Byzantium and the modern Greek identity
by Magdalino, Paul, Ricks, David
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"This collection of specially commissioned essays aims to present an overview of some of the different, and often conflicting, tendencies manifested by modern Greek attitudes to Byzantium since the late eighteenth-century Enlightenment. The aim is to show just how formative view…
Pt. 1. The image of political and episcopal authority -- pt. 2. The function of Roman tradition in emergent societies -- pt. 3. Civic elites in the Byzantine East -- pt. 4. Addressing challenges to sacred texts and rites.
Mount Athos and Byzantine monasticism: papers from the Twenty-eighth Spring Symposium of…
by Cunningham, Mary, (Lecturer in historical theology and Orthodox Christian studies), Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Birmingham, England), Bryer, Anthony
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The chronicle of Marcellinus
by Croke, Brian, Marcellinus, Comes, Mommsen, Th., (Theodor)
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"This book evaluates the life and empire of the pivotal yet controversial and poorly understood Byzantine emperor Heraclius (AD 610-641), a contemporary of the Prophet Muhammad. Heraclius' reign is critical for understanding the background to fundamental changes in the Balkans a…
The Alexiad
by Comnena, Anna, Frankopan, Peter, Sewter, E. R. A., (Edgar Robert Ashton)
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The Alexiad
by Comnena, Anna, Frankopan, Peter, Sewter, E. R. A., (Edgar Robert Ashton)
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Anna Comnena (1083-1153) wrote The Alexiad as an account of the reign of her father, the Byzantine Emperor Alexius I. It is also an important source of information on the Byzantine war with the Normans, and on the First Crusade in which Alexius participated. While the Byzantines…
