Catalogue Of Byzantine Seals At Dumbarton Oaks And In The Fogg Museum Of Art South Of The Balkans The Islands South Of Asia Minor

Author : Dumbarton Oaks
Publisher : Dumbarton Oaks
ISBN 13 : 9780884022268
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Catalogue of Byzantine Seals at Dumbarton Oaks and in the Fogg Museum of Art: South of the Balkans, the Islands, south of Asia Minor written by Dumbarton Oaks and published by Dumbarton Oaks. This book was released on 1991 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 2 includes seals with place names from south of the Balkans, the islands, and the south of Asia Minor. Each section begins with an essay on the region's history. Each seal is illustrated and accompanied--where appropriate--by commentary on date, its owner, peculiarities of orthography, and special features of iconography.

Author : Dumbarton Oaks
Publisher : Dumbarton Oaks
ISBN 13 : 9780884022503
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Catalogue of Byzantine Seals at Dumbarton Oaks and in the Fogg Museum of Art: West, Northwest, and Central Asia Minor and the Orient written by Dumbarton Oaks and published by Dumbarton Oaks. This book was released on 1991 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 3 includes seals with place names from west, northwest, and central Asia Minor and the Orient. Each section begins with a short essay on the region's history. Each seal is illustrated and accompanied--where appropriate--by commentary on date, its owner, peculiarities of orthography, and special features of iconography.

Author : Dumbarton Oaks
Publisher : Dumbarton Oaks
ISBN 13 : 9780884022824
Total Pages : 254 pages
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Download or read book Catalogue of Byzantine Seals at Dumbarton Oaks and in the Fogg Museum of Art: The East written by Dumbarton Oaks and published by Dumbarton Oaks. This book was released on 1991 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The vast collection of 17,000 Byzantine lead seals in the Harvard collections has long been recognized as an important source for the study of the Byzantine provinces. This volume is the fourth in the series of catalogues of geographical seals, and presents photographs, descriptions, and commentaries on the seals from the East.

Author : Jonathan Shea
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0755601947
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Politics and Government in Byzantium written by Jonathan Shea and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-05-14 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eleventh century marked a turning point in the history of the Byzantine Empire. At its start Byzantium was the paramount power in the Mediterranean world, by turns feared, respected and admired. By the century's close the empire had lost half of its territory and had managed only a partial recovery under the leadership of the Komnenos family. How did a powerful and famously wealthy empire collapse so quickly? The contemporary accounts of this turbulent 'long' century (taken here as c. 950–1100) attribute the empire's decline to the emperors' reckless and self-serving favouring of civilian bureaucrats and, while these sources are today widely acknowledged as biased and unreliable, modern assessments of the century have hitherto failed to suggest any tangible alternatives. To circumvent this dearth of archival material, Jonathan Shea has meticulously analysed 2,200 unpublished seals from the period (more than a third of the known total extant today) to uncover exactly whom the emperors were favouring and promoting, as well as developing a nuanced and revealing picture of the makeup of the much-chastised civilian bureaucracy. The sigillographic evidence is throughout measured against the written material to give a fresh account of this key transitional century and a rare insight into Byzantine politics.

Author : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection (Washington, DC)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Byzantine Seals written by Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection (Washington, DC) and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Dumbarton Oaks
Publisher : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection
ISBN 13 : 9780884023098
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Catalogue of Byzantine Seals at Dumbarton Oaks and in the Fogg Museum of Art: The East (continued), Constantinople and environs, unknown locations, addenda, uncertain readings written by Dumbarton Oaks and published by Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection. This book was released on 1991 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 5 in the Byzantine Seals catalogue includes seals with place names from the East, Constantinople and its environs, and seals with uncertain readings. These seals contribute significantly to historical geography, the evolution of the Byzantine imperial administration, development in the Greek language, and decorative vogues.

Author : Dumbarton Oaks
Publisher : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Catalogue of Byzantine Seals at Dumbarton Oaks and in the Fogg Museum of Art: Emperors, patriarchs of Constantinople, addenda written by Dumbarton Oaks and published by Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection. This book was released on 1991 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The combined Dumbarton Oaks and Fogg collection of Byzantine seals contains some 17,000 specimens. Volume 6 in the catalogue presents more than 250 seals of emperors and patriarchs of Constantinople, illustrated and accompanied--where appropriate--by commentary on specimen date, owner biography, peculiarities of orthography, and iconography.

Author : Jean-Claude Cheynet
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000939057
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Byzantine Aristocracy and its Military Function written by Jean-Claude Cheynet and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-05-31 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first four studies in this volume by Jean-Claude Cheynet, specially translated from French for publication here, present a broad-ranging analysis of the Byzantine aristocracy of the 8th-12th centuries. Along with the other articles in the first part, they examine the evolution of aristocratic families and the composition of this group, the relative importance of landholding and public office, the notion of 'civilian' and 'military' families, and patterns of inheritance. In the second part, the focus is on the Byzantine army, with studies looking both at the position of aristocrats within it, and more generally at the effectiveness of the army itself, notably in the campaigns in Asia Minor against the Arabs and the Turks.

Author : Magdalena Skoblar
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108897959
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Byzantium, Venice and the Medieval Adriatic written by Magdalena Skoblar and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-15 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Adriatic has long occupied a liminal position between different cultures, languages and faiths. This book offers the first synthesis of its history between the seventh and the mid-fifteenth century, a period coinciding with the existence of the Byzantine Empire which, as heir to the Roman Empire, lay claim to the region. The period also saw the rise of Venice and it is important to understand the conditions which would lead to her dominance in the late Middle Ages. An international team of historians and archaeologists examines trade, administration and cultural exchange between the Adriatic and Byzantium but also within the region itself, and makes more widely known much previously scattered and localised research and the results of archaeological excavations in both Italy and Croatia. Their bold interpretations offer many stimulating ideas for rethinking the entire history of the Mediterranean during the period.

Author : Averil Cameron
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780197262924
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fifty Years of Prosopography written by Averil Cameron and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003-07-17 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the effect of new technology on the science of prosopography, this academic text also discusses the role of the British Academy and parallel European institutions in developing prosopographical research on the Later Roman Empire, Byzantine, Anglo-Saxon and other time periods.