Presses Universitaires de France, 1975. — 159 p. L'idéologie politique le l'empire byzantin », d'Hélène Ahrweiler est un essai court (159 p.) mais passionnant et lumineux. Avec précision, recul et clarté, l'auteur dissèque la nature de la pensée politique byzantine : « Une idéologie nourrie d'exaltation quasi mystique mais fondée sur les droits que l'héritage gréco-romain et la...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997. — 194 p. The armies of the Fourth Crusade (1203-1204) that left Western Europe at the beginning of the thirteenth century never reached the Holy Land to fight the Infidel; they stopped instead at Byzantium and sacked that capital of eastern Christendom. Much of what we know today of those events comes from contemporary accounts by secular...
St. Martin’s Press, 2001. — 236 p. Michael Angold's book is a clear, concise and authoritative history of the successor to Roman imperial power: the Byzantine Empire. Byzantium was a Greek 'polis' on the Bosphorus that gained importance in 324 AD when it was re-founded by Constantine the Great and named Constantinople. One of the pre-eminent cities of the Middle Ages,...
Cambridge University Press, 1995. — 621 p. In this major study the theme of "church and society" provides a means of examining the condition of the Byzantine Empire at an important period of its history, up to and well beyond the fall of Constantinople in 1204. Its a comprehensive study of a largely neglected period of the medieval Greek Empire. Angold has produced an elegant...
London: Longman Ltd., 1997. — 374 p. A fully updated second edition of this acclaimed political history of the Byzantine Empire which weaves social, economic, cultural trends and foreign politics into its broad narrative. Michael Angold has enriched his original study with the findings of a decade of new scholarship, provides a fuller treatment of Byzantium from Western...
London: Routledge, 2012. — 240 p. The fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans in 1453 marked the end of a thousand years of the Christian Roman Empire. Thereafter, world civilisation began a process of radical change. The West came to identify itself as Europe; the Russians were set on the path of autocracy; the Ottomans were transformed into a world power while the Greeks were...
Routledge, 2014. — 304 p. The Fourth Crusade (1202-1204) was one of the key events in medieval history. The fall of Constantinople to the Venetians and the soldiers of the fourth crusade in April 1204 was its climax. It ensured that Byzantium’s days as a great power were over. It equally ensured that westerners would dominate the Levant – the lands of the old Byzantine Empire...
Routledge, 2016. — 388 p. First Published 2013 by Ashgate Publisher. Authority is an important concept in Byzantine culture whose myriad modes of implementation helped maintain the existence of the Byzantine state across so many centuries, binding together people from different ethnic groups, in different spheres of life and activities. Even though its significance to...
I. B. Tauris, 2015. — 432 p. The retreat of the Byzantine Army from Syria in around 650 CE, in advance of the approaching Arab armies, is one that has resounded emphatically in the works of both Islamic and Christian writers, and created an enduring motif: that of the Islamic-Byzantine frontier. For centuries, Byzantine and Islamic scholars have evocatively sketched a contested...
I. B. Tauris, 2015. — 432 p. The retreat of the Byzantine Army from Syria in around 650 CE, in advance of the approaching Arab armies, is one that has resounded emphatically in the works of both Islamic and Christian writers, and created an enduring motif: that of the Islamic-Byzantine frontier. For centuries, Byzantine and Islamic scholars have evocatively sketched a contested...
Routledge, 2015. — 185 p. The Lost History of Peter the Patrician is an annotated translation from the Greek of the fragments of Peter’s History, including additional fragments which are now more often considered the work of the Roman historian Cassius Dio's so-called Anonymous Continuer. Banchich’s annotation helps clarify the relationship of Peter's work to that of Cassius...
Rutgers University Press, 1969. — 614 p. Foreword by Peter Charanis. Chronological Outline. Apprenticeship in Empire, 1350-1391. The Failure of Appeasement, 1391-1394. The Quest for Aid, 1394-1402. Byzantium in the Turkish Time of Troubles, 1399-1413. The Final Struggles, 1413-1425. Manuel as an Emperor: Some Conclusions. Manuel as a Personality and a Literary Figure. Index to...
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992. — 464 p. — ISBN: 9781512821314. Mark C. Bartusis opens an extraordinary window on the Byzantine Empire during its last centuries by providing the first comprehensive treatment of the dying empire's military. Using all the available Greek, western European, Slavic, and Turkish sources, Bartusis describes the evolution of the...
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1961. — 525 p. The History of the Byzantine Empire: an Outline from 330 B.C. to the Fourth Crusade. The Economic Life of the Byzantine Empire: Population, Agriculture, Industry, Commerce. Public Finances: Currency, Public Expenditure, Budget, Public Revenue. The Byzantine Church Byzantine Monasticism Byzantine Education. Byzantine Literature. The Greek...
Routledge, 2017. — 437 p. The arrival of the Seljuk Turks in Anatolia forms an indispensable part of modern Turkish discourse on national identity, but Western scholars, by contrast, have rarely included the Anatolian Turks in their discussions about the formation of European nations or the transformation of the Near East. The Turkish penetration of Byzantine Asia Minor is...
Leiden; Boston; Köln: Brill, 2002. — 263 + xxii p. — (History of warfare; Vol. 5). — ISBN 90-04-11710-5. Maps. Textual Sources for 12th- and 13th-Century History. Historical Overview of Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century Byzantium. The Campaigns of Alexios I Komnenos (1081 — 1118). The Campaigns of John II Komnenos (1118 — 43). The Campaigns of Manuel I Komnenos (1143 — 80)....
New Haven, Conn.: American Oriental Society, 1996. — xv, 221 p. — (American Oriental Series, 81). Concentrating predominantly on the yearly summer raids on the Byzantine 'thughour' border areas, this work traces the emergence of the primacy of the warrior ethic of religious jihadist asceticism over the more archaic tribal and imperial idioms that had previously propelled...
Fordham University Press, 1993. — 181 p. The Church and Social Reform studies the nature and extent of Patriarch Athanasios' social reforms and political involvement during his two tenures on the patriarchal throne of Constantinople. The traditional influence, power, and authority that resided in the patriarchate of Constantinople made the involvement of an aggressive patriarch...
Routledge, 2017. — 372 p. In this masterful synthesis, Charalambos Bouras draws together material and textual evidence for Athens in the Middle Byzantine period, from the mid-tenth century to 1204, when it was conquered by Crusaders. What emerges from his meticulous investigation is an urban fabric surprisingly makeshift in its domestic sector yet exuberantly creative in its...
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1968. — 394 p. — ISBN10: 0674089758; ISBN13: 9780674089754 At the death of emperor Manuel I Comnenus in 1180, the Byzantine Empire appeared to be a solidly constructed state; in 1204, barely a quarter century later, Constantinople fell to the forces of the Fourth Crusade. Brand analyzes the internal and external pressures which beset...
Crown Publishers, 2009. — eISBN: 978-0-307-46241-1. In AD 476 the Roman Empire fell–or rather, its western half did. Its eastern half, which would come to be known as the Byzantine Empire, would endure and often flourish for another eleven centuries. Though its capital would move to Constantinople, its citizens referred to themselves as Roman for the entire duration of the...
Ashgate Publishing Co., 2001. — 390 p. Iconoclasm, the debate about the legitimacy of religious art that began in Byzantium around 730 and continued for nearly 120 years, has long held a firm grip on the historical imagination. Byzantium in the Iconoclast Era is the first book in English to survey the original sources crucial for a modern understanding of this most elusive and...
Routledge, 2013. — 446 p. The study of the family is one of the major lacunas in Byzantine Studies. Angeliki Laiou remarked in 1989 that ’the study of the Byzantine family is still in its infancy’, and this assertion remains true today. The present volume addresses this lacuna. It comprises 19 chapters written by international experts in the field which take a variety of...
Cambridge University Press, 2014. — 318 p. This is the first full-scale study of the literary art of Anna Komnene's Alexiad . Her history of her father's reign is well-known and much used by Byzantinists and historians of the First Crusade, but the art with which it shapes its central character has not been fully examined or understood. This book argues that the work is both...
Routledge, 2016. — 260 p. The Emperor John II Komnenos (1118–1143) has been overshadowed by both his father Alexios I and his son Manuel I. Written sources have not left us much evidence regarding his reign, although authors agree that he was an excellent emperor. However, the period witnessed territorial expansion in Asia Minor as well as the construction of the most important...
Russell & Russell, 1964. — 374 p. First published in 1929, this highly influential study offers a historical perspective on the Byzantine Empire, from the establishment of Constantinople by Emperor Constantine around 330 AD, through to the fall of Constantinople at the hands of the Ottoman Empire in 1453 AD. Byron's work considers the empire in its entirety, assessing the highs...
Routledge, 2012. — 294 p. — (Routledge Revivals). First published in 1929, this highly influential study offers a historical perspective on the Byzantine Empire, from the establishment of Constantinople by Emperor Constantine around 330 AD, through to the fall of Constantinople at the hands of the Ottoman Empire in 1453 AD. Byron's work considers the empire in its entirety,...
Oxford Clarendon Press, 1999. — 364 p. This book is the conclusive study of the history of the chariot race factions. It traces the factions from their inception in the Republican times in Rome to their decline in the Eastern Empire. It is an essential read not only for the readers interested in chariot racing but also for everyone who wants to expand his or her knowledge about...
Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2006. — 296 p. — (The Peoples of Europe). — ISBN13: 978-0-631-20262-2; ISBN10: 0-631-20262-5. This book introduces the reader to the complex history, ethnicity, and identity of the Byzantines. This volume brings Byzantium – often misconstrued as a vanished successor to the classical world – to the forefront of European history Deconstructs stereotypes...
Pen and Sword History, 2018. — 240 p. The 128-year dynasty of the Komneni (1057 to 1185) was the last great epoch of Byzantium, when the empire had to fend off Turkish and Norman foes simultaneously. Starting with the extremely able Alexios I, and unable now to count on help from the West, the Komneni played their strategic cards very well. Though the dynasty ended in cruelty...
De Gruyter, 2010. — 268 p. For several years now, sigillography as an independent subarea in the field of Byzantine studies has received increasing attention from both Byzantine studies and related disciplines, because it is the only area still able to provide academia with large amounts of material not previously analysed. The articles of "Studies in Byzantine Sigillography"...
De Gruyter, 2012. — 234 p. For several years now, sigillography as an independent subarea in the field of Byzantine studies has received increasing attention from both Byzantine studies and related disciplines, because it is the only area still able to provide academia with large amounts of material not previously analysed. The articles of Studies in Byzantine Sigillography...
Saur Verlag GmbH, 2004. — 316 p. Sigillography is an independent subject within Byzantine studies. As such, it also has garnered the interest of adjacent disciplines because it offers plenty of yet undiscovered material for research and study. A series that focuses on sigillography in particular is Studies in Byzantine Sigillography, established in 1987 by Nikolas Oikonomides...
De Gruyter, 2006. — 276 p. Volume 9 mainly contains lectures from the 8th International Symposium on Byzantine Sigillography in October 2003, in Berlin. Besides the iconography of seals, much emphasis was placed on questions of Byzantine administration. Further, selected collections are presented, as well as a large number of new finds and new acquisitions.
PUF, 2013. — 128 p. Le 11 mai 330, les cérémonies qui accompagnèrent la fondation par Constantin de la ville à laquelle il donne son nom marquent la naissance du futur Empire que nous appelons byzantin, mais que les empereurs et leurs sujets ont toujours conçu comme romain. Cet empire se maintient pendant plus d'un millénaire, jusqu'à la chute de Constantinople en 1453. Cet...
Giulio Einaudi, 2008. — 667 p. Nei secoli VII-XIII l'epoca medievale vede la trasformazione del vasto impero multietnico in uno Stato ricentrato sulla popolazione greca, anche se ancora accoglie minoranze slave e armene e non ha ancora perduto tutte le province italiane. I sovrani bizantini mettono in atto un formidabile rinnovamento che rende Bisanzio la più grande potenza...
Routledge, 2016. — 253 p. The conquest of Constantinople by the Fourth Crusade shattered irreversibly the political and cultural unity of the Byzantine world in the Greek peninsula, the Aegean and western Asia Minor. Between the disintegration of the Byzantine Empire after 1204 and the consolidation of Ottoman power in the fifteenth century, the area was a complex political,...
Routledge, 2019. — 328 p. The interaction between Byzantium and the Latin West was intimately connected to practically all the major events and developments which shaped the medieval world in the High and Late Middle Ages - for example, the rise of the ‘papal monarchy’, the launch of the Crusades, the expansion of international and long distance commerce, or the flowering of...
Skopje: Electronic online publication of the author, 2016. - 60 p. The Romeian Empire of Justinian I the Great (ruled in 527-565) can hardly be called “Roman” at all, even less “Byzantine.” After the dissolution of its western counterpart in the V century, the east (now ex-Roman) empire, retook again its stolen grandeur and glorious past of the Southeastern golden era and...
Brill, 1996. — 396 p. This volume deals with relations between the West and Byzantium, from the accession of Otto I the Great in Germany in 962, until the Fourth Crusade when Constantinople was conquered by the Western crusading armies in 1204. The impact which these contacts and confrontations had on both sides is discussed in sections dealing with specific areas (such as the...
Routledge, 2014. — 522 p. Modern historiography has become accustomed to portraying the emperor Theophilos of Byzantium (829-842) in a favourable light, taking at face value the legendary account that makes of him a righteous and learned ruler, and excusing as ill fortune his apparent military failures against the Muslims. The present book considers events of the period that...
Routledge, 2014. — 522 p. Modern historiography has become accustomed to portraying the emperor Theophilos of Byzantium (829-842) in a favourable light, taking at face value the legendary account that makes of him a righteous and learned ruler, and excusing as ill fortune his apparent military failures against the Muslims. The present book considers events of the period that...
Yale University Press, 2004. — 432 p. Women played key roles in Byzantine society: some ruled or co-ruled the empire, and others commissioned art and buildings, went on pilgrimages, and wrote. This engrossing book draws on evidence ranging from pictorial mosaics and inscriptions on the walls of churches to women’s poetry and histories, examining for the first time the lives,...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. — 352 p. Cappadocia, in central Turkey, is an unforgettable region. A land best known for its striking volcanic landscape pocked with underground cities and richly ornamented churches, Byzantine Cappadocia has long been considered a sparsely inhabited holy land of solitaries and monasteries. This is the first history of a vital area that elucidates key...
Pen and Sword, 2014. — 280 p. War of the Three Gods is a military history of the first half of seventh century, with heavy focus on the reign of the Eastern Roman Emperor Heraclius (AD 610-641). This was a pivotal time in world history as well as a dramatic one. The Eastern Roman Empire was brought to the very brink of extinction by the Sassanid Persians, before Heraclius...
Titlu - Din domnia lui Mahomed al II- lea : anii 1451-1467. Autor - Critobul din Imbros. Contributor - Grecu, Vasile. Editură - Bucureşti : Editura Academiei Republicii Populare Române. Language: Romanian, Greek. Subjects: Mehmed II, Sultan of the Turks, 1432-1481. TURKEY -- History. MAHOMET II, THE CONQUEROR, SULTAN OF TURKEY, 1430-81.
Hyperion, 2006. — 336 p. — ISBN 978-1-4013-0850-6 A gripping exploration of the fall of Constantinople and its connection to the world we live in today. The fall of Constantinople in 1453 signaled a shift in history and the end of the Byzantium Empire. Roger Crowley's readable and comprehensive account of the battle between Mehmet II, sultan of the Ottoman Empire, and...
Faber and Faber, 2006. — 320 p. In the spring of 1453, the Ottoman Turks advanced on Constantinople in pursuit of an ancient Islamic dream: capturing the thousand-year-old capital of Christian Byzantium. During the siege that followed, a small band of badly organised defenders, outnumbered ten to one, confronted the might of the Ottoman army in a bitter contest fought on land,...
Venice: Porphyra. International academic journal in Byzantine Studies. No. 4, 2005 At the beginning of the 11th century Byzantium was at the height of its glory. After the victorious conquests of the Emperor Basil II (976-1025), the East-Roman Empire regained the sovereignty of the Eastern Mediterranean World and extended from the Armenian Mountains to the Italian Peninsula....
Uniwersytet Jagielloński, 1994. — 311 p. The Roman and Byzantine Army in the East, Proceedings of a colloquium held at the Jagiellonian University, Krakow in September 1992, ed. by E. Dabrowa, Jagiellonian University, Institute of History, Krakow 1994. - M. Baranski, The Roman Army in Palmyra: a case of adaptation of a pre-existing city - E. Dabrowa, The helium Commagenicum and...
Cambridge University Press, 2003. — 337 p. This is a revised and translated edition of Gilbert Dagron's Empereur et pertre, an acknowledged masterwork by one of the great Byzantine scholars of our time. The figure of the Byzantine emperor, a ruler who sometimes was also designated a priest, has long fascinated the western imagination. This book studies in detail the imperial...
Frontline Books, 2016. — 304 p. By the sixth century of the common era the Roman Empire already had many hundreds of years of accumulated ceremony embedded in its government, and practical science embodied in its army. The transition from Republic to Imperium and the more hierarchical structure that entailed, and the absorption of Christianity into state processes, had pushed...
Westholme Publishing, 2013. — 255 p. The Byzantine Art of War explores the military history of the thousand-year empire of the eastern Mediterranean, Byzantium. Throughout its history the empire faced a multitude of challenges from foreign invaders seeking to plunder its wealth and to occupy its lands, from the deadly Hunnic hordes of Attila, to the Arab armies of Islam, to the...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2016. — 256 p. The Byzantine Dark Ages explores current debates about the sudden transformation of the Byzantine Empire in the wake of environmental, social and political changes. Those studying the Byzantine Empire, the successor to the Roman Empire in the eastern Mediterranean, have long recognized that the mid-7th century CE ushered in sweeping...
Anacharsis, 2016. — 1405 p. A l'aube du 29 mai 1453, après un siège spectaculaire de presque deux mois, les troupes du sultan ottoman Mehmed II entraient dans Constantinople, mettant fin à l'empire millénaire de Byzance. Un monde basculait, et Constantinople devint capitale ottomane. L'événement fit à l'époque grande impression et fut par la suite surchargé de significations...
University of Oklahoma Press, 1960. — 181 p. This third volume in the Centers of Civilization Series has been written, as the author succinctly states, "to provide the general reader a picture of Constantinople as the center of the Byzantine Empire during the reign of Justinian, 527 — 565." It is intended to show how the city became the setting for a new synthesis of culture,...
