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Byzantium lasted a thousand years, ruled to the end by self-styled 'emperors of the Romans'. It underwent kaleidoscopic territorial and structural changes, yet recovered repeatedly from disaster: even after the near-impregnable Constantinople fell in 1204, variant forms of the e…
"Approaches to the Byzantine Family Price: £70.00 (exclusive of VAT) How to buy ebooks Imprint: Ashgate Variorum Illustrations: Includes 44 b&w illustrations Published: October 2013 Format: 234 x 156 mm Extent: 446 pages Binding: ebook ePUB (Also available in ebook PDF) Other ed…
A critical commentary on the Taktika of Leo VI
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An exploration of traditional performances in the Eastern Mediterranean in the medieval and Early Modern periods. This book brings to life a broad array of performances in the Eastern Mediterranean. It covers many traditional types of performance, including singers, dancers, sto…
"This volume presents a broad array of contributions on Byzantine literature and culture, in which well-known Byzantinists approach topics of ceremonial, education, historiography, hagiography, homiletics, law, philology, philosophy, prosopography, rhetoric and theology. New edi…
The Letters of Psellos' is the first detailed study of the correspondence of Michael Psellos, a leading Byzantine intellectual, politician, and writer of the eleventh century. Psellos' corpus of over 500 letters represents a historical source of great significance for the study …
The Middle Byzantine Historians, which continues the same author's Early Byzantine Historians, is the first book to analyze the lives and works of every significant Byzantine historian from the seventh to the thirteenth century. Written for general readers as well as professiona…
"Explores the development and diffusion of the vita image which emerged in Byzantium in the twelfth century and spread to Italy and beyond"-- "Living Icons is the first book to explore the emergence and function of a novel pictorial format in the Middle Ages, the vita icon, whi…
"Our understanding of Late Antiquity can be transformed by the non-dogmatic application of social theory to more traditional evidence when studying major social conflicts in the Eastern Roman Empire, not least under the Emperor Justinian (527-565). Social Conflict in the Age of …
The essays collected in this book were delivered at the XLII Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, held in London in 2009 to accompany the exhibition Byzantium 330-1453, at the Royal Academy. The exhibition was one of the most ambitious and complex exhibitions ever mounted at t…
