Le monde byzantin.T.II: L'Empire byzantin (641-1204)

Un premier volume avait présenté la fondation de l'Empire byzantin. Cet ouvrage, consacré aux siècles suivants (VIIe- XIIIe s.), est également le fruit du travail d'une équipe associant des spécialistes des principales disciplines, seuls capables de prendre en compte les changements historiographiques. L ...

Byzance

économie et société. Du milieu du VIIIe siècle à 1204

Entre le VIII et le XIIIe siècle, le monde byzantin a connu une expansion économique importante qui a permis le développement d'une brillante société. Comme en Occident, cette expansion est facilitée par la reprise démographique, mais aussi par la croissance des échanges. Les IXe ...

La Antapódosis o retribución de Liutprando de Cremona

INDICE: Prefacio. Introducción. Bibliografía. Versión y notas. Libros. Índices.

A byzantine encyclopaedia of horse medicine

the sources, compilation, and transmission of the Hippiatrica

How were Greek texts on the care and medical treatment of the horse transmitted from antiquity to the present day? Using the evidence of Byzantine manuscripts of the veterinary compilation known as the Hippiatrica, Anne McCabe traces the journey of the texts from the stables ...

The early byzantine historians

"The Early Byzantine Historians" is the first original study of every significant Byzantine historian from Eusebius of Caesarea (c.255-339) to Theophylact Simocatta (c.585-after 641). Written for general readers as well as professional scholars, and filled with new discoveries and interpretations, the book presents ...

The history

This is the first English translation and study of George Akropolites' History, the main Greek source for the history of Byzantium between 1204 and 1261. Akropolites relates what happened to Byzantium after the Latin conquest of its capital, Constantinople, by the Fourth Crusade in 1204 ...

Crusader warfare

Byzantium, western Europe and the battle of the Holy Land

This book presents as many aspects as possible of warfare during the period of the crusades within all the cultures most directly involved. To a large extent the current interest in the Crusades reflects the perceived threat of a so-called 'clash of civilisations'. While warnings ...

Egypt in the byzantine world, 300-700

Egypt in the period from the reign of the emperor Constantine to the Arab conquest was both a vital part of the Late Roman and Byzantine world, participating fully in the culture of its wider Mediterranean society, and a distinctive milieu, launched on a path ...

Studies on the history and topography of byzantine Constantinople

Constantinople originated in 330 A.D. as the last great urban foundation of the ancient world. When it was sacked by the Fourth Crusade in 1204, it was the greatest city of the European Middle Ages. Its transition from the one to the other was ...

Histoires

guerres et malheurs du temps sous Justinien

Les Histoires d'Agathias couvrent à peine dix années du règne de Justinien (551-559), une période marquée par des guerres - fin de la reconquête de l'Italie par Narsès, guerre contre les Perses en Lazique, invasion de la Thrace par les Huns Kotrigours - et par ...

Letters, literacy and literature in Byzantium

These studies look at general problems of reading Byzantine literature, at literacy practices and the literary process, but also at individual texts. The past thirty years have seen a revolution in the way Byzantine literature has been viewed: no longer is it considered a decadent ...

The byzantine economy

A concise study of the economy of the Byzantine Empire, a state that lasted from the fourth century AD until 1453. Organised chronologically, the authors address key themes such as demography, agriculture, manufacturing and the urban economy, trade, monetary developments, and the role of the ...

Byzantines and crusaders in non-greek sources, 1025-1204

These essays survey the range of historical sources from the peoples who collided with the Byzantine Empire during this period of dramatic upheaval. The Empire that had been expanded and consolidated by Basil II (d. 1025) was to disintegrate in the face of incursions from ...

Eat, drink, and be merry (Luke12:19) - food and wine in Byzantium

papers of the 37th Annual Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, in honour of professor A.A.M. Bryer

This volume brings together a group of scholars to consider the rituals of eating together in the Byzantine world, the material culture of Byzantine food and wine consumption, and the transport and exchange of agricultural products.The contributors present food in nearly every conceivable guise ...

Tales from another Byzantium

celestial journey and local community in the Medieval Greek apocrypha

The rich corpus of medieval Greek apocryphal religious literature has been little used by historians. This book is the first full-length study of two medieval Greek visionary journeys to heaven and hell: the Apocalypse of the Theotokos and the Apocalypse of Anastasia. Composed anonymously sometime ...

Le monde Byzantin, 750-124

économie et société

Clefs concours : s'adressant à tous les candidats aux concours, en particulier Agrégation et CAPES, Clefs concours offre une synthèse par sujet. Conçu comme un repère par rapport aux monographies et aux cours et comme un outil de révision, chaque ouvrage est articulé autour de ...

Between Islam and Byzantium

Aght'amar and the visual construction of medieval armenian rulership

"Between Islam and Byzantium" provides the first complete analysis of the development of the visual expression of medieval Armenian rulership during the years 884-1045 CE. During this period, the Armenian rulers had loosened the ties that subjected them to the Arab caliphate, but by its ...

Byzantine Infantryman

eastern roman empire c.900-1204

Illustrated by Angus McBride The Byzantine Army was the closest the middle ages came to producing a military superpower. Built on a strong belief system emphasising stealth, surprise, swift manoeuvre and overwhelming force, the Byzantine infantryman was trained in survival, sword, spear and archery techniques ...

Studies in pre-ottoman Turkey and the ottomans

The studies included in the present collection by Elizabeth Zachariadou are concerned with the long period of transition from the Byzantine Empire to its successor, the Ottoman Empire. Among the themes covered are the processes of settlement and state-formation amongst the nomadic and often superficially ...

Histoire des croisades et du royaume franc de Jérusalem