Prague: Imprimerie de l'Etat a Prague, 1933. — (Byzantinoslavica. Supplementa, 1). L'histoire des deux Apôtres slaves, Constantin-Cyrille et Méthode, est un des sujets qui passionnent le plus les historiens et les philologues slaves et la bibliographie relative à la question a atteint de telles proportions qu'on se sent presque gène à aborder de nouveau cette histoire. Il s'en...
New York: Fordham University Press, 1979. - 176 p. Preface Byzantium and the Roman primacy The Principle of Accommodation The Principle of Apostolicity The Schism of Acacius Justinian and Rome The Primacy in the Seventh and Eighth Centuries Photius and the Primacy The Crisis of the Eleventh Century The Catastrophe of 1204
New York: Hawthorn Books, 1961. — 112 p. Introduction The First Ecumenical Councils Origin of the Councils The Council of Nicaea (325): the Role of the Emperor and the Rights of Bishops The Aftermath of Nicaea and the Second Ecumenical Council Rivalry between Alexandria, Constantinople and Antioch: the Third Ecumenical Council (431) The Triumphs of Monophysitism at the “Robber...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1948. — 504 p. History Political Parties, Religious Problems and Opening Conflict Ignatius’ Resignation and Photius’ Canonical Election The Synod of 861 Nicholas, Photius and Boris Photius’ Downfall and the Council of 869-70 Photius’ Rehabilitation and the Synod of 879-80 The Second Schism of Photius, A Historical Mystification Photius,...
Brill, 2017. — 304 p. Byzantium was one of the longest-lasting empires in history. Throughout the millennium of its existence, the empire showed its capability to change and develop under very different historical circumstances. This remarkable resilience would have been impossible to achieve without the formation of a lasting imperial culture and a strong imperial ideological...
Istanbul: Koç University Press, 2016. — 264 p. Trebizond, that "long-anticipated city of the Komnenians with its soft and melodious name" to quote Jakob Fallmerayer, has long lured scholars, attracted by its unique combination of Byzantine familiarity and Anatolian foreignness. From 1204 to 1461 the city was at the heart of an empire that proudly proclaimed its inheritance of...
Westport (Connecticut) - London: Greenwood Press, 2005. – 214 p. ISBN: 0-313-32582-0 (alk. paper) When Justinian first assumed the title of Roman Emperor in 527 CE, his inherited empire – now based in Constantinople – had lost almost all of its connection with the Eternal City itself, and was threatened from within by profound theological splits, and from without by the various...
Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2011. — 360 p. — ISBN: 0-203-13303-X; 0-203-16961-1; 0–415–23726-2; 0–415–02209–6. The Age of Justinian examines the reign of the great emperor Justinian (527-565) and his wife Theodora, who advanced from the theatre to the throne. The origins of the irrevocable split between East and West, between the Byzantine and the Persian Empire are chronicled,...
Minneapolis: Twenty-First Century Books, 2008. — 160 p. — (Pivotal Moments in History). — ISBN 978–0–8225–5918–4. How did the loss of one city change the history of Europe? In the Middle Ages, Constantinople's perfect geographic location-positioned along a land trade route between Europe and Asia as well as on a strategic seaway from the Black Sea to the Mediterranean- made the...
London: J.M. Dent & Sons; New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1906. — 432 p. The history of the Byzantine empire divides itself into three periods, strongly marked by distinct characteristics. The first period commences with the reign of Leo III. in 716, and terminates with that of Michael III. in 867. It comprises the whole history of the predominance of the Iconoclasts in the...
Cambridge University Press, 2018. — 394 p. In the sixth century, Byzantine emperors secured the provinces of the Balkans by engineering a frontier system of unprecedented complexity. Drawing on literary, archaeological, anthropological, and numismatic sources, Andrei Gandila argues that cultural attraction was a crucial component of the political frontier of exclusion in the...
London – New York: Routledge, 1999. – 364 p. ISBN 0-415-14688-7 (Print Edition) ISBN 0-203-02481-8 Master e-book ISBN ISBN 0-203-14269-1 (Glassbook Format) List of illustrations Map of Constantinople From stage to statecraft Theodora, wife of Justinian (527–48) Sophia (565–601+) Regents and regicides Martina (?615/16–41) Irene (769–802) Theodora, restorer of orthodoxy (830–67+)...
Harvard University Press, 1959. — 434 p. Byzantine Emperor Michael Palaeologus was a complex character - warrior, usurper, murderer, diplomat, renegade, hero and heretic. Geanakoplos does an excellent job at exploring his career. Michael Palaeologus can be seen as a tragic figure as he was being squeezed by the Turks in the east and the Roman Catholics in the west and this...
Revised edition. — Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1961. — 248 p. — ISBN-10: 0472061119; ISBN-13: 978-0472061112 This book describes the tragic and bloody collapse of Roman civilization in the West in the fifth century and the near ruin of the Eastern Roman Empire. The hundred years from the death of Theodosius I to the conquest of Italy by Theodoric the Ostrogoth were...
Routledge, 2016. — 208 p. This book is a comparative study of military practice in Sui-Tang China and the Byzantine Empire between approximately 600 and 700 CE. It covers all aspects of the military art from weapons and battlefield tactics to logistics, campaign organization, military institutions, and the grand strategy of empire. Whilst not neglecting the many differences...
Routledge, 1998. — 224 p. — ISBN 0-415-14753-0. Byzantium was dismissed by Gibbon, in the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire , and his Victorian successors as a decadent, dark, oriental culture, given up to intrigue, forbidden pleasure and refined cruelty. This great empire, founded by Constantine as the seat of power in the East began to flourish in the fifth century AD,...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2005. — 400 p. — ISBN10: 0631235124 ISBN13: 9780631235125. This book is a concise narrative of Byzantine history from the time of Constantine the Great (AD 306) to the fall of Constantinople in 1453. Argues that Byzantium was important in its own right but also served as a bridge between East and West and ancient and modern society. Uses the chronological...
Second edition. — Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. — 455 p. — ISBN: 140518471X. This revised and expanded edition of the widely-praised A History of Byzantium covers the time of Constantine the Great in AD 306 to the fall of Constantinople in 1453. Expands treatment of the middle and later Byzantine periods, incorporating new archaeological evidence. Includes additional maps and...
Oxford University Press, 2012. — 240 p. The city of Constantinople was named New Rome or Second Rome very soon after its foundation in AD 324; over the next two hundred years it replaced the original Rome as the greatest city of the Mediterranean. In this unified essay collection, prominent international scholars examine the changing roles and perceptions of Rome and...
Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2009. — 300 + xxviii p. — ISBN: 978-1-4051-3240-4. Notes on Contributors Maps Towards a Social History of Byzantium. John Haldon Men, Women, Eunuchs: Gender, Sex, and Power. Liz James Family Structure and the Transmission of Property. Angeliki E. Laiou The Social Function of the Law. Bernard Stolte Social Relations and the Land: The Early Period. Peter...
Routledge, 2003. — 95 p. — (Osprey Essential Histories). Byzantium survived for 800 years, yet its dominions and power fluctuated dramatically during that time. John Haldon tells the story from the days when the Empire was barely clinging on to survival, to the age when its fabulous wealth attracted Viking mercenaries and Asian nomad warriors to its armies, their very...
Rudolf Habelt GmbH, 1984. — 676 p. L'étude sur les tagmata complète le travail entrepris par le même auteur sur l'armée byzantine et ses transformations entre le 6e siècle et le début du 10e siècle. J. F. Haldon commence par décrire la situation des troupes d'élite à la fin du 6e siècle. Celles-ci sont composées des Optimates, Bucellaires et foederati ; la garde de l'empereur...
Harvard University Press, 2016. — 418 p. The Eastern Roman Empire was the largest state in western Eurasia in the sixth century. Only a century later, it was a fraction of its former size. Surrounded by enemies, ravaged by warfare and disease, the empire seemed destined to collapse. Yet it did not die. In this holistic analysis, John Haldon elucidates the factors that allowed...
London: UCL Press, 1999. — 389 p. Without a doubt, this is the absolute standard military history of Byzantium, and probably will be for many years to come. Although I would consider this to be a military history, it is not one in the traditional sense. It is not a chronological run through of Byzantine history with an emphasis on military events. Rather, each chapter focuses...
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015. — 280 p. — ISBN: 978-0-300-17857-9. Jonathan Harris, a leading scholar of Byzantium, eschews the usual run-through of emperors and battles and instead recounts the empire’s extraordinary history by focusing each chronological chapter on an archetypal figure, family, place, or event. Harris’s action-packed introduction presents a...
Paperback: 312 p. Publisher: Continuum; 1 edition (May 5, 2009). Language: English. In the early Middle Ages, the greatest city in Europe was not Paris, London or Berlin but Constantinople, capital of Byzantium. It was an article of faith that a saintly emperor, divinely appointed, had founded Constantinople and that the city was as holy as Rome or Jerusalem. The Byzantine...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2009. — 312 p. In the early Middle Ages, the greatest city in Europe was not Paris, London or Berlin but Constantinople, capital of Byzantium. It was an article of faith that a saintly emperor, divinely appointed, had founded Constantinople and that the city was as holy as Rome or Jerusalem. The Byzantine emperors assiduously promoted the notion of a...
Yale University Press, 2011. — 298 p. 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 toppled the capital’s walls. During this bleak and...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 408 p. Between the fall of the western Roman Empire in the fifth century and the collapse of the east in the face of the Arab invasions in the seventh, the remarkable era of the Emperor Justinian (527-568) dominated the Mediterranean region. Famous for his conquests in Italy and North Africa, and for the creation of spectacular monuments such as...
