Byzantinum In The Year 1000

Author : Paul Magdalino
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004120976

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Byzantinum in the Year 1000 by Paul Magdalino Pdf

One thousand years ago, the Byzantine Empire was reaching the height of its revival as a medieval state. The ten contributions to this volume by scholars from six European countries re-assess key aspects of the empire's politics and culture in the long reign of the emperor Basil II, whose name has come to symbolise the greatness of Byzantium in the age before the crusades. The first five chapters deal with international diplomacy, the emperor's power, and government in Asia Minor and the frontier provinces of the Balkans and southern Italy. The second half of the volume covers aspects of law, history-writing, poetry and hagiography, and concludes with a discussion of Byzantine attitudes to the Millennium.

Author : Przemysław Urbańczyk
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Civilization, Medieval
ISBN : UOM:39015051807546

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Europe Around the Year 1000 by Przemysław Urbańczyk Pdf

Author : Valerie Hansen
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501194115

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The Year 1000 by Valerie Hansen Pdf

The World in the Year 1000 -- Go West, Young Viking -- The Pan-American Highways of 1000 -- European Slaves -- The World's Richest Man -- Central Asia Splits in Two -- Surprising Journeys -- The Most Globalized Place on Earth.

Author : Monique Vescia
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781499463378

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The Rise and Fall of the Byzantine Empire by Monique Vescia Pdf

Growing on the heels of the collapse of the Roman Empire, the Byzantine Empire was in some ways a continuation of its predecessor, extending its history for another 1,000 years. With a new capital at Constantinople, however, it also had a distinctly Eastern character of its own. Readers are transported to Byzantium in this absorbing volume, which recounts the history of this brilliant and articulate civilization as well as the many cultural and architectural achievements it spawned before falling to the Ottomans in 1453. Seminal events are covered in depth in the text and also highlighted in a timeline.

Author : John Man
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 0674541871

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Atlas of the Year 1000 by John Man Pdf

Shows empires, trade routes, military activity, etc. on all continents ca. 900-1100.

Author : John Julius Norwich
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1998-10-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780141928593

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A Short History of Byzantium by John Julius Norwich Pdf

With wit, intelligence and his trademark eye for riveting detail, John Julius Norwich has brought together the most important and fascinating events from his trilogy of the rise and fall of the Byzantine empire.

Author : Philip Sherrard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Byzantine Empire
ISBN : OCLC:1028863505

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Byzantium by Philip Sherrard Pdf

Introduction to the political and cultural history of the Byzantine Empire, which combined Greek, Roman, Christian, and Oriental elements and lasted for over 1000 years.

Author : Marc D. Lauxtermann,Mark Whittow
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351803960

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Byzantium in the Eleventh Century by Marc D. Lauxtermann,Mark Whittow Pdf

The eleventh century in Byzantium is all about being in between, whether this is between Basil II and Alexios Komnenos, between the forces of the Normans, the Pechenegs and the Turks, or between different social groupings, cultural identities and religious persuasions. It is a period of fundamental changes and transformations, both internal and external, but also a period rife with clichés and dominated by the towering presence of Michael Psellos whose usually self-contradictory accounts continue to loom large in the field of Byzantine studies. The essays collected here, which were delivered at the 45th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, explore new avenues of research and offer new perspectives on this transitional period. The book is divided into four thematic clusters: 'The age of Psellos' studies this crucial figure and seeks to situate him in his time; 'Social structures' is concerned with the ways in which the deep structures of Byzantine society and economy responded to change; 'State and Church' offers a set of studies of various political developments in eleventh-century Byzantium; and 'The age of spirituality' offers the voices of those for whom Psellos had little time and little use: monks, religious thinkers and pious laymen.

Author : Jonathan Harris
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781474254670

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Constantinople by Jonathan Harris Pdf

Jonathan Harris' new edition of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, Constantinople, provides an updated and extended introduction to the history of Byzantium and its capital city. Accessible and engaging, the book breaks new ground by exploring Constantinople's mystical dimensions and examining the relationship between the spiritual and political in the city. This second edition includes a range of new material, such as: * Historiographical updates reflecting recently published work in the field * Detailed coverage of archaeological developments relating to Byzantine Constantinople * Extra chapters on the 14th century and social 'outsiders' in the city * More on the city as a centre of learning; the development of Galata/Pera; charitable hospitals; religious processions and festivals; the lives of ordinary people; and the Crusades * Source translation textboxes, new maps and images, a timeline and a list of emperors It is an important volume for anyone wanting to know more about the history of the Byzantine Empire.

