A Flame In Byzantium

Author : Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1466807687
Total Pages : 503 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Flame In Byzantium written by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1988-10-15 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's A Flame in Byzantium chronicles Atta Olivia Clemens during the reign of Justinian. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Ben Bova
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 9780312930264
Total Pages : 566 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Kinsman Saga written by Ben Bova and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A historic horror novel that blends the erotic, the fearful and the spiritual as Yarbro traces the past of Olivia, Count Dracula's lover who became a vampire in the bloody era of Nero's Rome.

Author : Tom Doherty Associates, LLC
Publisher : Tor Books
ISBN 13 : 9780812528053
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flame in Byzantium written by Tom Doherty Associates, LLC and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 1988-10-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Colin Wells
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0553901710
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sailing from Byzantium written by Colin Wells and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2008-12-10 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gripping intellectual adventure story, Sailing from Byzantium sweeps you from the deserts of Arabia to the dark forests of northern Russia, from the colorful towns of Renaissance Italy to the final moments of a millennial city under siege…. Byzantium: the successor of Greece and Rome, this magnificent empire bridged the ancient and modern worlds for more than a thousand years. Without Byzantium, the works of Homer and Herodotus, Plato and Aristotle, Sophocles and Aeschylus, would never have survived. Yet very few of us have any idea of the enormous debt we owe them. The story of Byzantium is a real-life adventure of electrifying ideas, high drama, colorful characters, and inspiring feats of daring. In Sailing from Byzantium, Colin Wells tells of the missionaries, mystics, philosophers, and artists who against great odds and often at peril of their own lives spread Greek ideas to the Italians, the Arabs, and the Slavs. Their heroic efforts inspired the Renaissance, the golden age of Islamic learning, and Russian Orthodox Christianity, which came complete with a new alphabet, architecture, and one of the world’s greatest artistic traditions. The story’s central reference point is an arcane squabble called the Hesychast controversy that pitted humanist scholars led by the brilliant, acerbic intellectual Barlaam against the powerful monks of Mount Athos led by the stern Gregory Palamas, who denounced “pagan” rationalism in favor of Christian mysticism. Within a few decades, the light of Byzantium would be extinguished forever by the invading Turks, but not before the humanists found a safe haven for Greek literature. The controversy of rationalism versus faith would continue to be argued by some of history’s greatest minds. Fast-paced, compulsively readable, and filled with fascinating insights, Sailing from Byzantium is one of the great historical dramas–the gripping story of how the flame of civilization was saved and passed on.

Author : Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1466807695
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crusader's Torch written by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1989-11-15 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is the year 1189 A.D., and war is raging all around the Mediterranean. Any woman would fear travelling among the pirates, bandits and renegade Christian knights who flock to the call of battle--but Atta Olivia Clemens has a special reason to fear... At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Markéta Kulhánková
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0755607309
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Byzantium in the Popular Imagination written by Markéta Kulhánková and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-08-10 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the contemporary cultural legacy of Byzantium or The Eastern Roman Empire? This book explores the varied reception history of the Byzantine Empire across a range of cultural production. Split into four sections: the origins of 'Byzantomania' in France, modern media, literature, and politics, it provides case studies which show the numerous ways in which the empire's legacy can be felt today. Covering television, video games and contemporary political discourse, contributors also consider a wide range of national and geographical perspectives including Russian, Turkish, Polish, Greek and Hungarian. It will be essential reading for scholars and students of the reception and cultural history of the Byzantine Empire.

Author : Roland Betancourt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108657273
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sight, Touch, and Imagination in Byzantium written by Roland Betancourt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-12 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considering the interrelations between sight, touch, and imagination, this book surveys classical, late antique, and medieval theories of vision to elaborate on how various spheres of the Byzantine world categorized and comprehended sensation and perception. Revisiting scholarly assumptions about the tactility of sight in the Byzantine world, it demonstrates how the haptic language associated with vision referred to the cognitive actions of the viewer as they grasped sensory data in the mind in order to comprehend and produce working imaginations of objects for thought and memory. At stake is how the affordances and limitations of the senses came to delineate and cultivate the manner in which art and rhetoric was understood as mediating the realities they wished to convey. This would similarly come to contour how Byzantine religious culture could also go about accessing the sacred, the image serving as a site of desire for the mediated representation of the Divine.

Author : Karin Krause
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108918085
Total Pages : 673 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Divine Inspiration in Byzantium written by Karin Krause and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-09 with total page 673 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, Karin Krause examines conceptions of divine inspiration and authenticity in the religious literature and visual arts of Byzantium. During antiquity and the medieval era, “inspiration” encompassed a range of ideas regarding the divine contribution to the creation of holy texts, icons, and other material objects by human beings. Krause traces the origins of the notion of divine inspiration in the Jewish and polytheistic cultures of the ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern worlds and their reception in Byzantine religious culture. Exploring how conceptions of authenticity are employed in Eastern Orthodox Christianity to claim religious authority, she analyzes texts in a range of genres, as well as images in different media, including manuscript illumination, icons, and mosaics. Her interdisciplinary study demonstrates the pivotal role that claims to the divine inspiration of religious literature and art played in the construction of Byzantine cultural identity.

Author : Stephen Maxfield Parrish
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501742892
Total Pages : 1014 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Concordance to the Poems of W.B. Yeats written by Stephen Maxfield Parrish and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-30 with total page 1014 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now it is possible for the first time to trace in a systematic way the language patterns of one of the greatest poets who have written in English, W. B. Yeats. Like A Concordance to the Poems of Matthew Arnold, the first of the Cornell Concordances that are under the general editorship of Professor Parrish, this volume was produced on an IBM 704 electronic data-processing machine. Computer technique has so advanced that the Yeats concordance includes punctuation and gives cross references for the second parts of hyphenated words. The frequency of every word in Yeats's poems is given, and an appendix lists all indexed words in order of frequency. The body of this book consists of an index of all significant words in Yeats, each word listed in the line or lines in which it occurs. The concordance is based on the variorum text of Yeats, edited by Alspach and Allt, and includes all variants that occur in printed versions of Yeats's poems.

Author : Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
Publisher : Tor Books
ISBN 13 : 1466807660
Total Pages : 649 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Night Blooming written by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 649 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's Night Blooming, Saint-Germain, summoned to the Court of Karl-lo-Magne, is given a mistress who leaves him for the King. Soon Saint-Germain is given the task of escorting the albino stigmatic, Gynethe Mehaut, to Rome, during which time they become lovers. In Rome, Olivia takes Gynethe Mehaut under her wing, but neither she nor Saint-Germain can save her once an ambitious Bishop goes to work on her, ordering her to become an anchorite. Following Karl-lo-Magne's coronation on Christmas day, 800, Saint-Germain soon has to leave Franksland. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.