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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 favor with the Emperor, who catapulted him into the Constantinople Senate in 355. He was similarly favored 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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The Alexiad (Penguin Classics)

By: Anna Komnene

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Penguin Classics: September 2009

Seller ID:: 20100311169433

ISBN: 0140455272

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

A revised edition of a medieval masterpiece-the first narrative history written by a woman Written between 1143 and 1153 by the daughter of Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos, "The Alexiad" is one of the most popular and revealing primary sources in the vast canon of medieval literature. Princess Anna Komnene, eldest child of the imperial couple, reveals the inner workings of the court, profiles its many extraordinary personages, and offers a firsthand account of immensely significant events such as the First Crusade, as well as its impact on the relationship between eastern and western...
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The Alexiad (Penguin Classics)

By: Anna Komnene

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Penguin Classics: September 2009

Seller ID:: 132860

ISBN: 0140455272

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: Used - Very Good

Tear in back cover of this new copy.
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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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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 relegate...
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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 Poems of Christopher of Mytilene and John Mauropous (Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library)

By: Christopher of Mytilene,John Mauropous

Price: $29.95

Publisher: Harvard University Press: May 2018

Seller ID:: 163177

ISBN: 0674736982

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

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

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...
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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 h...
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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 that still has significance today. Now recognized as having had a considerable influence on the Renaissance and a significant impact in the shaping modern Europe, modern historians are also increasingly acknowledging the role of the Byzantine Empire in the development of both Islam and Christianity, and the relationship between the two.
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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 within the...
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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

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 rul...
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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:: 175909

ISBN: 0691143692

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

Byzantium and the Arabs in the Sixth Century: Volume 2, Part 1

By: IRFAN SHAHID

Price: $55.00

Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks Pub Service: May 2002

Seller ID:: 20101012179528

ISBN: 0884022846

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

"Byzantium and the Arabs in the Sixth Century" is devoted to frontier studies and to the structures of the Arab federates of Byzantium. It deals mainly with the Ghassanids of Oriens in the sixth century, a time of transition from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages. The focus of this study is on the military, religious, and civil structures of the Ghassanids. The detailed study of these buildings contributes to our understanding of Byzantine provincial art and architecture in Oriens, as they were adopted by the federate Arabs and later adapted to their own use. As monuments of Christian architec...
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