Roman Constantinople In Byzantine Perspective

Author : Paul Magdalino
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004700765

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Roman Constantinople in Byzantine Perspective by Paul Magdalino Pdf

This book studies the research perspective in which the literary inhabitants of Late Antique and medieval Constantinople remembered its past and conceptualised its existence as a Greek city that was the political capital of a Christian Roman state. Initial reactions to Constantine’s foundation noted its novel Christian orientation, but the memorial mode of writing about the city that developed from the sixth century recollected the traditional civic cultural heritage that Constantinople claimed both as the New Rome, and as the continuation of ancient Byzantion. This research culture increasingly became the preserve of the imperial bureaucracy, and focused on the city’s sculptured monuments as bearers of eschatological meaning. Yet from the tenth century, writers progressively preferred to define the wonder and spectacle of Constantinople in the aesthetic mode of urban praise inherited from late antiquity, developing the notion of the city as a cosmic theatre of excellence.

Author : Robert Byron
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136462290

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The Byzantine Achievement (Routledge Revivals) by Robert Byron Pdf

First published in 1929, this highly influential study offers a historical perspective on the Byzantine Empire, from the establishment of Constantinople by Emperor Constantine around 330 AD, through to the fall of Constantinople at the hands of the Ottoman Empire in 1453 AD. Byron’s work considers the empire in its entirety, assessing the highs and lows across a thousand year period. He provides insights into trade, culture, the organs of state, religion, the imperial rulers, and the battle with the Ottoman Empire, which would ultimately end in the fall of the Byzantine Empire and the end of the final remnants of the Roman Empire.

Author : Robert Byron
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-20
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:8596547727927

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The Byzantine Achievement by Robert Byron Pdf

This work presents a comprehensive history of the Byzantine Empire, from the establishment of Constantinople by Emperor Constantine around 330 AD to the decline of Constantinople at the hands of the Ottoman Empire in 1453 AD. Byron evaluates the highs and lows of the empire over thousands of years. Moreover, he provides insights into trade, culture, religion, the imperial rulers, and the battle with the Ottoman Empire that ultimately ended in the downfall of the Byzantine Empire and the end of the final remains of the Roman Empire.

Author : Robert Byron
Publisher : Routledge & Kegan Paul Books
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038486580

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The Byzantine Achievement by Robert Byron Pdf

Author : Monique Vescia
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 41,9 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 : Angeliki E. Laiou,Roy P. Mottahedeh
Publisher : Dumbarton Oaks
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0884022773

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The Crusades from the Perspective of Byzantium and the Muslim World by Angeliki E. Laiou,Roy P. Mottahedeh Pdf

The essays in this volume demonstrate that on the eastern shores of the Mediterranean there were rich, variegated, and important phenomena associated with the Crusades, and that a full understanding of the significance of the movement and its impact on both the East and West must take these phenomena into account.

Author : Martin Hurbanič
Publisher : Springer
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030166847

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The Avar Siege of Constantinople in 626 by Martin Hurbanič Pdf

This book examines the Avar siege of Constantinople in 626, one of the most significant events of the seventh century, and the impact and repercussions this had on the political, military, economic and religious structures of the Byzantine Empire. The siege put an end to the power politics and hegemony of the Avars in South East Europe and was the first attempt to destroy Constantinople, the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire. Besides the far-reaching military factors, the siege had deeper ideological effects on the mentality of the inhabitants of the Empire, and it helped establish Constantinople as the spiritual centre of eastern Christianity protected by God and his Mother. Martin Hurbanič discusses, from a chronological and thematic perspective, the process through which the historical siege was transformed into a timeless myth, and examines the various aspects which make the event a unique historical moment in the history of mankind – a moment in which the modern story overlaps with the legend with far-reaching effects, not only in the Byzantine Empire but also in other European countries.

Author : Samuel Lieu,Dominic Montserrat
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2002-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134871193

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From Constantine to Julian: Pagan and Byzantine Views by Samuel Lieu,Dominic Montserrat Pdf

Provides students with important source material covering an age of major transition in Europe - the establishment of Rome as a Christian empire. Most of the material was previously unavailable in English.

Author : Lucy Grig,Gavin Kelly
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199739400

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Two Romes by Lucy Grig,Gavin Kelly Pdf

An integrated collection of essays by leading scholars, Two Romes explores the changing roles and perceptions of Rome and Constantinople in Late Antiquity. This important examination of the 'two Romes' in comparative perspective illuminates our understanding not just of both cities but of the whole late Roman world.

