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Four Byzantine Novels
Agapetus - Theodore Prodromos; Rhodanthe and Dosikles - Eumathios Makrembolites; Hysmine and Hysminias - Constantine Manasses; Aristandros and Kallithea - Niketas Eugenianos, Drosilla and Charikles
Av Theodore Prodromos, Eumathios Makrembolites m. fl.
Häftad, 2014
751 kr
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Constantinople in the mid-twelfth century saw the composition of the first sustained fictional narratives in the European world – novels – since late antiquity. Four members of the Byzantine intelligentsia produced for the entertainment of their colleagues, their aristocratic patrons, and not least …
Tale of Two Saints
The Martyrdoms and Miracles of Saints Theodore 'the Recruit' and 'the General'
Av Haldon
Häftad, 2016
487 kr
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Hagiographical writing, including the Lives of saints and martyrs and collections of their miracles, were one of the most popular, perhaps the most popular form of literature accessible to ordinary people in the medieval world. St. Theodore ‘the Recruit’ was one of the best-known of the so-called …
Tale of Two Saints
The Martyrdoms and Miracles of Saints Theodore 'the Recruit' and 'the General'
Av Haldon
Inbunden, 2016
2120 kr
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Hagiographical writing, including the Lives of saints and martyrs and collections of their miracles, were one of the most popular, perhaps the most popular form of literature accessible to ordinary people in the medieval world. St. Theodore ‘the Recruit’ was one of the best-known of the so-called …
Nicholas Mesarites
His life and works (in translation)
Inbunden, 2017
2185 kr
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The aim of this book is to make accessible to a wider audience the works of Nicholas Mesarites, who deserves to be better known than he is. He was an ecclesiastic, who from the turn of the twelfth century provides a vivid record from personal experience of his troubled times, which saw the descent …
Laws of the Isaurian Era
The Ecloga and its Appendices
Inbunden, 2017
2120 kr
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The eighth century was a turbulent time for Byzantium. Beset by war, plague and religious division, this remnant of the Rome fought for survival. Severe decline and dislocation necessitated far reaching reform and soul searching. In particular, Byzantines asked why God had so punished the Chosen …
Laws of the Isaurian Era
The Ecloga and its Appendices
Häftad, 2017
487 kr
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The eighth century was a turbulent time for Byzantium. Beset by war, plague and religious division, this remnant of the Rome fought for survival. Severe decline and dislocation necessitated far reaching reform and soul searching. In particular, Byzantines asked why God had so punished the Chosen …
Early Ottoman History
The Oxford Anonymous Chronicle (Bodleian Library, Ms Marsh 313)
Av Kastritsis
Inbunden, 2017
2120 kr
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The manuscript translated here contains one of the most important texts for understanding the development of early Ottoman historiography in the fifteenth century. The so-called Oxford Anonymous chronicle is a comprehensive history of the Ottoman dynasty in Turkish, compiled from various sources to …
Chronicle of Constantine Manasses
Inbunden, 2018
2120 kr
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This book translates the mid-12th-century Synopsis Chronike by Constantine Manasses which was widely circulated. It extends to 1081, marking the end of Nikephoros Botaneiates' reign and the accession of Alexios I Komnenos. Commissioned by the Sevastokratorissa Irene, whose sponsorship likely …
Nicholas Mesarites
His life and works (in translation)
Häftad, 2019
661 kr
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The aim of this book is to make accessible to a wider audience the works of Nicholas Mesarites, who deserves to be better known than he is. He was an ecclesiastic, who from the turn of the twelfth century provides a vivid record from personal experience of his troubled times, which saw the descent …
Chronicle of the Logothete
Av Wahlgren
Inbunden, 2019
2368 kr
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The Chronicle of the Logothete covers the period from the Creation of the World to the burial of emperor Romanos I Lekapenos in the summer of 948 AD. If we deduce a medieval text’s importance and success from the number of extant manuscripts, this work must score highly. While some medieval …
