but settled "barbarians" using older Roman systems for accommodating military units. To the extent that they were greedy and oppressive, Goffart argued that it was "in the finest tradition of the ...

However, this body of evidence is missing for the barbarian peoples living outside the Roman Empire, and it is generally assumed that they made little use of drugs apart from alcohol. Now ...

In the early 4th century AD, the newborn Eastern Roman Empire became the stage for a shadowy plot involving numerous figures ...

This remark reminds me of the Sadducees compromising with the Roman Empire, the Pharisees making an idol out of religion, and the Zealots using violence to expand their own kingdom, all in God's name.

THE history of which this is the first instalment is not only a co–operative, but also an international work. The fifteen contributors to the present volume represent schools of history or ...

When we think of the great empires of history, the Romans tend to steal the show. Although their empire arguably has had the greatest worldwide cultural impact, it was by no means the largest ever to ...

Synagogues were classified as colleges to get around Roman laws banning secret societies ... in the temple was over. With only the Western Wall remaining of the temple in Jerusalem, the local ...

Penelope Spheeris returns to the punk scene she first documented in 1981 and finds new bands equally as inflammatory as their predecessors. The powerful final chapter in Spheeris’s Decline of Western ...

In the West, the Roman Empire is still often seen as emblematic of “world order”, and its fall as a catastrophe ... a considerable part of the old Western Roman Empire, from Central Italy ...