The Cambridge Intellectual History of Byzantium, Hardcover

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

Two polarizing forces of Protestant and Catholic reformers and counter-reformers were shaped by their juxtaposed viewpoints on the church, salvatio...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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In this book, Christopher Celenza provides an intellectual history of the Italian Renaissance during the long fifteenth century, from c.1350-1525. ...

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Addresses three major themes: how to protect your intellectual property, how to develop it commercially via licensing and business 'start up', and ...

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

Postmodern, postcolonial, and post-truth are broadly used terms. But where do they come from? When and why did the habit of interpreting the world ...

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

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

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