The History Of Theophylact Simocatta

Author : Theophylactus Simocatta,Michael Whitby,Mary Whitby
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015010378084

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The History of Theophylact Simocatta by Theophylactus Simocatta,Michael Whitby,Mary Whitby Pdf

This is the first translation into English of the History of Theophylact Simocatta, the last major historian of classical antiquity. By far the most important source for the history of the late sixth century A.D., the History has never before been fully evaluated due to Theophylact's obscure and idiosyncratic style. The narrative concentrates on the acts of war that threatened the stability of the reign of Emperor Maurice (A.D. 582-602)--the Persian War and struggles with the Avar federation and the Slav tribes in the Balkans.

Author : Teofilacto Simocates
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1123776014

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The History of Theophylact Simocatta by Teofilacto Simocates Pdf

Author : Theophylactus Simocatta
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Byzantine Empire
ISBN : OCLC:1113175970

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The History of Theophylact Simocatta by Theophylactus Simocatta Pdf

Author : Theophylactus Simocatta
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Byzantine Empire
ISBN : OCLC:1006044969

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The History of Theophylact Simocatta by Theophylactus Simocatta Pdf

Author : Michael Whitby
Publisher : Oxford Historical Monographs
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015014553690

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The Emperor Maurice and His Historian by Michael Whitby Pdf

Theophylact Simocatta, the last historian of classical antiquity, has in the past deterred investigators by the idiosyncrasies of his style. Through examination of Theophylact's narrative, and collation with other available evidence, Dr Whitby has unpicked the obscurities, biases, and errors to clear the way for a more accurate appreciation of the events of the reign of Emperor Maurice (582-602). Maurice's reign witnessed great struggles as the Romans attempted to defend their traditional frontiers on the Danube and in Mesopotamia and Armenia. In both areas, Maurice achieved great successes: i.

Author : Mark Guscin
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004171749

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The Image of Edessa by Mark Guscin Pdf

The Image of Edessa, also later known as the Mandylion, was a relic of Christ, a cloth imprinted with his features which he had used to wipe his face, and subsequently used to cure King Agbar of Edessa, the first Christian ruler. This book collects and provides parallel translations of all the available written evidence for the image, along with detailed analysis of the history of the image. Guscin deftly seperates fact from legend, for while the story of King Agbar is certainly mythical, an image of some sort did definitely exist by the mid tenth century when it was translated to Constantinople.

Author : Ionuț Holubeanu
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 503 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2024-01-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004690547

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Christianity in Roman Scythia by Ionuț Holubeanu Pdf

At present, there is no scholarly consensus on the ecclesiastical organization in the Roman province of Scythia (4th-7th centuries). This volume proposes a new interpretation of some of the historical evidence concerning the evolution of the see of Tomi: a great metropolis, first with suffragan bishoprics outside Roman Scythia and then inside it, and later an autocephalous archbishopric. Though there are also many unclear aspects regarding the evolution of monastic life in the province, this book reveals that, in contrast with the development of the monastic infrastructure in Roman Scythia, a spiritual decline began in the mid-5th century.

Author : Nikos Panou,Hester Schadee
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190635121

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Evil Lords by Nikos Panou,Hester Schadee Pdf

Evil Lords uses the prism of bad rule or tyranny to enhance our understanding of political discourse from the ancient world to the Renaissance, elucidating premodern notions of sovereignty as well as the relation between ethics and politics, the individual and society, power, and propaganda. Eleven chapters present case studies exploring Hebrew, Graeco-Roman, Byzantine, early, high and late medieval, and Renaissance conceptions and representations of bad or tyrannical government. Since bad rule is always a perversion of the norm, its shifting conceptualizations shed light on historically specific assessments of what constitutes acceptable and legitimate political behavior. Meanwhile, political debate also reflects specific power structures, authorial intent, and audience expectations. Each of the essays, therefore, examines bad rule and its agents within the ideological frameworks and societal patterns of the respective periods, thereby painting a picture of historical and intellectual change. Despite these often profound variations, however, the volume also shows that it is meaningful to think of a Western tradition of tyranny in the premodern world that derived from shared roots in Classical and biblical thought and was further defined by ongoing cross-fertilization spanning two millennia. Thus, Evil Lords offers scholars and students of Western political theory, history, and literature a critical framework through which to revisit the longue durée of premodern political reflection.

Author : David A. Graff
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317237099

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The Eurasian Way of War by David A. Graff Pdf

This book is a comparative study of military practice in Sui-Tang China and the Byzantine Empire between approximately 600 and 700 CE. It covers all aspects of the military art from weapons and battlefield tactics to logistics, campaign organization, military institutions, and the grand strategy of empire. Whilst not neglecting the many differences between the Chinese and Byzantines, this book highlights the striking similarities in their organizational structures, tactical deployments and above all their extremely cautious approach to warfare. It shows that, contrary to the conventional wisdom positing a straightforward Western way of war and an "Oriental" approach characterized by evasion and trickery, the specifics of Byzantine military practice in the seventh century differed very little from what was known in Tang China. It argues that these similarities cannot be explained by diffusion or shared cultural influences, which were limited, but instead by the need to deal with common problems and confront common enemies, in particular the nomadic peoples of the Eurasian steppes. Overall, this book provides compelling evidence that pragmatic needs may have more influence than deep cultural imperatives in determining a society’s "way of war."

