Tom Holland
Thomas "Tom" Holland is an English writer and popular historian who has published several works on topics including classical and medieval history and the origins of Islam. In addition to his writing, he has worked with the BBC to create and host historical television documentaries.
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Thomas "Tom" Holland is an English writer and popular historian who has published several works on topics including classical and medieval history and the origins of Islam. In addition to his writing, he has worked with the BBC to create and host historical television documentaries.
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Birth date: 1968-01-05
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TITLE: Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar AUTHOR: Tom Holland DATE PUBLISHED: 2015 FORMAT: Paperback ISBN-13: 978-0-349-12383-7 __________________________________ Dynasty is the early history of the Julio-Claudian line of the Roman emperors retold as a story. This book...
TITLE: Millennium: The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom AUTHOR: Tom Holland DATE PUBLISHED: 2009 FORMAT: Paperback ISBN-13: 978-0349119724 _______________________ From the blurb: Of all the civilisations existing in the year 1000, that of Western Europe seemed the unl...
Sometimes I wish I Claudius was true, but then if it was, we wouldn't have nicely detailed books like this.I highly recommend, you already have a general outline of the time because at points Holland jumps around a bit. I liked that, however, because it shows the relationships between different poli...
S.P.Q.R. is Mary Beard's look at, not how Rome fell, which many others have taken a stab at, but at how it rose. She covers Rome's "first millenium," ending in 212 AD, when the Emperor Caracalla extended Roman citizenship to all free inhabitants of the empire. The title takes its name from the La...
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