Iconoclasm, the debate about the legitimacy of religious art that began in Byzantium around 720 and continued for nearly one hundred and twenty years, has long held a firm grip on the historical imagination. This is the first book in English for over fifty years ...
Iconoclasm, the debate about the legitimacy of religious art that began in Byzantium around 720 and continued for nearly one hundred and twenty years, has long held a firm grip on the historical imagination. This is the first book in English for over fifty years ...
For almost four hundred years, between the fall of Constantinople in 1453 and the Greek War of Independence, the history of Greece is shrouded in mystery: distorted by Greek writers and largely neglected by others. What was life really like for the Greeks under Ottoman ...
For almost four hundred years, between the fall of Constantinople in 1453 and the Greek War of Independence, the history of Greece is shrouded in mystery: distorted by Greek writers and largely neglected by others. What was life really like for the Greeks under Ottoman ...
'This book is about the Byzantine monuments of Istanbul, most notably, Haghia Sophia. The remains of the land and sea walls, the Hippodrome, imperial palaces, commemorative columns, reservoirs and cisterns, an aqueduct, a triumphal archway, a fortified port, and twenty churches are also described in ...
'This book is about the Byzantine monuments of Istanbul, most notably, Haghia Sophia. The remains of the land and sea walls, the Hippodrome, imperial palaces, commemorative columns, reservoirs and cisterns, an aqueduct, a triumphal archway, a fortified port, and twenty churches are also described in ...
The Early Byzantine Historians is the first original study of every significant Byzantine historian from Eusebius of Caesarea (c.255-339) to Theophylact Simocatta (c.585-after 641?). Written for general readers as well as professional scholars, and filled with new discoveries and interpretations, the book presents ...
The Early Byzantine Historians is the first original study of every significant Byzantine historian from Eusebius of Caesarea (c.255-339) to Theophylact Simocatta (c.585-after 641?). Written for general readers as well as professional scholars, and filled with new discoveries and interpretations, the book presents ...
La apasionante historia de la invulnerable Constantinopla y del Imperio Bizantino, toda la esencia de un convulso periodo histórico de invasiones, conquistas y grandes batallas. La apasionante historia de la invulnerable Constantinopla, capital del imperio que mantuvo la cultura clásica y el Estado romano a ...
La apasionante historia de la invulnerable Constantinopla y del Imperio Bizantino, toda la esencia de un convulso periodo histórico de invasiones, conquistas y grandes batallas. La apasionante historia de la invulnerable Constantinopla, capital del imperio que mantuvo la cultura clásica y el Estado romano a ...
Using a wealth of contemporary Ottoman sources, this book recreates the social history of Istanbul, a huge, cosmopolitan metropolis and imperial capital of the Ottoman Empire. Seat of the sultan and an opulent international emporium, Istanbul was also a city of violence, shaken regularly by ...
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Using a wealth of contemporary Ottoman sources, this book recreates the social history of Istanbul, a huge, cosmopolitan metropolis and imperial capital of the Ottoman Empire. Seat of the sultan and an opulent international emporium, Istanbul was also a city of violence, shaken regularly by ...
The dominant Mediterranean power in the fifth and sixth centuries, by the time of its demise at the hands of the Ottomans in 1453 the Byzantine empire was a shadow of its former self restricted essentially to the city of Constantinople, modern Istanbul. Surrounded by ...
The dominant Mediterranean power in the fifth and sixth centuries, by the time of its demise at the hands of the Ottomans in 1453 the Byzantine empire was a shadow of its former self restricted essentially to the city of Constantinople, modern Istanbul. Surrounded by ...
For centuries, the food and culinary delights of the Byzantine empire - centred on Constantinople - have captivated the west, although it appeared that very little information had been passed down to us. Andrew Dalby's "Tastes of Byzantium" now reveals in astonishing detail, for the first ...
For centuries, the food and culinary delights of the Byzantine empire - centred on Constantinople - have captivated the west, although it appeared that very little information had been passed down to us. Andrew Dalby's "Tastes of Byzantium" now reveals in astonishing detail, for the first ...
Bizancio, el Imperio heredero del romano y defensor tenaz de la religión cristiana, desarrolló una civilización tan espléndida que acabó por ser irresistible para sus contemporáneos. Los trabajos de sus orfebres, las sedas finas, los vasos de piedras duras, manuscritos y marfiles fueron buscados con ...
Bizancio, el Imperio heredero del romano y defensor tenaz de la religión cristiana, desarrolló una civilización tan espléndida que acabó por ser irresistible para sus contemporáneos. Los trabajos de sus orfebres, las sedas finas, los vasos de piedras duras, manuscritos y marfiles fueron buscados con ...
By 1400, the once-mighty Byzantine Empire stood on the verge of destruction. Most of its territories had been lost to the Ottoman Turks, and Constantinople was under close blockade. Against all odds, Byzantium lingered on for another fifty years until 1453, when the Ottomans dramatically ...
By 1400, the once-mighty Byzantine Empire stood on the verge of destruction. Most of its territories had been lost to the Ottoman Turks, and Constantinople was under close blockade. Against all odds, Byzantium lingered on for another fifty years until 1453, when the Ottomans dramatically ...
