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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 : 30,6 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 : Cosmas (Indicopleustes)
Publisher :
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 31,72 MB
Release : 1897
Category : Geography, Medieval
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Author : Maja Kominko
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 13,1 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 : 422 pages
File Size : 46,28 MB
Release : 1909
Category : Classical geography
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Author : George Hatke
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 40,13 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 : E. O. WINSTEDT
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 13,25 MB
Release : 2018
Category :
ISBN : 9781033662038
Author : Edna Kenton
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 27,30 MB
Release : 2018-05-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1387785990
THIS BOOK OF EARTHS began years ago, as a collection--maps of the Earth, the Moon, the heavens. For it occurred to me, not long ago, that it would be "fun" to put them all together, and many others with them, chosen to fill in the gaps of the original group. Luckily for the fun of it, the search about to begin would not be limited to what we know about the Earth, else it would have ended before it began; for we live in a universe of which we know little, and on a planet of which we know perhaps less. It would include not only what we know, or think to-day we know, but also anything that has been believed or felt or no more than "guessed" to be the picture of the Earth and its place in the universe.
Author :
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 912 pages
File Size : 12,46 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 : Cosmas (Indicopleustes)
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 26,79 MB
Release : 1909
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Author : Robert Louis Wilken
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 31,24 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.