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Church and Society in Byzantium
Häftad, 2008
586 kr
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The Byzantines lived in a theocratic society. They were less ready than their western contemporaries to draw the line between things spiritual and things temporal, between Church and state. This book explores some of the characteristics of that society in the age of its decline and fall between the …
Theodore Spandounes: On the Origins of the Ottoman Emperors
Av Donald M. Nicol, Donald M. Nicol
Häftad, 2009
720 kr
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Theodore Spandounes belonged to a Byzantine refugee family who had settled in Venice after the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople in 1453. He wrote an account of the origins of the Turkish rulers and of their phenomenal rise to power. It was partly a plea to the Popes and princes of western …
The Despotate of Epiros 1267-1479
A Contribution to the History of Greece in the Middle Ages
Häftad, 2010
700 kr
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The district of Epiros in north-western Greece became an independent province following the Fourth Crusade and the dismemberment of the Byzantine Empire by the Latins in 1204. It retained its independence despite the recovery of Constantinople by the Greeks in 1261. Each of its rulers acquired the …
Byzantium and Venice
A Study in Diplomatic and Cultural Relations
Häftad, 1992
653 kr
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This book traces the diplomatic, cultural and commercial links between Constantinople and Venice from the foundation of the Venetian republic to the fall of the Byzantine Empire. It aims to show how, especially after the Fourth Crusade in 1204, the Venetians came to dominate first the Genoese and …
The Last Centuries of Byzantium, 1261-1453
Häftad, 1993
603 kr
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The Byzantine Empire, fragmented and enfeebled by the Fourth Crusade in 1204, never again recovered its former extent, power and influence. Its greatest revival came when the Byzantines in exile reclaimed their capital city of Constantinople in 1261 and this book narrates the history of this …
The Reluctant Emperor
A Biography of John Cantacuzene, Byzantine Emperor and Monk, c.1295-1383
Häftad, 2002
341 kr
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John Cantacuzene reigned as Byzantine emperor in Constantinople from 1347 to 1354. A man of varied talents, as a scholar, soldier, statesman, theologian and monk, he was unique in being the only emperor to narrate the events of his own career. His memoirs form one of the most interesting and …
The Reluctant Emperor
A Biography of John Cantacuzene, Byzantine Emperor and Monk, c.1295-1383
Inbunden, 1996
1677 kr
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John Cantacuzene reigned as Byzantine emperor in Constantinople from 1347 to 1354. A man of varied talents, as a scholar, soldier, statesman, theologian and monk, he was unique in being the only emperor to narrate the events of his own career. His memoirs form one of the most interesting and …
The Byzantine Lady
Ten Portraits, 1250-1500
Av Donald M. Nicol, Donald M. Nicol
Häftad, 1996
418 kr
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What kind of lives did women in the Byzantine empire lead? Just how subservient were they in so male-dominated a society? In this collection of biographies Donald M. Nicol uncovers the unexpected fact that in the later years of the empire, at least, some aristocratic women enjoyed influence and …
Theodore Spandounes: On the Origins of the Ottoman Emperors
Av Donald M. Nicol, Donald M. Nicol
Inbunden, 1997
1677 kr
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Theodore Spandounes belonged to a Byzantine refugee family who had settled in Venice after the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople in 1453. He wrote an account of the origins of the Turkish rulers and of their phenomenal rise to power. It was partly a plea to the Popes and princes of western …
The Immortal Emperor
The Life and Legend of Constantine Palaiologos, Last Emperor of the Romans
Häftad, 2002
385 kr
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Constantine XI Palaiologos was the last Christian Emperor of Constantinople and Byzantium. In 1453, when Constantinople fell to the Ottoman Turks, he was last seen fighting at the city walls, but the actual circumstances of his death have remained surrounded in myth. In the years that followed it …
