decline and fall in contemporary America.
