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Judith Herrin
Identifies the fundamental questions about Byzantium - what it was, and what special significance it holds for us. This title reveals this great civilization’s rise to military and cultural supremacy…
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For a thousand years, an extraordinary empire made possible Europe’s transition to the modern world: Byzantium. This book provides various short chapters that focus on a theme, such as a…
A glorious history of the jewel-like city on the Adriatic which was a melting-pot of Greek, Latin, Christian and barbarian culture. Winner of the 2020 Duff Cooper Prize
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A riveting history of the city that led the West out of the ruins of the Roman Empire At the end of the fourth century, as the power of Rome…
A riveting history of the city that led the West out of the ruins of the Roman Empire
At the end of the fourth century, as the power of Rome…
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Unrivalled Influence explores the exceptional roles that women played in the vibrant cultural and political life of medieval Byzantium. Written by one of the world’s foremost historians of the Byzantine…
In the eighth and ninth centuries, three Byzantine empresses - Irene, Euphrosyne, and Theodora - changed history. Their efforts restored the veneration of icons, saving Byzantium from a symbolic and…
Explores the political, cultural, and ecclesiastical forces that linked the metropolis of Byzantium to the margins of its far-flung empire. Focusing on the provincial region of Hellas and Peloponnesos in…
Explores the exceptional roles that women played in the vibrant cultural and political life of medieval Byzantium. Drawing on a diverse range of sources, this title focuses on the importance…
This volume explores the political, cultural, and ecclesiastical forces that linked the metropolis of Byzantium to the margins of its far-flung empire. Focusing on the provincial region of Hellas and…
Outlines the origins of Europe from the end of late antiquity to the coronation of Charlemagne. This book shows that the clash between nascent Islam and stubburn Byzantium was the…
In the long-debated transition from late antiquity to the early middle ages, the city of Ravenna presents a story rich and strange. From the fourth century onwards it suffered decline…
Personification, the anthropomorphic representation of any non-human thing, is a ubiquitous feature of ancient Greek literature and art. Natural phenomena (earth, sky, rivers), places (cities, countries), divisions of time (seasons…
Jaroslav Pelikan
Charts the theological defense of icons during the Iconoclastic controversies of the eighth and ninth centuries, whose high point came in AD 787, when the Second Council of Nicaea restored…
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The latest volume in the Bible and Women series examines the relationship between women and the Bible’s reception during the early Middle Ages (500-1100 CE) in both the Greek East…
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Explores a particularly complex period in Byzantine history, the thirteenth century, from the Fourth Crusade to the recapture of Constantinople by exiled leaders from Nicaea.
Das fruhe Mittelalter kannte neben der romisch-katholischen Kirche des Westens eine Vielzahl anderer christlicher Bekenntnisse - Griechische Orthodoxie, Arianismus, Monophysitismus, Donatismus, Nestorianismus. Dazu kommen Judinnen oder Musliminnen, die ebenfalls mit…
