Author : Emily Albu Hanawalt
Publisher : Holy Cross Orthodox Press
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 30,32 MB
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN :
A presentation of translated Greek sources in English.
Author : Timothy E. Gregory
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 49,82 MB
Release : 2011-08-26
Category : History
ISBN : 1444359975
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 photographs, and a newly annotated, updated bibliography Incorporates a new section on web resources for Byzantium studies Demonstrates that Byzantium was important in its own right but also served as a bridge between East and West and ancient and modern society Situates Byzantium in its broader historical context with a new comparative timeline and textboxes
Author : Paul Halsall
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 26,35 MB
Release : 1999
Category :
ISBN :
This is a preliminary bibliography of Byzantine sources and editions. The goal is to list available translations of Byzantine sources in western European languages. It is present in one very large file so that it can be easily searched and printed out.
Author : John H. Rosser
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 1072 pages
File Size : 34,41 MB
Release : 2001-04-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0810866218
The Byzantine Empire is often overlooked by Western scholars as an offshoot of Greco-Roman tradition, an Eastern empire of little significance to Western European tradition. Find out more about the Byzantine Empire-its beginnings, development, and fall are all summarized here in this comprehensive resource.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 15,80 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Byzantine Empire
ISBN :
Author : J. Ball
Publisher : Springer
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 22,72 MB
Release : 2016-09-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1137057793
In Byzantium there were two overlapping systems of dress: a semiotic one whereby dress was a code for rank and wealth, and a fashion system where dress was based on the desire to look a certain way. This book explains secular dress from the eighth to the twelfth centuries through an examination of painted representations.
Author : Alice-Mary Maffry Talbot
Publisher : Dumbarton Oaks
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 46,62 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780884022480
These ten holy women, whose vitae range from the tenth to the thirteenth centuries, represent a wide variety of Byzantine female saints. From nuns disguised as monks to desert harlots, these holy women exemplify some of the divergent paths to sanctification in Byzantium. These vitae are also notable for their details of Byzantine life, providing information on family life and household management, monastic routines, and even a smallpox epidemic. Life of St. Mary/Marinos Life of St. Matrona of Perge Life of St. Mary of Egypt Life of St. Theoktiste of Lesbos Life of St. Elisabeth the Wonderworker Life of St. Athanasia of Aegina Life of St. Theodora of Thessalonike Life of St. Mary the Younger Life of St. Thoma s of Lesbos Life of St. Theodora of Arta
Author : Amelia Robertson Brown
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 24,30 MB
Release : 2017-07-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9004349073
This collection on Byzantine culture in translation, edited by Amelia Brown and Bronwen Neil, examines the practices and theories of translation inside the Byzantine empire and beyond its horizons to the east, north and west. The time span is from Late Antiquity to the present day. Translations studied include hagiography, history, philosophy, poetry, architecture and science, between Greek, Latin, Arabic and other languages. These chapters build upon presentations given at the 18th Biennial Conference of the Australian Association for Byzantine Studies, convened by the editors at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia on 28-30 November 2014. Contributors include: Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides, Amelia Brown, Penelope Buckley, John Burke, Michael Champion, John Duffy, Yvette Hunt, Maria Mavroudi, Ann Moffatt, Bronwen Neil, Roger Scott, Michael Edward Stewart, Rene Van Meeuwen, Alfred Vincent, and Nigel Westbrook.
Author : Denys Hay
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 19,6 MB
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1317871901
The second edition of this highly successful textbook analyses the structure of later medieval society in Europe, identifies its main groups and their political programmes, and examines their impact on the political, economic and social history of the major European states. There are many additions and expansions in this new edition, and the important chapter on the Central Monarchies (of Poland, Hungary, Bohemia, Rumania and Lithuania) has been newly contributed by Professor J M Bak of the University of British Columbia.
Author : Ihor Ševčenko
Publisher : Holy Cross Orthodox Press
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 12,90 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
One of the Nicholas E Kulukundis Lectures in the History of Hellenism by a noted Byzantinist.