Author : Claudia Rapp,Matthew Kinloch,Dirk Krausmüller,Ekaterini Mitsiou,Ilias Nesseris,Christodoulos Papavarnavas,Johannes Preiser-Kapeller,Giulia Rossetto,Rustam Shukurov,Grigori Simeonov
Publisher : V&R unipress
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9783737013413

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Mobility and Migration in Byzantium: A Sourcebook by Claudia Rapp,Matthew Kinloch,Dirk Krausmüller,Ekaterini Mitsiou,Ilias Nesseris,Christodoulos Papavarnavas,Johannes Preiser-Kapeller,Giulia Rossetto,Rustam Shukurov,Grigori Simeonov Pdf

Mobility and migration were not uncommon in Byzantium, as is true for all societies. Yet, scholarship is only beginning to pay attention to these phenomena. This book presents in English translation a wide array of relevant source texts from ca. 650 to ca. 1450 originally written in medieval Greek: from administrative records, saints’ lives and letters by churchmen to ego-documents by ambassadors and historical narratives by court historians. Each source text is accompanied by a detailed introduction, commentary and further bibliography, thus making the book accessible to both scholars and students and laying the groundwork for future research on the internal dynamics of Byzantine society.

Author : George T. Calofonos
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317148159

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Dreaming in Byzantium and Beyond by George T. Calofonos Pdf

Although the actual dreaming experience of the Byzantines lies beyond our reach, the remarkable number of dream narratives in the surviving sources of the period attests to the cardinal function of dreams as vehicles of meaning, and thus affords modern scholars access to the wider cultural fabric of symbolic representations of the Byzantine world. Whether recounting real or invented dreams, the narratives serve various purposes, such as political and religious agendas, personal aspirations or simply an author’s display of literary skill. It is only in recent years that Byzantine dreaming has attracted scholarly attention, and important publications have suggested the way in which Byzantines reshaped ancient interpretative models and applied new perceptions to the functions of dreams. This book - the first collection of studies on Byzantine dreams to be published - aims to demonstrate further the importance of closely examining dreams in Byzantium in their wider historical and cultural, as well as narrative, context. Linked by this common thread, the essays offer insights into the function of dreams in hagiography, historiography, rhetoric, epistolography, and romance. They explore gender and erotic aspects of dreams; they examine cross-cultural facets of dreaming, provide new readings, and contextualize specific cases; they also look at the Greco-Roman background and Islamic influences of Byzantine dreams and their Christianization. The volume provides a broad variety of perspectives, including those of psychoanalysis and anthropology.

Author : Paul Magdalino,Maria V. Mavroudi
Publisher : La Pomme d'or
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 9789548446020

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The Occult Sciences in Byzantium by Paul Magdalino,Maria V. Mavroudi Pdf

This volume represents the first attempt to examine occult sciences as a distinct category of Byzantine intellectual culture. It is concerned with both the reality and the image of the occult sciences in Byzantium, and seeks, above all, to represent them in their social and cultural context as a historical phenomenon. The eleven essays demonstrate that Byzantium was not marginal to the scientific culture of the Middle Ages, and that the occult sciences were not marginal to the learned culture of the medieval Byzantine world.

Author : Archibald Ross Lewis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Europe
ISBN : UOM:39015003541284

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Emerging Medieval Europe, A.D. 400-1000 by Archibald Ross Lewis Pdf

Author : Leo (Diaconus)
Publisher : Dumbarton Oaks
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0884023249

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The History of Leo the Deacon by Leo (Diaconus) Pdf

The History tells how they expanded the frontiers of the empire and brought back captured relics, booty, and prisoners of war to parade in triumph through the streets of Constantinople. Leo accompanied at least one expedition, and drew on his firsthand experience to provide vivid descriptions of sieges, pitched battles, ambushes, and single combat. His account of the conspiracy against Nikephoros II Phokas, murdered as he slept on the floor in front of his icons, is one of the most dramatic in Byzantine narrative histories."--page 4 of cover.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 603 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004258150

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Court Ceremonies and Rituals of Power in Byzantium and the Medieval Mediterranean by Anonim Pdf

Publicly performed rituals and ceremonies form an essential part of medieval political practice and court culture. This applies not only to western feudal societies, but also to the linguistically and culturally highly diversified environment of Byzantium and the Mediterranean basin. The continuity of Roman traditions and cross-fertilization between various influences originating from Constantinople, Armenia, the Arab-Muslim World, and western kingdoms and naval powers provide the framework for a distinct sphere of ritual expression and ceremonial performance. This collective volume, placing Byzantium into a comparative perspective between East and West, examines transformative processes from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages, succession procedures in different political contexts, phenomena of cross-cultural appropriation and exchange, and the representation of rituals in art and literature. Contributors are Maria Kantirea, Martin Hinterberger, Walter Pohl, Andrew Marsham, Björn Weiler, Eric J. Hanne, Antonia Giannouli, Jo Van Steenbergen, Stefan Burkhardt, Ioanna Rapti, Jonathan Shepard, Panagiotis Agapitos, Henry Maguire, Christine Angelidi and Margaret Mullett.