Leprosy has afflicted humans for thousands of years. It wasn't until the twelfth century, however, that the dreaded disease entered the collective psyche of Western society, thanks to a frightening epidemic that ravaged Catholic Europe. The Church responded by constructing chari…
Dieses Ueberblickswerk behandelt die Alltagskultur, die Existenzgrundlagen und das tèagliche Leben der Bauern, Handwerker und Hèandler, der Mèonche und Nonnen - jener lèandlichen und stèadtischen sozialen Schichten, die mehr als drei Viertel der Bevèolkerung des byzantinischen R…
"In the Byzantine Empire, Constantinople served not only as an administrative, military, and religious center, but also as one of trade and commerce. The city was selected as the new imperial capital due to its geographical advantages, its vast hinterland, its situation as an id…
"Trends and Turning Points presents sixteen articles, examining the discursive construction of the late antique and Byzantine world, focusing specifically on the utilisation of trends and turning points to make stuff from the past, whether texts, matter, or action, meaningful. C…
"This landmark volume combines classic and revisionist essays to explore the historiography of Sardinia's exceptional transition from an island of the Byzantine empire to the rise of its own autonomous rulers, the iudikes, by the 1000s. In addition to Sardinia's contacts with th…
Manuscripts containing Greek medical texts were inventoried by authors and works at the beginning of the 20th century by a group of philologists under the direction of Hermann Diels. Useful as it was - and will continue to be - Diels'catalogue omitted authors and works, misident…
"Manuscripts containing Greek medical texts were inventoried by authors and works at the beginning of the 20th century by a group of philologists under the direction of Hermann Diels. Useful as it was - and will continue to be - Diels'catalogue omitted authors and works, misiden…