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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

  • History as Literature in Byzantium

    Papers from the Fortieth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, University of Birmingham, April 2007

    Edited by Ruth Macrides ...
    Series series Publications of the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies
    Although perceived since the sixteenth century as the most impressive literary achievement of Byzantine culture, historical writing nevertheless remains little studied as literature. Historical texts are still read first and foremost for nuggets of information, as main sources for the reconstruction of the events of Byzantine history. Whatever can be called literary in these works has been ... Read more

    $109.99 CAD

  • Travel in the Byzantine World

    Papers from the Thirty-Fourth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Birmingham, April 2000

    Edited by Ruth Macrides ...
    Series series Publications of the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies
    The contributions to this volume have been selected from the papers delivered at the 34th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies at Birmingham, in April 2000. Travellers to and in the Byzantine world have long been a subject of interest but travel and communications in the medieval period have more recently attracted scholarly attention. This book is the first to bring together these two lines of ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

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  • Margins and Metropolis

    Authority across the Byzantine Empire

    by Judith Herrin ...
    This volume explores the political, cultural, and ecclesiastical forces that linked the metropolis of Byzantium to the margins of its far-flung empire. Focusing on the provincial region of Hellas and Peloponnesos in central and southern Greece, Judith Herrin shows how the prestige of Constantinople was reflected in the military, civilian, and ecclesiastical officials sent out to govern the ... Read more

    $39.99 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

  • The Oxford Handbook of Late Antiquity

    Edited by Scott Fitzgerald Johnson ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Late Antiquity offers an innovative overview of a period (c. 300-700 CE) that has become increasingly central to scholarly debates over the history of western and Middle Eastern civilizations. This volume covers such pivotal events as the fall of Rome, the rise of Christianity, the origins of Islam, and the early formation of Byzantium and the European Middle Ages. These ... Read more

    $60.99 CAD

  • Byzantine Art and Diplomacy in an Age of Decline

    by Cecily J. Hilsdale ...
    The Late Byzantine period (1261–1453) is marked by a paradoxical discrepancy between economic weakness and cultural strength. The apparent enigma can be resolved by recognizing that later Byzantine diplomatic strategies, despite or because of diminishing political advantage, relied on an increasingly desirable cultural and artistic heritage. This book reassesses the role of the visual arts in this ... Read more

    $48.99 CAD

  • The Byzantine World

    Edited by Paul Stephenson ...
    Series series Routledge Worlds
    The Byzantine World presents the latest insights of the leading scholars in the fields of Byzantine studies, history, art and architectural history, literature, and theology. Those who know little of Byzantine history, culture and civilization between AD 700 and 1453 will find overviews and distillations, while those who know much already will be afforded countless new vistas.Each chapter offers ... Read more

    $102.99 CAD

  • John II Komnenos, Emperor of Byzantium

    In the Shadow of Father and Son

    Edited by Alessandra Bucossi, Alex Rodriguez Suarez ...
    Series series Publications of the Centre for Hellenic Studies, King's College London
    The Emperor John II Komnenos (1118–1143) has been overshadowed by both his father Alexios I and his son Manuel I. Written sources have not left us much evidence regarding his reign, although authors agree that he was an excellent emperor. However, the period witnessed territorial expansion in Asia Minor as well as the construction of the most important monastic complex of twelfth-century ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • The Roman Empire Divided

    400-700 AD

    by John Moorhead ...
    In 400 the mighty Roman Empire was almost as large as it had ever been; within three centuries, advances by Germanic peoples in western Europe, Slavs in eastern Europe and Arabs around the eastern and southern shores of the Mediterranean had brought about the loss of most of its territory. Ranging from Britain to Mesopotamia, this book explores the changes that resulted from these movements. It ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

  • A Companion to Roman Religion

    Edited by Jörg Rüpke ...
    Series Book 78 - Wiley Companions to the Ancient World
    A comprehensive treatment of the significant symbols and institutions of Roman religion, this companion places the various religious symbols, discourses, and practices, including Judaism and Christianity, into a larger framework to reveal the sprawling landscape of the Roman religion.An innovative introduction to Roman religionApproaches the field with a focus on the human-figures instead of the ... Read more

    $60.99 CAD

  • Brother-Making in Late Antiquity and Byzantium

    Monks, Laymen, and Christian Ritual

    by Claudia Rapp ...
    Series series Onassis Series in Hellenic Culture
    Among medieval Christian societies, Byzantium is unique in preserving an ecclesiastical ritual of adelphopoiesis, which pronounces two men, not related by birth, as brothers for life. It has its origin as a spiritual blessing in the monastic world of late antiquity, and it becomes a popular social networking strategy among lay people from the ninth century onwards, even finding application in ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD