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Author : Louis Bréhier
Publisher : North-Holland
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Life and Death of Byzantium written by Louis Bréhier and published by North-Holland. This book was released on 1977 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Louis Bréhier
Publisher : North Holland
ISBN 13 : 9780444111289
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Life and Death of Byzantium written by Louis Bréhier and published by North Holland. This book was released on 1978-04-01 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert H. Jordan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780674261198
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Life and Death of Theodore of Stoudios written by Robert H. Jordan and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Life and Death of Theodore of Stoudios collects three important works promoting the influential Constantinople monastery of Stoudios and the memory of its founder, who is celebrated as a saint in the Orthodox Church for defending icon veneration. New editions of the Byzantine Greek texts appear alongside the first English translations.
Author : Julia Kristeva
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231136365
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)
Download or read book Murder in Byzantium written by Julia Kristeva and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This killer is murdering members of a dubious religious sect, the New Pantheon, and leaving a mysterious figure eight drawn on their corpses. Meanwhile, Sebastian Chrest-Jones, a noted professor of human migrations, clandestinely writing a novel about the Byzantine princess-historian Anna Comnena, disappears on a quest to learn more about an ancestor who roamed across Europe to Byzantium during the First Crusade. Kristeva's recurring characters, detective Northrop Rilsky and the French journalist Stephanie Delacour, step in and desperately try to piece together the two-part mystery in the midst of their unexpected love affair.".
Author : Stephen R. Lawhead
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061841889
Total Pages : 1199 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)
Download or read book Byzantium written by Stephen R. Lawhead and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 1199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born to rule Although born to rule, Aidan lives as a scribe in a remote Irish monastery on the far, wild edge of Christendom. Secure in work, contemplation, and dreams of the wider world, a miracle bursts into Aidan's quiet life. He is chosen to accompany a small band of monks on a quest to the farthest eastern reaches of the known world, to the fabled city of Byzantium, where they are to present a beautiful and costly hand-illuminated manuscript, the Book of Kells, to the Emperor of all Christendom. Thus begins an expedition by sea and over land, as Aidan becomes, by turns, a warrior and a sailor, a slave and a spy, a Viking and a Saracen, and finally, a man. He sees more of the world than most men of his time, becoming an ambassador to kings and an intimate of Byzantium's fabled Golden Court. And finally this valiant Irish monk faces the greatest trial that can confront any man in any age: commanding his own Destiny.
Author : Judith Herrin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691143692
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)
Download or read book Byzantium written by Judith Herrin and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-09-28 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Byzantium. The name evokes grandeur and exoticism—gold, cunning, and complexity. In this unique book, Judith Herrin unveils the riches of a quite different civilization. Avoiding a standard chronological account of the Byzantine Empire's millennium—long history, she identifies the fundamental questions about Byzantium—what it was, and what special significance it holds for us today. Bringing the latest scholarship to a general audience in accessible prose, Herrin focuses each short chapter around a representative theme, event, monument, or historical figure, and examines it within the full sweep of Byzantine history—from the foundation of Constantinople, the magnificent capital city built by Constantine the Great, to its capture by the Ottoman Turks. She argues that Byzantium's crucial role as the eastern defender of Christendom against Muslim expansion during the early Middle Ages made Europe—and the modern Western world—possible. Herrin captivates us with her discussions of all facets of Byzantine culture and society. She walks us through the complex ceremonies of the imperial court. She describes the transcendent beauty and power of the church of Hagia Sophia, as well as chariot races, monastic spirituality, diplomacy, and literature. She reveals the fascinating worlds of military usurpers and ascetics, eunuchs and courtesans, and artisans who fashioned the silks, icons, ivories, and mosaics so readily associated with Byzantine art. An innovative history written by one of our foremost scholars, Byzantium reveals this great civilization's rise to military and cultural supremacy, its spectacular destruction by the Fourth Crusade, and its revival and final conquest in 1453.
Author : Louis Bréhier
Publisher : North-Holland
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Life and Death of Byzantium written by Louis Bréhier and published by North-Holland. This book was released on 1977 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alan Gordon
Publisher : Minotaur Books
ISBN 13 : 1466823100
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Death in the Venetian Quarter written by Alan Gordon and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2007-05-01 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1203, the relative peace of the Byzantine Empire is imperiled when the ships of the Fourth Crusade show up outside the walls of Constantinople. Instead of traveling to the Holy Land to battle the infidels, the Crusade, having sailed out of Venice, has been subverted and is now besieging the city. The jester known as Feste, his wife Viola, and their compatriots within the city are faced with catastrophe as the peace the Fool's Guild has worked so hard to maintain is about to be shattered. With such a disaster looming, the death of one silk merchant in the Venetian Quarter of Constantinople seems insignificant. But Philoxenites, the Imperial Treasurer and one of the most power schemers at court, has taken a special interest in the case and wants Feste to investigate Venetian merchant's death. The merchant, of course, was not what he appeared to be and, if Constantinople is to have any hope of surviving the troops outside its gates, Feste must quickly uncover what forces were at work when the merchant lost his life.
Author : Tamara Talbot Rice
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)
Download or read book Everyday Life in Byzantium written by Tamara Talbot Rice and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the history of and way of life in Byzantium from its founding by Constantine to its conquest by the Turks and discusses the influence of Byzantine culture on Europe.
Author : Jonathan Harris
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300169663
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)
Download or read book The End of Byzantium written by Jonathan Harris and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2011-01-25 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By 1400, the once-mighty Byzantine Empire stood on the verge of destruction. Most of its territories had been lost to the Ottoman Turks, and Constantinople was under close blockade. Against all odds, Byzantium lingered on for another fifty years until 1453, when the Ottomans dramatically toppled the capital's walls. During this bleak and uncertain time, ordinary Byzantines faced difficult decisions to protect their livelihoods and families against the death throes of their homeland. In this evocative and moving book, Jonathan Harris explores individual stories of diplomatic maneuverings, covert defiance, and sheer luck against a backdrop of major historical currents and offers a new perspective on the real reasons behind the fall of this extraordinarily fascinating empire.
