The Lascarids of Nicaea
Author: Alice Gardner
Publisher:
Published: 1912
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13:
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The Forty Sieges of Constantinople
Author: John D. Grainger
Publisher: Pen and Sword Military
Published: 2022-07-28
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13: 1399090305
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe great city of Byzantion/Constantinople/Istanbul stands on a commanding cape overlooking a busy waterway. It has been the target of repeated attempts to capture it for the past two and a half millennia. Most of these attacks failed, but some did so in spectacular fashion, such as the great Arab sieges. The inhabitants fought hard in almost every siege, with the result that when the city was captured it was also destroyed, or at least suffered a hideous sack. Almost every nation between the Atlantic and the Steppes of Asia have made attempts to capture the city, some repeatedly but only a few - a Roman emperor, the Crusaders, the Turks - have succeeded. And there is no sign that some have given up the hope of taking it - the last sieges were just before and then during the Great War, by the Bulgars, and then by the Allies, who got no closer than Gallipoli, but the city had to submit to enemy occupation when the empire it ruled collapsed. It is still surrounded by envious neighbours, who wish to control it. The city has been besieged forty times, and has been captured on three or four occasions; it cannot be said to be safe yet. It is still 'The City of the World's Desire'.
History of the Byzantine Empire, 324–1453, Volume II
Author: Alexander A. Vasiliev
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Published: 1964
Total Pages: 481
ISBN-13: 0299809269
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“This is the revised English translation from the original work in Russian of the history of the Great Byzantine Empire. It is the most complete and thorough work on this subject. From it we get a wonderful panorama of the events and developments of the struggles of early Christianity, both western and eastern, with all of its remains of the wonderful productions of art, architecture, and learning.”—Southwestern Journal of Theology
Form, Style and Meaning in Byzantine Church Architecture
Author: Hans Buchwald
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2024-10-28
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 1040231624
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUsing detailed analyses of individual buildings as a point of departure, Professor Buchwald here examines various approaches to Byzantine architectural forms, and raises questions concerning the use of stylistic and other forms of analysis. One group of articles focuses on stylistic currents in Asia Minor, including that of the 13th-century Lascarid dynasty, previously unknown. Others explore methods which appear to have been used in the design of Byzantine churches, such as dimensional ’rules of thumb’, modular and geometric systems of proportion, and the quadratura, hitherto recognised only in Western architecture. The final essays pose further questions: what were the goals and achievements of Byzantine architects, when they transformed older existing buildings? How, and why, did they use stereometric Euclidean geometry? And was there any ultimately Platonic connection?
The American Historical Review
Author: John Franklin Jameson
Publisher:
Published: 1916
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAmerican Historical Review is the oldest scholarly journal of history in the United States and the largest in the world. Published by the American Historical Association, it covers all areas of historical research.
Byzantium
Author: Rowena Loverance
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 100
ISBN-13: 9780674013896
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLavishly illustrated, this history of the Byzantine empire is updated with a new Introduction and includes the most recent finds and interpretations.
Possessors and Possessed
Author: Wendy M.K. Shaw
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2003-06-12
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 0520233352
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA history of the creation of museums in Ottoman Turkey, which demonstrates that museum-building was both a product of and a response to European imperialism. Having learned to value their antiquities, the Ottomans proceeded to use them as visual manifestations of emerging nationalism.
The Last Centuries of Byzantium, 1261-1453
Author: Donald M. Nicol
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1993-10-14
Total Pages: 502
ISBN-13: 9780521439916
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Byzantine Empire, fragmented and enfeebled by the Fourth Crusade in 1204, never again recovered its former extent, power and influence. Its greatest revival came when the Byzantines in exile reclaimed their capital city of Constantinople in 1261 and this book narrates the history of this restored empire from 1261 to its conquest by the Ottoman Turks in 1453. First published in 1972, the book has been completely revised, amended, and in part rewritten, with its source references and bibliography updated to take account of scholarly research on this last period of Byzantine history carried out over the past twenty years.
Contact and Conflict in Frankish Greece and the Aegean, 1204-1453
Author: Nikolaos G. Chrissis
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-05-23
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 1317161041
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe conquest of Constantinople by the Fourth Crusade shattered irreversibly the political and cultural unity of the Byzantine world in the Greek peninsula, the Aegean and western Asia Minor. Between the disintegration of the Byzantine Empire after 1204 and the consolidation of Ottoman power in the fifteenth century, the area was a complex political, ethnic and religious mosaic, made up of Frankish lordships, Italian colonies, Turkish beyliks, as well as a number of states that professed to be the continuators of the Byzantine imperial tradition. This volume brings together western medievalists, Byzantinists and Ottomanists, combining recent research in the relevant fields in order to provide a holistic interpretation of this world of extreme fragmentation. Eight stimulating papers explore various factors that defined contact and conflict between Orthodox Greeks, Catholic Latins and Muslim Turks, highlighting common themes that run through this period and evaluating the changes that occurred over time. Particular emphasis is given on the crusades and the way they affected interaction in the area. Although the impact of the crusades on Byzantine history leading up to 1204 has been extensively examined in the past, there has been little research on the way crusading was implemented in Greece and the Aegean after that point. Far from being limited to crusading per se, however, the papers put it into its wider context and examine other aspects of contact, such as trade, interfaith relations, and geographical exploration.
AETOS
Author: Ihor Sevcenko
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2012-01-02
Total Pages: 485
ISBN-13: 3110958619
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAetos: Studies in Honour of Cyril Mango Presented to Him on April 14, 1998.
