![]() ![]() But they are only beginning to be applied to the origins of Islam. These source and text critical methods have been established in the study of early Christianity and Judaism and their basic texts for more than a century. My interest in the origins of Islam is focused on efforts to apply source critical methods to the Quran and early texts of Islam. The Ancient Mariners by Lionel Casson (**)Īugustus: The Life of Rome’s First Emperor by Anthony Everitt ![]() Libraries in the Ancient World by Lionel Casson (**) The Restoration of Rome: Barbarian Popes and Imperial Pretenders by Peter Heather (***) The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians by Peter Heather (***)Įmpires and Barbarians: The Fall of Rome and the Birth of Europe by Peter Heather (***) The Inheritance of Rome: Illuminating the Dark Ages 400-1000 (The Penguin History of Europe) by Chris Wickham (**) ![]() The Triumph of Empire: The Roman World from Hadrian to Constantine (History of the Ancient World) by Michael Kulikowski Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic by Tom HollandĬaesar: Life of a Colossus by Adrian Goldsworthy SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard Michelangelo and the Pope’s Ceiling by Ross King (**)ġ453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West by Roger Crowley The Ottoman Age of Exploration by Giancarlo Casale The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean by David Abulafia (**) Mediterranean Civilizations and the RenaissanceĮmpires of the Sea: The Siege of Malta, the Battle of Lepanto, and the Contest for the Center of the World by Roger Crowley (**)Ĭity of Fortune: How Venice Ruled the Seas by Roger Crowley Ghost on the Throne: The Death of Alexander the Great and the Bloody Fight for His Empire by James Romm ![]() The Bible Unearthed: Archeology’s New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of its Sacred Texts by Israel Finkelstein and Neil Asher Silbermanīabylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization by Paul Kriwaczekġ177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed (Turning Points in Ancient History) by Eric H. Who Were the Early Israelites and Where Did They Come From? by William G Dever (**) The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World by David Anthony (***) Pathfinders: A Global History of Exploration by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto (***) The Invention of News: How the World Came to Know About Itself by Andrew Pettegree (**)īy Steppe, Desert, and Ocean: The Birth of Eurasia by Barry Cunliffe (**) The Book in the Renaissance by Andrew Pettegree. The Writing Revolution: Cuneiform to the Internet by Amalia E. Language, the Origins of Writing and the History of PrintĮmpires of the Word: A Language History of the World by Nicholas Oster. Later I plan to add some additional notation distinguishing those which are more natural page turners (everything is relative) from those that are more challenging reads or ones that are simply more obscure in their subject matter or very granular. Many of these if you search the titles on TPM you’ll find a fuller review and discussion of the book. So that can be as much the subject matter or the particular matrix of my interests as anything about the quality of the book itself. They are very personal notes about books that either changed my thinking or understanding of some aspect of history in some major way or books which I found particularly or even uniquely engrossing. These are not ratings or measures of the quality of the given book. But I mean it to be a reference which I will link to and add to in the future.Ī quick note on the asterisks that appear after some of the books – two stars and three stars in some cases. I have at least 15 or 20 more I plan to add. A number are recommended for the first time. Many of them I’ve recommended at some point over the last couple decades. The topics range from language and alphabets to Rome and Late Antiquity to Christianity, Islam, the Renaissance, pre-history and ancient civilizations, Israel, Eastern Europe and a number of other topics. After the jump are recommendations for just over 60 books – all what I’d call serious popular history, with a few examples stretching over into more academic books. Over recent months I’ve had a number of readers write in to ask if I’d put all my book reviews and recommendations in one place. ![]()
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