作者介绍—— J. B. Bury 伯里

J. B. Bury 伯里

（16 October 1861 – 1 June 1927)

Bury was an Anglo-Irish historian, classical scholar, Medieval Roman historian and philologist.

He objected to the label "Byzantinist" explicitly in the preface to the 1889 edition of his Later Roman Empire.

Bury's writings, on subjects ranging from ancient Greece to the 19th-century papacy, are at once scholarly and accessible to the layman.

His two works on the philosophy of history elucidated the Victorian ideals of progress and rationality which undergirded his more specific histories.

He also led a revival of Byzantine history (which he considered and explicitly called Roman history), which English-speaking historians, following Edward Gibbon, had largely neglected.

He contributed to, and was himself the subject of an article in, the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.

With Frank Adcock and S. A. Cook he edited The Cambridge Ancient History, launched in 1919.

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Bibliography

The Odes of Pindar

The Nemean Odes of Pindar (1890)

The Isthmian Odes of Pindar (1892)

Rome

A History of the Roman Empire From its Foundation to the Death of Marcus Aurelius (1893)

A History of the Eastern Roman Empire from the Fall of Irene to the Accession of Basil I (A. D. 802–867) (1912)

The classical historian J. B. Bury (1861–1927) wrote on the later history of the Roman empire, and, in this 1912 work, examines the Byzantine empire in the ninth century.

The book is a continuation of his two-volume History of the Later Roman Empire of 1889, which covers the period from 395 to 800 (and is also reissued in this series), and reflects Bury's belief that the century-long so-called Amorian epoch 'is not a mere epilogue, and is much more than a prologue' between the better-known periods of Byzantine history that preceded and followed it.

In this period, iconoclasm 毁坏圣像运动 again became a cause of civil strife,

and wars on the eastern frontier were a strain on the military resources of the empire,

while at least two of the emperors were murdered.

A History of the Later Roman Empire from Arcadius to Irene ( (395 A.D. to 800 A.D 2 vols.) (1889)

(A History of the Later Roman Empire from the Death of Theodosius I to the Death of Justinian (1923) volumn one (395-565))

The classical historian J. B. Bury (1861–1927) was the author of a history of Greece which was a standard textbook for over a century.

He also wrote on later periods, and, in this two-volume work of 1889, examines Byzantine history from 395 to 800.

Arguing for the underlying continuity of the Roman empire from the time of Augustus until 1453, Bury nevertheless begins his account in the year in which, on the death of Theodosius I, the empire was divided into eastern and western parts, and Constantinople began to take on the metropolitan role formerly held by Rome.

Broadly chronological, but with an extended section on the state of the empire at the end of the fourth century, Volume 1 covers the period to the deaths of Belisarius and Justinian in 565, examining the decline of paganism, the inroads of 'barbarians', and the cultural milieu of the early Byzantine empire.

Volume 2, after reviewing Justinian's legacy, takes the history down from the accession of Justin II to the death of Irene in 803. Topics examined include civil strife, including the period of iconoclasm, and the increasing problems of maintaining the imperial borders against incursions from both east and west.

The Invasion of Europe by the Barbarians (1928)

The Life of St. Patrick and His Place in History (1905)

History of the Papacy in the 19th Century (1864–1878) (1930)

Greece

A History of Greece to the Death of Alexander the Great (1900) 希腊史

The Ancient Greek Historians (Harvard Lectures) (1909)

The Hellenistic Age: Aspects of Hellenistic Civilization (1923), with E. A. Barber, Edwyn Bevan, and W. W. Tarn

Philosophical

A History of Freedom of Thought (1913) 汉译世界学术名著丛书

The Idea of Progress: An Inquiry into Its Origin and Growth (1920)

As editor

Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

(7 Editions - November 1898–1925)

2ND American edition at Online Library of Liberty in 12 volumes

J.B. Bury, ed., 2 volumes, 4TH Edition (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1914)

Edward Augustus Freeman, Freeman's Historical Geography of Europe (third edition, 1903)

Edward Augustus Freeman, The Atlas To Freeman's Historical Geography (third edition, 1903)