Early Ottoman History
The Oxford Anonymous Chronicle (Bodleian Library, Ms Marsh 313)
Av Kastritsis
Häftad, 2019
641 kr
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The manuscript translated here contains one of the most important texts for understanding the development of early Ottoman historiography in the fifteenth century. The so-called Oxford Anonymous chronicle is a comprehensive history of the Ottoman dynasty in Turkish, compiled from various sources to …
Gregory Palamas
The Hesychast Controversy and the Debate with Islam
Inbunden, 2020
3019 kr
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Gregory Palamas, a monk of Mount Athos and metropolitan of Thessalonike from 1347 to 1357, was a leading fourteenth-century Byzantine intellectual. He was the chief spokesman for the hesychasts in the controversy bearing that name, which began when a charge of heresy was laid against him in 1340 …
Narrating Martyrdom
Rewriting Late-Antique Virgin Martyrs in Byzantium
Inbunden, 2020
2368 kr
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This book reconceives the rewriting of Byzantine hagiography between the eighth and fourteenth centuries as a skilful initiative in communication and creative freedom, and as a form of authorship. Three men – Makarios (late C13th-C14th), a monk; Constantine Akropolites (d.c.1324), a statesman; and …
Chronicle of Constantine Manasses
Häftad, 2020
641 kr
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This book translates the mid-12th-century Synopsis Chronike by Constantine Manasses which was widely circulated. It extends to 1081, marking the end of Nikephoros Botaneiates' reign and the accession of Alexios I Komnenos. Commissioned by the Sevastokratorissa Irene, whose sponsorship likely …
Tale of Livistros and Rodamne
A Byzantine Love Romance of the 13th Century
Inbunden, 2021
2368 kr
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This volume offers the first fully scholarly translation into English of the Tale of Livistros and Rodamne, a love romance written around the middle of 13th century at the imperial court of Nicaea, at the time when Constantinople was still under Latin dominion. With its approximately 4700 verses, …
The Chronicle of the Logothete
Av Wahlgren
Häftad, 2020
811 kr
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The Chronicle of the Logothete covers the period from the Creation of the World to the burial of emperor Romanos I Lekapenos in the summer of 948 AD. If we deduce a medieval text’s importance and success from the number of extant manuscripts, this work must score highly. While some medieval …
Tale of Livistros and Rodamne
A Byzantine Love Romance of the 13th Century
Häftad, 2021
678 kr
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This volume offers the first fully scholarly translation into English of the Tale of Livistros and Rodamne, a love romance written around the middle of 13th century at the imperial court of Nicaea, at the time when Constantinople was still under Latin dominion. With its approximately 4700 verses, …
Disputatio of the Latins and the Greeks, 1234
Introduction, Translation, and Commentary
Inbunden, 2023
1810 kr
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In 1234, four mendicant friars arrived in the Byzantine city of Nicaea to discuss the possibility of a union between the Greek and Roman Churches. The controversy over the specific differences in both doctrine and practice had taken on a new urgency in the thirteenth century. The Fourth Crusade in …
De Thematibus ('on the themes') of Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus
Translated with introductory chapters and notes
Av John Haldon
Inbunden, 2021
2120 kr
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The 10th-century treatise on the military provinces (the ‘themes’) of the medieval East Roman (Byzantine) empire is one of the most enigmatic of the works ascribed to the emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogennetos. A mix of historical geography, imperial propaganda, historical information and legend …
Germanos II, Patriarch of Constantinople (1223-1240)
Select Sermons
Inbunden, 2024
2153 kr
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Germanos II (1223-40) was the Orthodox patriarch of Constantinople at a critical period after its fall in 1204 to the fourth crusade, when Byzantium looked doomed to irrelevance, as its emperor and patriarch eked out a shadowy existence in exile at Nicaea. Germanos II’s major achievement was to …
Gregory Palamas
The Hesychast Controversy and the Debate with Islam
Häftad, 2022
728 kr
