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42 produkter
The New Roman Empire
A History of Byzantium
Inbunden, 2024
531 kr
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A major new history of the eastern Roman Empire, from Constantine to 1453.In recent decades, the study of the Eastern Roman Empire, also known as Byzantium, has been revolutionized by new approaches and more sophisticated models for how its society and state operated. No longer looked upon as a …
Streams of Gold, Rivers of Blood
The Rise and Fall of Byzantium, 955 A.D. to the First Crusade
Häftad, 2019
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
503 kr
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In the second half of the tenth century, Byzantium embarked on a series of spectacular conquests: first in the southeast against the Arabs, then in Bulgaria, and finally in the Georgian and Armenian lands. By the early eleventh century, the empire was the most powerful state in the Mediterranean. …
1453
The Conquest and Tragedy of Constantinople
Inbunden, 2026
258 kr
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A detailed account of the siege and fall of Constantinople in 1453, a watershed year that closed the book, once and for all, on the Roman Empire and confirmed for Europeans their worst fears about an expanding Ottoman Empire.Anthony Kaldellis offers a new narrative of the siege and fall of …
The New Roman Empire
A History of Byzantium
Häftad, 2026
359 kr
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A major new history of the eastern Roman Empire, from Constantine to 1453.In recent decades, the study of the Eastern Roman Empire, also known as Byzantium, has been revolutionized by new approaches and more sophisticated models for how its society and state operated. No longer looked upon as a …
Secret History
with Related Texts
Av Prokopios, Anthony Kaldellis
Häftad, 2010
239 kr
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By exposing the perversion, repression, corruption, and injustice at the heart of Justinian's regime, Prokopios' The Secret History destroyed forever that emperor's reputation as the great and benevolent ruler of a vast Byzantine state.Faithfully rendered here in blunt and idiomatic English, …
Streams of Gold, Rivers of Blood
The Rise and Fall of Byzantium, 955 A.D. to the First Crusade
Inbunden, 2017
713 kr
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In the second half of the tenth century, Byzantium embarked on a series of spectacular conquests: first in the southeast against the Arabs, then in Bulgaria, and finally in the Georgian and Armenian lands. By the early eleventh century, the empire was the most powerful state in the Mediterranean. …
1453
The Conquest and Tragedy of Constantinople
E-bok, 2026
327 kr
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A detailed account of the siege and fall of Constantinople in 1453, a watershed year that closed the book, once and for all, on the Roman Empire and confirmed for Europeans their worst fears about an expanding Ottoman Empire. Anthony Kaldellis offers a new narrative of the siege and fall of …
A Cabinet of Byzantine Curiosities
Strange Tales and Surprising Facts from History's Most Orthodox Empire
Inbunden, 2017
192 kr
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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 …
Byzantium Unbound
Häftad, 2019
300 kr
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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 up …
The Cambridge Intellectual History of Byzantium
Av Anthony Kaldellis, Niketas Siniossoglou
Inbunden, 2017
2734 kr
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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 …
Byzantine Readings of Ancient Historians
Texts in Translation, with Introductions and Notes
Häftad, 2019
755 kr
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The survival of ancient Greek historiography is largely due to its preservation by Byzantine copyists and scholars. This process entailed selection, adaptation, and commentary, which shaped the corpus of Greek historiography in its transmission. By investigating those choices, Kaldellis enables a …
Streams of Gold, Rivers of Blood
The Rise and Fall of Byzantium, 955 A.D. to the First Crusade
E-bok, 2017
283 kr
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In the second half of the tenth century, Byzantium embarked on a series of spectacular conquests: first in the southeast against the Arabs, then in Bulgaria, and finally in the Georgian and Armenian lands. By the early eleventh century, the empire was the most powerful state in the Mediterranean. …
Streams of Gold, Rivers of Blood
The Rise and Fall of Byzantium, 955 A.D. to the First Crusade
E-bok, 2017
283 kr
Lägg i varukorg
In the second half of the tenth century, Byzantium embarked on a series of spectacular conquests: first in the southeast against the Arabs, then in Bulgaria, and finally in the Georgian and Armenian lands. By the early eleventh century, the empire was the most powerful state in the Mediterranean. …
Cabinet of Byzantine Curiosities
Strange Tales and Surprising Facts from History''s Most Orthodox Empire
E-bok, 2017
139 kr
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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 …
Cabinet of Byzantine Curiosities
Strange Tales and Surprising Facts from History''s Most Orthodox Empire
E-bok, 2017
139 kr
Lägg i varukorg
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 …
New Roman Empire
A History of Byzantium
E-bok, 2021
437 kr
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A major new history of the eastern Roman Empire, from Constantine to 1453. In recent decades, the study of the Eastern Roman Empire, also known as Byzantium, has been revolutionized by new approaches and more sophisticated models for how its society and state operated. No longer looked upon as a …
New Roman Empire
A History of Byzantium
