La obra de Pierre Gilles lo llevó a recorrer el imperio otomano y a escrutar a fondo el pasado de su capital, lo cual respondía a la necesidad de los soberanos europeos de conocer directamente, desde dentro, la realidad del imperio del Gran Turco, no ...
La obra de Pierre Gilles lo llevó a recorrer el imperio otomano y a escrutar a fondo el pasado de su capital, lo cual respondía a la necesidad de los soberanos europeos de conocer directamente, desde dentro, la realidad del imperio del Gran Turco, no ...
For more than a millennium, the Byzantine Empire presided over the juncture between East and West, as well as the transition from the classical to the modern world. Jonathan Harris, a leading scholar of Byzantium, eschews the usual run-through of emperors and battles and instead ...
For more than a millennium, the Byzantine Empire presided over the juncture between East and West, as well as the transition from the classical to the modern world. Jonathan Harris, a leading scholar of Byzantium, eschews the usual run-through of emperors and battles and instead ...
Centro de Estudios Bizantinos, Neogriegos y Chipriotas. Granada, 2015
El volumen ofrece un fascinante estudio sobre los aspectos militares y económicos de los imperios bizantino y persa de Sasán que se enfrentaron entre 564 y 642 d.C. El libro está estructurado en tres partes diferentes y tiene como objetivo descubrir el impacto de ...
Centro de Estudios Bizantinos, Neogriegos y Chipriotas. Granada, 2015
El volumen ofrece un fascinante estudio sobre los aspectos militares y económicos de los imperios bizantino y persa de Sasán que se enfrentaron entre 564 y 642 d.C. El libro está estructurado en tres partes diferentes y tiene como objetivo descubrir el impacto de ...
Constantinopla, a caballo entre Asia y Europa, fue una de las ciudades más legendarias del mundo. Fundada por Constantino el Grande y capital del Imperio romano de Oriente y luego de su heredero, el Imperio bizantino, consiguió frenar el ímpetu de las conquistas árabes en ...
Constantinopla, a caballo entre Asia y Europa, fue una de las ciudades más legendarias del mundo. Fundada por Constantino el Grande y capital del Imperio romano de Oriente y luego de su heredero, el Imperio bizantino, consiguió frenar el ímpetu de las conquistas árabes en ...
Arab messengers played a vital role in the medieval Islamic world and its diplomatic relations with foreign powers. An innovative treatise from the 10th Century ("Rusul al-Muluk", "Messengers of Kings") is perhaps the most important account of the diplomacy of the period, and it is ...
Arab messengers played a vital role in the medieval Islamic world and its diplomatic relations with foreign powers. An innovative treatise from the 10th Century ("Rusul al-Muluk", "Messengers of Kings") is perhaps the most important account of the diplomacy of the period, and it is ...
Iconoclasm, the debate about the legitimacy of religious art that began in Byzantium around 720 and continued for nearly one hundred and twenty years, has long held a firm grip on the historical imagination. This is the first book in English for over fifty years ...
Iconoclasm, the debate about the legitimacy of religious art that began in Byzantium around 720 and continued for nearly one hundred and twenty years, has long held a firm grip on the historical imagination. This is the first book in English for over fifty years ...
El libro recoge una selección de artículos del autor publicados entre 1983 y 2007 que tratan del trasvase de ideas desde el ámbito bizantino a Occidente desde distintas perspectivas. Para una primera sección, “El viaje de las personas”, se han elegido contribuciones que toman como ...
El libro recoge una selección de artículos del autor publicados entre 1983 y 2007 que tratan del trasvase de ideas desde el ámbito bizantino a Occidente desde distintas perspectivas. Para una primera sección, “El viaje de las personas”, se han elegido contribuciones que toman como ...
This new edition of Byzantium and the Crusades provides a fully-revised and updated version of Jonathan Harris's landmark text in the field of Byzantine and crusader history. The book offers a chronological exploration of Byzantium and the outlook of its rulers during the time ...
This new edition of Byzantium and the Crusades provides a fully-revised and updated version of Jonathan Harris's landmark text in the field of Byzantine and crusader history. The book offers a chronological exploration of Byzantium and the outlook of its rulers during the time ...
Modern historiography has become accustomed to portraying the emperor Theophilos of Byzantium (829-842) in a favourable light, taking at face value the legendary account that makes of him a righteous and learned ruler, and excusing as ill fortune his apparent military failures against the Muslims ...
Modern historiography has become accustomed to portraying the emperor Theophilos of Byzantium (829-842) in a favourable light, taking at face value the legendary account that makes of him a righteous and learned ruler, and excusing as ill fortune his apparent military failures against the Muslims ...
Pennsylvania State University Press. Pennsylvania, 2014
Today we take the word "icon" to mean "a sign," or we equate it with portraits of Christ and the saints. In The Sensual Icon, Bissera Pentcheva demonstrates how icons originally manifested the presence of the Holy Spirit in matter. Christ was the ideal icon ...
