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Télécharger le livre : The Reign of Constantine, 306–337
The Reign of Constantine, 306–337
Stanislav Doležal
This book explores the reign of Constantine the Great (306–337) and, more generally, the political history of the third century, thus putting Constantine's career and many of his decisions in context. It traces events under the first Tetrarchy and then explores...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2022-05-03
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Télécharger le livre : Witness Literature in Byzantium
Witness Literature in Byzantium
Adam J. Goldwyn
This book analyzes Byzantine examples of witness literature, a genre that focuses on eyewitness accounts written by slaves, prisoners, refugees, and other victims of historical atrocity. It focuses on such episodes in three nonfictional texts – John Kaminiates’...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2021-08-06
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Télécharger le livre : Byzantine Tree Life
Byzantine Tree Life
Thomas Arentzen , Virginia Burrus , Glenn Peers
This book examines the many ways Byzantines lived with their trees. It takes seriously theological and hagiographic tree engagement as expressions of that culture’s deep involvement—and even fascination—with the arboreal. These pages tap into the current attention paid...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2021-07-11
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Télécharger le livre : Environment and Society in Byzantium, 650-1150
Environment and Society in Byzantium, 650-1150
Alexander Olson
This book illuminates Byzantines' relationship with woodland between the seventh and twelfth centuries. Using the oak and the olive as objects of study, this work explores shifting economic strategies, environmental change, and the transformation of material culture...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2020-11-16
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116,04 €
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Télécharger le livre : Banditry in the Medieval Balkans, 800-1500
Banditry in the Medieval Balkans, 800-1500
Panos Sophoulis
This book explores the history of banditry in the medieval Balkans between the ninth and fifteenth centuries. While several scholars have recognized the problems which various outlaw groups caused in the region during the Middle Ages, few have given much attention to...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2020-10-28
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Télécharger le livre : Pseudo-Dionysius and Christian Visual Culture, c.500–900
Pseudo-Dionysius and Christian Visual Culture, c.500–900
Francesca Dell'acqua
This book uses Pseudo-Dionysius and his mystic theology to explore attitudes and beliefs about images in the early medieval West and Byzantium. Composed in the early sixth century, the Corpus Dionysiacum, the collection of texts transmitted under the name of Dionysius...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2019-11-20
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Télécharger le livre : The Avar Siege of Constantinople in 626
The Avar Siege of Constantinople in 626
Martin Hurbanic
This book examines the Avar siege of Constantinople in 626, one of the most significant events of the seventh century, and the impact and repercussions this had on the political, military, economic and religious structures of the Byzantine Empire. The siege put an end...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2019-07-25
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Télécharger le livre : The Velestino Hoard
The Velestino Hoard
Florin Curta , Bartlomiej Szymon Szmoniewski
This book examines the remarkable Velestino hoard, found in Thessaly in the 1920s, and analyses the light that this collection of artifacts sheds on a poorly studied period of Byzantine history, and on largely neglected aspects of Byzantine civilization. Many...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2019-02-28
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Télécharger le livre : Serving Byzantium's Emperors
Serving Byzantium's Emperors
Dimitris Krallis
This book is a microhistory of eleventh-century Byzantium, built around the biography of the state official Michael Attaleiates. Dimitris Krallis presents Byzantium as a cohesive, ever-evolving, dynamic, Roman political community, built on traditions of Roman governance...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2019-01-31
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Télécharger le livre : Heavenly Sustenance in Patristic Texts and Byzantine Iconography
Heavenly Sustenance in Patristic Texts and Byzantine Iconography
Elena Ene D-Vasilescu
This book examines ideas of spiritual nourishment as maintained chiefly by Patristic theologians –those who lived in Byzantium. It shows how a particular type of Byzantine frescoes and icons illustrated the views of Patristic thinkers on the connections between the...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-10-22
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Télécharger le livre : Emotions and Gender in Byzantine Culture
Emotions and Gender in Byzantine Culture
Stavroula Constantinou , Mati Meyer
This book examines the gendered dimensions of emotions and the emotional aspects of gender within Byzantine culture and suggests possible readings of such instances. In so doing, the volume celebrates the current breadth of Byzantine gender studies while at the same...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-09-17
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