E-bok, 2021
437 kr
Lägg i varukorg
A major new history of the eastern Roman Empire, from Constantine to 1453. In recent decades, the study of the Eastern Roman Empire, also known as Byzantium, has been revolutionized by new approaches and more sophisticated models for how its society and state operated. No longer looked upon as a …
1453
The Conquest and Tragedy of Constantinople
E-bok, 2026
327 kr
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A detailed account of the siege and fall of Constantinople in 1453, a watershed year that closed the book, once and for all, on the Roman Empire and confirmed for Europeans their worst fears about an expanding Ottoman Empire. Anthony Kaldellis offers a new narrative of the siege and fall of …
Phantom Byzantium
Europe, Empire, and Identity from Late Antiquity to World War II
Inbunden, 2026
337 kr
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How the West appropriated aspects of the eastern Roman empire while portraying it as inferior. Unveiling the ideological foundations of Byzantine studies, Phantom Byzantium is a pioneering survey of western European perceptions of the eastern Roman empire (also known as Byzantium) spanning late …
Mothers and Sons, Fathers and Daughters
The Byzantine Family of Michael Psellos
Av Michael Psellos, Anthony Kaldellis
Inbunden, 2006
1631 kr
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Mothers and Sons, Fathers and Daughters makes available for the first time complete English translations from the works of Michael Psellos (1018–1076?), a key philosopher of the Byzantine Empire. Psellos was not simply a philosopher, he was also a courtier, historian, and monk, and his works betray …
Mothers and Sons, Fathers and Daughters
The Byzantine Family of Michael Psellos
Av Michael Psellos, Anthony Kaldellis
Häftad, 2006
556 kr
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Presents English translations from the works of Michael Psellos, a key philosopher of the Byzantine Empire. This book contains the works that Psellos wrote about his family, including a funeral oration for his mother that features recollections from a childhood spent in Constantinople.
Byzantine Readings of Ancient Historians
Texts in Translation, with Introductions and Notes
Inbunden, 2015
2578 kr
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The survival of ancient Greek historiography is largely due to its preservation by Byzantine copyists and scholars. This process entailed selection, adaptation, and commentary, which shaped the corpus of Greek historiography in its transmission. By investigating those choices, Kaldellis enables a …
Hellenism in Byzantium
The Transformations of Greek Identity and the Reception of the Classical Tradition
Häftad, 2011
955 kr
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This text was the first systematic study of what it meant to be 'Greek' in late antiquity and Byzantium, an identity that could alternatively become national, religious, philosophical, or cultural. Through close readings of the sources, Professor Kaldellis surveys the space that Hellenism occupied …
Hellenism in Byzantium
The Transformations of Greek Identity and the Reception of the Classical Tradition
Inbunden, 2008
2214 kr
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This text was the first systematic study of what it meant to be 'Greek' in late antiquity and Byzantium, an identity that could alternatively become national, religious, philosophical, or cultural. Through close readings of the sources, Professor Kaldellis surveys the space that Hellenism occupied …
The Christian Parthenon
Classicism and Pilgrimage in Byzantine Athens
Inbunden, 2009
1677 kr
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Byzantine Athens was not a city without a history, as is commonly believed, but an important center about which much can now be said. Providing a wealth of new evidence, Professor Kaldellis argues that the Parthenon became a major site of Christian pilgrimage after its conversion into a church. …
Saints of Ninth- and Tenth-Century Greece
Inbunden, 2019
306 kr
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Saints of Ninth- and Tenth-Century Greece collects funeral orations, encomia, and narrative hagiography. Together, these works illuminate one of the most obscure periods of Greek history—when holy men played central roles as the Byzantine administration reimposed control on southern and central …
Romanland
Ethnicity and Empire in Byzantium
Inbunden, 2019
502 kr
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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 called …
Procopius of Caesarea
Tyranny, History, and Philosophy at the End of Antiquity
E-bok, 2012
985 kr
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Justinian governed the Roman empire for more than thirty-eight years, and the events of his reign were recorded by Procopius of Caesarea, secretary of the general Belisarius. Yet, significantly, Procopius composed a history, a panegyric, as well as a satire of his own times. Anthony Kaldellis here …
Ethnography After Antiquity
Foreign Lands and Peoples in Byzantine Literature
E-bok, 2013
1192 kr
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Although Greek and Roman authors wrote ethnographic texts describing foreign cultures, ethnography seems to disappear from Byzantine literature after the seventh century C.E.-a perplexing exception for a culture so strongly self-identified with the Roman empire. Yet the Byzantines, geographically …
Procopius of Caesarea
Tyranny, History, and Philosophy at the End of Antiquity
Inbunden, 2004
819 kr
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Justinian governed the Roman empire for more than thirty-eight years, and the events of his reign were recorded by Procopius of Caesarea, secretary of the general Belisarius. Yet, significantly, Procopius composed a history, a panegyric, as well as a satire of his own times. Anthony Kaldellis here …
