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  • Monastic Communities and Landscapes in Byzantium

    The View from Thrace

    by Georgios Makris ...
    Series series Medieval Societies, Religions, and Cultures
    The first comprehensive account of Byzantine monastic archaeology and spatial practices, Monastic Communities and Landscapes in Byzantium focuses on Thrace and eastern Macedonia to show the broader impact of monasteries on surrounding communities, one that was not only religious, but also economic and social. Georgios Makris focuses on the significance of monastic spaces and the landscapes they ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

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  • Economic Crisis, Development and Competitiveness in Southeastern Europe

    Theoretical Foundations and Policy Issues

    Edited by Anastasios Karasavvoglou, Dimitrios Kyrkilis, Georgios Makris, Persefoni Polychronidou ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book analyzes the foundations and means of overcoming the current crisis in the broader area of Southeast Europe. The contributions make proposals from both theoretical and empirical points of view and discuss the concept, determinants and policies of competitiveness in these countries. The financial crisis became a prolonged fiscal crisis, a bank confidence crisis, and economic recession, ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

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  • The Wandering Mind

    What Medieval Monks Tell Us About Distraction

    by Jamie Kreiner ...
    A revelatory account of how Christian monks identified distraction as a fundamental challenge—and how their efforts to defeat it can inform ours, more than a millennium later.The digital era is beset by distraction, and it feels like things are only getting worse. At times like these, the distant past beckons as a golden age of attention. We fantasize about escaping our screens. We dream of ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

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  • 428 AD

    An Ordinary Year at the End of the Roman Empire

    by Giusto Traina, Averil Cameron ...
    This is a sweeping tour of the Mediterranean world from the Atlantic to Persia during the last half-century of the Roman Empire. By focusing on a single year not overshadowed by an epochal event, 428 AD provides a truly fresh look at a civilization in the midst of enormous change--as Christianity takes hold in rural areas across the empire, as western Roman provinces fall away from those in the ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • The Fall of Rome:And the End of Civilization

    And the End of Civilization

    by Bryan Ward-Perkins ...
    Why did Rome fall?Vicious barbarian invasions during the fifth century resulted in the cataclysmic end of the world's most powerful civilization, and a 'dark age' for its conquered peoples. Or did it? The dominant view of this period today is that the 'fall of Rome' was a largely peaceful transition to Germanic rule, and the start of a positive cultural transformation.Bryan Ward-Perkins encourages ... Read more

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  • Through the Eye of a Needle

    Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD

    by Peter Brown ...
    Jesus taught his followers that it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter heaven. Yet by the fall of Rome, the church was becoming rich beyond measure. Through the Eye of a Needle is a sweeping intellectual and social history of the vexing problem of wealth in Christianity in the waning days of the Roman Empire, written by the world's foremost scholar ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Byzantine Art

    by Robin Cormack ...
    Series series Oxford History of Art
    The opulence of Byzantine art, with its extravagant use of gold and silver, is well known. Highly skilled artists created powerful representations reflecting and promoting this society and its values in icons, illuminated manuscripts, and mosaics and wallpaintings placed in domed churches and public buildings. This complete introduction to the whole period and range of Byzantine art combines ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • Classical Archaeology

    Edited by Susan E. Alcock, Robin Osborne ...
    Series Book 18 - Wiley Blackwell Studies in Global Archaeology
    The fully revised second edition of this successful volume includes updates on the latest archaeological research in all chapters, and two new essays on Greek and Roman art. It retains its unique, paired essay format, as well as key contributions from leading archaeologists and historians of the classical world.Second edition is updated and revised throughout, showcasing the latest research and ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD

  • Byzantine Matters

    by Averil Cameron ...
    A renowned historian examines the neglected story of Byzantium and what it can teach us about Western history: a "feisty and provocative manifesto" ( Times Literary Supplement, UK).For many of us, Byzantium remains "byzantine"—obscure, marginal, difficult. Despite the efforts of recent historians, prejudice still skews our understanding of the Byzantine civilization, often reducing it to a poor ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Unrivalled Influence

    Women and Empire in Byzantium

    by Judith Herrin ...
    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 millennium, this landmark book evokes the complex and exotic world of Byzantium's women, from empresses and saints to uneducated rural widows. Drawing on a diverse range of sources, Judith Herrin ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Theodora

    Actress, Empress, Saint

    by David Potter ...
    Series series Women in Antiquity
    Two of the most famous mosaics from the ancient world, in the church of San Vitale in Ravenna, depict the sixth-century emperor Justinian and, on the wall facing him, his wife, Theodora (497-548). This majestic portrait gives no inkling of Theodora's very humble beginnings or her improbable rise to fame and power. Raised in a family of circus performers near Constantinople's Hippodrome, she ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • A Short History of the Byzantine Empire

    Revised Edition

    by Dionysios Stathakopoulos ...
    Series series Short Histories
    Incorporating the latest scholarly developments to offer an in-depth account of the history of the Byzantine Empire, this revised edition sheds new light on the Empire's culture, theology, and economic and socio-political spheres.Charting from the Empire's origins, to its expansion and influence over the Mediterranean, later revival, and eventual fall – this book covers more than 1,000 years of ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD