Ann Wroe

Ann Wroe is a journalist and author - working as Briefings and Obituaries editor of The Economist. She is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, the Royal Society of Literature and the English Association.

Boeken

Citaten

Nikolai C.citeerde uit10 maanden geleden
Edwardian commentators in their boned collars also liked to imagine him in love (“at least as a man of his nature could love”) because it softened the military and legal rigors a little, and possibly also because it confirmed the governor’s moral weakness.

Inicia el libro comentando sbre tres posibles lugares de origen de Poncio. Alemania, Italia, y de las mismas colinas de un grupo de gente que fue conquistada por los romanos. En las tres versiones coinciden que casó dentro de la realeza.

Nikolai C.citeerde uit10 maanden geleden
The point of the Roman presence in Judaea was to secure tax revenues, keep the peace and establish trade with Rome; it was not to colonize or Romanize it. Most Romans knew a lost cause when they saw one. Nor was their job to act like an occupying army. Pilate’s troops were more of a police force, responsible for guarding important buildings, protecting the governor, controlling sheep in the streets and, when necessary, punishing malefactors
Nikolai C.citeerde uit10 maanden geleden
Good shows, as much as brilliant campaigns, made a man’s political reputation; some men imagined God himself as an aedile, a master of ceremonies, stringing the sky with lights and marshaling the shooting stars.
fb2epub
Sleep je bestanden hiernaartoe (maximaal 5 per keer)