Pennsylvania State University Press. Pennsylvania, 2014
Today we take the word "icon" to mean "a sign," or we equate it with portraits of Christ and the saints. In The Sensual Icon, Bissera Pentcheva demonstrates how icons originally manifested the presence of the Holy Spirit in matter. Christ was the ideal icon ...
For many of us, Byzantium remains "byzantine"--obscure, marginal, difficult. Despite the efforts of some recent historians, prejudices still deform popular and scholarly understanding of the Byzantine civilization, often reducing it to a poor relation of Rome and the rest of the classical world. In ...
For many of us, Byzantium remains "byzantine"--obscure, marginal, difficult. Despite the efforts of some recent historians, prejudices still deform popular and scholarly understanding of the Byzantine civilization, often reducing it to a poor relation of Rome and the rest of the classical world. In ...
This volume contains selected papers from a December 2006 Dumbarton Oaks symposium that complemented an exhibition of early Bible manuscripts at the Freer Gallery and Sackler Gallery of Art titled "In the Beginning: Bibles before the Year 1000." Speakers were invited to examine the use ...
This volume contains selected papers from a December 2006 Dumbarton Oaks symposium that complemented an exhibition of early Bible manuscripts at the Freer Gallery and Sackler Gallery of Art titled "In the Beginning: Bibles before the Year 1000." Speakers were invited to examine the use ...
Despite increased interest over the last fifty years in childhood in Byzantium, the bibliography on this topic remains rather short and generalized. Becoming Byzantine: Children and Childhood in Byzantium presents detailed information about children's lives and provides a basis for further study. This collection ...
Despite increased interest over the last fifty years in childhood in Byzantium, the bibliography on this topic remains rather short and generalized. Becoming Byzantine: Children and Childhood in Byzantium presents detailed information about children's lives and provides a basis for further study. This collection ...
This is the first full-scale study of the literary art of Anna Komnene's Alexiad. Her history of her father's reign is well-known and much used by Byzantinists and historians of the First Crusade, but the art with which it shapes its central character ...
This is the first full-scale study of the literary art of Anna Komnene's Alexiad. Her history of her father's reign is well-known and much used by Byzantinists and historians of the First Crusade, but the art with which it shapes its central character ...
El Imperio Romano de Oriente, que hoy designamos con el epíteto de Bizantino, fue la parte del mundo grecorromano que no pereció en la crisis política del siglo V, sino que debía perdurar hasta 1453, con la toma de Constantinopla –la Nueva Roma– por los ...
El Imperio Romano de Oriente, que hoy designamos con el epíteto de Bizantino, fue la parte del mundo grecorromano que no pereció en la crisis política del siglo V, sino que debía perdurar hasta 1453, con la toma de Constantinopla –la Nueva Roma– por los ...
Sólo comprendiendo la evolución y significado del Estado romano -principalmente en la época del Imperio bizantino- podemos entender el sentido cultural de Occidente y, en buena medida, del Oriente. Este estudio se extiende desde la fundación de la nueva Roma en el siglo IV hasta ...
Sólo comprendiendo la evolución y significado del Estado romano -principalmente en la época del Imperio bizantino- podemos entender el sentido cultural de Occidente y, en buena medida, del Oriente. Este estudio se extiende desde la fundación de la nueva Roma en el siglo IV hasta ...
This book explores Michael Psellos' place in the history of Greek rhetoric and self-representation and his impact on the development of Byzantine literature. Avoiding the modern dilemma that vacillates between Psellos the pompous rhetorician and Psellos the ingenious thinker, Professor Papaioannou unravels the often misunderstood ...
This book explores Michael Psellos' place in the history of Greek rhetoric and self-representation and his impact on the development of Byzantine literature. Avoiding the modern dilemma that vacillates between Psellos the pompous rhetorician and Psellos the ingenious thinker, Professor Papaioannou unravels the often misunderstood ...
A pronoia was a type of conditional grant from the emperor, often to soldiers, of various properties and privileges. Filling the need for a comprehensive study of the institution, this book examines the origin, evolution and characteristics of pronoia, focusing particularly on the later thirteenth ...
A pronoia was a type of conditional grant from the emperor, often to soldiers, of various properties and privileges. Filling the need for a comprehensive study of the institution, this book examines the origin, evolution and characteristics of pronoia, focusing particularly on the later thirteenth ...
Centro de Estudios Bizantinos, Neogriegos y Chipriotas. Granada, 2013
Lectura imprescindible para todos aquellos investigadores que se interesen por el campo de la presencia bizantina en el territorio africano. La selección de textos empleados, el análisis crítico aplicado a las fuentes clásicas y tardoantiguas y la doble lectura de los textos científicos actuales, crea ...
Centro de Estudios Bizantinos, Neogriegos y Chipriotas. Granada, 2013
Lectura imprescindible para todos aquellos investigadores que se interesen por el campo de la presencia bizantina en el territorio africano. La selección de textos empleados, el análisis crítico aplicado a las fuentes clásicas y tardoantiguas y la doble lectura de los textos científicos actuales, crea ...
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