The richest and most politically complex regions in Italy in the earliest middle ages were the Byzantine sections of the peninsula, thanks to their links with the most coherent early medieval state, the Byzantine empire. This comparative study of the histories of Rome, Ravenna, and ...
The richest and most politically complex regions in Italy in the earliest middle ages were the Byzantine sections of the peninsula, thanks to their links with the most coherent early medieval state, the Byzantine empire. This comparative study of the histories of Rome, Ravenna, and ...
Un apasionante retrato del Imperio Bizantino de la mano de la primera gran historiadora. La Alexíada es una de las grandes joyas de la literatura universal escrita hacia 1148 por la primera gran mujer historiadora, Ana Comnena (1083-1153). La obra relata la épica carrera política ...
Un apasionante retrato del Imperio Bizantino de la mano de la primera gran historiadora. La Alexíada es una de las grandes joyas de la literatura universal escrita hacia 1148 por la primera gran mujer historiadora, Ana Comnena (1083-1153). La obra relata la épica carrera política ...
For a civilization that preserved its existence and integrity against overwhelming odds and contributed in captivating ways to the diversity of human culture, Byzantium is strangely one of the most maligned and misunderstood civilizations of the past. The way in which history has been carved ...
For a civilization that preserved its existence and integrity against overwhelming odds and contributed in captivating ways to the diversity of human culture, Byzantium is strangely one of the most maligned and misunderstood civilizations of the past. The way in which history has been carved ...
With the exception of the wife of Andronikos III Palaiologos, Anna of Savoy, who acted as regent of Byzantium from 1341 to 1347, the lives of the late Byzantine empresses have so far received little scholarly attention. This study presents the biographies of all fifteen ...
With the exception of the wife of Andronikos III Palaiologos, Anna of Savoy, who acted as regent of Byzantium from 1341 to 1347, the lives of the late Byzantine empresses have so far received little scholarly attention. This study presents the biographies of all fifteen ...
L'Empire romain d'Orient a vu le jour sur les rives du Bosphore, lorsque Constantin, premier empereur chrétien, fonda la nouvelle Rome, Constantinople. Pendant un millénaire, dans la continuité avec les institutions romaines, une civilisation brillante s'y est développée, au carrefour de l ...
L'Empire romain d'Orient a vu le jour sur les rives du Bosphore, lorsque Constantin, premier empereur chrétien, fonda la nouvelle Rome, Constantinople. Pendant un millénaire, dans la continuité avec les institutions romaines, une civilisation brillante s'y est développée, au carrefour de l ...
Why the marginalized story of Byzantium has much to teach us about Western history
For many, Byzantium remains byzantine-obscure, marginal, difficult. Despite the efforts of some recent historians, prejudices still deform understanding of the Byzantine civilization, often reducing it to a poor relation of Rome ...
Why the marginalized story of Byzantium has much to teach us about Western history
For many, Byzantium remains byzantine-obscure, marginal, difficult. Despite the efforts of some recent historians, prejudices still deform understanding of the Byzantine civilization, often reducing it to a poor relation of Rome ...
La millenaria storia dell’impero di Bisanzio ha avuto continui punti di contatto con quella dell’Occidente, basti pensare alla presenza dei bizantini in Italia, dove restarono come dominatori dal VI all’XI secolo. I rapporti si fecero poi conflittuali fino a giungere nel 1204 ...
La millenaria storia dell’impero di Bisanzio ha avuto continui punti di contatto con quella dell’Occidente, basti pensare alla presenza dei bizantini in Italia, dove restarono come dominatori dal VI all’XI secolo. I rapporti si fecero poi conflittuali fino a giungere nel 1204 ...
El presente volumen analiza las principales tipologías de santas y santos venerados a lo largo de todo el período bizantino (siglos V-XV). El estudio está basado en una revisión profunda de las fuentes escritas en griego, principalmente las vidas y los milagros de cada uno ...
El presente volumen analiza las principales tipologías de santas y santos venerados a lo largo de todo el período bizantino (siglos V-XV). El estudio está basado en una revisión profunda de las fuentes escritas en griego, principalmente las vidas y los milagros de cada uno ...
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. Cambridge (MSS), 2019
A leading historian argues that in the empire we know as Byzantium, the Greek-speaking population was actually Roman, and scholars have deliberately mislabeled their ethnicity for the past two centuries for political reasons.
Was there ever such a thing as Byzantium? Certainly no emperor ever ...
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. Cambridge (MSS), 2019
A leading historian argues that in the empire we know as Byzantium, the Greek-speaking population was actually Roman, and scholars have deliberately mislabeled their ethnicity for the past two centuries for political reasons.
Was there ever such a thing as Byzantium? Certainly no emperor ever ...
The witty and self-assertive poetry of Christopher of Mytilene and John Mauropous provides unique snapshots of eleventh-century Constantinople at the height of its splendor and elegance. Their collections, aptly called "various verses," greatly range in length and style-including epigrams, polemics, encomia, and more-and their poems ...