Cambridge University Press, 1985. — 773 p. This book represents an attempt to depict the late Roman and Byzantine monetary economy in its fullest possible social, economic and administrative context, with the aim of establishing the basic dynamics behind the production of the coinage, the major mechanisms affecting its distribution, and the general characteristics of its...
Ashgate Publishing, 2011. — 348 p. This volume of studies explores a particularly complex period in Byzantine history, the thirteenth century, from the Fourth Crusade to the recapture of Constantinople by exiled leaders from Nicaea. During this time there was no Greek state based on Constantinople and so no Byzantine Empire by traditional definition. Instead, a...
Princeton University Press, 2009. — 416 p. 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...
Princeton University Press, 2009. — 416 p. 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...
Princeton University Press, 2015. — 392 p. 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,...
Princeton University Press, 2013. — 352 p. 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...
Princeton University Press, 2004. — 288 p. 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...
Cambridge University Press, 2016. — 424 p. The Late Byzantine period (1261-1453) is marked by a paradoxical discrepancy between economic weakness and cultural strength. The apparent enigma can be resolved by recognizing that later Byzantine diplomatic strategies, despite or because of diminishing political advantage, relied on an increasingly desirable cultural and artistic...
Oxford – New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. – 640 p. – (Oxford Studies in Byzantium). ISBN 0-19-927968-3 ISBN 978-0-19-927968-5 List of Maps Note on Transliteration and Citation Basil’s Reign in Modern and Medieval Historical Literature Basil II and John Skylitzes: The Historian’s Career and Working Methods Basil II and the Testimony of John Skylitzes: Textual Analysis...
University of California Press, 1982. — 258 p. This is an excellent little history of the critical role women in the Byzantine court played in the Christological controversies of the early 5th century. Pulcheria's vital interventions offset her brother Theodosius' Nestorian leanings and helped to set up the Council of Chalcedon. That synod established the imperial support for...
Oxford University Press, 2015. — 336 p. Law was central to the ancient Roman's conception of themselves and their empire. Yet what happened to Roman law and the position it occupied ideologically during the turbulent years of the Iconoclast era, c.680-850, is seldom explored and little understood. The numerous legal texts of this period, long ignored or misused by scholars,...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. — 363 p. This book provides an interpretive narrative of the wars fought by Bulgaria against the Byzantine Empire for dominant control of the Balkan Peninsula during the early medieval era. Over a span of two centuries, from the early ninth through the early eleventh, and under the leadership of the Bulgarian rulers Krum, Simeon I, and Samuil, those...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. — 362 p. This book examines the Avar siege of Constantinople in 626, one of the most significant events of the seventh century, and the impact and repercussions this had on the political, military, economic and religious structures of the Byzantine Empire. The siege put an end to the power politics and hegemony of the Avars in South East Europe and was...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. — 362 p. This book examines the Avar siege of Constantinople in 626, one of the most significant events of the seventh century, and the impact and repercussions this had on the political, military, economic and religious structures of the Byzantine Empire. The siege put an end to the power politics and hegemony of the Avars in South East Europe and was...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990. — 289 p. — (Oxford History of the Christian Church). — ISBN: 0199582769 This book describes the role of the medieval Orthodox Church in the Byzantine Empire (c.600-c.1453). As an integral part of its policy it was (as in western Christianity) closely linked with many aspects of everyday life both official and otherwise. It was a formative...
Oxford University Press, 2010. — 460 p. — ISBN: 9780199582761. This book describes the role of the medieval Orthodox Church in the Byzantine Empire (c.600-c.1453). As an integral part of its policy it was (as in western Christianity) closely linked with many aspects of everyday life both official and otherwise. It was a formative period for Orthodoxy. It had to face doctrinal...
Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2006. — 479 + xii p. — ISBN 0-19-927251-4. Precursors and Emergence. Insane Saints. Lechers and Beggars. Holy Scandal. The ‘Second Edition’ of Holy Foolery. The ‘New Theologians’. Balancing at the Edge. Decline. Old Russian Iurodstvo. The Iurodivyi and the Tsar. Iurodstvo in an Age of Transition. Iurodstvo Meets Modernity. The Eastern...
Routledge, 1997. — 233 p. The collected papers in this volume present a unique introduction both to the history of women, of men and eunuchs, or the third sex, in Byzantium and to the various theoretical and methodological approaches through which the topic can be examined. The contributors use evidence from both texts and images to give a wide-ranging picture of the place of...
Blackwell Publishing, 2010. — 451 p. — (Blackwell companions to the ancient world). — ISBN: 978-1-4051-2654-0. Using new methodological and theoretical approaches, A Companion to Byzantium presents an overview of the Byzantine world from its inception in 330 A.D. to its fall to the Ottoman Turks in 1453. - Provides an accessible overview of eleven centuries of Byzantine...
Reprint ed. — Routledge, 2016. — 232 p. — (Publications of the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies, 6). First published 1999 by Ashgate Publishing. The papers in this volume derive from the 31st Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies held for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies at the University of Sussex, Brighton, in March 1997. Desire, sex, love and the erotic are...
Institut Francais d'Etudes Byzantins, 1950. — 522 p. La situation géographique de Constantinople Chapitre premier Des origines à Constantin La ville de Constantin La ville théodosienne Vue densemble de la ville Les régions urbaines Les places publiques Les colonnes honorifiques Chapitre. Les portiques Les métiers Les monuments Les lieux de spectacle Le régime des eaux Les ports...
London: Variorum reprints, 1970 - 381 p. I Constantine VII's Portrait of Michael III. II The Date and Significance of the Tenth Homily of Photius. III The Chronological Accuracy of the "Logothete" for the Years A.D. 867-913. IV The Classical Background of the Scriptores Post Theophanem. V A Note on the Patriarch Nicholas Mysticus. VI Nine Orations of Arethas from Cod. Marc. Gr....
Cambridge University Press, 1992. — 761 p. This is the final volume of the three-volume Prosopography which now provides a complete secular biographical dictionary for the Later Roman Empire from AD 260 to 641. This volume begins at the start of the reign of Justinian in 527 and ends at the death of Heraclius in 641. Like its predecessors, this volume has collected the...
Cambridge University Press, 1992. — 814 p. This is the final volume of the three-volume Prosopography which now provides a complete secular biographical dictionary for the Later Roman Empire from AD 260 to 641. This volume begins at the start of the reign of Justinian in 527 and ends at the death of Heraclius in 641. Like its predecessors, this volume has collected the...
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1968. — 289 + xi p. Key to coins. Eastern Emperors and Westerb Crises: Official Eastern Responses to the Deterioration of the Western Roman Empire. Political and Religious Pagan Protests: Political and Religious Criticism and Opposition in the East, 400 — 475. Zosimus and the Climax of Pagan Historical Apologetics. The Diversity of...
Cambridge University Press, 2005. — 327 p. This book presents an inquiry into a fundamental historical problem in early Byzantine history: why the Byzantine Empire failed to contain emergent Islam in the new religion's initial years, and in particular how and why the Byzantines first lost Syria, Palestine, Mesopotamia, and Armenia before a partial recovery. Using Greek and...
Amsterdam: Adolf M. Hakkert Oublisher, 1981. — 379 p. Some Characteristics of Eastern Roman Military Unrest in the Fifth Century. The Age of Justinian: Expeditionary Campaigns and Indiscipline. Military and Religious Disturbances on the Eastern Frontier. The Persistence and Intensification of Sedition in the Balkans. Military Unrest in the Early Seventh Century. Insurrection on...
Harvard University Press, 2009. - 270 p. 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 conversion into a church. Paradoxically, it was more important as a...
Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, 2010. — 206 p. This book is the first comprehensive prosopography of a provincial region of the Byzantine empire throughout the entire period of its control by the Byzantine state (284-1355). It includes not only natives of the island but also all known visitors; primary texts are quoted in full after each entry. The entries set in...
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 236 p. A Cabinet of Byzantine Curiosities will churn up these old prejudices, while also stimulating a deeper interest among readers in one of history's most interesting civilizations. Many of the zanier tales and trivia that are collected here revolve around the political and religious life of Byzantium. Thus, stories of saints, relics, and...
University of Notre Dame Press, 2006. — 209 p. Mothers and Sons, Fathers and Daughters makes available for the first time complete English translations from the works of Michael Psellos (1018–1076?), a key philosopher of the Byzantine Empire. This book contains the works that Psellos wrote about his family, including a long funeral oration for his mother that features unique...
Belknap Press, 2019. — 392 p. A leading historian argues that in the empire we know as Byzantium, the Greek-speaking population was actually Roman, and scholars have deliberately mislabeled their ethnicity for the past two centuries for political reasons. Was there ever such a thing as Byzantium? Certainly no emperor ever called himself "Byzantine". And while the identities of...
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 440 p. In the second half of the tenth century, Byzantium embarked on a series of spectacular conquests: first in the southeast against the Arabs, then in Bulgaria, and finally in the Georgian and Armenian lands. By the early eleventh century, the empire was the most powerful state in the Mediterranean. It was also expanding economically,...
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 440 p. In the second half of the tenth century, Byzantium embarked on a series of spectacular conquests: first in the southeast against the Arabs, then in Bulgaria, and finally in the Georgian and Armenian lands. By the early eleventh century, the empire was the most powerful state in the Mediterranean. It was also expanding economically,...
