Byzantium

The remarkable 1, 000-year history of one of the world's greatest and most misunderstood empiresPublisher: The History Press LtdAuthor(s): John Hal...

A fascinating and highly original history of the city and culture that was the bulwark of the West for a thousand years. Once a byword for imperial...

Reducere. 1. ENSEMBLE ONI WYTARS - Kyrie eleison (Christian-Arabic Tradition, Lebanon)2. ENSEMBLE ONI WYTARS - Fa mi cantar l#amor di la beata (Laudario di C...

Reducere. For a civilization that preserved its existence and integrity against overwhelming odds and contributed in captivating ways to the diversity of hum...

Byzantium linked the ancient and modern worlds, shaping traditions and handing down to both Eastern and Western civilization a vibrant legacy. 'The...

Chronicles events up to the coronation of the heroic Alexius Comnenus in 1081.

Considering the interrelations between sight, touch, and imagination, this book offers a new approach to how we understand the way that ancient and...

This collection restores the fountains of Roman Byzantium, Byzantine Constantinople and Ottoman Istanbul, reviving the sounds, shapes, smells and s...

DescriptionA leading historian argues that in the empire we know as Byzantium, the Greek-speaking population was actually Roman, and scholars have ...

Examining Byzantine architecture, Ousterhout identifies the problems commonly encountered in the process of design and construction.Publisher: Univ...

Publisher: CaneloAuthor(s): S.J.A. TurneyNumber of pages: 368Collection: Wolves of OdinPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 129 x 197 x 30Cover type: ...

This introduction to the Byzantine civilisation provides a guide for those who know nothing or little about the history of Byzantium.

Reducere. In the eighth and ninth centuries, three Byzantine empresses--Irene, Euphrosyne, and Theodora--changed history. Their combined efforts restored the...

Examines the aesthetic principles and spiritual operations at work in Hagia Sophia. Drawing on art and architectural history, liturgy, musicology, ...

Reducere. From the New York Times-bestselling "standard-bearer for alternate history" A spy takes on the enemies of the Byzantine Empire (USA Today). In anot...

Reducere. In this absorbing, suspenseful novel Julia Kristeva combines social satire, medieval history, philosophy, psychoanalytic theory, and autobiography ...

Romanos' lively and dramatic hymns are a highlight of Byzantine literary invention. This book examines the rhetorical embodiment of theological the...

Romanos' lively and dramatic hymns are a highlight of Byzantine literary invention. This book examines the rhetorical embodiment of theological the...

Explores the nexus of art, personal piety, and self-representation in the last centuries of Byzantium, focusing upon the evidence of verse inscript...

Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & CollectionAuthor(s): Jake RansohoffNumber of pages: 400Collection: ExtravagantesPublication date: 2022...

Publisher: Cambridge University PressAuthor(s): Mary B. (University of Nottingham) CunninghamIllustration(s): Worked examples or ExercisesNumber of...

Reducere. This book evaluates the life and empire of the pivotal yet controversial Byzantine emperor Heraclius (ad. 610-641), a contemporary of the Prophet M...

Reducere. The Byzantine Empire was almost always ready to fight, and often fought for its life. During much of its history its provinces were military distri...

Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & CollectionAuthor(s): Margaret MullettNumber of pages: 342Collection: Dumbarton Oaks Byzantine Symposia...

This is the first comprehensive study of occasional writing in Byzantium, focusing on the literary output of Constantine Manasses. It argues that, ...

A pioneering exploration of the performance of hymns in Byzantium over a period of almost four centuries, investigating how hymnody wove together f...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Jonathan (The George Washington University, USA) SheaNumber of pages: 272Collection: New Directions ...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Athanasios MarkopoulosNumber of pages: 372Collection: Variorum Collected StudiesPublication date: 2018Dim...

Reducere. Aside from Hagia Sophia, the monuments of the Byzantine East are poorly understood today. This is in sharp contrast to the well-known architectural...

Dimitris Stamatopoulos undertakes the first systematic comparison of the dominant ethnic historiographic models and divergences elaborated by Greek...

In the middle of the fifteenth century, ominous portents like columns of fire and dense fog were seen above the skies of Constantinople as the Byza...

DescriptionThis book tells the extraordinary story of Theodore II Laskaris, an emperor who ruled over the Byzantine state of Nicaea established in ...

The third edition of Reading the Middle Ages retains the strengths of previous editions--thematic and geographical diversity, clear and informative...

Reducere. DescriptionIf you want to discover captivating stories of people and events of ancient Rome then keep reading... Three captivating manuscripts in o...

A portrait of history's first complex Christian society as seen through the lens of Christian philanthropy and gift giving As the Roman Empire brok...

Reducere. If you want to discover captivating stories of people and events of ancient Rome then keep reading...Three captivating manuscripts in one book: The...

Uses an interdisciplinary approach combining new archaeological evidence with archival material to reconstruct the lives of rural communities in th...

Reducere. If you want to discover captivating stories of people and events of the Byzantine Empire then keep reading...The Byzantine Empire was founded durin...

Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & CollectionAuthor(s): Anthony KaldellisIllustration(s): 1 tableNumber of pages: 324Collection: Suppleme...