428 después de Cristo
Historia de un año
de Giusto Traina (Escritor), Manuel J. Parodi Álvarez (Traductor)
- Escritor
- Giusto Traina
- Traductor
- Manuel J. Parodi Álvarez
- Colección
- Universitaria
- Materia
- Ciencias humanas y sociales, Historia, Antigua, General
- Idioma
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- Castellano
- EAN
- 9788446027911
- ISBN
- 978-84-460-2791-1
- Fecha publicación
- 14-03-2011
- Páginas
- 208
- Ancho
- 14 cm
- Alto
- 22 cm
- Formato
- Rústica
Sobre Giusto Traina (Escritor)
Reseñas
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"Historian Traina, a professor at the University of Rouen, offers a series of snapshots of Roman history in a decidedly average year when the challenge was primarily to keep the grand imperial machinery running smoothly even as the empire's future was precarious. Although Traina's approach is wooden, he introduces a cast of peoplepagan and Christian, military and civilian, male and femalewho characterize this ambiguous and complex period of transition. Tensions within Christianity become clear from the story of Nestorius, a Syrian monk elected bishop of Constantinople in 428 only to be condemned three years later as a heretic for his views on the full divinity of Christ. By 428, questions about imperial unity dominated discussions between Rome and Constantinople as the Goth and Hun forces knocked on both the eastern and western doors of the empire. Traina's succinct traversal of the empire provides a glimpse of this transitional moment in Rome's history." Publishers Weekly "The history of late antiquity has inspired some of the most vital historical writing of the last half-century. Giusto Traina sustains the tradition with his vivid snapshot of a year. The very ordinariness of 428 AD makes us see the period afresh. In transcending the partisan language of 'transformation' and 'decline,' Traina reimagines in ecstasy a world racked by agony." Felipe Fernández-Armesto