Harvard University Press, 2015. — 312 p. Although Byzantium is known to history as the Eastern Roman Empire, scholars have long claimed that this Greek Christian theocracy bore little resemblance to Rome. Here, in a revolutionary model of Byzantine politics and society, Anthony Kaldellis reconnects Byzantium to its Roman roots, arguing that from the fifth to the twelfth...
Routledge, 2010. — 210 p. This lavishly illustrated book stands out in its field as the only book currently available on the best-preserved Byzantine city in the Peloponnese – Monemvasia. Haris A. Kalligas, a world authority on Monemvasia’s history and architecture, here explores the city’s foundation, its status as a powerful maritime centre of Byzantium, and its gradual...
An Introduction to Modern Byzantine Studies. — Washington, DC: Center for Byzantine Studies, 1982. — 218 + xxi p. — ISBN: 0-88402-103-3. Preface, by Giles Constable. Aknowledgments. Chapter One. Homo byzantius in Society. Chapter Two. The Material Enviroment of Homo byzantius . Chapter Three. Byzantine Life and Behavior. Chapter Four. Homo byzantius before God. Chapter Five....
La Pomme d’Or, 2011. — 216 p. Byzantium in the 15th century is too easily dismissed as the anachronistic tail end of an ancient ecumenical empire, whose only achievements, apart from the heroic last stand of Constantinople in 1453, were the contribution of literary Hellenism to Renaissance humanism, and the preservation of Orthodoxy from the encroachment of Catholicism. This...
Oxford University Press, 2014. — 404 p. — (Oxford Studies in Byzantium). — ISBN 978–0–19–870826–1. This book looks at the relations between Byzantium and its eastern neighbours in the thirteenth century. The main conclusion is that the Nicaean Empire (1204-61) was much stronger and much more the heir of the twelfth-century Empire than has generally been appreciated....
Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. — 288 p. This book is a microhistory of eleventh-century Byzantium, built around the biography of the state official Michael Attaleiates. Dimitris Krallis presents Byzantium as a cohesive, ever-evolving, dynamic, Roman political community, built on traditions of Roman governance and Hellenic culture. In the eleventh century, Byzantium faced a crisis as...
Harvard Historical Studies, 1972. — 400 p. At the age of twenty-two, Andronicus II became sole ruler of Byzantium. His father, Michael VIII, had been a dashing figure--a good soldier, brilliant diplomat, and the liberator of Constantinople from its fifty-seven-year Latin occupation. By contrast Andronicus seemed colorless and ineffectual. His problems were immense--partly as a...
Cambridge University Press, 2007 - 288 p. ISBN10: 0521849780 ISBN13: 9780521849784 (eng) This is a concise survey of the economy of the Byzantine Empire from the fourth century AD to the fall of Constantinople in1453. Organised chronologically, the book addresses key themes such as demography, agriculture, manufacturing and the urban economy, trade, monetary developments, and...
New York, NY : Alfred A. Knopf, 1957. — 334 p. illus., maps. Harold Lamb gives a comprehensive account of the life and reign of the Roman Emperor Justinian I (482-565), from his origin as the peasant Petrus Sabbatius, to the purple clad Imperator. Upon Justinian’s ascension to the throne the western provinces had been occupied by hostile barbarians for over a generation. In the...
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993. — 342 p. This is the first scholarly history of the relations between Byzantium and the Crusader States of Syria and Palestine. Ralph-Johannes Lilie sets out to explore the policies and principles which shaped contacts between the Eastern Empire, the Crusader States, and the nations of Western Europe when the Crusaders came. Originally published...
Harvard University Press, 2009. — 498 p. — ISBN: 9780674035195 In this book, the distinguished writer Edward Luttwak presents the grand strategy of the eastern Roman empire we know as Byzantine, which lasted more than twice as long as the more familiar western Roman empire, eight hundred years by the shortest definition. This extraordinary endurance is all the more remarkable...
London: Routledge, 1992. — 201 p. John Lydus and the Roman Past offers a new interpretation of the emergence of Byzantine society as viewed through the eyes of John Lydus, a sixth-century scholar and civil servant. Maas show that control of classical inheritance was politically contested in the reign of Justinian (rules in 527-565). He demonstrates how the past could be used to...
Cambridge University Press, 2005. — 626 p. This book introduces the Age of Justinian, the last Roman century and the first flowering of Byzantine culture. Dominated by the policies and personality of emperor Justinian I (527–565), this period of grand achievements and far-reaching failures witnessed the transformation of the Mediterranean world. In this volume, twenty...
Brill, 2013. — 225 p. The current state of research on this contact area between Byzantium and East Central Europe during a troubled period invites a new synthesis of the most recent finds and interpretations. No such comprehensive work addressing both literary and archaeological evidence exists for the history of the Byzantine Danubian provinces in the 10th-12th c. The main...
Ashgate Press, 2007. — 332 p. Constantinople originated in 330 A.D. as the last great urban foundation of the ancient world. When it was sacked by the Fourth Crusade in 1204, it was the greatest city of the European Middle Ages. Its transition from the one to the other was determined partly by its continuous function as an imperial capital, partly by the steady proliferation of...
Date: 1993. Language: English. Page: 584. The reign of Manuel I (1143-1180) marked the high point of the revival of the Byzantine empire under the Comnenian dynasty. It was however followed by a rapid decline, leading to the sack of Constantinople by the Fourth Crusade in1204. This book, the first devoted to Manuel's reign for over 80 years, reevaluates the emperor and his...
Date: 1993. Language: English. Format: DJVU. Page: 584. The reign of Manuel I (1143-1180) marked the high point of the revival of the Byzantine empire under the Comnenian dynasty. It was however followed by a rapid decline, leading to the sack of Constantinople by the Fourth Crusade in1204. This book, the first devoted to Manuel's reign for over 80 years, reevaluates the...
Dumbarton Oaks, 1997. — 372 p. The imperial court in Constantinople has been central to the outsider's vision of Byzantium. However, in spite of its fame in literature and scholarship, there have been few attempts to analyze the Byzantine court in its entirety as a phenomenon. The studies in this volume aim to provide a unified composition by presenting Byzantine courtly life...
Dumbarton Oaks, 1984. — 463 p. Russian pilgrim depictions of Constantinople have long been recognized as among the best sources for the topography of the Byzantine capital. In this volume Professor Majeska has produced the first scholarly edition of the five Russian travel narratives which deal with Constantinople in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries; the accompanying...
Oxford University Press, 2002. — 331 p. — ISBN: 0-19-814098-3. The Eastern Empire from Constantine to Heradius (306-641) Peter Sarris Life in City and Country Clive Foss New Religion, Old Culture Cyril Mango The Rise of Islam Robert Hoyland The Struggle for Survival (641-780) Warren Treadgold Iconodasm Patricia Karlin-Hayter The Medieval Empire (780-1204) Paul Magdalino The...
Papers of the thirty-eighth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, St John's College, University of Oxford, March 2004. — Ashgate, 2009. — 477 p. — (Publications of the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies; v. 14). — ISBN: 978-0-7546-6310-2. The purpose of the symposium whose papers are published here was to examine the nature and extent of Byzantine trade prior to...
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. — 324 p. It was far from inevitable that Rome would emerge as the spiritual center of Western Christianity in the early Middle Ages. After the move of the Empire's capital to Constantinople in the fourth century and the Gothic Wars in the sixth century, Rome was gradually depleted physically, economically, and politically....
Brill, 2016. — 548 p. From Constantinople to the Frontier: The City and the Cities provides twenty-five articles addressing the concept of centres and peripheries in the late antique and Byzantine worlds, focusing on urban aspects of this paradigm between the fourth and thirteenth centuries.
Brill, 2005. — 228 p. In recent decades there has been an increasing interest in the study of food and drink in the ancient, Mediaeval and Byzantine worlds and of their supply and consumption. This volume presents selected papers from the biennial conference of the Australian Association for Byzantine Studies, which was held at the University of Adelaide, 11-12 July 2003. The...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. — 291 p. Series Editor's Foreword List of nlustrations Photo Credits Historical Prologue: Women of the Houses of Constantine and Theodosios Early Byzantine Steelyard Weights: Potency and Diffusion of the Imperial Image The Empress Ariadne and the Politics of Transition The Patronage of the Empress Theodora and Her Contemporaries Looking at Her:...
Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2008. — 405 p. The military achievements of the emperors Nikephoros Phokas, John Tzimiskes, and Basil II brought the Byzantine Empire to the height of its power by the early eleventh century. This volume presents new editions and translations of two military treatises - the Praecepta militaria of Nikephoros Phokas and the revised...
Oxford University Press, 2008. — 316 p. This study historicizes the formation of the Syrian Orthodox Church. Menze shows that the sixth century separation of the Syrian Orthodox Christians from Western Christianity took place because of divergent political and ecclesiastical interests of bishops and emperors. Roman emperors proved to be unable to hold the papacy in the West,...
New York: Wiley, 1969. — 238 p. — (Historical Cities). Constantinople is portrayed as the prototypical Imperial Capital. A comprehensive account of the dynamics of an urban society in an imperial civilization.
London: Routledge, 1994. — 202 p. The reign of Emperor Justinian (527--565) was a key phase in the transition from the Roman empire of classical times to the Byzantine empire of the Middle Ages. Justinian himself, born of peasant stock in a provincial backwater, was one of the greatest rulers yet, despite prodigious achievements, he remained an outsider in the sophisticated...
Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1983. — 730 s. Buch des berühmten ungarischen Byzantinist Gyula Moravcsik (1892-1972). Die Schwerpunkte seiner wissenschaftlichen Arbeiten lagen auf dem Gebiet der Auswertung byzantinischer Schriftquellen für die ungarische Geschichte und die der Turkvölker. Diesem Zweck diente vor allem sein bedeutendstes Werk, die "Byzantinoturcica", das 1942/43 erschien...
Harpenden: Pocket Essentials, 2007. — 158 p. — ISBN10: 1904048838, ISBN13: 9781904048831. So what''s so significant about the Byzantine Empire? Now recognised 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...
Cambridge University Press, 2002. — 356 p. In Byzantium monks did not form a separate caste, apart from society. They formed part of a nexus of social, economic and spiritual relationships that bound together the "powerful" in the middle Byzantine state. Using hagiography, chronicles and, in particular, the newly-available archives of the Athonite monasteries, this book...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. – 374 p. ISBN-13 978-0-511-51807-2 eBook (NetLibrary) ISBN-13 978-0-521-87738-1 hardback 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,...
Leiden: Brill, 2001. — 380 p. — (The Medieval Mediterranean). This volume deals with the history, topography and monuments of Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire and one of the greatest urban centres ever known, throughout Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. It contains 21 papers that emanate from an international workshop which was held at Istanbul in 1999....
Routledge, 2016. — 232 p. Gender was a key social indicator in Byzantine society, as in many others. While studies of gender in the western medieval period have appeared regularly in the past decade, similar studies of Byzantium have lagged behind. Masculine and feminine roles were not always as clearly defined as in the West, while eunuchs made up a 'third gender' in the...
Oxford University Press, 2016. — 256 p. Byzantine princess Anna Komnene is known for two things: plotting to murder her brother to usurp the throne, and writing the Alexiad, an epic history of her father Alexios I Komnenos (1081-1118) that is a key historical source for the era of the First Crusade. Anna Komnene: the Life and Work of a Medieval Historian investigates the...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 224 p. The imperial government over the central provinces of the Byzantine Empire c. 950-1100 was both sovereign and apathetic, dealing effectively with a narrow set of objectives, chiefly collecting revenue and maintaining imperial sovereignty. Outside these spheres, action needed to be solicited from imperial officials, leaving vast...
Cambridge University Press, 2018. — 330 p. This handy reference guide makes it easier to access and understand histories written in Greek between 600 and 1480 CE. Covering classicizing histories that continued ancient Greek traditions of historiography, sweeping, fast-paced 'chronicle' type histories, and dozens of idiosyncratic historical texts, it distills the results of...
Cambridge University Press, 2012. — 258 p. Nikephoros Bryennios' history of the Byzantine Empire in the 1070s is a story of civil war and aristocratic rebellion in the midst of the Turkish conquest of Anatolia. Commonly remembered as the passive and unambitious husband of Princess Anna Komnene (author of the Alexiad), Bryennios is revealed as a skilled author whose history...
Cambridge University Press, 1979. — 172 p. The Byzantines lived in a theocratic society. They were less ready than their western contemporaries to draw the line between things spiritual and things temporal, between Church and state. This book explores some of the characteristics of that society in the age of its decline and fall between the thirteenth and the fifteenth...
2nd edition. — Cambridge University Press, 1999. — 463 p. — ISBN 0-521-43384-3 (hardback); 0-521-43991-4 (paperback) The Byzantine empire in the last two centuries of its existence had to rebuild itself after its conquest and dismemberment by the Fourth Crusade in 1204. Its emperors in exile recovered Constantinople in 1261 and this book narrates their empire's struggles for...
Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1957. — 251 p. The district of Epiros in north-western Greece became an independent province following the Fourth Crusade and the dismemberment of the Byzantine Empire by the Latins in 1204. It retained its independence despite the recovery of Constantinople by the Greeks in 1261. Each of its rulers acquired the Byzantine titles of Despot, from which...
Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1957. — 251 p. The district of Epiros in north-western Greece became an independent province following the Fourth Crusade and the dismemberment of the Byzantine Empire by the Latins in 1204. It retained its independence despite the recovery of Constantinople by the Greeks in 1261. Each of its rulers acquired the Byzantine titles of Despot, from which...
Osprey, 2007. — 260 p. — ISBN: 978 I 84603 200 4. Byzantium was the last bastion of the Roman Empire following the fall of the Western Roman Empire. It fought for survival for eight centuries until, in the mid-15th century, the emperor Constantine XI ruled just a handful of whittled down territories, an empire in name and tradition only. This lavishly illustrated book...
Cambridge, 1984. — 297 p. Map: Epiros in the fourteenth century Introducion The restored Despotate - 1267-85 Epiros between Italy and Byzantium - 1285-1306 French, Byzantines and Venetians in Epiros - 1294-1318 The Italian inheritance: the Orsini family - 1318-37 The Byzantine restoration - 1337-48 The Serbian occupation - 1348-59 The Serbian Despotate of Ioanina and the...
Vintage, 1998. — 431 p. In this magisterial adaptation of his epic three-volume history of Byzantium, John Julius Norwich chronicles the world's longest-lived Christian empire. Beginning with Constantine the Great, who in a.d. 330 made Christianity the religion of his realm and then transferred its capital to the city that would bear his name, Norwich follows the course of...
Penguin Books, 1993. — 397 p. Norwich combines wonderfully deadpan humor and a keen appreciation for the narrative potential of popular history in this delightful second installment in his projected three-volume study of the Byzantine Empire. Picking up where Byzantium: The Early Centuries (1989) left off — at Pope Leo III's crowning of Charlemagne as Emperor of Rome in A.D....
Viking, 1995. — 528 p. With this volume, Norwich completes his magisterial narrative history of Byzantium. As in the earlier volumes (Byzantium: The Early Centuries, and Byzantium: The Apogee), he seeks to rectify the negative impressions perpetuated by 18th-century historian Edward Gibbon. Norwich records the history of a brilliant civilization that endured for over 11...
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. — 408 p. Norwich tells the story of the Byzantine Empire from its beginnigs to the emergence of its only European rival, the Holly Roman Empire, with the coronation of Charlemagne on Christmas Day AD 800.
St. Vladimir'S seminary press cretWOOD, New York, 1994.— 22 p. The essays which comprise this book aim to identify and discuss aspects of the Byzantium heritage, whose principal beneficiaries were the Greeks, the Slavs and, most prominently, Russia. These 12 studies divide into three groups: the first is concerned with general aspects of Slavo-Byzantine relations; the second...
Oxford University Press, 1988. — 261 p. A collection of biographies, this book tells the story of six outstanding men--four of them acknowledged saints--who lived between the 9th and 16th centuries in East Europe and, by birth, profession, or personal circumstances, belonged simultaneously to the Greek and Slav worlds. From Clement of Ohrid, Theophylact of Ohrid, and Vladimir...
Praeger, 1971. — 445 p. Throughout much of the Middle Ages, Eastern Europe-the Balkans, Russia, Rumania and the land on either side of the Danube-was affected by Byzantine political and cultural influence. From the barbarian invasions to the Middle Ages, this is an illuminating read that demystifies the Balkans.
Athenes: Estia, 1996. — 324 p. L'Empire byzantin, même aux pires moments des invasions du 7e siècle, a su conserver un système de taxation, en partie hérité de l'époque romaine. C'est cet avantage qui le distingue des autres États médiévaux chrétiens, explique sa survie et sa renaissance à partir de la seconde moitié du 8e siècle. L'étude de la fiscalité est donc fondamentale...
Fisher Unwin Ltd., 1902. — 338 p. The Byzantine Empire centered at the city of Constantinople grew from a small Greek colonial village into the capital of the Eastern Roman empire. Ultimately, Byzantium represented what remained of Roman power in late antiquity. Established as the seat of Constantine the Great in 328 AD, the empire grew and matured over the centuries, reaching...
Torino: Einaudi, 1968. — 568 p. La Storia dell'Impero Bizantino di Georg Ostrogorsky è una disamina corposa ed accurata della storia dello stato bizantino redatta secondo linee dal carattere essenzialmente evenemenziale; pubblicata in una prima versione nel 1940, è stata rivista dall'A. in due occasioni, nel 1952 e nel 1963. A tutt'oggi costituisce una valida introduzione...
Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 343 p. — ISBN13: 978-0-521-87181-5 (hardback); 978-0-511-45760-9. In 1204, the Byzantine empire was conquered by troops from western Europe ostensibly taking part in the Fourth Crusade. This was a hugely significant event for the subjects of the empire, radically altering the Byzantines’ self-image and weakening their state for the later...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. — 228 p. — (New Approaches to Byzantine History and Culture). This book explores the professional and social lives of the soldiers who served in the army of the Byzantine Empire in the sixth century. More than just a fighting force, this army was the setting in which hundreds of thousands of men forged relationships and manoeuvred for promotion. The...
Ashgate, 2011. — 759 p. — ISBN 9781409410645. This major study is a comprehensive scholarly work on a key moment in the history of Europe, the fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks in 1453. The result of years of research, it presents all available sources along with critical evaluations of these narratives. The authors have consulted texts in all relevant languages, both...
Routledge, 2018. — 402 p. Constantine XI’s last moments in life, as he stood before the walls of Constantinople in 1453, have bestowed a heroic status on him. This book produces a more balanced portrait of an intriguing individual: the last emperor of Constantinople. To be sure, the last of the Greek Caesars was a fascinating figure, not so much because he was a great...