Author : Saint Nicephorus (Patriarch of Constantinople.)
Publisher : Dumbarton Oaks
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : 088402184X

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Short History by Saint Nicephorus (Patriarch of Constantinople.) Pdf

Author : Ruth Macrides
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351930642

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History as Literature in Byzantium by Ruth Macrides Pdf

Although perceived since the sixteenth century as the most impressive literary achievement of Byzantine culture, historical writing nevertheless remains little studied as literature. Historical texts are still read first and foremost for nuggets of information, as main sources for the reconstruction of the events of Byzantine history. Whatever can be called literary in these works has been considered as external and detachable from the facts. The 'classical tradition' inherited by Byzantine writers, the features that Byzantine authors imitated and absorbed, are regarded as standing in the way of understanding the true meaning of the text and, furthermore, of contaminating the reliability of the history. Chronicles, whose language and style are anything but classicizing, have been held in low esteem, for they are seen as providing a mere chronological exposition of events. This book presents a set of articles by an international cast of contributors, deriving from papers delivered at the 40th annual Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies. They are concerned with historical and visual narratives that date from the sixth to the fourteenth century, and aim to show that literary analyses and the study of pictorial devices, far from being tangential to the study of historical texts, are preliminary to their further study, exposing the deeper structures and purposes of these texts.

Author : Thomas M. Banchich
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317501442

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The Lost History of Peter the Patrician by Thomas M. Banchich Pdf

The Lost History of Peter the Patrician is an annotated translation from the Greek of the fragments of Peter’s History, including additional fragments which are now more often considered the work of the Roman historian Cassius Dio's so-called Anonymous Continuer. Banchich’s annotation helps clarify the relationship of Peter's work to that of Cassius Dio. Focusing on the historical and historiographical rather than philological, he provides a strong framework for the understanding of this increasingly important source for the third and fourth centuries A.D. With an introduction on Peter himself - a distinguished administrator and diplomat at the court of Justinian – assessing his literary output, the relationship of the fragments of Peter's History to the fragments of the Anonymous Continuer, and the contentious issue of the place of this evidence within the framework of late antique historiography, The Lost History of Peter the Patrician will be an invaluable resource for those interested in the history of the Roman world in general and of the third and fourth centuries A.D. in particular.

Author : Thomas Banchich,Eugene Lane
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781134424726

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The History of Zonaras by Thomas Banchich,Eugene Lane Pdf

While an exile from Constantinople, the twelfth-century Byzantine functionary and canonist John Zonaras culled earlier chronicles and histories to compose an account of events from creation to the reign of Alexius Comnenus. For topics where his sources are lost or appear elsewhere in more truncated form, his testimony and the identification of the texts on which he depends are of critical importance. For his account of the first two centuries of the Principate, Zonaras employed now-lost portions of Cassius Dio. From the point where Dio’s History ended, to the reign of Theodosius the Great (d. 395), he turned to other sources to produce a uniquely full historical narrative of the critical years 235-395, making Books XII.15-XIII.19 of the Epitome central to the study of both late Roman history and late Roman and Byzantine historiography. This key section of the Epitome, together with Zonaras’ Prologue, here appears in English for the first time, both complemented by a historical and historiographical commentary. A special feature of the latter is a first-ever English translation of a broad range of sources which illuminate Zonaras’ account and the historiographical traditions it reflects. Among the authors whose newly translated works occupy a prominent place in the commentary are George Cedrenus, George the Monk, John of Antioch, Peter the Patrician, Symeon Magister, and Theodore Scutariotes. Specialized indices facilitate the use of the translations and commentary alike. The result is an invaluable guide and stimulus to further research for scholars and students of the history and historiography of Rome and Byzantium.

Author : Christoph Baumer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 1568 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781838608682

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History of Central Asia, The: 4-volume set by Christoph Baumer Pdf

This set includes all four volumes of the critically acclaimed History of Central Asia series. The epic plains and arid deserts of Central Asia have witnessed some of the greatest migrations, as well as many of the most transformative developments, in the history of civilization. Christoph Baumer's ambitious four-volume treatment of the region charts the 3000-year drama of Scythians and Sarmatians; Soviets and transcontinental Silk Roads; trade routes and the transmission of ideas across the steppes; and the breathless and brutal conquests of Alexander the Great and Chinghiz Khan. Masterfully interweaving the stories of individuals and peoples, the author's engaging prose is richly augmented throughout by colour photographs taken on his own travels. This set includes The Age of the Steppe Warriors (Volume 1), The Age of the Silk Roads (Volume 2), The Age of Islam and the Mongols (Volume 3) and The Age of Decline and Revival (Volume 4)

Author : Susan Wise Bauer
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2010-02-22
Category : History
ISBN : 0393078175

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The History of the Medieval World: From the Conversion of Constantine to the First Crusade by Susan Wise Bauer Pdf

A masterful narrative of the Middle Ages, when religion became a weapon for kings all over the world. From the schism between Rome and Constantinople to the rise of the T’ang Dynasty, from the birth of Muhammad to the crowning of Charlemagne, this erudite book tells the fascinating, often violent story of kings, generals, and the peoples they ruled. In her earlier work, The History of the Ancient World, Susan Wise Bauer wrote of the rise of kingship based on might. But in the years between the fourth and the twelfth centuries, rulers had to find new justification for their power, and they turned to divine truth or grace to justify political and military action. Right thus replaces might as the engine of empire. Not just Christianity and Islam but the religions of the Persians and the Germans, and even Buddhism, are pressed into the service of the state. This phenomenon—stretching from the Americas all the way to Japan—changes religion, but it also changes the state.