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By: N/A
Price: $21.95
Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection: January 1992
Seller ID: 171252
ISBN: 0884022153
Binding: Paper Back
Condition: New
By: N/A
Price: $36.50
Publisher: Liverpool University Press: December 2001
Seller ID: 20090521157297
ISBN: 0853231060
Binding: Paper Back
Condition: New
By: A. P. KAZHDAN, ANN WHARTON EPSTEIN
Price: $38.95
Publisher: University of California Press: February 1990
Seller ID: 20090831161254
ISBN: 0520069625
Binding: Paper Back
Condition: New
By: ANTONY BRIDGE
Price: $15.95
Publisher: Academy Chicago Publishers: October 1993
Seller ID: 130159
ISBN: 0897333942
Binding: Paper Back
Condition: New
By: Averil Cameron
Price: $22.95
Publisher: Princeton University Press: April 2014
Seller ID: 111953
ISBN: 0691157634
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New
For many of us, Byzantium remains "byzantine"--obscure, marginal, difficult. Despite the efforts of some recent historians, prejudices still deform popular and scholarly understanding of the Byzantine civilization, often reducing it to a poor relation of Rome and the rest of the classical world. In this book, renowned historian Averil Cameron presents an original and personal view of the challenges and questions facing historians of Byzantium today.
The book explores five major themes, all subjects of controversy. "Absence" asks why Byzantium is routinely passed over, ignored, or rele...
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By: Brownworth, Lars
Price: $17.00
Publisher: Broadway: June 2010
Seller ID: 182806
ISBN: 0307407969
Binding: Paper Back
Condition: New
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Harvard University Press: October 2014
Seller ID: 177884
ISBN: 0674599195
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New
Among Greek histories of the fall of Constantinople in 1453, the work of Laonikos (ca. 1430-ca. 1465) has by far the broadest scope. Born to a leading family of Athens under Florentine rule, he was educated in the Classics at Mistra by the Neoplatonist philosopher Plethon. In the 1450s, Laonikos set out to imitate Herodotos in writing the history of his times, a version in which the armies of Asia would prevail over the Greeks in Europe. The backbone of the Histories, a text written in difficult Thucydidean Greek, is the expansion of the Ottoman Empire from the early 1300s to 1464, b...
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By: CHARLES DIEHL
Price: $22.00
Publisher: Studion Publishers: September 1999
Seller ID: 20070906121729
ISBN: 0943670047
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Used - Very Good
By: Diehl, Charles
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Librairie Armand Colin: 1948
Seller ID: 101095
ISBN: B000WW88VE
Binding: Paper Back
Condition: Used - Good
By: EDGAR HOLMES MCNEAL, ROBERT DE CLARI
Price: $36.00
Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr: July 2005
Seller ID: 172623
ISBN: 0231136692
Binding: Paper Back
Condition: New
Price: $19.95
Publisher: Harvard University Center for Middle Eastern Studies: September 2004
Seller ID: 171251
ISBN: 0932885306
Binding: Paper Back
Condition: New
By: G. P. BAKER
Price: $18.95
Publisher: Cooper Square: December 2001
Seller ID: 20090408155150
ISBN: 0815411588
Binding: Paper Back
Condition: New
By: GILES MORGAN
Price: $14.99
Publisher: Chartwell Books: May 2007
Seller ID: 20080506140442
ISBN: 0785822909
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New
By: Herrin, Judith
Price: $31.95
Publisher: Princeton University Press: June 2015
Seller ID: 175793
ISBN: 0691166625
Binding: Paper Back
Condition: New
This volume explores the political, cultural, and ecclesiastical forces that linked the metropolis of Byzantium to the margins of its far-flung empire. Focusing on the provincial region of Hellas and Peloponnesos in central and southern Greece, Judith Herrin shows how the prestige of Constantinople was reflected in the military, civilian, and ecclesiastical officials sent out to govern the provinces. She evokes the ideology and culture of the center by examining different aspects of the imperial court, including diplomacy, ceremony, intellectual life, and relations with the church. Particul...
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By: HERRIN, JUDITH
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr: January 2004
Seller ID: 175907
ISBN: 0691117802
Binding: Paper Back
Condition: New
In the eighth and ninth centuries, three Byzantine empresses--Irene, Euphrosyne, and Theodora--changed history. Their combined efforts restored the veneration of icons, saving Byzantium from a purely symbolic and decorative art and ensuring its influence for centuries to come.
In this exhilarating and highly entertaining account, one of the foremost historians of the medieval period tells the story of how these fascinating women exercised imperial sovereignty with consummate skill and sometimes ruthless tactics. Though they gained access to the all-pervasive authority of the Byzantine...
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By: Herrin, Judith
Price: $24.95
Publisher: Princeton University Press: September 2009
Seller ID: 175909
ISBN: 0691143692
Binding: Paper Back
Condition: New
Byzantium. The name evokes grandeur and exoticism--gold, cunning, and complexity. In this unique book, Judith Herrin unveils the riches of a quite different civilization. Avoiding a standard chronological account of the Byzantine Empire's millennium--long history, she identifies the fundamental questions about Byzantium--what it was, and what special significance it holds for us today.
Bringing the latest scholarship to a general audience in accessible prose, Herrin focuses each short chapter around a representative theme, event, monument, or historical figure, and examines it wi...
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By: Herrin, Judith
Price: $40.00
Publisher: Princeton University Press: February 2013
Seller ID: 185277
ISBN: 0691153213
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New
Unrivalled Influence explores the exceptional roles that women played in the vibrant cultural and political life of medieval Byzantium. Written by one of the world's foremost historians of the Byzantine millennium, this landmark book evokes the complex and exotic world of Byzantium's women, from empresses and saints to uneducated rural widows. Drawing on a diverse range of sources, Judith Herrin sheds light on the importance of marriage in imperial statecraft, the tense coexistence of empresses in the imperial court, and the critical relationships of mothers and daughters. She looks ...
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By: IRFAN SHAHID
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection: January 1984
Seller ID: 171255
ISBN: 0884021165
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New
By: IRFAN SHAHID
Price: $55.00
Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks Pub Service: May 2002
Seller ID: 20101012179528
ISBN: 0884022846
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New
By: JACOB BURCKHARDT
Price: $12.50
Publisher: University of California Press: March 1983
Seller ID: 143682
ISBN: 0520046803
Binding: Paper Back
Condition: Used - Very Good