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  • Pseudo-Kodinos and the Constantinopolitan Court: Offices and Ceremonies

    by Ruth Macrides, J.A. Munitiz, Dimiter Angelov ...
    Series series Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman Studies
    The work known as Pseudo-Kodinos, the fourteenth-century text which is one of two surviving ceremonial books from the Byzantine empire, is presented here for the first time in English translation. With facing page Greek text and the first in-depth analysis in the form of commentary and individual studies on the hierarchy, the ceremonies, court attire, the Blachernai palace, lighting, music, ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

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    First Lady of Imperial Rome

    by Anthony A. Barrett ...
    The author of Rome Is Burning separates fact from fiction as he examines the life of an ancient Roman figure made famous in the TV miniseries I Claudius.Livia—wife of the first Roman emperor, Caesar Augustus, and mother of the second, Tiberius—wielded extraordinary power at the center of Roman politics. In this biography of Livia, the first in English, Anthony Barrett sets aside the portrait of a ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • FEUDAL SOCIETY Vol. I

    The Growth of Ties of Dependence

    by Marc Bloch ...
    Feudal Society is a great work of historical synthesis in the finest French tradition. The author treats feudalism as a living and vitalising force in the society of Western Europe from the ninth to the thirteenth century. After surveying the social and intellectual conditions in which feudalism developed, Bloch examines the nature of the bond of kinship both as a predecessor and as a concomitant ... Read more

    $9.34 CAD

  • Religions of Rome: Volume 1, A History

    by Mary Beard, John North, Simon Price ...
    This book offers a radical new survey of more than a thousand years of religious life at Rome. It sets religion in its full cultural context, between the primitive hamlet of the eighth century BC and the cosmopolitan, multicultural society of the first centuries of the Christian era. The narrative account is structured around a series of broad themes: how to interpret the Romans' own theories of ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Medieval Cities

    Their Origins and the Revival of Trade - Updated Edition

    by Henri Pirenne ...
    Series series Princeton Classics
    Nearly a century after it was first published in 1925, Medieval Cities remains one of the most provocative works of medieval history ever written. Here, Henri Pirenne argues that it was not the invasion of the Germanic tribes that destroyed the civilization of antiquity, but rather the closing of Mediterranean trade by Arab conquest in the seventh century. The consequent interruption of long ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • The Fourth Crusade 1202–04

    The betrayal of Byzantium

    by Dr David Nicolle ...
    Series Book 237 - Campaign
    A fascinating, illustrated account of the betrayal of Byzantium, the clash of Western and Eastern Christian factions and the sacking of Constantinople.The Fourth Crusade was the first, and most famous of the 'diverted' Crusades, which saw the Crusade diverted from its original target, Ayyubi Egypt, to attack the Christian city of Zadar in modern Croatia instead, an attack that was little more than ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Agrippina

    Mother of Nero

    by Anthony A. Barrett ...
    Series series Roman Imperial Biographies
    In this dynamic new biography - the first on Agrippina in English - Professor Barrett uses the latest archaeological, numismatic and historical evidence to provide a close and detailed study of her life and career. He shows how Agrippina's political contribution to her time seems in fact to have been positive, and that when she is judged by her achievements she demands admiration. Revealing the ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • The Emperor Constantine

    by Michael Grant ...
    A study of one of the ancient world's most fascinating figures.Fascinating and readable biography by a great populariser of classical civilisation. Directly responsible for momentous transformations of the Imperial scene, Constantine will always be famous as the 1st Christian Emperor of Rome, and for refounding ancient Byzantium as Constantinople - events which rank amongst the most significant in ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • John Skylitzes: A Synopsis of Byzantine History, 811–1057

    Translation and Notes

    by John Skylitzes, John Wortley ...
    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 ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Religions of Rome: Volume 2, A Sourcebook

    by Mary Beard, John North, Simon Price ...
    Volume two reveals the extraordinary diversity of ancient Roman religion. A comprehensive sourcebook, it presents a wide range of documents illustrating religious life in the Roman world - from the foundations of the city in the eighth century BC to the Christian capital more than a thousand years later. Each document is given a full introduction, explanatory notes and bibliography, and acts as a ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD

  • The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome

    The History of a Dangerous Idea

    by Edward J. Watts ...
    As this book intriguingly explores, for those who would make Rome great again and their victims, ideas of Roman decline and renewal have had a long and violent history. The decline of Rome has been a constant source of discussion for more than 2200 years. Everyone from American journalists in the twenty-first century AD to Roman politicians at the turn of the third century BC have used it as a ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

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  • Vestal Virgins, Sibyls, and Matrons

    Women in Roman Religion

    by Sarolta A. Takács ...
    A fascinating exploration of women's role in Roman religion that facilitates a better understanding of their importance in Rome's cultural formation.Roman women were the procreators and nurturers of life, both in the domestic world of the family and in the larger sphere of the state. Although deterred from participating in most aspects of public life, women played an essential role in public ... Read more

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