J. B. Bury (1861–1927)
Author of A History of Greece
About the Author
John Bagnell Bury (1861-1927) taught at Trinity College, Dublin, and was regius professor of modern history at Cambridge University from 1902 until his death.
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Series
Works by J. B. Bury
History of the Later Roman Empire from the Death of Theodosius I to the Death of Justinian [Vol. 1] (1923) 245 copies, 1 review
History of the Later Roman Empire from the Death of Theodosius I to the Death of Justinian [Vol. 2] (1923) 217 copies, 1 review
History of the Later Roman Empire from the Death of Theodosius I to the Death of Justinian (1923) 65 copies, 1 review
The Cambridge Medieval History, Volume 1: The Christian Roman Empire and the Foundation of the Teutonic Kingdoms (1920) 49 copies, 1 review
The Cambridge Ancient History, Vol. IV: The Persian Empire and the West (1926) — Editor — 45 copies, 1 review
The Hellenistic Age: Aspects of Hellenistic Civilization (The Norton library, N544) (1970) 34 copies
The Triumph of Christendom in the Roman Empire [Ch. XV-XX of The Decline & Fall] (1958) — Editor — 22 copies
A History of the Eastern Roman Empire from the Fall of Irene to the Accession of Basil I (2009) 22 copies
A History of the Roman Empire from Its Foundation to the Death of Marcus Aurelius (27 B.C. - 180 A.D.) (2012) 19 copies
A History of the Later Roman Empire from Arcadius to Irene (395 A.D. to 800 A.D.): Volume 2 (1999) 16 copies
A history of the later Roman empire. From Arcadius to Irene. (395 A.D. to 800 A.D.) (2015) 12 copies
A history of the later Roman Empire, a supplement containing the emperors from Basil II to Isaac Komnenos (A.D. 976-1057), and other essays on Byzantine history (1986) 10 copies, 1 review
A History of the Later Roman Empire from Arcadius to Irene (395 A.D. to 800 A.D.): Volume 1 (1999) 9 copies
The Cambridge Ancient History, Vol. II: The Egyptian and Hittite Empires to c.1000 B.C. (1924) — Editor — 9 copies
History of the papacy in the 19th century; liberty and authority in the Roman Catholic Church (1964) 8 copies
The imperial administrative system in the ninth century;: With a revised text of the Kletorologion of Philotheos (2015) 5 copies
Fikir ve söz hürriyeti 2 copies
A History of the Dark Ages - From the Triumph of Constantine to the Empire of Charlemagne (Illustrated) (2015) 2 copies
Düşünme ve konuşma özgürlüğü 1 copy
Later Roman Empire Vol. 2 1 copy
The Idea of progress 1 copy
The idea of progress 1 copy
Associated Works
History of the Decline and Fall of Roman Empire [complete] (1788) — Editor, some editions; Introduction, some editions — 3,646 copies, 42 reviews
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. 6 {7v. - Bury} (1788) — Editor — 26 copies
Tagged
Common Knowledge
- Canonical name
- Bury, J. B.
- Legal name
- Bury, John Bagnell
- Birthdate
- 1861-10-16
- Date of death
- 1927-06-01
- Gender
- male
- Education
- Foyle College (Derry)
Trinity College, Dublin (BA|1882) - Occupations
- historian
classical scholar
philologist
professor - Organizations
- Cambridge University
Trinity College, Dublin - Awards and honors
- Fellow, British Academy (1902)
- Relationships
- Bury, Robert Gregg (brother)
- Nationality
- Ireland
- Birthplace
- Clontibret, Ireland
- Place of death
- Rome, Italy
- Burial location
- Cimitero dei protestanti, Rome, Italy
- Associated Place (for map)
- Rome, Italy
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Reviews
This is is one of my nerdy religious reads. I read this book on St. Patrick on St. Patrick's Day because it was St. Patrick's day. Yep. I am that guy. In past years, I read the confessions of St. Patrick to redeem the day (because it is about more than just green beer).
J.B. Bury's text is over a hundred years old, but this edition combines his text with Jon Sweeney's editorial notes. Bury was a sympathetic-critical reader of the St. Patrick traditions but more work has been done since his show more original publications. Sweeney helps fill in the gaps.
I am not an expert on Patrick and haven't read all the literature on his life (or what we know and suspect about his life) but this text enriched my understanding of this great saint's legacy. show less
J.B. Bury's text is over a hundred years old, but this edition combines his text with Jon Sweeney's editorial notes. Bury was a sympathetic-critical reader of the St. Patrick traditions but more work has been done since his show more original publications. Sweeney helps fill in the gaps.
I am not an expert on Patrick and haven't read all the literature on his life (or what we know and suspect about his life) but this text enriched my understanding of this great saint's legacy. show less
The Invasion of Europe by the Barbarians (1928) is a brief history of the so-called Migration Period during the last stages of the Roman Empire. The historiography has changed considerably since Bury with the idea of a transition, not a stark break, as seen in the field of Late Antiquity. Nevertheless Bury's writing can be captivating at times, and is based on the same limited number of sources historians still use, the bare facts are not wrong. It is a relatively short book meant for a show more general audience. Nevertheless it is a complex topic - you'll want to know the difference between Ostrogoths, Visigoths, Burgundians, Alans, Lombards, Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Suebi, Alemanni, Gepids, and Vandals - to name a few. Plus all the colorfully named Barbarian warriors and Kings. It's the kind of topic you have to keep reading and refreshing, what exactly happened and why remains one of the great questions of history. show less
A history of the later Roman Empire, a supplement containing the emperors from Basil II to Isaac Komnenos (A.D. 976-1057), and other essays on Byzantine history by J. B. Bury
Read for completeness, and interesting in his take on the Writings of Michael Psellus. The essays on the Patriarchs of Constantinople were also good. Warning, the bulk of the possibly illuminating footnotes are in Greek!
History of the later Roman Empire from the death of Theodosius I. to the death of Justinian by J. B. Bury
J.B. Bury was a giant in Classical history in the late Nineteenth and early Twentieth Century. He was the General Editor of the "Cambridge Ancient History" in its earliest incarnation, which was a massive status statement. This two volume set from dover was a section of his four part study of the Eastern Roman Empire, which concludes just short of Alexius Comnenus, who reigned 1096 - 1118. While a big book, and short on many of the aspects of Early Medieval scholarship we pursue today, it show more remains an interesting discussion of the international and domestic aspects of the Empire, in this case from the Death of Theodosius I to the end of the reign of Justinian I. There are many useful epigrams. show less
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