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S'està carregant… Alaric the Goth: An Outsider's History of the Fall of Rome (2020 original; edició 2020)de Douglas Boin (Autor)
Informació de l'obraAlaric the Goth: An Outsider's History of the Fall of Rome de Douglas Boin (2020)
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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. I guess it’s really a look at Rome at about 350 - 450AD. There’s not much good historical info about Alaric himself, so the author tries to fill in without actually making stuff up. I learned many things about Roman life at that time, but I think a good historian, had they worked on a history of Rome from 350-450, could have come up with something a little more solid. By trying to focus on Alaric, about whom so little can be known, something was lost. But still the book was very educational. ( ) In 410 AD, an army of Goths led by Alaric sacked Rome, an event that shocked the entire Roman world. For centuries, the Goths were painted as the evil villains of history for this. Douglas Boin writes the history of the 410 sacking from the perspective of the Goths and paints a sympathetic portrait of them. He also has lots of critical things to say about the Romans who ridiculed immigrants to the empire and imposed an extremely intolerant form of Christianity on the Empire. This book is a valuable contribution to the history of the period. Other books describing the mass migrations of people during this period provide little understanding of the people doing the migration. Boin manages to bring the world of the goths to life. The book is very readable albeit confusing in spots. It also strains to make parallels to our modern world. Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
"Did "barbarians" really cause the catastrophic collapse of civilization? Boin is the first to give an historically sound account from the "barbarian" perspective, through the life of Alaric the Goth. On August 24, 410 A.D., the Senate and the People of Rome awoke to a seismic shock. Intruders, led by a disaffected forty-year-old immigrant, known only as Alaric, had stormed the city. There were kidnappings, robbery, and acts of arson. The effects were long-lasting. Within two generations, Rome's world fell apart. A city predicted to rule an empire without end, in the words of its famous Latin poet Virgil, was governed by a savage band of foreigners, called Goths. Alaric the Goth offers a deeply researched look at the end of the Roman Empire but from a surprising point-of-view. Offering the first full-length biography of Alaric, a talented and frustrated immigrant living in a time of pervasive bigotry, state-supported Christian violence, and irrational xenophobia, it breaks out of decades of tired, traditional approaches to the period, most of which overidentify with the Roman people. And it reveals the lasting contributions Goths made to legal history, to the values of religious toleration, and to modern ideas of citizenship. By moving this man from the borders to the center of Rome's story, it asks readers to think deeply and differently about the lives of marginalized people too often invisible in our history books."-- No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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