The Byzantines
by Cavallo, Guglielmo Dunlap, Thomas Fagan, Teresa Lavender Lambert, Charles
"For more than a thousand years, Byzantium flourished at the crossroads of the Eastern and Western worlds. But who were the people of the first modern civilized state? What features distinguished them from earlier civilizations, and what cultural characteristics, despite their multi-ethnic origins, made them uniquely Byzantine? Through a series of remarkably detailed composite portraits, an international collection of distinguished scholars has created a startlingly clear vision of the Byzantin…
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- Full title :The Byzantines / edited by Guglielmo Cavallo ; translated by Thomas Dunlap, Teresa Lavender Fagan, Charles Lambert.
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"For more than a thousand years, Byzantium flourished at the crossroads of the Eastern and Western worlds. But who were the people of the first modern civilized state? What features distinguished them from earlier civilizations, and what cultural characteristics, despite their multi-ethnic origins, made them uniquely Byzantine? Through a series of remarkably detailed composite portraits, an international collection of distinguished scholars has created a startlingly clear vision of the Byzantines and their social world. Paupers, peasants, soldiers, teachers, bureaucrats, clerics, emperors, and saints--all are vividly and authentically presented in the context of ordinary Byzantine life. No comparable volume exists that so fascinatingly recovers from the past the men and women of Byzantium, their culture and their lifeways, and their strikingly modern worldview." -- Publisher.
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- Publication Date:1997.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):University of Chicago Press
- Place of Publication:Chicago
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:1997.
The Physical Object
- Description:293 pages ; : 24 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0226097919, 9780226097916, 0226097927, 9780226097923
- oclc:ocm34669363
- LC Classification:DF521
- Dewey Decimal:949.5
Table of Contents
The poor / Evelyne Patlagean -- The peasantry / Alexander Kazhdan -- Soldiers / Peter Schreiner -- Teachers / Robert Browning -- Women / Alice-Mary Talbot -- Entrepreneurs / Nicolas Oikonomides -- Bishops / Vera von Falkenhausen -- Functionaries / André Guillou -- Emperors / Michael McCormick -- Saints / Cyril Mango.
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