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Author: Michael Psellus
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 1979-09-27
Total Pages: 623
ISBN-13: 0141904550
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis chronicle of the Byzantine Empire, beginning in 1025, shows a profound understanding of the power politics that characterized the empire and led to its decline.
Author: Michael Psellus
Publisher: ePenguin
Published: 1979-09-27
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780140441697
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis chronicle of the Byzantine Empire, beginning in 1025, shows a profound understanding of the power politics that characterized the empire and led to its decline.
Author: Jonathan Harris
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2017-02-09
Total Pages: 301
ISBN-13: 1474254675
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJonathan Harris' new edition of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, Constantinople, provides an updated and extended introduction to the history of Byzantium and its capital city. Accessible and engaging, the book breaks new ground by exploring Constantinople's mystical dimensions and examining the relationship between the spiritual and political in the city. This second edition includes a range of new material, such as: * Historiographical updates reflecting recently published work in the field * Detailed coverage of archaeological developments relating to Byzantine Constantinople * Extra chapters on the 14th century and social 'outsiders' in the city * More on the city as a centre of learning; the development of Galata/Pera; charitable hospitals; religious processions and festivals; the lives of ordinary people; and the Crusades * Source translation textboxes, new maps and images, a timeline and a list of emperors It is an important volume for anyone wanting to know more about the history of the Byzantine Empire.
Author: Michael Psellus
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: 1979-12-20
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780140441697
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe death of Basil II in A.D. 1025, after fifty glorious years as sole emperor, ushered in decades of turbulence, corruption, and incompetence. For the following half-century of extraordinary decline, our main source is Michael Psellus, one of the greatest courtiers and men of letters of the age. His vivid and forceful chronicle, full of psychological insight and deep understanding of power politics, is a historical and literary document of the first importance. Recent scholars have shattered forever the view that the Byzantine Age was just a shabby and disreputable appendage to the Roman Empire; Psellus, a man of striking refinement and humanity, both portrays and exemplifies at its best the Byzantine way of life.
Author: Gilbert Dagron
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2003-10-16
Total Pages: 374
ISBN-13: 9780521801232
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA complex study of the dual role of the emperor in Byzantium.
Author: Anna Komnene
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2009-08-06
Total Pages: 1041
ISBN-13: 0141904542
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA revised edition of Anna Komnene's Alexiad, to replace our existing 1969 edition. This is the first European narrative history written by a woman - an account of the reign of a Byzantine emperor through the eyes and words of his daughter which offers an unparalleled view of the Byzantine world in the eleventh and twelfth centuries.
Author: John Skylitzes
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010-10-07
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 1139489151
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book was first published in 2010. John Skylitzes' extraordinary Middle Byzantine chronicle covers the reigns of the Byzantine emperors from the death of Nicephorus I in 811 to the deposition of Michael VI in 1057, and provides the only surviving continuous narrative of the late tenth and early eleventh centuries. A high official living in the late eleventh century, Skylitzes used a number of existing Greek histories (some of them no longer extant) to create a digest of the previous three centuries. It is without question the major historical source for the period and is cited constantly in modern scholarship. This edition features introductions by Jean-Claude Cheynet and Bernard Flusin, along with extensive notes. It will be an essential and exciting addition to the libraries of all historians of the Byzantine age.
Author: Georgije Ostrogorski
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 1969
Total Pages: 736
ISBN-13: 9780813511986
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSuccinctly traces the Byzantine Empire's thousand-year course with emphasis on political development and social, aesthetic, economic and ecclesiastical factors
Author: Nadia Maria El-Cheikh
Publisher: Harvard CMES
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780932885302
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book studies the Arabic-Islamic view of Byzantium, tracing the Byzantine image as it evolved through centuries of warfare, contact, and exchanges. Including previously inaccessible material on the Arabic textual tradition on Byzantium, this investigation shows the significance of Byzantium to the Arab Muslim establishment and their appreciation of various facets of Byzantine culture and civilization. The Arabic-Islamic representation of the Byzantine Empire stretching from the reference to Byzantium in the Qur'an until the fall of Constantinople in 1453 is considered in terms of a few salient themes. The image of Byzantium reveals itself to be complex, non-monolithic, and self-referential. Formulating an alternative appreciation to the politics of confrontation and hostility that so often underlies scholarly discourse on Muslim-Byzantine relations, this book presents the schemes developed by medieval authors to reinterpret aspects of their own history, their own self-definition, and their own view of the world.
Author: Michael (Psellus.)
Publisher:
Published: 1982
Total Pages: 396
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