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Ottoman Era Town in the Balkans
The Case Study of Kavala
Inbunden, 2020
2195 kr
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An Ottoman Era Town in the Balkans: The Case Study of Kavala presents the town of Kavala in Northern Greece as an example of Ottoman urban and residential development, covering the long period of Kavala’s expansion over five centuries under Ottoman rule. Kavala was part of the Ottoman Empire from …
Well-Preserved Boundaries
Faith and Co-Existence in the Late Ottoman Empire
Inbunden, 2020
2585 kr
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Cappadocia was a place of co-habitation of Christians and Muslims, until the Greco-Turkish Population Exchange (1923) terminated the Christian presence in the region. Using an interdisciplinary approach drawing on history, political science and anthropology, this study investigates the relationship …
Well-Preserved Boundaries
Faith and Co-Existence in the Late Ottoman Empire
Häftad, 2022
727 kr
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Cappadocia was a place of co-habitation of Christians and Muslims, until the Greco-Turkish Population Exchange (1923) terminated the Christian presence in the region. Using an interdisciplinary approach drawing on history, political science and anthropology, this study investigates the relationship …
Politics, Conflict and the Monastic Topography of 15th-Century Constantinople
Inbunden, 2025
2510 kr
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This study of Constantinople's monasteries within their urban framework during the last decades of Byzantium (1394–1453) explores the activity of monks, nuns, and affiliated laypeople such as patrons just before the city’s Ottoman conquest and transformation into the capital of an Islamic …
Politics, Conflict and the Monastic Topography of 15th-Century Constantinople
Häftad, 2026
696 kr
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This study of Constantinople's monasteries within their urban framework during the last decades of Byzantium (1394–1453) explores the activity of monks, nuns, and affiliated laypeople such as patrons just before the city’s Ottoman conquest and transformation into the capital of an Islamic …
Ottoman Era Town in the Balkans
The Case Study of Kavala
Häftad, 2022
727 kr
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An Ottoman Era Town in the Balkans: The Case Study of Kavala presents the town of Kavala in Northern Greece as an example of Ottoman urban and residential development, covering the long period of Kavala’s expansion over five centuries under Ottoman rule. Kavala was part of the Ottoman Empire from …
Cult of St Anna in Byzantium
Av Eirini Panou
Häftad, 2020
706 kr
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The Cult of St Anna in Byzantium is the first undertaking in Byzantine research to study the phenomenon of St Anna’s cult from the sixth to the fifteenth centuries. It was prompted by the need to enrich our knowledge of a female saint who had already been studied in the West but remained virtually …
Writing About Byzantium
The History of Niketas Choniates
Häftad, 2020
727 kr
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Niketas Choniates was in Constantinople when it was burnt and looted by the soldiers of the Fourth Crusade and he wrote a history which has always been the mainstay for anyone wishing to learn about the Comnene dynasty and the Byzantine Empire of the twelfth century. Yet it is a very difficult and …
Rebuilding Anatolia after the Mongol Conquest
Islamic Architecture in the Lands of Rum, 1240–1330
Häftad, 2020
727 kr
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This book is a study of Islamic architecture in Anatolia following the Mongol conquest in 1243. Complex shifts in rule, movements of population, and cultural transformations took place that affected architecture on multiple levels. Beginning with the Mongol conquest of Anatolia, and ending with the …
Emperor Theophilos and the East, 829–842
Court and Frontier in Byzantium during the Last Phase of Iconoclasm
Häftad, 2020
727 kr
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Modern historiography has become accustomed to portraying the emperor Theophilos of Byzantium (829-842) in a favourable light, taking at face value the legendary account that makes of him a righteous and learned ruler, and excusing as ill fortune his apparent military failures against the Muslims. …
Sylvester Syropoulos on Politics and Culture in the Fifteenth-Century Mediterranean
Themes and Problems in the Memoirs, Section IV
Av Fotini Kondyli, Vera Andriopoulou m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
