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Revisiting the Byzantine Commonwealth
Nodes, Networks, and Spheres
Av Jonathan Shepard, Peter Frankopan
Inbunden, 2025
2407 kr
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Pinning down Byzantium (or East Rome) is as difficult today as it was for contemporaries during its 1,000-year-long existence. Dimitri Obolensky sought to characterize its impact on Eastern Europe in his classic The Byzantine Commonwealth, focusing on the elements of religious doctrine, rites, and …
John Zonaras' Epitome of Histories
A Compendium of Jewish-Roman History and Its Reception
Inbunden, 2022
1330 kr
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The twelfth-century chronicle of John Zonaras, which begins with the biblical Creation and ends in 1118, is one of the longest historical accounts written in Greek that has come down to us. It was also one of the most popular historical works of the Greek-speaking world during the Middle Ages, with …
Symeon Stylites the Younger and Late Antique Antioch
From Hagiography to History
Av Lucy Parker
Inbunden, 2022
1552 kr
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Symeon Stylites the Younger and Late Antique Antioch: From Hagiography to History is a study of the authority of the holy man and its limits in times of crisis. Lucy Parker investigates the tensions that emerged when increasingly ambitious claims about the powers of holy men came into conflict with …
Homer the Rhetorician
Eustathios of Thessalonike on the Composition of the Iliad
Inbunden, 2022
1771 kr
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Homer the Rhetorician is the first monograph study devoted to the monumental Commentary on the Iliad by Eustathios of Thessalonike, one of the most renowned orators and teachers of the Byzantine twelfth century. Homeric poetry was a fixture in the Byzantine educational curriculum and enjoyed …
Theodoros Prodromos: Miscellaneous Poems
An Edition and Literary Study
Inbunden, 2023
2102 kr
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In twelfth-century Byzantium, poetry played a key part in various contexts of textual production and consumption. One of the leading poets of this period was Theodoros Prodromos, whose surviving corpus comprises approximately 17,000 verses. Even though most of his poetry has been presented in …
Financial Lobbying in Sixth–Century Byzantium
Justinian's Conniving Bankers
Inbunden, 2026
1843 kr
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This book is a study of the nexus between money and power in early Byzantium. Or rather, of one aspect of that nexus, namely the ways in which Constantinople's financiers (money) sought and obtained legal change from the emperor Justinian (power) in the 530s and 540s of our era. Happily, the …
Law, Power, and Imperial Ideology in the Iconoclast Era
c.680-850
Inbunden, 2014
2729 kr
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Law was central to the ancient Roman's conception of themselves and their empire. Yet what happened to Roman law and the position it occupied ideologically during the turbulent years of the Iconoclast era, c.680-850, is seldom explored and little understood. The numerous legal texts of this period, …
Writing and Reading Byzantine Secular Poetry, 1025-1081
Inbunden, 2014
2283 kr
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In the mid-eleventh century, secular Byzantine poetry attained a hitherto unseen degree of wit, vividness, and personal involvement, chiefly exemplified in the poetry of Christophoros Mitylenaios, Ioannes Mauropous, and Michael Psellos. This is the first volume to consider this poetic activity as a …
Byzantium and the Turks in the Thirteenth Century
Inbunden, 2014
2994 kr
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At the beginning of the thirteenth century Byzantium was still one of the most influential states in the eastern Mediterranean, possessing two-thirds of the Balkans and almost half of Asia Minor. After the capture of Constantinople in 1204 during the Fourth Crusade, the most prominent and …
The Letters of Psellos
Cultural Networks and Historical Realities
Av Michael Jeffreys, Michael Jeffreys m. fl.
Inbunden, 2016
2725 kr
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The Letters of Psellos is the first detailed study of the correspondence of Michael Psellos, a leading Byzantine intellectual, politician, and writer of the eleventh century. Psellos' corpus of over 500 letters represents a historical source of great significance for the study of society and …
The Universal History of Stepʻanos Tarōnecʻi
Introduction, Translation, and Commentary
Inbunden, 2017
3126 kr
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The Universal History (Patmutʻiwn tiezerakan) of Stepʻanos Tarōnecʻi is a history of the world in three books, composed by the Armenian scholar at the end of the tenth century and extending from the era of Abraham to the turn of the first millennium. It was completed in 1004/5 CE, at a time when …
Emperors and Usurpers in the Later Roman Empire
Civil War, Panegyric, and the Construction of Legitimacy
Inbunden, 2018
2517 kr
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One of the great maxims of history is that it is written by the victors, and nowhere does this find greater support than in the later Roman Empire. Between 284 and 395 AD, no fewer than 37 men claimed imperial power, though today we recognize barely half of these men as 'legitimate' rulers and more …
Social Change in Town and Country in Eleventh-Century Byzantium
Av James Howard-Johnston, James Howard-Johnston
Inbunden, 2020
1955 kr
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The history of Byzantium pivots around the eleventh century, during which it reached its apogee in terms of power, prestige, and territorial extension, only then to plunge into steep political decline following serious military defeats and extensive territorial losses. The political, economic, and …
Innovation in Byzantine Medicine
The Writings of John Zacharias Aktouarios (c.1275-c.1330)
Inbunden, 2020
2627 kr
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Byzantine medicine remains a little known and misrepresented field not only in the context of debates on medieval medicine, but also among Byzantinists themselves. It is often viewed as 'stagnant' and mainly preserving ancient ideas, and our knowledge of it continues to be based to a great extent …
Depicting Orthodoxy in the Russian Middle Ages
The Novgorod Icon of Sophia, the Divine Wisdom
Av Ágnes Kriza
Inbunden, 2022
1880 kr
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The image of Divine Wisdom, traditionally associated with the Sophia Cathedral in Novgorod, is an innovation of the fifteenth century. The icon represents the winged, royal, red-faced Sophia flanked by the Mother of God and John the Baptist. Although the image has a contemporaneous commentary, and …