The witty and self-assertive poetry of Christopher of Mytilene and John Mauropous provides unique snapshots of eleventh-century Constantinople at the height of its splendor and elegance. Their collections, aptly called "various verses," greatly range in length and style-including epigrams, polemics, encomia, and more-and their poems ...
Cinque secoli di una storia che inizia nel 535, con lo sbarco in Sicilia delle truppe di Costantinopoli e l’avvio di una guerra che condusse alla conquista bizantina dell’intera penisola. Ma già con l’invasione dei Longobardi nel 568 quella presenza comincia a ...
Cinque secoli di una storia che inizia nel 535, con lo sbarco in Sicilia delle truppe di Costantinopoli e l’avvio di una guerra che condusse alla conquista bizantina dell’intera penisola. Ma già con l’invasione dei Longobardi nel 568 quella presenza comincia a ...
Pennsylvania State University Press. Pennsylvania, 2019
Experiencing the resonant acoustics of the church of Hagia Sophia allowed the Byzantine participants in its liturgical rituals to be filled with the Spirit of God, and even to become his image on earth. Bissera Pentcheva's vibrant analysis examines how these sung rites combined ...
Pennsylvania State University Press. Pennsylvania, 2019
Experiencing the resonant acoustics of the church of Hagia Sophia allowed the Byzantine participants in its liturgical rituals to be filled with the Spirit of God, and even to become his image on earth. Bissera Pentcheva's vibrant analysis examines how these sung rites combined ...
Revisiting one of the great puzzles of European political history, Jennifer R. Davis examines how the Frankish king Charlemagne and his men held together the vast new empire he created during the first decades of his reign. Davis explores how Charlemagne overcame the two main ...
Revisiting one of the great puzzles of European political history, Jennifer R. Davis examines how the Frankish king Charlemagne and his men held together the vast new empire he created during the first decades of his reign. Davis explores how Charlemagne overcame the two main ...
Constantinopla 1453: el último gran asedio de la Edad Media 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 ...
Constantinopla 1453: el último gran asedio de la Edad Media 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 ...
Offering a comprehensive introduction to the history of books, readers and reading in the Byzantine Empire and its sphere of influence, this volume addresses a paradox. Advanced literacy was rare among imperial citizens, being restricted by gender and class. Yet the state's economic, religious ...
Offering a comprehensive introduction to the history of books, readers and reading in the Byzantine Empire and its sphere of influence, this volume addresses a paradox. Advanced literacy was rare among imperial citizens, being restricted by gender and class. Yet the state's economic, religious ...
This sixth and final volume in John Pocock's acclaimed sequence of works on Barbarism and Religion examines Volumes II and III of Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, carrying Gibbon's narrative to the end of empire in the west ...
This sixth and final volume in John Pocock's acclaimed sequence of works on Barbarism and Religion examines Volumes II and III of Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, carrying Gibbon's narrative to the end of empire in the west ...
This volume brings into being the field of Byzantine intellectual history. Shifting focus from the cultural, social, and economic study of Byzantium to the life and evolution of ideas in their context, it provides an authoritative history of intellectual endeavors from Late Antiquity to the ...
This volume brings into being the field of Byzantine intellectual history. Shifting focus from the cultural, social, and economic study of Byzantium to the life and evolution of ideas in their context, it provides an authoritative history of intellectual endeavors from Late Antiquity to the ...
Weird, decadent, degenerate, racially mixed, superstitious, theocratic, effeminate, and even hyper-literate, Byzantium has long been regarded by many as one big curiosity. According to Voltaire, it represented "a worthless collection of miracles, a disgrace for the human mind" for Hegel it was "a disgusting picture ...
Weird, decadent, degenerate, racially mixed, superstitious, theocratic, effeminate, and even hyper-literate, Byzantium has long been regarded by many as one big curiosity. According to Voltaire, it represented "a worthless collection of miracles, a disgrace for the human mind" for Hegel it was "a disgusting picture ...
Jonathan Harris' new edition of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, Constantinople, provides an updated and extended introduction to the history of Byzantium and its capital city. Accessible and engaging, the book breaks new ground by exploring Constantinople's mystical dimensions and examining the relationship between ...
Jonathan Harris' new edition of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, Constantinople, provides an updated and extended introduction to the history of Byzantium and its capital city. Accessible and engaging, the book breaks new ground by exploring Constantinople's mystical dimensions and examining the relationship between ...
PUF. Presses Universitaires de France . Paris, 2017
Le 11 mai 330, les cérémonies qui accompagnèrent la fondation par Constantin de la ville à laquelle il donne son nom marquent la naissance du futur Empire que nous appelons byzantin, mais que les empereurs et leurs sujets ont toujours conçu comme romain. Cet empire ...
PUF. Presses Universitaires de France . Paris, 2017
Le 11 mai 330, les cérémonies qui accompagnèrent la fondation par Constantin de la ville à laquelle il donne son nom marquent la naissance du futur Empire que nous appelons byzantin, mais que les empereurs et leurs sujets ont toujours conçu comme romain. Cet empire ...
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