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Gregory Palamas, a monk of Mount Athos and metropolitan of Thessalonike from 1347 to 1357, was a leading fourteenth-century Byzantine intellectual. He was the chief spokesman for the hesychasts in the controversy bearing that name, which began when a charge of heresy was laid against him in 1340 …
Narrating Martyrdom
Rewriting Late-Antique Virgin Martyrs in Byzantium
Häftad, 2022
664 kr
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This book reconceives the rewriting of Byzantine hagiography between the eighth and fourteenth centuries as a skilful initiative in communication and creative freedom, and as a form of authorship. Three men – Makarios (late C13th-C14th), a monk; Constantine Akropolites (d.c.1324), a statesman; and …
De Thematibus ('on the themes') of Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus
Translated with introductory chapters and notes
Av John Haldon
Häftad, 2023
595 kr
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The 10th-century treatise on the military provinces (the ‘themes’) of the medieval East Roman (Byzantine) empire is one of the most enigmatic of the works ascribed to the emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogennetos. A mix of historical geography, imperial propaganda, historical information and legend …
Epiphanios the Monk
Life of Mary, the Theotokos, and Life and Acts of St Andrew the Apostle
Inbunden, 2024
2180 kr
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This volume provides the first English (or indeed any modern) translation of two early ninth-century hagiographical texts that deal with the Virgin Mary and the apostle Andrew. Both texts are attributed to a Constantinopolitan monk and priest called Epiphanios of the Monastery of Kallistratos. The …
Peter the Sicilian: History of the Paulicians, Sermons and Florilegia
Av Carl Dixon
Inbunden, 2026
1810 kr
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The Paulicians were perhaps the most curious threat to imperil the Roman Empire in the east. Their early history describes a reclusive and vulnerable community wandering throughout eastern Anatolia, yet two bouts of state-sponsored persecution during the ninth century sparked a militarised uprising …
John Tzetzes: The Little and Big Iliad
Av Valeria Flavia Lovato, Silvio Bär
Inbunden, 2026
2377 kr
Kommande
Twelfth-century Byzantium is often described as a period of renewed engagement with Homer and the classical past, marked by literary experimentation and heightened authorial self-consciousness. Few figures embody this trend more comprehensively than John Tzetzes (c. 1110–after 1180), one of the …
Disputatio of the Latins and the Greeks, 1234
Introduction, Translation, and Commentary
Häftad, 2024
503 kr
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In 1234, four mendicant friars arrived in the Byzantine city of Nicaea to discuss the possibility of a union between the Greek and Roman Churches. The controversy over the specific differences in both doctrine and practice had taken on a new urgency in the thirteenth century. The Fourth Crusade in …
Epiphanios the Monk
Life of Mary, the Theotokos, and Life and Acts of St Andrew the Apostle
Häftad, 2025
440 kr
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This volume provides the first English (or indeed any modern) translation of two early ninth-century hagiographical texts that deal with the Virgin Mary and the apostle Andrew. Both texts are attributed to a Constantinopolitan monk and priest called Epiphanios of the Monastery of Kallistratos. The …
Germanos II, Patriarch of Constantinople (1223-1240)
Select Sermons
Häftad, 2025
503 kr
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Germanos II (1223-40) was the Orthodox patriarch of Constantinople at a critical period after its fall in 1204 to the fourth crusade, when Byzantium looked doomed to irrelevance, as its emperor and patriarch eked out a shadowy existence in exile at Nicaea. Germanos II’s major achievement was to …
Four Byzantine Novels
Agapetus - Theodore Prodromos; Rhodanthe and Dosikles - Eumathios Makrembolites; Hysmine and Hysminias - Constantine Manasses; Aristandros and Kallithea - Niketas Eugenianos, Drosilla and Charikles
Av Theodore Prodromos, Eumathios Makrembolites m. fl.
Inbunden, 2012
2073 kr
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Constantinople in the mid-twelfth century saw the composition of the first sustained fictional narratives in the European world – novels – since late antiquity. Four members of the Byzantine intelligentsia produced for the entertainment of their colleagues, their aristocratic patrons, and not least …
