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Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History by Nur Masalha 9780755649426
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $18.86This rich and magisterial work traces Palestine's millennia-old heritage, uncovering cultures and societies of astounding depth and complexity that stretch back to the very beginnings of recorded history. Starting with the earliest references in... -
The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World by Virginia Postrel
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $21.21The story of humanity is the story of textiles-as old as civilization itself. Textiles created empires and powered invention. They established trade routes and drew nations' borders. Since the first thread was spun, fabric has driven technology,... -
The New Roman Empire: A History of Byzantium by Anthony Kaldellis 9780197549322
RRP: $73.48Booksplease Price: $55.67A major new history of the eastern Roman Empire, from Constantine to 1453. In recent decades, the study of the Eastern Roman Empire, also known as Byzantium, has been revolutionized by new approaches and more sophisticated models for how its society... -
Femina: The instant Sunday Times bestseller – A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of It by Janina Ramirez
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $18.10THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERLONGLISTED FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE'Revelatory' GUARDIAN'A firecracker somehow captured between two covers' LUCY WORSLEYAn instant bestseller and one of the most celebrated history books of the year, Femina reveals... -
Millennium: The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom by Tom Holland
RRP: $16.78Booksplease Price: $12.47Of all the civilisations existing in the year 1000, that of Western Europe seemed the unlikeliest candidate for future greatness. Compared to the glittering empires of Byzantium or Islam, the splintered kingdoms on the edge of the Atlantic appeared... -
The Last Viking: The True Story of King Harald Hardrada by Don Hollway
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $17.75'The Last Viking reads like the sagas on which it is based. It's Beowulf on steroids, laced with purple prose...This book is great fun. '- Gerard DeGroot, The Times Harald Sigurdsson burst into history as a teenaged youth in a Viking battle from which... -
The First Crusade: The Call from the East by Peter Frankopan
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $20.03FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE SILK ROADS 'Filled with Byzantine intrigue, in every sense this book is important, compellingly revisionist and impressive in its scholarly use of totally fresh sources' Simon Sebag Montefiore In 1096,... -
The Restoration of Rome: Barbarian Popes & Imperial Pretenders by Peter Heather 9781447241072
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $32.32In 476 AD the last of Rome's emperors was deposed by a barbarian general, the son of one of Attila the Hun's henchmen, and the imperial vestments were despatched to Constantinople. The curtain fell on the Roman Empire in Western Europe, its territories... -
The Acts of the Council of Constantinople of 869-70 Richard Price 9781802073690
RRP: $83.98Booksplease Price: $75.35The Council of Constantinople of 869-70 was highly dramatic, with its trial and condemnation of Patriarch Photius, a towering figure in the Byzantium of his day, and the tussle of wills at the council between the papal legates, the imperial... -
The Christian Parthenon: Classicism and Pilgrimage in Byzantine Athens by Anthony Kaldellis 9780521882286
RRP: $189.00Booksplease Price: $150.61Byzantine Athens was not a city without a history, as is commonly believed, but an important center about which much can now be said. Providing a wealth of new evidence, Professor Kaldellis argues that the Parthenon became a major site of Christian... -
The Alexiad by Anna Komnene
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $26.90Written between 1143 and 1153 by the daughter of Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos, The Alexiad is one of the most popular and revealing primary sources in the vast canon of medieval literature. Princess Anna Komnene, eldest child of the imperial... -
The Young Alexander: The Making of Alexander the Great by Alex Rowson
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $18.71'Popular history at its very best, thought-provoking and accessible. Underpinned by serious research, and written with panache, it summons up a vanished world' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH This is an astonishing new account of Alexander the... -
The Oxford History of Byzantium by Cyril Mango
RRP: $48.28Booksplease Price: $37.19The Oxford History of Byzantium is the only history to provide in concise form detailed coverage of Byzantium from its Roman beginnings to the fall of Constantinople and assimilation into the Turkish Empire. Lively essays and beautiful illustrations... -
