Threshold of Fire: A Novel of Fifth-Century RomeChicago Review Press, 1 aug 2005 - 255 pagina's In this vivid, dynamic novel, Hella Haasse has once more brought the past to life. This time she has chosen to illuminate a crucial, yet relatively obscure period of history: it is 414 A.D. and the once-powerful Roman Empire is in its death throes—split between East and West, menaced by barbarian hordes almost literally at its gates. The Emperor Honorius, an incompetent weakling, cowers in the marsh-bound city of Ravenna, where he has moved the government; he rarely "makes entry" into Rome. This is the brilliant canvas against which the characters in this drama interact. There is the Prefect Hadrian, a powerful official and fanatical Christian convert; there is Marcus Anicius, the pagan aristocrat who is clinging to a dying past, and there is the Jew Eliezar be Elijah, hemmed in by his own traditions and burdened by his dark vision of the future. There is the intrigue and uncertainty of life at Honorius's court, and there are the streets and tenements of Rome, pulsating with life and with corruption. |
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... -free paper) 1. Rome – History – Empire, 30 B.C. 476 A.D. – Fiction. I. Title. PT5838.H45N513 1993 839.3'1364 — do?0 93-2465 CIP Qui fuerat genitor, natus nunc prosilit idem Succeditque novus: geminae Published in 1993 by Copyright.
... -free paper) 1. Rome – History – Empire, 30 B.C. 476 A.D. – Fiction. I. Title. PT5838.H45N513 1993 839.3'1364 — do?0 93-2465 CIP Qui fuerat genitor, natus nunc prosilit idem Succeditque novus: geminae Published in 1993 by Copyright.
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... Empire — its unity destroyed by a cold war with Constantinople in the East, its military power evaporating before barbarian armies menacing its borders, and its cultural and religious heritage being stamped out by the Church Triumphant ...
... Empire — its unity destroyed by a cold war with Constantinople in the East, its military power evaporating before barbarian armies menacing its borders, and its cultural and religious heritage being stamped out by the Church Triumphant ...
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... Empire by splitting it in two. On his death in 395, he divided it between Honorius and his elder and equally incompetent son Arcadius, who ruled the Eastern half from his capital in Constantinople. Honorius ruled the West, but it is ...
... Empire by splitting it in two. On his death in 395, he divided it between Honorius and his elder and equally incompetent son Arcadius, who ruled the Eastern half from his capital in Constantinople. Honorius ruled the West, but it is ...
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... Empire; his influence extended far beyond Italy into the Greekspeaking world. His work was carefully copied out by monks for over a thousand years, and has been invaluable to historians attempting to reconstruct the significant first ...
... Empire; his influence extended far beyond Italy into the Greekspeaking world. His work was carefully copied out by monks for over a thousand years, and has been invaluable to historians attempting to reconstruct the significant first ...
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... Empire. Do you admit these facts?" “I invited a few friends to dinner and to an artistic performance. I don't see anything unusual about that — much less incriminating.” “This performance had the character of a pagan ritual. The dancers ...
... Empire. Do you admit these facts?" “I invited a few friends to dinner and to an artistic performance. I don't see anything unusual about that — much less incriminating.” “This performance had the character of a pagan ritual. The dancers ...
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Threshold of Fire: A Novel of Fifth-Century Rome Hella S. Haasse,Anita Miller,Nini Blinstrub Gedeeltelijke weergave - 2005 |
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