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Politics, Philosophy and Empire in the Fourth Century: Themistius' Select Orations (Liverpool University Press - Translated Texts for Historians)

By: N/A

Price: $36.50

Publisher: Liverpool University Press: December 2001

Seller ID: 20090521157297

ISBN: 0853231060

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

Around the year 350, a young orator and philosopher called Themistius delivered a speech to the Emperor Constantius II in Ancyra (modern Ankara). Themistius found great favour with the Emperor, who catapulted him into the Constantinople Senate in 355. He was similarly favoured by subsequent emperors - Jovian (363-64), Valens (364-78) and Theodosius (379-95). This volume presents translations of a selection of the speeches of Themistius, grouped into chapters that deal either with a key period in the evolution of his career or with a sequence of events of particular historical significance.

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Byzantium, A World Civilization (Dumbarton Oaks Other Titles in Byzantine Studies)

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

Change in Byzantine Culture in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries (Transformation of the Classical Heritage)

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

Byzantium, that dark sphere on the periphery of medieval Europe, is commonly regarded as the immutable residue of Rome's decline. In this highly original and provocative work, Alexander Kazhdan and Ann Wharton Epstein revise this traditional image by documenting the dynamic social changes that occurred during the eleventh and twelfth centuries.
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Becoming Byzantine : Children and Childhood in Byzantium (Dumbarton Oaks Byzantine Symposia and Colloquia)

By: A. PAPACONSTANTINOU, A. TALBOT

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection: September 2009

Seller ID: 20090831161224

ISBN: 0884023567

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

In 1960, the French medievalist Philippe AriÃ¨s inaugurated the history of childhood as a serious field of study with the publication of his book L'enfant et la vie familiale sous l'Ancien RÃ©gime (translated two years later as Centuries of Childhood). Famously known for the abrupt statement that 'in medieval society the idea of childhood did not exist'-AriÃ¨s established the framework for the field, advancing continued scholarship through controversy as much as anything. For years the debate has rested on two motivations: 'to show that it was as good then as it is now, and...
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Theodora: Portrait in a Byzantine Landscape

By: ANTONY BRIDGE

Price: $15.95

Publisher: Academy Chicago Publishers: October 1993

Seller ID: 130159

ISBN: 0897333942

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

A biography of the Byzantine courtesan who rose from the gutter to the throne of an Empire.
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The History (Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library)

By: Attaleiates, Michael

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Harvard University Press: October 2012

Seller ID: 177704

ISBN: 0674057996

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

In 1039 Byzantium was the most powerful empire in Europe and the Near East, controlling the Balkans south of the Danube and all of Asia Minor into Armenia and Syria. By 1079 it had become a politically unstable state half the size, menaced by powerful enemies on all sides. The History of Michael Attaleiates is our main source for this astonishing reversal, and offers a gripping narrative of the foreign and civil wars of those years. Attaleiates was a highly placed legal and military official of the empire with first-hand knowledge of the events he describes. He knew many of the emper...
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Byzantine Matters

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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Accounts of Medieval Constantinople: The Patria(Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library)

By: Berger, Albrecht

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Harvard University Press: November 2013

Seller ID: 177698

ISBN: 067472481X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The Patria is a fascinating four-book collection of short historical notes, stories, and legends about the buildings and monuments of Constantinople, compiled in the late tenth century by an anonymous author who made ample use of older sources. It also describes the foundation and early (pre-Byzantine) history of the city, and includes the Narrative on the Construction of Hagia Sophia, a semi-legendary account of Emperor Justinian I's patronage of this extraordinary church (built between 532 and 537). The Patria constitutes a unique record of popular traditions about the c...
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Lost to the West: The Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Western Civilization

By: Brownworth, Lars

Price: $17.00

Publisher: Broadway: June 2010

Seller ID: 172470

ISBN: 0307407969

Condition: New

Filled with unforgettable stories of emperors, generals, and religious patriarchs, as well as fascinating glimpses into the life of the ordinary citizen, Lost to the West reveals how much we owe to the Byzantine Empire that was the equal of any in its achievements, appetites, and enduring legacy.

