La Ruine de la civilisation antique (Le goût de l'Histoire t. 7)

by Guglielmo Ferrero, Bernard Biancotto (Preface)

Analyse percutante d’un empire au bord du vide et des forces qui l’aident à se relever.

Découvrez comment la Rome antique a tenté de garder sa cohésion face à des crises politiques et morales profondes, et ce que cela révèle sur les pouvoirs qui dirigent les civilisations.

La synthèse explore les choix stratégiques, économiques et culturels qui ont façonné l’Empire sous Dioclétien, et pourquoi ces décisions ont créé à la fois ordre et tensions. À travers l’étude de réformes administratives et fiscales, elle met en lumière le renforcement d’un système centralisé et les dilemmes entre tradition hellénistique et influence chrétienne. Ce panorama offre une clé pour comprendre les dynamiques entre autorité, culture et société durant une période cruciale de l’histoire européenne. Comment l’anarchie politique et intellectuelle menace une civilisation et ce qui peut la sauver. Les mesures économiques et fiscales qui ont restructuré l’Empire et tenté d’assurer sa survie. Le rapport entre la culture antique et les forces qui impulsaient le christianisme. Ce que ces leçons historiques disent des dynamiques du pouvoir et de la stabilité sociale. Pour les passionnés d’histoire politique et de l’évolution des grandes civilisations, ce livre offre une analyse claire et solidement étayée. Ideal pour les lecteurs qui veulent comprendre comment les anciennes puissances ont tenté de naviguer entre tradition et réforme face à des défis universels.

Genres: History

250 pages, Kindle Edition

First published March 3, 2010

About the author

Guglielmo Ferrero was an Italian historian, journalist and novelist, author of the Greatness and Decline of Rome (6 vols., 1903–1908).

Born in Portici, near Naples, Ferrero studied law in Pisa, Bologna and Turin. Soon afterward he married Gina Lombroso, a daughter of Cesare Lombroso, the criminologist and psychiatrist with whom he wrote Criminal Woman, the Prostitute and the Normal Woman. In 1891-1894 Ferrero traveled extensively in Europe and in 1897 wrote The Young Europe. After studying the history of Rome Ferrero turned to political essays and novels (Between Two Worlds in 1913, Speeches to the Deaf in 1925 and The Two Truths in 1933-1939). When the fascist reign of Black Shirts forced liberal intellectuals to leave Italy in 1925, Ferrero refused and was placed under house arrest. In 1929 Ferrero accepted a professorship at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. His last works however (Adventure; The Reconstruction of Europe; Power; and The Two French Revolutions) were dedicated to the French Revolution and Napoleon.

Ferrero was invited to the White House by Theodore Roosevelt in 1908. He gave lectures in the northeast US which were collected and published in 1909 as Characters and Events of Roman History. Additionally, Roosevelt read The Greatness and Decline of Rome.

He died in 1942 at Mont-Pelerin-sur-Vevey, Switzerland.





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Reviews

[Johan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Read this book! Food for thought still today, even more then ever today.

[Adrienne · Rating 4 out of 5]

A theory worth reading of the reasons for the fall of the Roman Empire, essentially due to the loss of the legitimacy of the empire’s power structure (who validates the new emperor?) and the upheaval that was Christianity. This book was written in 1920 and the author offers a comparison with the ending world of the European monarchies which his century just witnessed with the First World War. Some great food for thought 100 years later in what is once again an uncertain world...

[Xolrax · Rating 4 out of 5]

4.4

[Melodeamon · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of the best History book ever written
Absolute masterpiece 131 pages only lmao