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Volume 98 of the Hakluyt Society publications (1897) describes voyages to South Asia in the mid-sixth century C.E.
Author : Cosmas Indicopleustes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 35,80 MB
Release : 2010-06-24
Category : History
ISBN : 1108012957
Volume 98 of the Hakluyt Society publications (1897) describes voyages to South Asia in the mid-sixth century C.E.
Author : Maja Kominko
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 44,88 MB
Release : 2013-09-05
Category : Design
ISBN : 1107020883
New study of the Christian Topography, a sixth-century illustrated treatise, and its intellectual milieu.
Author : Cosmas (Indicopleustes)
Publisher :
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 30,57 MB
Release : 1897
Category : Geography, Medieval
ISBN :
Author : George Hatke
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 30,15 MB
Release : 2013-01-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 081476066X
Aksum and Nubia assembles and analyzes the textual and archaeological evidence of interaction between Nubia and the Ethiopian kingdom of Aksum, focusing primarily on the fourth century CE. Although ancient Nubia and Ethiopia have been the subject of a growing number of studies in recent years, little attention has been given to contact between these two regions. Hatke argues that ancient Northeast Africa cannot be treated as a unified area politically, economically, or culturally. Rather, Nubia and Ethiopia developed within very different regional spheres of interaction, as a result of which the Nubian kingdom of Kush came to focus its energies on the Nile Valley, relying on this as its main route of contact with the outside world, while Aksum was oriented towards the Red Sea and Arabia. In this way Aksum and Kush coexisted in peace for most of their history, and such contact as they maintained with each other was limited to small-scale commerce. Only in the fourth century CE did Aksum take up arms against Kush, and even then the conflict seems to have been related mainly to security issues on Aksum’s western frontier. Although Aksum never managed to hold onto Kush for long, much less dealt the final death-blow to the Nubian kingdom, as is often believed, claims to Kush continued to play a role in Aksumite royal ideology as late as the sixth century. Aksum and Nubia critically examines the extent to which relations between two ancient African states were influenced by warfare, commerce, and political fictions.
Author : Robert Louis Wilken
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 32,40 MB
Release : 2012-11-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0300118848
Describes the first 1,000 years of Christian history, from the early practices and beliefs through the conversion of Constantine as well as documenting its growth to communities in Ethiopia, Armenia, Central Asia, India and China.
Author :
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 912 pages
File Size : 49,12 MB
Release : 2017-11-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9004344926
This is the first modern language translation of the entire text of the tenth-century Greek Book of Ceremonies (De ceremoniis), a work compiled and edited by the Byzantine emperor Constantine VII (905-959). It preserves material from the fifth century through to the 960s. Chapters deal with diverse subjects of concern to the emperor including the role of the court, secular and ecclesiastical ceremonies, processions within the Palace and through Constantinople to its churches, the imperial tombs, embassies, banquets and dress, the role of the demes, hippodrome festivals with chariot races, imperial appointments, the hierarchy of the Byzantine administration, the equipping of expeditions, including to recover Crete from the Arabs, and the lists of ecclesiastical provinces and bishoprics.
Author : Emily Albu
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 12,17 MB
Release : 2014-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 1107059429
This book challenges the Peutinger Map's self-presentation as a Roman map by examining its medieval contexts.
Author : Charles Raymond Beazley
Publisher :
Page : 710 pages
File Size : 15,60 MB
Release : 1901
Category : Discoveries in geography
ISBN :
Author :
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 16,54 MB
Release : 2017-06-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9004346236
This volume offers an overview of Byzantine manuscript illustration, a central branch of Byzantine art and culture. Just like written texts, illustrations bear witness to Byzantine material culture, imperial ideology and religious beliefs, as well as to the development and spread of Byzantine art. In this sense illustrated books reflect the society that produced and used them. Being portable, they could serve as diplomatic gifts or could be acquired by foreigners. In such cases they became “emissaries” of Byzantine art and culture in Western Europe and the Arabic world. The volume provides for the first time a comprehensive overview of the material, divided by text categories, including both secular and religious manuscripts, and analyses which texts were illustrated in Byzantium, and how. Contributors are Justine M. Andrews, Leslie Brubaker, Annemarie W. Carr, Elina Dobrynina, Maria Evangelatou, Maria Laura Tomea Gavazzoli, Markos Giannoulis, Cecily Hennessy, Ioli Kalavrezou, Maja Kominko, Sofia Kotzabassi, Stavros Lazaris, Kallirroe Linardou, Vasileios Marinis, Kathleen Maxwell, Georgi R. Parpulov, Nancy P. Ševčenko, Jean-Michel Spieser, Mika Takiguchi, Courtney Tomaselli, Marina Toumpouri, Nicolette S. Trahoulia, Vasiliki Tsamakda, and Elisabeth Yota.
Author : Cosmas (Indicopleustes)
Publisher :
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 35,94 MB
Release : 1909
Category : Classical geography
ISBN :