Nicholas Geoffrey Lemprière Hammond

John Boardman

Andrew Lintott

Michael Whitby

Peter Garnsey

Averil Cameron

Alan K. Bowman

Bryan Ward-Perkins

Edward Champlin

Iorwerth Eiddon Stephen Edwards

Cyril John Gadd

David Malcolm Lewis

Frank William Walbank

A. E. Astin

John Anthony Crook

Elizabeth Rawson

Dominic Rathbone

J. A. Crook

This volume of 'The Cambridge Ancient History' embraces the wide range of approaches and scholarships which have in recent decades transformed our view of late antiquity.

The Cambridge Ancient History

Sparta

This ancient Roman history examines the military campaigns of Justinian I, from army organization to tactics and strategy—with maps and battle diagrams. Justinian I was the last great Roman conqueror. Though he never led an army in person, his leadership dramatically increased the size of his realm. His long reign, from 527 to 565, was devoted to the renovatio imperii, or renovation of Empire. His will and vision drove the reconquest of Italy from the Ostrogoths, North Africa from the Vandals, and parts of Spain from the Visigoths. These grand schemes were largely accomplished through the services of two talented generals, Belisarius and Narses. They were successful in spite of concurrent wars against the Persians and the devastation caused by bubonic plague. In this comprehensive study, Michael Whitby draws on the full range of sources to examine all of Justinian's campaigns. Besides narrating the course and outcome of these wars, Whitby analyses the Roman army of the period, considering its equipment, organization, leadership, strategy and tactics, and considers the longer-term impact of Justinian’s military ventures on the stability of the empire.

The Wars of Justinian I

Philip Sabin

Hans van Wees

First volume of a systematic and up-to-date account of warfare from Archaic Greece to Republican Rome.

The Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Warfare

Justinian I was the last great conquering Roman emperor, who dramatically increased the size of his realm although he never actually led an army in person. His long reign (527-565) was devoted to the challenging project of renovatio imperii, that is the renovation of Empire. His was the will and vision behind campaigns that saw the reconquest of Rome itself and Italy from the Ostrogoths, North Africa from the Vandals, and parts of Spain from the Visigoths. These grand schemes were largely accomplished through the services of two talented generals, Belisarius and Narses, and in spite of the distractions of wars against the Persians in the east for most of his reign and the devastation caused by bubonic plague. This is the only book available devoted to analysing all of Justinian's campaigns on the basis of the full range of sources. Besides narrating the course and outcome of these wars, Michael Whitby analyses the Roman army of the period, considering its equipment, organization, leadership, strategy and tactics, and considers the longer-term impact of Justinian’s military ventures on the stability of the empire.

Andrew William Lintott

Over the past half century The Cambridge Ancient History has established itself as a definitive work of reference. The original edition was published in twelve text volumes between 1924 and 1939. Publication of the new edition began in 1970. Every volume of the old edition has been totally re-thought and re-written with new text, maps, illustrations and bibliographies. Some volumes have had to be expanded into two or more parts and the series has been extended by two extra volumes (XIII and XIV) to cover events up to AD 600, bringing the total number of volumes in the set to fourteen. Existing plates to the volumes are available separately. *Profusely illustrated with maps, drawings and tables. *Comprehensive coverage of all aspects of the history of the ancient Mediterranean and Near East from prehistoric times to AD 600 by an international cast of editors and contributors.

Theophylact Simocatta, the last historian of classical antiquity, has in the past deterred investigators by the idiosyncrasies of his style. Through examination of Theophylact's narrative, and collation with other available evidence, Dr Whitby has unpicked the obscurities, biases, and errors to clear the way for a more accurate appreciation of the events of the reign of Emperor Maurice (582-602). Maurice's reign witnessed great struggles as the Romans attempted to defend their traditional frontiers on the Danube and in Mesopotamia and Armenia. In both areas, Maurice achieved great successes: i.