811 kr
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The Memoirs of Sylvester Syropoulos is a text written by a Î’yzantine ecclesiastical official in the 15th century. Syropoulos participated in the Council for the union of the Greek and Latin Churches held in Ferrara and Florence, Italy, in 1438-1439. As a high-ranking official and an eye-witness of …
Pseudo-Kodinos and the Constantinopolitan Court: Offices and Ceremonies
Av Ruth Macrides, J.A. Munitiz m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
727 kr
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The work known as Pseudo-Kodinos, the fourteenth-century text which is one of two surviving ceremonial books from the Byzantine empire, is presented here for the first time in English translation. With facing page Greek text and the first in-depth analysis in the form of commentary and individual …
Dreams and Lives in Ottoman Istanbul
A Seventeenth-Century Biographer's Perspective
Häftad, 2019
727 kr
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Dreams and Lives in Ottoman Istanbul explores biography writing and dream narratives in seventeenth-century Istanbul. It focuses on the prominent biographer ‘Aṭā’ī (d. 1637) and with his help shows how learned circles narrated dreams to assess their position in the Ottoman enterprise. This book …
Tenth-Century Byzantine Military Manual: The Sylloge Tacticorum
Av Georgios Chatzelis, Jonathan Harris m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
727 kr
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The Sylloge Tacticorum is a mid-Byzantine example of the literary genre of military manuals or Taktika which stretches back to antiquity. It was one of a number produced during the tenth century CE, a period when the Byzantine empire enjoyed a large measure of success in its wars against its …
Imperial Lineages and Legacies in the Eastern Mediterranean
Recording the Imprint of Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman Rule
Häftad, 2019
727 kr
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The comparative study of empires has traditionally been addressed in the widest possible global historical perspective with comparison of New World empires such as the Aztecs and Incas side by side with the history of imperial Rome and the empires of China and Russia in the medieval and modern …
Byzantium and the Emergence of Muslim-Turkish Anatolia, ca. 1040-1130
Häftad, 2019
727 kr
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The arrival of the Seljuk Turks in Anatolia forms an indispensable part of modern Turkish discourse on national identity, but Western scholars, by contrast, have rarely included the Anatolian Turks in their discussions about the formation of European nations or the transformation of the Near East. …
Cyprus between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (ca. 600–800)
An Island in Transition
Av Luca Zavagno
Häftad, 2019
727 kr
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Research on early medieval Cyprus has focused on the late antique "golden age" (late fourth/early fifth to seventh century) and the so-called Byzantine "Reconquista" (post-AD 965) while overlooking the intervening period. This phase was characterized, supposedly, by the division of the political …
After the Text
Byzantine Enquiries in Honour of Margaret Mullett
Av Liz James, Oliver Nicholson m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
3154 kr
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After the Text honours the work of renowned historian Margaret Mullett, who since the 1970s has transformed the study of Byzantine literature.Her work has been influential in demonstrating the strength and variety of Byzantine texts. Byzantium is renowned for its achievements in architecture and …
Iconophilia
Politics, Religion, Preaching, and the Use of Images in Rome, c.680 - 880
Inbunden, 2020
2510 kr
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Awarded the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei’s Mario Di Nola Prize 2023Between the late seventh and the mid-ninth centuries, a debate about sacred images – conventionally addressed as ‘Byzantine iconoclasm’ – engaged monks, emperors, and popes in the Mediterranean area and on the European continent. …
Byzantium in the Iconoclast Era (ca 680–850): The Sources
An Annotated Survey
Av Leslie Brubaker, John Haldon
Inbunden, 2001
3262 kr
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Iconoclasm, the debate about the legitimacy of religious art that began in Byzantium around 730 and continued for nearly 120 years, has long held a firm grip on the historical imagination. Byzantium in the Iconoclast Era is the first book in English to survey the original sources crucial for a …
