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This study investigates Byzantine imperial ideology, court rhetoric and political thought after the Latin conquest of Constantinople in 1204.
Author : Dimiter Angelov
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 23 pages
File Size : 10,62 MB
Release : 2007-02-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0521857031
This study investigates Byzantine imperial ideology, court rhetoric and political thought after the Latin conquest of Constantinople in 1204.
Author : Sir Ernest Barker
Publisher : Oxford : Clarendon Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,77 MB
Release : 1957
Category : Byzantine Empire
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Author : Francis Dvornik
Publisher :
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 25,22 MB
Release : 1966
Category : Byzantine Empire
ISBN :
Author : Grzegorz Leopold Seidler
Publisher :
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 19,97 MB
Release : 1961
Category : Byzantine Empire
ISBN :
Author : James Henderson Burns
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 820 pages
File Size : 24,91 MB
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521423885
This volume examines the history of a complex and varied body of ideas over a period of more than a thousand years.
Author : Paul Julius Alexander
Publisher : Variorum Publishing
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 38,82 MB
Release : 1978
Category : History
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Author : Anthony Kaldellis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1438 pages
File Size : 45,14 MB
Release : 2017-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 110821021X
This volume brings into being the field of Byzantine intellectual history. Shifting focus from the cultural, social, and economic study of Byzantium to the life and evolution of ideas in their context, it provides an authoritative history of intellectual endeavors from Late Antiquity to the fifteenth century. At its heart lie the transmission, transformation, and shifts of Hellenic, Christian, and Byzantine ideas and concepts as exemplified in diverse aspects of intellectual life, from philosophy, theology, and rhetoric to astrology, astronomy, and politics. Case studies introduce the major players in Byzantine intellectual life, and particular emphasis is placed on the reception of ancient thought and its significance for secular as well as religious modes of thinking and acting. New insights are offered regarding controversial, understudied, or promising topics of research, such as philosophy and medical thought in Byzantium, and intellectual exchanges with the Arab world.
Author : Ernest Barker
Publisher :
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 49,45 MB
Release : 1957
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Author : Ernest Barker (tr)
Publisher :
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 36,55 MB
Release : 1957
Category :
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Author : Anthony Kaldellis
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 25,85 MB
Release : 2015-02-02
Category : History
ISBN : 0674967402
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 centuries CE the Eastern Roman Empire was essentially a republic, with power exercised on behalf of the people and sometimes by them too. The Byzantine Republic recovers for the historical record a less autocratic, more populist Byzantium whose Greek-speaking citizens considered themselves as fully Roman as their Latin-speaking “ancestors.” Kaldellis shows that the idea of Byzantium as a rigid imperial theocracy is a misleading construct of Western historians since the Enlightenment. With court proclamations often draped in Christian rhetoric, the notion of divine kingship emerged as a way to disguise the inherent vulnerability of each regime. The legitimacy of the emperors was not predicated on an absolute right to the throne but on the popularity of individual emperors, whose grip on power was tenuous despite the stability of the imperial institution itself. Kaldellis examines the overlooked Byzantine concept of the polity, along with the complex relationship of emperors to the law and the ways they bolstered their popular acceptance and avoided challenges. The rebellions that periodically rocked the empire were not aberrations, he shows, but an essential part of the functioning of the republican monarchy.