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Author : Sarah Bassett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108498180
The collected essays explore late antique and Byzantine Constantinople in matters sacred, political, cultural, and commercial.
Author : Noel Emmanuel Lenski
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Art
ISBN : 0521521572
The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Constantine offers students a comprehensive one-volume survey of this pivotal emperor and his times. Richly illustrated and designed as a readable survey accessible to all audiences, it also achieves a level of scholarly sophistication and a freshness of interpretation that will be welcomed by the experts. The volume is divided into five sections that examine political history, religion, social and economic history, art, and foreign relations during the reign of Constantine, who steered the Roman Empire on a course parallel with his own personal development.
Author : Michael Maas
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2005-04-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139826877
This book introduces the Age of Justinian, the last Roman century and the first flowering of Byzantine culture. Dominated by the policies and personality of emperor Justinian I (527–565), this period of grand achievements and far-reaching failures witnessed the transformation of the Mediterranean world. In this volume, twenty specialists explore the most important aspects of the age including the mechanics and theory of empire, warfare, urbanism, and economy. It also discusses the impact of the great plague, the codification of Roman law, and the many religious upheavals taking place at the time. Consideration is given to imperial relations with the papacy, northern barbarians, the Persians, and other eastern peoples, shedding new light on a dramatic and highly significant historical period.
Author : Michael Maas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 650 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Byzantine Empire
ISBN : 1139816853
This book introduces the Age of Justinian, the last Roman century and the first flowering of Byzantine culture. Dominated by the policies and personality of emperor Justinian I (527-565), this period of grand achievements and far-reaching failures witnessed the transformation of the Mediterranean world. In this volume, twenty specialists explore the most important aspects of the age including the mechanics and theory of empire, warfare, urbanism, and economy. It also discusses the impact of the great plague, the codification of Roman law, and the many religious upheavals taking place at the time. Consideration is given to imperial relations with the papacy, northern barbarians, the Persians, and other eastern peoples, shedding new light on a dramatic and highly significant historical period.
Author : Michael Maas
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107021754
This book considers the great cultural and geopolitical changes in western Eurasia in the fifth century CE. It focuses on the Roman Empire, but it also examines the changes taking place in northern Europe, in Iran under the Sasanian Empire, and on the great Eurasian steppe. Attila is presented as a contributor to and a symbol of these transformations.
Author : Sitta von Reden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 509 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108278508
This is the most comprehensive introduction to the ancient Greek economy available in English. A team of specialists provides in non-technical language cutting edge accounts of a wide range of key themes in economic history, explaining how ancient Greek economies functioned and changed, and why they were stable and successful over long periods of time. Through its wide geographical perspective, reaching from the Aegean and the Black Sea to the Near East and Egypt under Greek rule, it reflects on how economic behaviour and institutions were formed and transformed under different political, ecological and social circumstances, and how they interacted and communicated over large distances. With chapters on climate and the environment, market development, inequality and growth, it encourages comparison with other periods of time and cultures, thus being of interest not just to ancient historians but also to readers concerned with economic cultures and global economic issues.
Author : Karen O'Brien,Brian Young
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107035119
Provides an accessible overview of the achievement of Edward Gibbon (1737-94), one of the world's greatest historians.
Author : Noel Emmanuel Lenski
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107013407
This volume presents a comprehensive survey of Emperor Constantine and his times. It examines political history, religion, social and economic history, art, and foreign relations as well as the intimate interplay between emperor and empire.
Author : Colin McAllister
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-26
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 9781108422703
Apocalytic literature has addressed human concerns for over two millennia. This volume surveys the source texts, their reception, and relevance.
Author : Neil Churchill
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2024-01-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781003835585
Throughout the history of Byzantium 65 emperors were dethroned and only 39 reigns ended peacefully. How might a usurper get away with murdering his predecessor? And how could a bloody act of regicide lead to one of the most glorious of all eras in Byzantium? These were questions that puzzled Michael Psellos as he looked back at Basil I’s assassination of Michael III and the origin of the Macedonian dynasty. Might the imperial art of Basil, his sons and grandson help to explain how the dynasty overcame its violent beginnings and secured the loyalty of its subjects? It has long been recognised that the early Macedonian emperors were active propagandists but royal art has usually been viewed thematically over the span of centuries. Official iconography has been understood to project imperial power in ways which were impersonal and unchanging. This book instead adopts a chronological approach and considers how Basil justified his seizure of power, and how his successors went on to articulate their own ideas about authority. It concludes that imperial art did at times reflect the personality of the emperor and the political demands of the moment, such as the need for an heir, the nature of court politics or the choice of successor. This innovative account of the forging of the Macedonian dynasty will appeal to those interested in how early medieval kings and emperors used art to create their own image, to differentiate themselves from rivals and to extend the boundaries of their personal power.
Author : Mary B. Cunningham,Elizabeth Theokritoff
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2008-12-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780521864848
This Companion focuses on the way Orthodox theological tradition is understood and lived today.
Author : Anthony Bale
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2024-04-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781324064589
A captivating journey of the expansive world of medieval travel, from London to Constantinople to the court of China and beyond. Europeans of the Middle Ages were the first to use travel guides to orient their wanderings, as they moved through a world punctuated with miraculous wonders and beguiling encounters. In this vivid and alluring history, medievalist Anthony Bale invites readers on an odyssey across the medieval world, recounting the advice that circulated among those venturing to the road for pilgrimage, trade, diplomacy, and war. Journeying alongside scholars, spies, and saints, from Western Europe to the Far East, the Antipodes and the ends of the earth, Bale provides indispensable information on the exchange rate between Bohemian ducats and Venetian groats, medieval cures for seasickness, and how to avoid extortionist tour guides and singing sirens. He takes us from the streets of Rome, more ruin than tourist spot, and tours of the Khan’s court in Beijing to Mamluk-controlled Jerusalem, where we ride asses across the holy terrain, and bustling bazaars of Tabriz. We also learn of rumored fantastical places, like ones where lambs grow on trees and giant canes grow fruit made of gems. And we are offered a glimpse of what non-European travelers thought of the West on their own travels. Using previously untranslated contemporaneous documents from a colorful range of travelers, and from as far and wide as Turkey, Iceland, North Africa, and Russia, A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages is a witty and unforgettable exploration of how Europeans understood—and often misunderstood—the larger world.
Author : Young Richard Kim
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-07
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 9781108427746
Demonstrate the profound legacy of The Council of Nicaea with fresh, sometimes provocative, but always intellectually rich ideas.
Author : Philip McCosker,Denys Turner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780521879637
Featuring essays from both specialists in Aquinas' thought and constructive contemporary theologians, this Companion provides an accessible, comprehensive guide to his main mature theological work, the Summa Theologiae. The authors demonstrate how to read the text effectively and how to relate it to past and current theological issues.
Author : Jonathan Harris
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781474254670
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.