Krise und Transformation. Wien. 2011. - p. 1-81 In more than 1000 years of history, the Byzantine Empire experienced several severe times of crisis which brought it almost to the point of destruction. Yet, Byzantium proved to be one of the most resilient polities of medieval Europe and endured; even after the loss of its capital to the Crusaders of 1204, Byzantine statehood and...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2006. — 832 p. — ISBN: 9004151974. This volume examines the development and evolution of the war galley known as the Dromon, and its relative, the Chelandion, from first appearance in the sixth century until its supercession in the twelfth century by the Galea developed in the Latin West. Beginning as a small, fully-decked, monoreme galley, by the...
Peeters Publishers, 2002. — 319 p. — ISBN: 9042912286 This volume contains the papers which were presented during the workshop The Reign of Heraclius: Crisis and Confrontation, which took place from 19 to 21 April 2001 at the University of Groningen. The central theme of the workshop was the question whether, and if so, in which way and to which extent, the drastic political...
University of Chicago Press, 2003. — 295 p. The Perfect Servant reevaluates the place of eunuchs in Byzantium. Kathryn Ringrose uses the modern concept of gender as a social construct to identify eunuchs as a distinct gender and to illustrate how gender was defined in the Byzantine world. At the same time she explores the changing role of the eunuch in Byzantium from 600 to...
Penguin Books Ltd., 2007. — 368 p. The Emperor Justinian reunified Rome's fractured empire by defeating the Goths and Vandals who had separated Italy, Spain, and North Africa from imperial rule. At his capital in Constantinople, he built the world's most beautiful building, married its most powerful empress, and wrote its most enduring legal code, seemingly restoring Rome's...
2nd revised and updated edition — Scarecrow Press, 2011. — 642 p. The Byzantine Empire dates back to Constantine the Great, the first Christian ruler of the Roman Empire, who, in 330 AD, moved the imperial capital from Rome to a port city in modern-day Turkey, which he then renamed Constantinople in his honor. From its founding, the Byzantine Empire was a major anchor of...
2nd revised and updated edition — Scarecrow Press, 2011. — 642 p. The Byzantine Empire dates back to Constantine the Great, the first Christian ruler of the Roman Empire, who, in 330 AD, moved the imperial capital from Rome to a port city in modern-day Turkey, which he then renamed Constantinople in his honor. From its founding, the Byzantine Empire was a major anchor of...
Harvard University Press, 2009. — 307 p. Slavery may no longer exist as a legal institution, but we still find many forms of non-freedom in contemporary societies. It is a troubling paradox, and one this book addresses by considering a period in which the definition of slavery and freedom proved considerably flexible. Between more familiar forms of slavery — those of antiquity...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1977. — 197 + viii p. — ISBN 0-521-21401-7. Foreword. Introduction. The Christian Empire: The image of God upon earth. The Viceroy of God: The plenitude of Imperial power. The battle over images: The challenge of popular belief. The working compromise: The limits of Imperial control. The monks and the people: The opposition to the palace...
Cambridge: CambridgeUniversity Press, 1970, 112 p. During the last two centuries of its existence the Byzantine Empire was politically in a state of utter decadence, but, in contrast, its intellectual life has never before shone so brilliantly. In these four lectures the author discusses the leading scholars of the period, their erudition, their intense individualism, their...
London: Methuen, 1961. — 320 p. This book provides an overview of the history of the Byzantine Empire and then devotes chapters to specific topics including the emperor, the administration, religion, art, the army and the navy and the economy, full of specific insights on those topics.
I.B. Tauris, 2009. — 168 p. Clinging to a rugged hillside in the lush valley of Sparta lies Mistra, one of the most dramatically beautiful Byzantine cities in Greece, a place steeped in history, myth, and romance. Following the Frankish conquest of the Peloponnese in the thirteenth century, William II of Villehardouin built a great castle on a hill near Sparta that later came...
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 320 p. In 330 AD, the Emperor Constantine consecrated the new capital of the eastern Roman Empire on the site of the ancient city of Byzantium. Its later history is well known, yet comparatively little is known about the city before it became Constantinople, and then Istanbul. Although it was just a minor Greek polis located on the northern...
Brill, 2010. — 295 p. The second half of the fourteenth century was a period of rapid change in the Eastern Mediterranean, principally due to the expansion into Europe of the Ottoman Turks. Demetrius Kydones was one of the key Byzantine political and intellectual figures of the time, and his writings are regarded as one of the most important sources for study of the period....
Oxford University Press, 2015. — 302 p. — (Very Short Introductions). After surviving the fifth century fall of the Western European Roman Empire, the Byzantine Empire flourished as one of the most powerful economic, cultural, and military forces in Europe for a thousand years. In this Very Short Introduction Peter Sarris introduces the reader to the unique fusion of Roman...
Cambridge University Press, 2006. — 258 p. The reign of the Byzantine Emperor Justinian (527-565) stands out in late Roman and medieval history. Justinian re-conquered far-flung territories from the barbarians, overhauled the Empire's administrative framework and codified for posterity the inherited tradition of Roman law. This work represents a modern study in English of the...
Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 1210 p. — ISBN: 9780521832311. Byzantium lasted a thousand years, ruled to the end by self-styled ‘emperors of the Romans’. It underwent kaleidoscopic territorial and structural changes, yet recovered repeatedly from disaster: even after the near-impregnable Constantinople fell in 1204, variant forms of the empire reconstituted themselves....
Papers of the Twenty-fourth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Cambridge, March 1990. — Variorum, 1992. — 333 p. — (Society for the Promotion of Byzant). — ISBN 0-86078-338-3. The contributions to this book derive from papers presented to the 24th annual Byzantine symposium, on the subject of "Byzantine Diplomacy", held in Cambridge from 31 March - 2 April 1990. In common...
Brill, Boston, 2016. — 513 p. — ISBN: 978-90-04-30512-0. In The Byzantine Turks, 1204 — 1461 Rustam Shukurov offers an account of the Turkic minority in Late Byzantium including the Nicaean, Palaiologan, and Grand Komnenian empires. The demography of the Byzantine Turks and the legal and cultural aspects of their entrance into Greek society are discussed in detail. Greek and...
An aspect of Byzantine military history translated, revised and rewritten by Benedikt S. Benediks. — Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 242 p. ISBN13: 978-0-521-03552-1 paperback. ISBN10: 0-521-03552-X paperback. An aura of romance has clung about the Varangians for over six centuries. This book examines how the Norsemen came to be drawn into the Imperial service until the...
Papers from the Thirty-Second Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton, March 1998. — Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000. March 1998 saw Byzantinists gathering together at the University of Sussex in Brighton, for the annual symposium held by the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies. Their aim was to consider the question of the 'Byzantine...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2011. — 400 p. This innovative survey of Byzantium's relations with pre-Christian Bulgaria in the late eighth and early ninth century offers an entirely new framework for understanding the developments that shaped one of the most turbulent periods in the history of the early Medieval Balkans. Unlike previous studies, it integrates the surviving...
Dumbarton Oaks, 1984. — 353 p. George Christos Soulis unravels the sequence of events in a chaotic, relatively little understood, and crucial period, which is presented with clarity in this tour de force of research and organization. This is a major contribution to the understanding of events that prevented either a consolidation of Byzantium and its survival or Serbian...
Paul Holberton Publishing, 2012. — 208 p. This book is the second in a series we envision on medieval and Renaissance jewelry. It placed most major types of rings in their art-historical context with comparisons to works of art in other media. Subsequent books, this one included, will explore specific themes within this time period. We have selected the theme “Byzantium and the...
Cambridge University Press, 2000. — 352 p. Byzantium's Balkan Frontier is the first narrative history in English of the northern Balkans in the tenth to twelfth centuries. Where previous histories have been concerned principally with the medieval history of distinct and autonomous Balkan nations, this study regards Byzantine political authority as a unifying factor in the...
Routledge, 2010. — 640 p. The Byzantine World presents the latest insights of the leading scholars in the fields of Byzantine studies, history, art and architectural history, literature, and theology. Those who know little of Byzantine history, culture and civilization between AD 700 and 1453 will find overviews and distillations, while those who know much already will be...
Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 190 p. The long reign of the Byzantine emperor Basil II (976-1025) has been considered a "golden age", in which his greatest achievement was the annexation of Bulgaria after a long and bloody war. Paul Stephenson reveals that the legend of the "Bulgar-slayer" was actually created long after his death. His reputation was exploited by...
Brill, 2018. — 512 p. This collection of essays on the Byzantine culture of war in the period between the 4th and the 12th centuries offers a new critical approach to the study of warfare as a fundamental aspect of East Roman society and culture in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. The book’s main goal is to provide a critical overview of current research as well as new...
Brepols, 2019. — xiv, 208 p. This volume contains primarily papers of the 11th International Symposium held in Istanbul (May 2014) and of the last Congress of Byzantine Studies in Belgrade (August 2016). There are papers about the seals as historical source and archaeological finding presenting their role in the Byzantine Prosopography, Byzantine Administration, Historical...
Washington, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Dumbarton Oaks Trustees for Harvard University, 2005. — 264 p. On the whole the era of the Macedonian dynasty (867 — 1056) was a time of territorial expansion and flourishing culture for the Byzantine empire; nevertheless the continuation of the dynasty was at risk on several occasions in the tenth century when an...
