Wheels of Empire by Alma T. C. Boykin (Merchant and Empire #9)Requirements: .ePUB reader, 740 KBOverview: Water driving wheels driving danger. Without bread, hunger stalks the people of Jerwood. The old grist mill burned and a new one must be built. Count Ealdred of Jerwood hires Harald Tolson, called Halfpaw, to construct a larger, modern […]
Greek Declamation and the Roman Empire by William GuastRequirements: .PDF reader, 2 MBOverview: A Greek declamation was an ‘imaginary speech’: a fictitious speech composed for a rhetorical scenario set in Classical Greece. Although such speeches began as rhetorical exercises, under the high Roman empire they developed into a full-blown prestigious genre in their own right. […]
Running Rome and its Empire: The Places of Roman Governance by Antonio Lopez GarciaRequirements: .PDF reader, 22.96 MBOverview: This volume explores the transformation of public space and administrative activities in republican and imperial Rome through an interdisciplinary examination of the topography of power. Throughout the Roman world building projects created spaces for different civic purposes, […]
The Byzantine Empire for Kids: A Captivating Guide to the Eastern Roman Empire by Captivating History Requirements: .PDF reader, 7.32 MbOverview: How does the Byzantine Empire, which fell in 1453, still apply to us today? Many of us do not know much about the Byzantine Empire; it lived on in the East after the Roman […]
The Colonate in the Roman Empire by Boudewijn SirksRequirements: .PDF reader, 2 MBOverview: The fourth and fifth centuries AD gave rise to a particular phenomenon in the Roman Empire: the colonate. The colonate involved the fiscal regulation of a relationship of surety between landowners and farmers in the later Roman Empire and played a major […]