Caliphs and Merchants
Cities and Economies of Power in the Near East (700-950)
Inbunden, 2020
2422 kr
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Caliphs and Merchants: Cities and Economies of Power in the Near East (700-950) offers fresh perspectives on the origins of the economic success of the early Islamic Caliphate, identifying a number of previously unnoticed or underplayed yet crucial developments, such as the changing conditions of …
Byzantine Religious Law in Medieval Italy
Av James Morton
Inbunden, 2021
2045 kr
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Southern Italy was conquered by the Norman Hauteville dynasty in the late eleventh century after over five hundred years of continuous Byzantine rule. At a stroke, the region's Greek Christian inhabitants were cut off from their Orthodox compatriots in Byzantium and became subject to the spiritual …
Church Architecture of Late Antique Northern Mesopotamia
Inbunden, 2021
1898 kr
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Church Architecture of Late Antique Northern Mesopotamia examines the church architecture of Northern Mesopotamia between the fourth and eighth centuries. Keser Kayaalp focuses on settlements, plan types, artistic encounters, the remarkable continuity of the classical tradition in the architectural …
Emperors and Usurpers in the Later Roman Empire
Civil War, Panegyric, and the Construction of Legitimacy
Häftad, 2020
582 kr
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One of the great maxims of history is that it is written by the victors, and nowhere does this find greater support than in the later Roman Empire. Between 284 and 395 AD, no fewer than 37 men claimed imperial power, though today we recognize barely half of these men as 'legitimate' rulers and more …
The Beginnings of the Ottoman Empire
Av Clive Foss
Inbunden, 2022
1461 kr
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The Ottoman Empire ruled the near East, dominated the Mediterranean, and terrorized Europe for centuries. However, its origins are obscure. The Beginnings of the Ottoman Empire illuminates the founding of the Empire, drawing on Turkish, Greek, Arabic, and Latin sources as well as coins, buildings, …
Emperor John II Komnenos
Rebuilding New Rome 1118-1143
Inbunden, 2023
2183 kr
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John II Komnenos was born into an empire on the brink of destruction, with his father Alexios barely preserving the empire in the face of civil wars and invasions. A hostage to crusaders as a child, married to a Hungarian princess as a teenager to win his father an alliance, and leading his own …
Inventing Slavonic
Cultures of Writing Between Rome and Constantinople
Inbunden, 2024
1883 kr
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Few alphabets in the world are actively celebrated, and none more so than the Slavonic. Annually across Eastern Europe, the alphabet and its inventors, Cyril and Methodios, are celebrated with parades, concerts, liturgical services, and public addresses by presidents, ministers, and mayors. …
Visualizing Women in Late Antiquity
Inbunden, 2026
1534 kr
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Visualising Women in Late Antiquity examines depictions of contemporary women in the late antique Mediterranean as a rich source for social history. Most histories of women in this period focus on the copious surviving textual sources, the majority of which were written by churchmen. Yet it is also …
George Akropolites: The History
Introduction, translation and commentary
Av Ruth Macrides, Ruth Macrides
Inbunden, 2007
4216 kr
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This is the first English translation and study of George Akropolites' History, the main Greek source for the history of Byzantium between 1204 and 1261. Akropolites relates what happened to Byzantium after the Latin conquest of its capital, Constantinople, by the Fourth Crusade in 1204. He …
The Trophies of the Martyrs
An Art Historical Study of Early Christian Silver Reliquaries
Inbunden, 2008
3429 kr
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In this pioneering study, the first of its kind, Galit Noga-Banai analyses silver reliquaries decorated with Christian figurative themes. She offers a clearer and more detailed picture of the beginnings of the cult of relics, which were an essential asset to the Church in its establishment of …
Holy Fools in Byzantium and Beyond
Inbunden, 2006
3773 kr
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There are saints in Orthodox Christian culture who overturn the conventional concept of sainthood. Their conduct may be unruly and salacious, they may blaspheme and even kill - yet, mysteriously, those around them treat them with even more reverence. Such saints are called 'holy fools'. In this …
A Byzantine Encyclopaedia of Horse Medicine
The Sources, Compilation, and Transmission of the Hippiatrica
Av Anne McCabe
Inbunden, 2007
2210 kr
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How were Greek texts on the care and medical treatment of the horse transmitted from antiquity to the present day? Using the evidence of Byzantine manuscripts of the veterinary compilation known as the Hippiatrica, Anne McCabe traces the journey of the texts from the stables to the medieval …
Basil II and the Governance of Empire (976-1025)
Inbunden, 2005
4217 kr
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This is the first book-length study in English of the Byzantine emperor Basil II. Basil II, later known as 'Bulgar-slayer', is famous for his military conquests and his brutal intimidation of domestic foes. Catherine Holmes considers the problems Basil faced in governing a large, multi-ethnic …
The Chronicle of Morea
Historiography in Crusader Greece
Inbunden, 2009
3917 kr
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The Chronicle of Morea, one of the most important and controversial historical narratives written in the late Middle Ages, tells the story of the formation and government by the Villehardouin dynasty of a remarkably successful Crusader State following the conquest by western invaders of the capital …
Tilling the Hateful Earth
Agricultural Production and Trade in the Late Antique East
Inbunden, 2009
3083 kr
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This book explores the agrarian landscape and economy of the eastern Mediterranean from modern Israel to Turkey. This region experienced a surge in population between the fifth and sixth centuries AD that raised the population to levels often only regained in the late twentieth century. Cities …