Theophylact Simocatta on Persian and Balkan Warfare

The Emperor Maurice and His Historian

Commander A.F.C. Layard, RN, wrote almost daily in his diary, in bold, neat script, from the time he entered the Royal Navy as a cadet in 1913 until his retirement in 1947. The pivotal 1943-45 years of this edited volume offer an extraordinarily full and honest chronicle, revealing Layard's preoccupations, both with the daily details and with the strain and responsibility of wartime command at sea. Enhanced by Michael Whitby's explanatory essays, the diary is a highly personal piece of history that greatly enhances our understanding of the Canadian naval experience and the Atlantic war as a whole.

The Second World War Diaries of A.F.C. Layard

Commanding Canadians

Anthony Morton

Kerrie L. Mengersen

Geoffrey Playford

Hospitals monitoring is becoming more complex and is increasingboth because staff want their data analysed and because ofincreasing mandated surveillance. This book provides a suiteof functions in R, enabling scientists and data analysts working ininfection management and quality improvement departments inhospitals, to analyse their often non-independent data which isfrequently in the form of trended, over-dispersed and sometimesauto-correlated time series; this is often difficult to analyseusing standard office software. This book provides much-needed guidance on data analysis using Rfor the growing number of scientists in hospital departments whoare responsible for producing reports, and who may have limitedstatistical expertise. This book explores data analysis using R and is aimed atscientists in hospital departments who are responsible forproducing reports, and who are involved in improving safety.Professionals working in the healthcare quality and safetycommunity will also find this book of interest Statistical Methods for Hospital Monitoring with R: Provides functions to perform quality improvement and infectionmanagement data analysis. Explores the characteristics of complex systems, such asself-organisation and emergent behaviour, along with theirimplications for such activities as root-cause analysis and thePareto principle that seek few key causes of adverse events. Provides a summary of key non-statistical aspects of hospitalsafety and easy to use functions. Provides R scripts in an accompanying web site enablinganalyses to be performed by the reader ahref="http://www.wiley.com/go/hospital_monitoring"http://www.wiley.com/go/hospital_monitoring/a Covers issues that will be of increasing importance in thefuture, such as, generalised additive models, and complex systems,networks and power laws.

Statistical Methods for Hospital Monitoring with R

This volume introduces the reader to every important aspect of the society of Sparta, the dominant power in southern Greece from the seventh century B.C. and the great rival of Athens in the fifth and fourth centuries. Michael Whitby presents essays on key aspects of Spartan history and society, by some of the leading classicists in the world, such as Paul Cartledge, Anton Powell, and Stephen Hodkinson.

Cambridge University Press

Simon Hornblower

Lincoln Professor of Classical Archaeology and Art and Fellow John Boardman

Student of Christ Church and Professor of History D M Lewis

D. M. Lewis

M. Ostwald

Peter Gamsey

Geoffrey Ernest Maurice De Ste. Croix

Joseph Streeter

This volume brings together seven seminal papers by the great radical historian Geoffrey de Ste. Croix, who died in 2000, on early Christian topics, with an especial focus on persecution and martyrdom. Christian martyrdom is a topic which conjures up ready images of inhumane persecutors confronted by Christian heroes who perish for the instant but win the long-term battle for reputation. In five of these essays Ste. Croix scrutinizes the evidence to reveal the significant role ofChristian themselves, first as volunteer martyrs and later, after the triumph of Christianity in the early fourth century, as organizers of much more effective persecutions. A sixth essay pursues the question of the control of Christianity through a comprehensive study of the context for one of theChurch's most important and divisive doctrinal decisions, at the Council of Chalcedon (AD 451); the key role of the emperor and his senior secular officials is revealed, contrary to the prevailing interpretation of Church historians. Finally the attitudes of the early Church towards property and slavery are reviewed, to show the divide between the Gospel message and actual practice.

Christian Persecution, Martyrdom, and Orthodoxy

Second volume of a systematic and up-to-date account of Roman warfare from the Late Republic to Justinian.

Philip R. Hardie

Mary Whitby

Classical Essays for John Bramble

Homo Viator

Michael Whitby

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