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This volume offers an annotated translation and commentary on five thirteenth-century narrative accounts of the battles of Steppes (1213), Ane (1227), and Hausbergen (1262) as well as the overall political and military circumstances in which they occurred. These battles have received some scholarly attention, but the broader military organization of the German kingdom as well as the conduct of war require considerable further work. The commentary provided in this translation in both the in...

THE mighty movement of the nations, which led the Germanic peoples from their northern home into the interior of the Roman empire, and finally made them masters of the West, lasted about five hundred years, from its beginning in the Marcomannic War (A.D. 167) until, with the rise of the Franks and the enlargement of their state under the Merovingian kings, there emerged the firm foundations of a new system of government for the West which promised to be of long duration.On these fou...

The day had scarcely dawned. Over Vesuvius hung one broad gray stripe of mist, stretching across as far as Naples, and darkening all the small towns along the coast. The sea lay calm. Along the shore of the narrow creek that lies beneath the Sorrento cliffs, fishermen and their wives were at work already, some with giant cables drawing their boats to land, with the nets that had been cast the night before, while others were rigging their craft, trimming the sails, or fetching out oars and ...

A History of the Later Roman Empire (Vol. 1&2) offers a rigorous account of Rome's transformation from the reign of Arcadius and Honorius to the age of Justinian and beyond, tracing political, military, religious, and administrative developments across East and West. Written in a lucid yet densely evidentiary style, the work belongs to the great tradition of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century critical historiography, revising Gibbon through closer attention to institutions, sources, a...

Artillery and handgonnes had been known since the early 14th century but only became effective near the end of the 15th century, when they were the final factor in the infantry revolution and began to change warfare forever. By the middle of the 15th century, artillery was knocking down castle walls that had stood for generations. Infantry also proved their worth with powerful longbows and tight formations of polearms upsetting the long dominance of mounted, heavily armored knights, and ha...

THE mighty movement of the nations, which led the Germanic peoples from their northern home into the interior of the Roman empire, and finally made them masters of the West, lasted about five hundred years, from its beginning in the Marcomannic War (A.D. 167) until, with the rise of the Franks and the enlargement of their state under the Merovingian kings, there emerged the firm foundations of a new system of government for the West which promised to be of long duration.

The object of the translators of the following tales was to present the English public with a collection, which should combine effectiveness with variety, and at the same time should contain specimens of the most celebrated writers of prose fiction whom Germany has produced. The names of the authors will, they think, be a sufficient guarantee that they have not failed in this last respect, and if the reader finds himself amused or interested by the series, they will have succeeded entirely...

Presents the ancient sources on the Germanic peoples who resisted Roman conquest and reshaped Europe.The ancient Germans occupied lands extending from the river Rhine east to the Vistula and from the Danube north to Scandinavia. Their homelands formed the northern frontiers of the Roman Empire, but despite large-scale military and political efforts, the Romans never conquered or fully subjugated the territory they called Germania.Greek and Roman records pro...

Publius Cornelius Tacitus (56 -117 A.D.) was a Roman senator and also one of Romes greatest historians. Tacitus best known works are The Annals and Histories which examined the rule of the emperors Tiberius, Claudius, Nero and others. Tacitus writing is well known for its insights into the psychology of the politics of his day.

What drives a man to systematically dismantle the very empire that raised him?History books eagerly recount the blood-soaked mud of the Teutoburg Forest, the shattered eagles of the Three Legions, and the desperate, late-night pacing of an aging Emperor Augustus. Yet, the true battlefield was never the primordial marshlands of northwestern Germany; it was the psychological landscape of a single hostage prince. In The Romanization of Arminius: The Metam...

Österreichische Einwanderung in die USA Die vorliegende Publikation beleuchtet das Thema der Migration von Österreichern in die USA genauer, das bis heute ein immer noch sehr unerforschtes Gebiet ist. Seit kurzer Zeit erlebt die Forschung allerdings einen neuen Aufschwung, es herrscht großes Interesse vor allem in der Biografieforschung. Die vorliegenden Beiträge basieren auf einer Tagung, die im Juni 2015 in Wien zum gleichnamigen Thema stattgefunden hat. Es handelt sich hauptsächlich um ...

Tacitus's Germania is a compact ethnographic treatise that describes the lands, customs, political habits, and martial virtues of the Germanic peoples beyond Rome's northern frontier. Written in a compressed, epigrammatic Latin style, the work combines geographical report, moral commentary, and rhetorical contrast. Its famous portrait of German simplicity, courage, chastity, and communal freedom belongs to a Roman literary tradition that used foreign societies as mirrors in which to examin...