http://blog.oup.com/2012/05/how-did-roman-empire-last-greg-woolf/ Academic insights for the thinking world. Tue, 21 May 2013 22:08:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://blog.oup.com/2012/05/how-did-roman-empire-last-greg-woolf/#comment-301475 Cal Engime Sat, 20 Oct 2012 03:16:26 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=24767#comment-301475 BB, it seems that Professor Wolff is willing to count either the overthrow of the Etruscan kings (509 BCE) or the proclamation of the first emperor (27 BCE) as the beginning of the Roman Empire, with the clock running until the Fall of Constantinople (1453 CE). BB, it seems that Professor Wolff is willing to count either the overthrow of the Etruscan kings (509 BCE) or the proclamation of the first emperor (27 BCE) as the beginning of the Roman Empire, with the clock running until the Fall of Constantinople (1453 CE).

]]> http://blog.oup.com/2012/05/how-did-roman-empire-last-greg-woolf/#comment-288415 OUPblog » Blog Archive » Two English apr-words, part 2: ‘Apricot’ Mon, 20 Aug 2012 13:36:45 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=24767#comment-288415 [...] say, or to use a more elegant French term, un mot voyageur. The beginning of the story takes us to Ancient Rome. Still Life by Paul Cézanne. Source: [...] [...] say, or to use a more elegant French term, un mot voyageur. The beginning of the story takes us to Ancient Rome. Still Life by Paul Cézanne. Source: [...]

]]> http://blog.oup.com/2012/05/how-did-roman-empire-last-greg-woolf/#comment-279360 BB Sun, 17 Jun 2012 18:27:43 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=24767#comment-279360 Enjoyable post, and look forward to the book. How, though, does Professor Wolff get the figure of between "one and half and two millennia" for the duration of the Roman Empire? Enjoyable post, and look forward to the book. How, though, does Professor Wolff get the figure of between “one and half and two millennia” for the duration of the Roman Empire?

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