The History of Rome: Rise and Fall of the Empire (Summarized Edition) Enriched edition. A Classical Study of Ancient Roman Society, Imperial Governance, and the Political-Economic Roots of Decline【電子書籍】[ John Bagnell Bury ]

＜p＞In The History of Rome: Rise and Fall of the Empire, John Bagnell Bury surveys Rome from republican ascent to late antique transformation. Drawing on Livy, Tacitus, Ammianus, inscriptions, papyri, and coinage, he reconstructs institutions, economy, army, and civic culture. The prose is lucid and analytic, wary of moralized "decline," and attentive to structures and causality. Situated within a Rankean, source-critical tradition yet alive to religious and intellectual change, the book marries brisk narrative to a carefully argued synthesis. An Irish classicist and Cambridge historian, Bury promoted history as a science, grounded in philology and administrative analysis. His engagement with Gibbon and his own studies of late Rome shape this project: reassessing decay as transformation, weighing imperial personalities against institutions, and privileging verifiable evidence over legend. This volume will reward advanced students and general readers seeking a reliable, unromantic survey．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る