Book Description
A volume of cutting-edge essays written in honour of renowned Byzantinist Sir Steven Runciman.
Author : Elizabeth Jeffreys
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 18,53 MB
Release : 2006-10-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 0521834457
A volume of cutting-edge essays written in honour of renowned Byzantinist Sir Steven Runciman.
Author : Steven Runciman
Publisher : Penguin Group USA
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 33,50 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780140137545
Author : Lars Brownworth
Publisher : Crown
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 44,28 MB
Release : 2010-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0307407969
Filled with unforgettable stories of emperors, generals, and religious patriarchs, as well as fascinating glimpses into the life of the ordinary citizen, Lost to the West reveals how much we owe to the Byzantine Empire that was the equal of any in its achievements, appetites, and enduring legacy. For more than a millennium, Byzantium reigned as the glittering seat of Christian civilization. When Europe fell into the Dark Ages, Byzantium held fast against Muslim expansion, keeping Christianity alive. Streams of wealth flowed into Constantinople, making possible unprecedented wonders of art and architecture. And the emperors who ruled Byzantium enacted a saga of political intrigue and conquest as astonishing as anything in recorded history. Lost to the West is replete with stories of assassination, mass mutilation and execution, sexual scheming, ruthless grasping for power, and clashing armies that soaked battlefields with the blood of slain warriors numbering in the tens of thousands.
Author : Deno John Geanakoplos
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 41,55 MB
Release : 1984
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226284613
Deno John Geanakoplos here offers a prodigious collection of source materials on the Byzantine church, society, and civilization (many translated for the first time into English), arranged chronologically and topically, and knit together with an analytical historical commentary. His selections from Byzantine writers as well as from more obscure documents and chronicles in Latin, Arabic, Slavic, Italian, Armenian, and French reflect all the diversity of Byzantine life--the military tactics of the long-invincible cataphract cavalry and the warships armed with Greek fire, the mysticism of Hesychast monks, the duties of imperial officers, the activities of daily life from the Hippodrome and Hagia Sophia to the marketplaces, baths, and brothels. Geanakoplos not only covers the traditional areas of political, ecclesiastical, socioeconomic, administrative, and military life, but also provides a vivid picture of Byzantine culture--education, philosophy, literature, theology, medicine, and science. Of particular interest are the insights into the empire's relations with the Latin West, the Slavs, the Arabs, the Turks, and other neighboring peoples. Byzantium is much more than a sourcebook. The running commentary reflects the most recent scholarly research in Byzantine studies and places each translated source in its precise historical context. Through the use of both primary sources and commentary, Geanakoplos has represented in all its richness and complexity one of the world's great civilizations. There is no comparable book on Byzantine history and civilization in any language.
Author : Lynda Garland
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 10,5 MB
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 9780754657378
This volume brings together a group of international scholars in new explorations of the world of Byzantine women in the period 800-1200. The specific aim of this collection is to investigate the participation of women - non-imperial women in particular - in supposedly 'masculine' fields of operation. Contributions focus on women's participation in the street life of Constantinople, their appearance in Byzantine fiscal documents, their monastic foundations, their costume and engagement with entertainment at the imperial court, and the way heroines are portrayed in the Byzantine novels.
Author : Steven Runciman
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 10,60 MB
Release : 1990
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Author : Georgije Ostrogorski
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 49,53 MB
Release : 1969
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813511986
Succinctly traces the Byzantine Empire's thousand-year course with emphasis on political development and social, aesthetic, economic and ecclesiastical factors
Author : Cyril A. Mango
Publisher :
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 22,28 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Byzantine Empire
ISBN : 9781898800446
Author : David Talbot Rice
Publisher : London : Thames and Hudson
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 31,42 MB
Release : 1963
Category : Art
ISBN :
"Useful ... convenient ... authoritative."--The Times Educational Supplement
Author : Colin Wells
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 22,24 MB
Release : 2008-12-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0553901710
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 for more than a thousand years. Without Byzantium, the works of Homer and Herodotus, Plato and Aristotle, Sophocles and Aeschylus, would never have survived. Yet very few of us have any idea of the enormous debt we owe them. The story of Byzantium is a real-life adventure of electrifying ideas, high drama, colorful characters, and inspiring feats of daring. In Sailing from Byzantium, Colin Wells tells of the missionaries, mystics, philosophers, and artists who against great odds and often at peril of their own lives spread Greek ideas to the Italians, the Arabs, and the Slavs. Their heroic efforts inspired the Renaissance, the golden age of Islamic learning, and Russian Orthodox Christianity, which came complete with a new alphabet, architecture, and one of the world’s greatest artistic traditions. The story’s central reference point is an arcane squabble called the Hesychast controversy that pitted humanist scholars led by the brilliant, acerbic intellectual Barlaam against the powerful monks of Mount Athos led by the stern Gregory Palamas, who denounced “pagan” rationalism in favor of Christian mysticism. Within a few decades, the light of Byzantium would be extinguished forever by the invading Turks, but not before the humanists found a safe haven for Greek literature. The controversy of rationalism versus faith would continue to be argued by some of history’s greatest minds. Fast-paced, compulsively readable, and filled with fascinating insights, Sailing from Byzantium is one of the great historical dramas–the gripping story of how the flame of civilization was saved and passed on.