With images culled from eleven hundred years of history, this comprehensive survey explores the Byzantine empire's vast range of artistic splendours that indelibly informed the art of modern Europe. Renowned scholar Thomas Mathews emphasizes that the Byzantines' interest in humanism and painting the human ...
With images culled from eleven hundred years of history, this comprehensive survey explores the Byzantine empire's vast range of artistic splendours that indelibly informed the art of modern Europe. Renowned scholar Thomas Mathews emphasizes that the Byzantines' interest in humanism and painting the human ...
Introduction, text and notes traslated by John Wortley. John Skylitzes' extraordinary Middle Byzantine chronicle covers the reigns of the Byzantine emperors from the death of Nicephorus I in 811 to the deposition of Michael VI in 1057, and provides the only surviving continuous narrative of ...
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Introduction, text and notes traslated by John Wortley. John Skylitzes' extraordinary Middle Byzantine chronicle covers the reigns of the Byzantine emperors from the death of Nicephorus I in 811 to the deposition of Michael VI in 1057, and provides the only surviving continuous narrative of ...
Centro de Estudios Bizantinos, Neogriegos y Chipriotas. Granada, 2009
Las relaciones entre el Imperio Bizantino y los pueblos eslavos meridionales y orientales en el Medioevo han sido y son objeto de estudio tanto de bizantinistas como de eslavistas. Los trabajos dedicados al tema en cuestión abarcan desde las circunstancias histórico-políticas de los eslavos de ...
Centro de Estudios Bizantinos, Neogriegos y Chipriotas. Granada, 2009
Las relaciones entre el Imperio Bizantino y los pueblos eslavos meridionales y orientales en el Medioevo han sido y son objeto de estudio tanto de bizantinistas como de eslavistas. Los trabajos dedicados al tema en cuestión abarcan desde las circunstancias histórico-políticas de los eslavos de ...
Translated with an introduction and notes by Peter N. Bell. This one-volume translation, with commentary and introduction brings together three important works. All three texts cast great, if generally neglected light on politics and ideology in early Byzantium. Agapetus wrote, c. 527-30CE, from a position ...
Translated with an introduction and notes by Peter N. Bell. This one-volume translation, with commentary and introduction brings together three important works. All three texts cast great, if generally neglected light on politics and ideology in early Byzantium. Agapetus wrote, c. 527-30CE, from a position ...
Sultan Mehmet II, the Grand Turk, known to his countrymen as Fatih, 'the Conqueror', and to much of Europe as 'the present Terror of the World', was once the most feared and powerful ruler in the world. The seventh of his line to rule the ...
Sultan Mehmet II, the Grand Turk, known to his countrymen as Fatih, 'the Conqueror', and to much of Europe as 'the present Terror of the World', was once the most feared and powerful ruler in the world. The seventh of his line to rule the ...
Esta Historia Breve de Bizancio tiene como objetivo principal acercar al lector a un mundo fascinante como lo fue la Edad Media en el Oriente romano de lengua griega, religión cristiana y vocación imperial, con sus ciudades fastuosas, su cultura con elementos orientales y occidentales ...
Esta Historia Breve de Bizancio tiene como objetivo principal acercar al lector a un mundo fascinante como lo fue la Edad Media en el Oriente romano de lengua griega, religión cristiana y vocación imperial, con sus ciudades fastuosas, su cultura con elementos orientales y occidentales ...
This is the first detailed analysis of Byzantine political attitudes towards the Ottomans and western Europeans during the critical last century of Byzantium. The book covers three major regions of the Byzantine Empire # Thessalonike, Constantinople, and the Morea # where the political orientations of aristocrats, merchants ...
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This is the first detailed analysis of Byzantine political attitudes towards the Ottomans and western Europeans during the critical last century of Byzantium. The book covers three major regions of the Byzantine Empire # Thessalonike, Constantinople, and the Morea # where the political orientations of aristocrats, merchants ...
Illustrated by Giuseppe Rava. Regarded as the elite arm of the military during the Middle Byzantine period, the cavalry executed high speed reconnaissance, agile arrow barrages and crippling blows to enemy formations. Its ranks were filled primarily through direct recruitment or hereditary service by holders ...
Illustrated by Giuseppe Rava. Regarded as the elite arm of the military during the Middle Byzantine period, the cavalry executed high speed reconnaissance, agile arrow barrages and crippling blows to enemy formations. Its ranks were filled primarily through direct recruitment or hereditary service by holders ...
Byzantine Athens was not a city without a history, as is commonly believed, but an important center about which much can now be said. Providing a wealth of new evidence, Professor Kaldellis argues that the Parthenon became a major site of Christian pilgrimage after its ...
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Byzantine Athens was not a city without a history, as is commonly believed, but an important center about which much can now be said. Providing a wealth of new evidence, Professor Kaldellis argues that the Parthenon became a major site of Christian pilgrimage after its ...
Constantinople was well known in its heyday for the enormous collection of relics housed in its churches: bones, even whole bodies and intimate possessions of holy men and women. Almost all these objects had been imported from various parts of the Roman Empire between the ...
Constantinople was well known in its heyday for the enormous collection of relics housed in its churches: bones, even whole bodies and intimate possessions of holy men and women. Almost all these objects had been imported from various parts of the Roman Empire between the ...
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