For more than a millennium, Byzantium reigned as the glittering seat of Christian civilization. When Europe fell into the Dark Ages, Byzantium held fast against Muslim expansion, keeping Christianity alive. Streams of wealth flowed into Constantinople, making possible unprecedented wonders...
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The Histories, Volume II: Volume II: Books 6-10 (Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library)

By: Chalkokondyles, Laonikos

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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Byzantine Empresses

By: CHARLES DIEHL

Price: $22.00

Publisher: Studion Publishers: September 1999

Seller ID: 20070906121729

ISBN: 0943670047

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Just as revisions of our view of the Middle Ages have proceeded apace, so have those of Byzantium. The derision of Gibbon, Harnack, and others has given way to vastly more positive evaluations, due to the researches of such as Runciman, Ostrogorsky, Hussey, and the author of our present study, who for years was professor of Byzantine studies at the Sorbonne in Paris. This collection of biographical sketches illuminates the lives of figures that represent almost the whole course of Byzantine history, from Athenais in the fifth century to Anna of Savoy in the fourteenth, including Theodora, Iren...
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The New Testament in Byzantium (Dumbarton Oaks Byzantine Symposia and Colloquia)

By: Derek Krueger, Robert. S. Nelson

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection: January 2017

Seller ID: 171260

ISBN: 0884024148

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

The New Testament lay at the center of Byzantine Christian thought and practice. But codices and rolls were neither the sole way--nor most important way--the Byzantines understood the New Testament. Lectionaries apportioned much of its contents over the course of the liturgical calendar; its narratives structured the experience of liturgical time and shaped the nature of Christian preaching, throughout Byzantine history. A successor to The Old Testament in Byzantium (2010), this book asks: What was the New Testament for Byzantine Christians? What of it was known, how, when, where, an...
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Figures Byzantines. 2 Volumes.

By: Diehl, Charles

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Librairie Armand Colin: 1948

Seller ID: 101095

ISBN: B000WW88VE

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: Used - Good

Moderate cover wear, heavier at spine. Contents age-toned but unmarked. Binding sound.
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Conquest Of Constantinople

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

The Fourth Crusade (1202-1204) set out to capture the Holy Land; it ended up sacking Constantinople, an Orthodox Christian city and the capital of the Byzantine Empire. Robert of Clari, an obscure knight from Picardy, provides an extraordinary recounting of the decidedly mixed triumphs of the Fourth Crusade, an event that deepened the rift between the Eastern and Western churches. His chronicle is one of the few accounts of the crusades told from the point of view of an ordinary soldier. He provides firsthand descriptions of battles with the Greek defenders of Constantinople and the various ha...
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Byzantium Viewed by the Arabs (Harvard Middle Eastern Monographs)

By: El Cheikh, Nadia Maria

Price: $19.95

Publisher: Harvard University Center for Middle Eastern Studies: September 2004

Seller ID: 171251

ISBN: 0932885306

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

This book studies the Arabic-Islamic view of Byzantium, tracing the Byzantine image as it evolved through centuries of warfare, contact, and exchanges. Including previously inaccessible material on the Arabic textual tradition on Byzantium, this investigation shows the significance of Byzantium to the Arab Muslim establishment and their appreciation of various facets of Byzantine culture and civilization. The Arabic-Islamic representation of the Byzantine Empire stretching from the reference to Byzantium in the Qur'an until the fall of Constantinople in 1453 is considered in terms of a few sal...
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Constantine the Great : And the Christian Revolution

By: G. P. BAKER

Price: $18.95

Publisher: Cooper Square: December 2001

Seller ID: 20090408155150

ISBN: 0815411588

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

Roman Emperor Constantine is one of the most momentous figures in the history of Christianity, a ruler whose conversion turned the cult of Jesus into a world religion. Classical scholar Baker tells of the changing Roman world in which Constantine rose to power--an empire where feudalism was replacing the old senatorial government and the lands of the empire were split into two regions. It was also a place where customs from the East were replacing the old Roman values, preparing the way for the Byzantine Empire. Baker describes Constantine's unique conversion (which apparently did not prevent ...
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Byzantium

By: GILES MORGAN

Price: $14.99

Publisher: Chartwell Books: May 2007

Seller ID: 20080506140442

ISBN: 0785822909

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

The Byzantine Empire lasted for over a thousand years, created remarkable art and architecture and a lasting cultural and religious legacy.
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Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire

By: Herrin, Judith

Price: $24.95

Publisher: Princeton University Press: September 2009

Seller ID: 167726

ISBN: 0691143692

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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Margins and Metropolis: Authority across the Byzantine Empire

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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Women in Purple : Rulers of Medieval Byzantium

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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