Edinburgh University Press, 2018. — 361 p. This book examines the strategies and military tactics of the Byzantines and their enemies in Eastern Anatolia, Syria and in Upper Mesopotamia in the tenth century. This period of conflict is difficult to define: it was too inactive to be called a ‘war’ but too active to be called a ‘cold war’. Nevertheless, it was a ‘war’, even if it...
Brill Academic Publishers, 1997. — 262 p. — ISBN: 9004108114 In the gallery of emperors who reigned over the Byzantine empire during its long life of more than a thousand years the figure of Leo VI (886-912) is not an unfamiliar one to those conversant with Byzantium's history. He was the heir of Basil I (867-886) the founder of the Macedonian dynasty, one of the empire's...
Routledge, 2019. — 378 p. — (Papers from the Forty-Seventh Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies). The subject of the emperor in the Byzantine world may seem likely to be a well-studied topic but there is no book devoted to the emperor in general covering the span of the Byzantine empire. Of course there are studies on individual emperors, dynasties and aspects of the imperial...
Routledge, 2008. — 257 p. The existence of eunuchs was one of the defining features of the Byzantine Empire. Covering the whole span of the history of the empire, from the fourth to the fifteenth centuries AD, Shaun Tougher presents a comprehensive survey of the history and roles of eunuchs, making use of extensive comparative material, such as from China, Persia and the...
Stanford University Press, 1997. - 1039 p. The cornerstone of Byzantine studies fron the emergence of empire till its fall with wide overlook of society, economy and culture.
Stanford University Press, 1998. — 268 p. The Byzantine Empire was almost always ready to fight, and often fought for its life. During much of its history its provinces were military districts called themes, and acclamation by the army, not coronation or inheritance, was what made a man emperor. The army overthrew twenty-odd rulers, and tried to oust many more. It was large and...
Stanford University Press, 1988. — 508 p. — ISBN-10: 0804718962; ISBN-13: 978-0804718967. This is the story of how the Byzantine Empire, led by a succession of extraordinary rulers, emerged from a long decline to reclaim its place as a leading state of the medieval world. The Empire in 780. The New Regime of Irene, 780-802. The Reforms of Nicephorus I, 802-813. The Struggles of...
Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1997. — 215 p. The fourth century c.e. saw the death of the ancient world and the birth of the medieval. Pagan temples crumbled through disuse, while Christian churches sprang up around the fledgling Holy Roman Empire. The emperor Constantine's conversion to Christianity changed history: pagans blamed the decline and fall of the...
Brill, 2011. — 544 p. — ISBN10: 9004203230; ISBN13: 9789004203235. In 1204 the army of the Fourth Crusade sacked the great city of Constantinople. In earlier historiography the view prevailed that these Western barons and knights temporarily destroyed the Byzantine state and replaced it with a series of feudal states of their own making. Through a comprehensive rereading of...
University of Wisconsin Press, 1952 - p.p. 1-374. This is the revised English translation from the original work in Russian of the history of the Great Byzantine Empire. It is the most complete and thorough work on this subject. From it we get a wonderful panorama of the events and developments of the struggles of early Christianity, both western and eastern, with all of its...
University of Wisconsin Press, 1952 - p.p. 375-846. This is the revised English translation from the original work in Russian of the history of the Great Byzantine Empire. It is the most complete and thorough work on this subject. From it we get a wonderful panorama of the events and developments of the struggles of early Christianity, both western and eastern, with all of its...
Harvard University Press, 1950. — 439 p. Thorough study of the Byzantine emperor Justin I (518-527) by the renowned Byzantinist A. A. Vasiliev, including: the sources, Justin's origins, his domestic rule, religious policy, external policy, Justin and the West, economic conditions under his rule, legislation, death and burial.
2nd edition. — University of Wisconsin Press, 1958. — 382 p. — ISBN10: 0299809250; ISBN13: 978-0299809256. “This is the revised English translation from the original work in Russian of the history of the Great Byzantine Empire. It is the most complete and thorough work on this subject. From it we get a wonderful panorama of the events and developments of the struggles of early...
Palgrave, 2005. — 817 p. — ISBN: 9781403917744 This book provides a complete chronology of the Byzantine Empire to the fall of Constantinople on May 28, 1453. The events listed are mainly political and military with some cultural history. Each year occupies around one page of the text.
Amsterdam: J.C. Gieben, 1989. — 296 p. L'auteur s'est proposé d'étudier plus à fond l'époque de la guerre civile à Byzance de 1341 à 1354, jusqu'à présent trop négligée par les byzantinistes. La haute aristocratie, se rebellant contre le gouvernement impérial, s'était alliée sans scrupules aux Turcs, persuadée que ceux-ci étaient moins dangereux pour elle que les masses...
Berkeley, Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1971. — xviii, 532 p.: 12 b/w ill., 3 maps. BY any measure, the cultural transformation of Hellenistic Asia Minor - which saw the Turkish language supplant the Greek, and most of the peninsula's Chalcedonian Christians comply with the maxim cuius regio eius religio* and become Muslims - was a process of enormous...
London: Variorum reprints, 1971. — 153 p. Contents Preface — Acknowledgements Internal history Hellas Resurgent Byzantium: The Social Basis of Decline in the Eleventh Century Byzantine ΔΗΜΟΚΡΑΤΙΑ and the Guilds in the Eleventh Century St. Ioannicius the Great (754-848) and the “Slavs” of Bithynia The Will of a Provincial Magnate, Eustathius Boilas (1059) The Question of the...
Delacorte Press, 2007. — 368 p. A gripping intellectual adventure story, Sailing from Byzantium sweeps you from the deserts of Arabia to the dark forests of northern Russia, from the colorful towns of Renaissance Italy to the final moments of a millennial city under siege. Byzantium: the successor of Greece and Rome, this magnificent empire bridged the ancient and modern worlds...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2016. — 276 p. In Battles and Generals: Combat, Culture, and Didacticism in Procopius’ Wars, Whately reads Procopius’ descriptions of combat through the lens of didacticism, arguing that one of Procopius’ intentions was to construct those accounts not only so that they might be entertaining to his audience, but also so that they might provide real...
Cambridge University Press, 2015. — 288 p. In this groundbreaking, interdisciplinary study, Andrew Walker White explores the origins of Byzantine ritual - the rites of the early Greek Orthodox Church - and its unique relationship with traditional theatre. Tracing the secularization of pagan theatre, the rise of rhetoric as an alternative to acting, as well as the transmission...
Cambridge University Press, 2013. — 255 p. The rulers of the Byzantine Empire and its commonwealth were protected both by their own soldiers and by a heavenly army: the military saints. The transformation of Saints George, Demetrios, Theodore and others into the patrons of imperial armies was one of the defining developments of religious life under the Macedonian emperors. This...
Macmillan Education, 1996. — 503 p. — (New Studies in Medieval History). Sources for Early Medieval Byzantium. The Strategic Geography of the Near East. The Roman World in 600. The Fall of the Old Order. How the Roman Empire Survived. The Shock of Defeat. The Byzantine Response: On to the Defensive. The Byzantine Empire and its Non-Muslim Neighbours, c.600–c.950. The Age of...
Routledge, 1998. — 296 p. The Rome that Did Not Fall provides a well-illustrated, comprehensive narrative and analysis of the Roman empire in the east, charting its remarkable growth and development which resulted in the distinct and enduring civilization of Byzantium. It considers: - the fourth century background - the invasions of Attila - the resources of the east - the...
Κάλλιπος, Ανοικτές Ακαδημαϊκές Εκδόσεις, 2015, σελ. 300. ISBN: 978-960-603-046-8. Στην παρούσα εργασία προσπαθούμε να εξετάσουμε, αναλύουμε και ερμηνεύσουμε με τα μεθοδολογικά εργαλεία της πολιτισμικής ιστορίας, της ανθρωπολογίας και της ιστορίας της τέχνης, με την επεξεργασία τριών παραδειγματικών περιπτώσεων στις οποίες αντιστοιχούν έντεκα κεφάλαια και για ένα χρονικό...
Κάλλιπος, Ανοικτές Ακαδημαϊκές Εκδόσεις, 2024, pp.228, ISBN: 978-618-228-208-3. Η άνοδος των Οθωμανών, από την εμφάνισή τους μέχρι το επίτευγμά τους να συγκροτήσουν μια αυτοκρατορία στα Βαλκάνια και στη Μικρά Ασία κατά τον 14ο αιώνα, συνιστά τη βασική παράμετρο της βυζαντινής ιστορίας κατά την ίδια περίοδο, αλλά και μέχρι το οριστικό τέλος της το 1453. Ιδίως από τα μέσα του...
Εθνικό Ίδρυμα Ερευνών (Ε.Ι.Ε.). Ινστιτούτο Βυζαντινών Ερευνών, 2008. — 236 σελ. Το έτος 1018 είναι ένα από τα ορόσημα στην ιστορία των Βαλκανίων, καθότι τότε το Βυζάντιο κατόρθωσε να υποτάξει τη Βουλγαρία, να αποκαταστήσει τον έλεγχό του στις χώρες νότια του Δούναβη και -σε συνδυασμό με άλλες επιτυχίες του στο ανατολικό μέτωπο- να φτάσει στο απόγειο της ισχύος του. Στον ένα και...
Athens: Goulandri-Horn Foundation, 1997. — 281 p. In the consciousness of the people of Byzantine society it had long been established that war was the dominant element of the political philosophy of their leaders. "War and kingdoms are the greatest of all human beings," says the great historian of the court of Justinian I prokopios in his War Prophecy. Numerous books and...
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