The History of Leo the Deacon
The History of Leo the Deacon

Author: Leo (Diaconus)

Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9780884023241

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The History tells how they expanded the frontiers of the empire and brought back captured relics, booty, and prisoners of war to parade in triumph through the streets of Constantinople. Leo accompanied at least one expedition, and drew on his firsthand experience to provide vivid descriptions of sieges, pitched battles, ambushes, and single combat. His account of the conspiracy against Nikephoros II Phokas, murdered as he slept on the floor in front of his icons, is one of the most dramatic in Byzantine narrative histories."--page 4 of cover.

The History
The History

Author: Michael Attaleiates

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2012-11-19

Total Pages: 657

ISBN-13: 0674057996

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In 1039 Byzantium was the most powerful empire in Europe and the Near East. By 1079 it was a politically unstable state half the size, menaced by enemies on all sides. The History of Michael Attaleiates is our main source for this astonishing reversal. This translation, based on the most recent critical edition, includes notes, maps, and glossary.

The Oxford History of Historical Writing
The Oxford History of Historical Writing

Author: Daniel R. Woolf

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 671

ISBN-13: 0199236429

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A collection of essays from leading historians which explores the ways in which history was written in Europe and Asia between 400 and 1400.

History of the Byzantine State
History of the Byzantine State

Author: Georgije Ostrogorski

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Published: 1969

Total Pages: 736

ISBN-13: 9780813511986

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Succinctly traces the Byzantine Empire's thousand-year course with emphasis on political development and social, aesthetic, economic and ecclesiastical factors

The Medieval Chronicle X
The Medieval Chronicle X

Author:

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2016-05-02

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 9004318771

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There are several reasons why the chronicle is particularly suited as the topic of a yearbook. In the first place there is its ubiquity: all over Europe and throughout the Middle Ages chronicles were written, both in Latin and in the vernacular, and not only in Europe but also in the countries neighbouring on it, like those of the Arabic world. Secondly, all chronicles raise such questions as by whom, for whom, or for what purpose were they written, how do they reconstruct the past, what determined the choice of verse or prose, or what kind of literary influences are discernable in them. Finally, many chronicles have been beautifully illuminated, and the relation between text and image leads to a wholly different set of questions. The yearbook The Medieval Chronicle aims to provide a representative survey of the on-going research in the field of chronicle studies, illustrated by examples from specific chronicles from a wide variety of countries, periods and cultural backgrounds. The Medieval Chronicle is published in cooperation with the "Medieval Chronicle Society".

The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Studies
The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Studies

Author: Elizabeth Jeffreys

Publisher:

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 1053

ISBN-13: 0199252467

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The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Studies presents discussions by leading experts on all significant aspects of this diverse and fast-growing field. Byzantine Studies deals with the history and culture of the Byzantine Empire, the eastern half of the Late Roman Empire, from the fourth to the fourteenth century. Its centre was the city formerly known as Byzantium, refounded as Constantinople in 324 CE, the present-day Istanbul. Under its emperors, patriarchs, and all-pervasive bureaucracy Byzantium developed a distinctive society: Greek in language, Roman in legal system, and Christian in religion. Byzantium's impact in the European Middle Ages is hard to over-estimate, as a bulwark against invaders, as a meeting-point for trade from Asia and the Mediterranean, as a guardian of the classical literary and artistic heritage, and as a creator of its own magnificent artistic style.

The Middle Byzantine Historians
The Middle Byzantine Historians

Author: W. Treadgold

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2013-11-22

Total Pages: 412

ISBN-13: 1137280867

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This volume, which continues the same author's Early Byzantine Historians , is the first book to analyze the lives and works of all forty-three significant Byzantine historians from the seventh to the thirteenth century, including the authors of three of the world's greatest histories: Michael Psellus, Princess Anna Comnena, and Nicetas Choniates.

Warfare in Late Byzantium, 1204-1453
Warfare in Late Byzantium, 1204-1453

Author: Savvas Kyriakidis

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2011-05-23

Total Pages: 275

ISBN-13: 9004206663

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Examining a wide body of sources this book offers a comprehensive analysis of late Byzantine attitudes to warfare and places late Byzantine military ethos, thought and practice in the wider geographical, cultural and historical context.

Medieval Maritime Warfare
Medieval Maritime Warfare

Author: Charles D. Stanton

Publisher: Pen and Sword

Published: 2015-06-30

Total Pages: 653

ISBN-13: 1473856299

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This sweeping history of maritime warfare through the Middle Ages ranges from the 8th century to the 14th, covering the Mediterranean and Northern Europe. After the fall of Rome, the sea becomes the center of conflict for Western Civilization. In a world of few roads and great disorder, it is where power is projected and wealth is sought. Yet, since this turbulent period in the history of maritime warfare has rarely been studied, it is little known and even less understood. In Medieval Maritime Warfare, Charles Stanton depicts the development of maritime warfare from the end of the Roman Empire to the dawn of the Renaissance, recounting the wars waged in the Mediterranean by the Byzantines, Ottomans, Normans, Crusaders, and the Italian maritime republics, as well as those fought in northern waters by the Vikings, English, French and the Hanseatic League. Weaving together details of medieval ship design and naval strategy with vivid depictions of seafaring culture, this pioneering study makes a significant contribution to maritime history.