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Nick Evans: Review: Bread and circuses
International Socialism Journal nr. 138, apr 13 – side 215
Note: Review of Peter Brown (2012) Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of the Christian West: 350-550 (Princeton University Press, 2012), £27.95
How did Christians come to be intensely relaxed about people being filthy rich? Peter Brown, a historian who has transformed ideas of the period once called the “Dark Ages”, uses this question to illuminate a world in crisis.
 

Nick Evans: Review: After Carthage was destroyed
International Socialism Journal nr. 136, okt 12 – side 215
Note: Chris Wickham, The Inheritance of Rome: A History of Europe from 400 to 1000 (Penguin, 2009), £14.99; Peter Sarris, Empires of Faith: The Fall of Rome to the Rise of Islam, 500-700 (Oxford University Press, 2011), £35
 

Neil Faulkner: Hadrian and the limits of empire
Socialist Worker nr. 2112, aug 08 – side 13
Note: The brutality of the Roman Empire led ordinary people to fight back. Neil Faulkner looks at how resistance to the empire shaped Hadrian’s rule.
 

Steve Roskams: Book review: A Marxist look at the legions
International Socialism Journal nr. 119, jul 08 – side 195
Note: Neil Faulkner, Rome: Empire of the Eagles (Pearson, 2008), £21.99
 

Ken Olende: Empire of the Eagles: the myth of Rome
Socialist Worker nr. 2091, mar 08 – side 13
Note: Modern leaders looking for a ‘civilised’ way to dominate the world refer to the Roman Empire. Historian Neil Faulkner explained the brutal reality to Ken Olende.
 

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