Ghost Empire Richard Fidler 9780733338557
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $18.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780733338557Author Richard FidlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint ABC BooksPublisher ABC BooksWeight(grams) 626gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 155mm * 40mm -
Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire by Judith Herrin
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $20.60For a thousand years an extraordinary empire made possible Europe's transition to the modern world: Byzantium. An audacious and resilient but now little known society, it combined orthodox Christianity with paganism, classical Greek learning with Roman... -
Ravenna: Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe by Judith Herrin
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $25.79'Magisterial - an outstanding book that shines a bright light one of the most important, interesting and under-studied cities in European history. A masterpiece.' Peter Frankopan'A wonderful new history of the Mediterranean from the fifth to eighth... -
Constantinople: The Last Great Siege, 1453 by Roger Crowley
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $18.90In the spring of 1453, the Ottoman Turks advanced on Constantinople in pursuit of an ancient Islamic dream: capturing the thousand-year-old capital of Christian Byzantium.During the siege that followed, a small band of badly organised defenders,... -
Athens: City of Wisdom by Bruce Clark
RRP: $25.20Booksplease Price: $18.35A sweeping history of Athens, telling the three-thousand-year story of the birthplace of Western civilization, from Runciman Award winner Bruce Clark 'A stunning retrospect and beautifully written overview of one of the world's greatest cities' Paul... -
Visualizing Community - Art, Material Culture, and Settlement in Byzantine Cappadocia by Robert G. Ousterhout
RRP: $159.50Booksplease Price: $119.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780884024132Author Robert G. OusterhoutFormat HardbackPage Count 558Imprint Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & CollectionPublisher Dumbarton Oaks Research... -
A Cabinet of Byzantine Curiosities: Strange Tales and Surprising Facts from History's Most Orthodox Empire by Anthony Kaldellis
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $25.47Weird, decadent, degenerate, racially mixed, superstitious, theocratic, effeminate, and even hyper-literate, Byzantium has long been regarded by many as one big curiosity. According to Voltaire, it represented "a worthless collection of miracles, a... -
A Short History of Byzantium by John Julius Norwich
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $25.18A Short History of Byzantium is renowned historian, and author of A History of Venice, John Julius Norwich's classic history of Byzantium Constantine the Great moved the seat of Roman power to Constantinople in AD 330 and for eleven brutal, bloody... -
Byzantine Naval Forces 1261-1461: The Roman Empire's Last Marines by Raffaele D'Amato
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $20.03After the recapture of Constantinople, Emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos was determined to bring glory back to the Byzantine Empire. To achieve this, he established an Imperial Fleet and raised new regiments of elite marine troops. This work provides a... -
Byzantine Art by Mr Robin Cormack
RRP: $49.33Booksplease Price: $36.25The opulence of Byzantine art, with its extravagant use of gold and silver, is well known. Highly skilled artists created powerful representations reflecting and promoting this society and its values in icons, illuminated manuscripts, and mosaics and... -
Streams of Gold, Rivers of Blood: The Rise and Fall of Byzantine, 955 A.D. to the First Crusade by Anthony Kaldellis
RRP: $54.58Booksplease Price: $39.98In the second half of the tenth century, Byzantium embarked on a series of spectacular conquests: first in the southeast against the Arabs, then in Bulgaria, and finally in the Georgian and Armenian lands. By the early eleventh century, the empire was... -
Arab-Byzantine Coins - An Introduction, with a Catalogue of the Dumbarton Oaks Collection by Clive Foss
RRP: $52.40Booksplease Price: $41.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780884023180Author Clive FossFormat PaperbackPage Count 65Imprint Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & CollectionPublisher Dumbarton Oaks Research Library &... -
Athens: City of Wisdom Bruce Clark 9781788548144
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $49.06A sweeping history of Athens, telling the three-thousand-year story of the birthplace of Western civilization, from Runciman Award winner Bruce Clark 'A stunning retrospect and beautifully written overview of one of the world's greatest cities' Paul... -
The Chronicle of Theophanes: Anni mundi 6095-6305 (A.D. 602-813) by Harry Turtledove
