John Moorhead

Auteur van The Roman Empire Divided: 400 - 700

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John Moorhead is Professor Emeritus at the University of Queensland and Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. His books include Theoderic in Italy (1993) and Gregory the Great (2005). He is currently working on a major study of the Roman church in late antiquity.

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The Roman Empire Divided: 400 - 700 (2001) 65 exemplaren

Gregory the Great (2005) 36 exemplaren

Justinian (The Medieval World Series) (1994) 21 exemplaren

Theoderic in Italy (1993) 19 exemplaren

Ambrose: Church and Society in the Late Roman World (The Medieval World) (1999) 16 exemplaren

The popes and the Church of Rome in late antiquity (2014) 4 exemplaren

Cathedral on the Clarence : the first hundred years (1984) 4 exemplaren

A fair narrative of the proceedings of the Presbytery of Boston against the Reverend Mr. Robert Abercrombie, late… 1 exemplaar

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The New Cambridge Medieval History: Volume 1, c.500-c.700 (2005) — Medewerker — 105 exemplaren

The Cambridge History of the Byzantine Empire c.500-1492 (2008) — Medewerker — 84 exemplaren

The Deeds of Louis the Fat (1929) — Vertaler, sommige edities — 67 exemplaren

The Cambridge Companion to Boethius (2009) — Medewerker — 45 exemplaren

A companion to Gregory the Great (2013) — Medewerker — 5 exemplaren

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The Roman Empire Divided: The Post Roman World 400 -… door John Moorhead

Definitely geared to the college textbook survey, Moorhead is a strict "gradualist", viz. he holds that the end of Antiquity was a gradual not necessarily tramatic process. See Peter Brown and Henri Pirenne for this concept. Overall, not bad: he takes account of some archaeological evidence, which is sorely needed in histories of this period and takes a region by region approach in his chapters. The writing is not great and sentences like this can use some help: "Such events were a reminder that the surviving Empire hovered like a gigantic cloud to the east of the first post-Roman states around the western shores of the Mediterranean, and there were voices encouraging any imperial ambitions to recover lost ground." There are better books but the 2001 publishing date definitely takes account of later research. Worth a look.… (meer)