Author : Ana de Francisco Heredero,Susana Torres Prieto
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781443869478

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New Perspectives on Late Antiquity in the Eastern Roman Empire by Ana de Francisco Heredero,Susana Torres Prieto Pdf

The present volume presents some of the latest research trends in the study of Late Antiquity in the Eastern Roman Empire from a multi-disciplinary perspective, encompassing not only social, economic and political history, but also philology, philosophy and legal history. The volume focuses on the interaction between the periphery and the core of the Eastern Empire, and the relations between Eastern Romans and Barbarians in various geographic areas, during the approximate millennium that elapsed between the Fall of Rome and the Fall of Constantinople, paying special attention to the earliest period. By introducing the reader to some innovative and ground-breaking recent theories, the contributors to the present volume, an attractive combination of leading scholars in their respective fields and promising young researchers, offer a fresh and thought-provoking examination of Byzantium during Late Antiquity and beyond.

Author : Cyril Mango,Gilbert Dagron
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351949422

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Constantinople and its Hinterland by Cyril Mango,Gilbert Dagron Pdf

From its foundation, the city of Constantinople dominated the Byzantine world. It was the seat of the emperor, the centre of government and church, the focus of commerce and culture, by far the greatest urban centre; its needs in terms of supplies and defense imposed their own logic on the development of the empire. Byzantine Constantinople has traditionally been treated in terms of the walled city and its immediate suburbs. In this volume, containing 25 papers delivered at the 27th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies held at Oxford in 1993, the perspective has been enlarged to encompass a wider geographical setting, that of the city’s European and Asiatic hinterland. Within this framework a variety of interconnected topics have been addressed, ranging from the bare necessities of life and defence to manufacture and export, communications between the capital and its hinterland, culture and artistic manifestations and the role of the sacred.

Author : Jennifer Fretland VanVoorst
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780756545659

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The Byzantine Empire by Jennifer Fretland VanVoorst Pdf

Discusses the rise and fall of the Byzantine Empire, which preserved and protected Europe's intellectual heritage when Europe was passing through a dark age.

Author : Michael Angold
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317880523

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The Fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans by Michael Angold Pdf

The fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans in 1453 marked the end of a thousand years of the Christian Roman Empire. Thereafter, world civilisation began a process of radical change. The West came to identify itself as Europe; the Russians were set on the path of autocracy; the Ottomans were transformed into a world power while the Greeks were left exiles in their own land. The loss of Constantinople created a void. How that void was to be filled is the subject of this book. Michael Angold examines the context of late Byzantine civilisation and the cultural negotiation which allowed the city of Constantinople to survive for so long in the face of Ottoman power. He shows how the devastating impact of its fall lay at the centre of a series of interlocking historical patterns which marked this time of decisive change for the late medieval world. This concise and original study will be essential reading for students and scholars of Byzantine and late medieval history, as well as anyone with an interest in this significant turning point in world history.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9185333980

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Constantinople as Center and Crossroad by Anonim Pdf

Author : Charles Oman
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9788026881490

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The History of Byzantine Empire by Charles Oman Pdf

This edition covers the history of the Eastern Roman Empire from late antiquity until the Fall of Constantinople in 1453 AD. The author gives the complete insight into the fascinating empire which was characterized by Roman state traditions, Greek culture and language; and Orthodox Christianity. Among the greatest accomplishments of the Empire, the author emphasizes its contribution to the formation of the medieval Europe, its major role in shaping Orthodoxy and transmission of classical knowledge. Contents: Byzantium The Foundation of Constantinople The Fight With the Goths The Departure of the Germans The Reorganization of the Eastern Empire Justinian Justinian's Foreign Conquests The End of Justinian's Reign The Coming of the Slavs The Darkest Hour Social and Religious Life The Coming of the Saracens The First Anarchy The Saracens Turned Back The Iconoclasts The End of the Iconoclasts The Literary Emperors and Their Time Military Glory The End of the Macedonian Dynasty Manzikert The Comneni and the Crusades The Latin Conquest of Constantinople The Latin Empire and the Empire of Nicaea Decline and Decay The Turks in Europe. The End of a Long Tale Table of Emperors