Church Law and Church Order in Rome and Byzantium
A Comparative Study
Inbunden, 2002
2746 kr
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This book presents a comparative study of church order in the East and West of the Christian world. It deals with the development of canon law from the 6th century, the time of Dionysius Exiguus and John Scholastikos, up to the period of Balsamon and Gratian. While the focus is upon Rome and …
Cult of the Mother of God in Byzantium
Texts and Images
Av Leslie Brubaker, Mary B. Cunningham
Inbunden, 2011
2513 kr
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This volume, on the cult of the Theotokos (Virgin Mary) in Byzantium, focuses on textual and historical aspects of the subject, thus complementing previous work which has centred more on the cult of images of the Mother of God. The papers presented here, by an international team of scholars, …
Emperor Theophilos and the East, 829-842
Court and Frontier in Byzantium During the Last Phase of Iconoclasm
Inbunden, 2014
2588 kr
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Modern historiography has become accustomed to portraying the emperor Theophilos of Byzantium (829-842) in a favourable light, taking at face value the legendary account that makes of him a righteous and learned ruler, and excusing as ill fortune his apparent military failures against the Muslims. …
Eastern Trade and the Mediterranean in the Middle Ages
Pegolotti’s Ayas-Tabriz Itinerary and its Commercial Context
Inbunden, 2019
2828 kr
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At the end of the High Middle Ages in Europe, with buying power and economic sophistication at a high, an itinerary detailing the toll stations along a commercial artery carrying eastern goods (from China, India and Iran) towards Europe was compiled, and later incorporated in the well-known trading …
Pseudo-Kodinos and the Constantinopolitan Court: Offices and Ceremonies
Av Ruth Macrides, J.A. Munitiz m. fl.
Inbunden, 2013
2588 kr
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The work known as Pseudo-Kodinos, the fourteenth-century text which is one of two surviving ceremonial books from the Byzantine empire, is presented here for the first time in English translation. With facing page Greek text and the first in-depth analysis in the form of commentary and individual …
Eloquence of Art
Essays in Honour of Henry Maguire
Av Andrea Olsen Lam, Rossitza Schroeder
Inbunden, 2020
2585 kr
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For those within the fields of art history and Byzantine studies, Professor Henry Maguire needs no introduction. His publications transformed the way art historians approach medieval art through his insightful integration of rhetoric, poetry and non-canonical objects into the study of Byzantine …
Theophylact of Ochrid
Reading the Letters of a Byzantine Archbishop
Inbunden, 1997
2665 kr
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Few works exist on Byzantine literature as literature and still fewer studies of individual texts. This reading of the letter-collection (c.1090-c.1110) of Theophylact of Ochrid employs a variety of approaches to characterise a work which is both a literary artefact in a long Greek tradition and …
La Vie d'Etienne le Jeune par Étienne le Diacre
Introduction, édition et Traduction
Inbunden, 1997
2665 kr
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The Life of Stephen the Younger is one of the rare sources for Byzantium in the ’Dark Ages’ and one of the key witnesses to the history of Iconoclasm. This book presents a new edition of the text, together with a French translation and commentary, and an important introduction. Stephen was a …
Life of the Patriarch Tarasios by Ignatios Deacon (BHG1698)
Introduction, Edition, Translation and Commentary
Inbunden, 1998
3643 kr
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The patriarch Tarasios holds a key position in the ending of the first period of Iconoclasm in Byzantium, with the seventh Oecumenical Council at Nicaea in 787. His Life forms an equally key source for the history and culture of the Byzantine world in the eighth and ninth centuries. This book …
L’Hagiographie et l’Iconoclasme Byzantin
Le cas de la Vie d’Étienne le Jeune
Inbunden, 1999
774 kr
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The period of Byzantine Iconoclasm remains in many ways a 'Dark Age'. With this volume Marie-France Auzépy continues her fundamental re-examination of one of the key sources for the time, the Life of Stephen the Younger. Previously in this series she has published a new edition, translation and …
