E-books
Original deep-dive e-books, written exclusively for this series — not collections of site articles. Each one zooms in on a single aspect of history and goes far beyond what a free article can do: primary sources, historiographical debate, and the detail that makes the period come alive.
Patrons (€10/month) get every e-book free. Members (€5/month) get 20% off. Everyone can buy à la carte in the shop.
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The Dominate: How Constantine and His Heirs Turned Rome into a Christian Monarchy
Book Three of The Shape of Roman Power, completing the trilogy. Constantine's reunification of the empire, the founding of Constantinople, the…
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Sworn Craft: How Europe’s Guilds Ran the Economy
Ten chapters, roughly 6,000 words, written as one continuous argument: what a guild actually was, how a man became a master, the cities that banned…
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The Tetrarchy: How Diocletian Rebuilt an Empire by Dividing It
Book Two of The Shape of Roman Power. Diocletian shared supreme power first with one colleague, then with three, building a college of four emperors…
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The Principate: How Augustus Invented the Roman Emperor
Book One of The Shape of Roman Power. A focused constitutional history of how Augustus and his successors ruled Rome as autocrats for two centuries…
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Roman Empire — The Collected Articles
Sixteen chapters on the empire, rewritten as one narrative rather than assembled from separate articles: how it was governed, how it paid for itself,…
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A new e-book appears roughly every month. Patrons find each one attached on Patreon the moment it's released.
Also worth your time: Member Dossiers — shorter, weekly, free with membership — and Novels.