Byzantium and Its Army, 284-1081, Paperback - Warren Treadgold

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...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Warren TreadgoldThis is the first comprehensive and up-to-date history of Byzantium to appear in almost sixty years, and th...

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The Chronicon Paschale is one of the major constituents of the Byzantine chronographic tradition covering the late antique period.

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...

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Narrative of Rome's wars during a tumultuous period of civil war and mounting external threats. Discusses development of the Roman army and the arm...

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...

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This book is about the reinvention of the Roman Empire during the eighty years between the accession of Diocletian and the death of Julian.

The Roman empire during the period framed by the accession of Septimus Severus in 193 and the rise of Diocletian in 284 has conventionally been reg...

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

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Publisher: Nabu PressAuthor(s): Giovanni GuerrieriIllustration(s): black & white illustrationsNumber of pages: 132Publication date: 2010Dimensions:...

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

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

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Diocletian and Constantine were the greatest of the Late Roman emperors, and their era marks the climax of the legionary system. This title details...

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

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

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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...

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