Brill's Companions to the Byzantine World – serie
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Companion to Byzantine Law
From the Foundation of Constantinople (330) until the End of the Macedonian Dynasty (1056)
Inbunden, 2025
3809 kr
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The so-called Byzantine Empire, which existed for more than a thousand years with Constantinople as its capital, demonstrates the birth of a new world with the wedding of Western and Eastern traditions. This study of Byzantine legal texts, mainly from the 6th to the 11th centuries, illustrates this …
Fictional Storytelling in the Medieval Eastern Mediterranean and Beyond
Inbunden, 2016
3957 kr
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This volume offers an overview of the rich narrative material circulating in the medieval Mediterranean. As a multilingual and multicultural zone, the Eastern Mediterranean offered a broad market for tales in both oral and written form and longer works of fiction, which were translated and reworked …
Companion to Byzantine Illustrated Manuscripts
Inbunden, 2017
4374 kr
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This volume offers an overview of Byzantine manuscript illustration, a central branch of Byzantine art and culture. Just like written texts, illustrations bear witness to Byzantine material culture, imperial ideology and religious beliefs, as well as to the development and spread of Byzantine art. …
Companion to the Byzantine Culture of War, ca. 300-1204
Inbunden, 2018
4110 kr
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This collection of essays on the Byzantine culture of war in the period between the 4th and the 12th centuries offers a new critical approach to the study of warfare as a fundamental aspect of East Roman society and culture in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. The book’s main goal is to provide a …
Companion to Byzantine Poetry
Inbunden, 2019
4360 kr
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This book offers the first complete overview of Byzantine poetry from the 4th tothe 15th century. By bringing together 22 scholars, it explores the developmentof poetic trends and the interaction between poetry and society throughout theByzantine millennium; it addresses a wide range of issues …
Companion to Julian the Apostate
Inbunden, 2020
3561 kr
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Few Roman emperors enjoy such fame as Flavius Claudius Iulianus – although he was sole ruler of the Roman Empire for only eighteen months (361-363). Since his early death he has been known as Julian the Apostate – the nephew of Constantine the Great who in vain tried to reverse the transformation …
Companion to Byzantine Chronicles
Inbunden, 2024
4698 kr
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A Byzantine chronicle is a retelling of history, usually beginning with the creation of the world, written in simple language and enriched by colourful anecdotes or tantalizing details on political intrigues. Though extremely popular in the Middle Ages, these texts were long disregarded by scholars …
Companion to the Environmental History of Byzantium
Inbunden, 2024
3063 kr
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How did humans and the environment impact each other in the medieval Eastern Mediterranean? How did global climatic fluctuations affect the Byzantine Empire over the course of a millennium? And how did the transmission of pathogens across long distances affect humans and animals during this …
