Roger Collins Libros

In this text the author provides an account of the centuries during which Europe changed from being an abstract geographical expression into a new, culturally coherent, if politically divided, entity. It examines how the social, economic and cultural structures of Antiquity were replaced by their medieval equivalents and also seeks to define the European context, by looking at those external forces, such as the nomadic confederacies of Central Asia and the Islamic empire of the Arabs, which helped to shape it through conflict.

Starting with the invasion of Julius Caesar in the fifth century, Bede recorded the history of the English up to his own day in 731 A.D. A scholarly monk working in the north-east of England, Bede wrote the five books of his history in Latin. The Ecclesiastical History is his most famouswork, and this edition provides the authoritative Colgrave translation, as well as a new translation of the Greater Chronicle, never before published in English. His Letter to Egbert gives his final reflections on the English Church just before his death. This is the only edition to include allthree texts, and they are illuminated further by a detailed introduction and explanatory notes.

Written in AD 731, Bede's work opens with a background sketch of Roman Britain's geography and history. It goes on to tell of the kings and bishops, monks and nuns who helped to develop Anglo-Saxon government and religion during the crucial formative years of the English people. This title offers an English translation of a historical document.

Roger Collins se ve své knize Baskové zabývá historií a původem Basků. Popisuje jejich předpokládaný původ, jazyk a historii spojenou s Římany, Germány, Franky až do vlády Anjouovců. Rozebírá i zánik fueros (vyzískaných autonomních práv), Basky v zámoří a dostane se i k současným problémům, které jsou spojené s organizací ETA.

A complete history of one of the most enduring and influential of all human institutions.