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Judith Herrin - Byzantium, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2008

Byzantium

The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire

Av Judith Herrin

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For a thousand years an extraordinary empire made possible Europe’s transition to the modern world: Byzantium. An audacious and resilient but now little known society, it combined orthodox Christianity with paganism, classical Greek learning with Roman power, to produce a great and creative civilization which for centuries held in check the armies of Islam. Judith Herrin’s concise and compelling book replaces the standard chronological approach of most histories of Byzantium. Instead, each short chapter is focused on a theme, such as a building (the great church of Hagia Sophia), a clash over religion (iconoclasm), sex and power (the role of eunuchs), an outstanding Byzantine individual (the historian Anna Komnene), a symbol of civilization (the fork), a battle for territory (the crusades). In this way she makes accessible and understandable the grand sweeps of Byzantine history, from the founding of its magnificent capital Constantinople (modern Istanbul) in 330, to its fall to the Ottoman Turks in 1453.
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2008-04-03
  • Mått: 128 x 197 x 24 mm
  • Vikt: 339 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 416
  • Förlag: Penguin Books Ltd
  • ISBN: 9780141031026
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An acclaimed historian of medieval Europe, Judith Herrin is the author of The Formation of Christendom, devoted to the Mediterranean world from the mid-sixth to the mid-ninth century A.D., A Medieval Miscellany and Women in Purple. She worked in Birmingham, Paris, Munich, Istanbul and Princeton before taking up her current position as Professor of Late Antique and Byzantine Studies at King's College London. She has published many scholarly articles, excavated in Greece, Cyprus and Turkey, and was on the editorial board Past and Present 2000-2013.

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2 recensioner, genomsnitt 5/5

  1. 5/5 Giorgio B

    This is an incredibly researched and presented work on the history of a region of Europe and during a time on which school syllabi do not focus deep enough.
    Well worth a read, also in order to do away with some stereotypical beliefs about the Byzantine empire and everyday life.

  2. 5/5 Christian

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