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Ottoman Population, 1830-1914
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 272

Ottoman Population, 1830-1914

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1985
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Proto-Bulgarians
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 84

The Proto-Bulgarians

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1979
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Studies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1053

The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Studies

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2008
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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.

Medieval Historical Writing in the Christian and Islamic Worlds
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 174

Medieval Historical Writing in the Christian and Islamic Worlds

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1982
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Change in Byzantine Culture in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 348

Change in Byzantine Culture in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries

  • Categories: Art

Byzantium, that dark sphere on the periphery of medieval Europe, is commonly regarded as the immutable residue of Rome's decline. In this highly original and provocative work, Alexander Kazhdan and Ann Wharton Epstein revise this traditional image by documenting the dynamic social changes that occurred during the eleventh and twelfth centuries.

Western Travellers to Constantinople
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 433

Western Travellers to Constantinople

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2022-04-19
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  • Publisher: BRILL

This volume deals with relations between the West and Byzantium, from the accession of Otto I the Great in Germany in 962, until the Fourth Crusade when Constantinople was conquered by the Western crusading armies in 1204. The impact which these contacts and confrontations had on both sides is discussed in sections dealing with specific areas (such as the North, Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Spain) as well as in sections dealing with specific aspects of the process: the journey, the attractions of the East, and the idea of "autoritates" and "translationes" of various political and intellectual ideas. An extensive index will help readers to find specific topics. The book is illustrated with maps, and with a number of objects betraying Byzantine influence in the West, or Western presence in Byzantium.

Byzantine Diplomacy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 360

Byzantine Diplomacy

This book brings together papers arising from the 24th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies held in Cambridge in 1990. It represents a comprehensive investigation of Byzantine diplomacy from the emergence of the empire in late antiquity to its final throes as it fell to the Ottoman Turks. This is not just a narrow study of political relations, but a broad sweep from Italy to the steppes of Central Asia, from the imperial court to the marriage bed, from the scriptorium to the barracks. The book also includes a mysterious communication from a long-dead emperor.

Eat, Drink, and be Merry (Luke 12:19)
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 318

Eat, Drink, and be Merry (Luke 12:19)

This volume brings together a group of scholars to consider the rituals of eating together in the Byzantine world, the material culture of Byzantine food and wine consumption, and the transport and exchange of agricultural products. The contributors present food in nearly every conceivable guise, ranging from its rhetorical to more practical applications--such as the preparing, processing, preserving and selling of food abroad. The chapters expand on papers presented at the 37th Annual Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, in honour of Professor A.A.M. Bryer.

The Byzantine Commonwealth
  • Language: en

The Byzantine Commonwealth

This text is a historical account of the political, diplomatic, ecclesiastical, economic and cultural relations between the Byzantine Empire and the peoples of Eastern Europe. It shows that these nations came to share a common cultural tradition.

Reconstructing the Reality of Images
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 720

Reconstructing the Reality of Images

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2003
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  • Publisher: BRILL

This examination of realia in Byzantine religious painting provides valuable information on Byzantine dress, household effects and implements, while introducing at the same time an alternative, literally 'objective', approach to the study of the formative processes of Byzantine art.