RRP: $50.38Booksplease Price: $43.76The most important illuminating source that survived from the two centuries termed "the dark ages of Byzantium" is the chronicle of the monk Theophanes (d. 817 or 818). In it Theophanes paints a vivid picture of the Empire's struggle in the seventh and... -
Byzantine Cavalryman vs Vandal Warrior: North Africa AD 533–36 by Dr Murray Dahm
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $25.18Fully illustrated, this enthralling study explores how the Vandals in North Africa attempted to defend their kingdom against the resurgent Byzantine Empire during 533-36. In AD 533, the Byzantine Emperor Justinian I launched the first of his campaigns... -
The Lost World of Byzantium by Jonathan Harris 9780300223538 [USED COPY]
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $15.90A fresh, concise, and accessible history of one of the medieval world's greatest empires For more than a millennium, the Byzantine Empire presided over the juncture between East and West, as well as the transition from the classical to the modern world... -
The Lost World of Byzantium by Jonathan Harris
Booksplease Price: $33.26A fresh, concise, and accessible history of one of the medieval world's greatest empires For more than a millennium, the Byzantine Empire presided over the juncture between East and West, as well as the transition from the classical to the modern world... -
Rome Resurgent: War and Empire in the Age of Justinian by Peter Heather
RRP: $57.73Booksplease Price: $52.46Between the fall of the western Roman Empire in the fifth century and the collapse of the east in the face of the Arab invasions in the seventh, the remarkable era of the Emperor Justinian (527-568) dominated the Mediterranean region. Famous for his... -
Belisarius by Ian Hughes
Booksplease Price: $50.38A military history of the campaigns of Belisarius, the greatest general of the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Emperor Justinian. He twice defeated the Persians and reconquered North Africa from the Vandals in a single year at the age of 29, before going on to... -
Belisarius & Antonina: Love and War in the Age of Justinian by David Alan Parnell 9780197574706
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $37.36A unique look at a powerful marriage in the celebrated age of Justinian Belisarius and Antonina were titans in the Roman world some 1,500 years ago. Belisarius was the most well-known general of his age, victor over the Persians, conqueror of the... -
Heraclius, Emperor of Byzantium by Walter Emil Kaegi 9780521036986
RRP: $65.08Booksplease Price: $51.70This book evaluates the life and empire of the pivotal yet controversial and poorly understood Byzantine emperor Heraclius (AD 610-641), a contemporary of the Prophet Muhammad. Heraclius' reign is critical for understanding the background to fundamental... -
Eccentric Renaissance: El Greco, Michael Damaskenos, Georgios Klontzas Charles Barber 9780190209001
RRP: $123.90Booksplease Price: $112.94The Byzantine icon has long remained marginal to the study of art's history, only emerging from Giorgio Vasari's condemnation of the gilded, unnatural style of Byzantine painting (maniera greca) when his theories were challenged in the early twentieth... -
Rome Resurgent: War and Empire in the Age of Justinian by Peter Heather 9780197500538
RRP: $37.78Booksplease Price: $31.23Between the fall of the western Roman Empire in the fifth century and the collapse of the east in the face of the Arab invasions in the seventh, the remarkable era of the Emperor Justinian (527-568) dominated the Mediterranean region. Famous for his... -
Constantinople: Archaeology of a Byzantine Megapolis by Ken Dark 9781789258066
RRP: $73.50Booksplease Price: $67.16Istanbul, Europe's largest city, became an urban centre of exceptional size when it was chosen by Constantine the Great as a new Roman capital city. Named 'Constantinople' after him, the city has been studied through its rich textual sources and... -
The Life and Death of Ancient Cities: A Natural History by Greg Woolf 9780199664733
RRP: $66.13Booksplease Price: $46.70The human race is on a 10,000 year urban adventure. Our ancestors wandered the planet or lived scattered in villages, yet by the end of this century almost all of us will live in cities. But that journey has not been a smooth one and urban civilizations... -
Tastes of Byzantium: The Cuisine of a Legendary Empire by Andrew Dalby
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $30.64A detailed revelation of what was eaten in the court of the Eastern Roman Empire, accompanied by colourful descriptions of the sights and smells of Constantinople and its marketplaces. For centuries, the food and culinary delights of the Byzantine... -
Roman Heavy Cavalry (2): AD 500–1450 by Dr Andrei Evgenevich Negin
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $24.05In the twilight of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th-6th centuries, the elite of the field armies was the heavy armoured cavalry - the cataphracts, clad in lamellar, scale, mail and padded fabric armour. After the fall of the West, the Greek-speaking...