Byzantine Empire

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780884024644Author Margaret MullettFormat HardbackPage Count 462Imprint Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & CollectionPublisher Dumbarton Oaks Research...

A portrait of history's first complex Christian society as seen through the lens of Christian philanthropy and gift giving As the Roman Empire broke down in western Europe, its prosperity moved decisively eastward, to what is now known as the Byzantine...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780884024767Author Eleni KefalaFormat HardbackPage Count 166Imprint Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & CollectionPublisher Dumbarton Oaks Research...

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St. Gregory Palamas (ca. 1296–1357) is among the most well-known and celebrated theologians of late Byzantium. This book provides a comprehensive account of the essence-energies distinction across his twenty-five treatises and letters written over a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788878393479Author S AdamiakFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint Gregorian & Biblical PressPublisher Gregorian & Biblical PressWeight(grams) 340g

En Sofia mathitefsantes: Essays in Byzantine Material Culture and Society in Honour of Sophia Kalopissi-Verti contains a collection of thirty studies dedicated to Sophia Kalopissi-Verti by her students which celebrate the multifaceted academic and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780884025009Author Colin M. WhitingFormat HardbackPage Count 378Imprint Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & CollectionPublisher Dumbarton Oaks Research...

The 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...

This book translates the mid-12th-century Synopsis Chronike by Constantine Manasses which was widely circulated. It extends to 1081, marking the end of Nikephoros Botaneiates' reign and the accession of Alexios I Komnenos. Commissioned by the...

This volume interrogates the assumption that Visigothic practices and institutions were mere imitations of the Byzantine empire. Contributors rethink these practices not as uncritical and derivative adoptions of Byzantine customs, but as dynamic...

Tsar Peter (927-969), this book's protagonist, is all too frequently presented in modern scholarship as a weak ruler, devoid of any grander political aspirations, and focused on religious matters--pious, but neglecting the vital interests of his subjects...

A new account of the life of a highly influential figure in the politics and culture of the 15th century / Provides new understanding of the fractious theological debates between the Greek Orthodox East and the Catholic West / The first biography in...

The 10th-century treatise on the military provinces (the 'themes') of the medieval East Roman (Byzantine) empire is one of the most enigmatic of the works ascribed to the emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogennetos. A mix of historical geography, imperial...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780884024927Author Colin M. WhitingFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & CollectionPublisher Dumbarton Oaks Research...

Chrysovalantis Kyriacou examines how memories of the pre-Christian past, Christian militarism, power struggles, and ethnoreligious encounters have left their long-term imprint on Cypriot culture. One of the most impressive examples of this phenomenon is...

The Byzantine cathedral of Hagia Sophia has been a source of wonder and fascination since its sixth-century construction. It was the premier monument of the Byzantine capital, Constantinople, and remains one of the most recognisable symbols of modern...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788323349433Author Zofia A BrzozowskaFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, WydawnictwoPublisher Uniwersytet Jagiellonski,...

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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices...

St. Gregory Palamas (ca. 1296-1357) is among the most well-known and celebrated theologians of late Byzantium. This book provides a comprehensive account of the essence-energies distinction across his twenty-five treatises and letters written over a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780884024637Author Joel KalvesmakiFormat HardbackPage Count 250Imprint Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & CollectionPublisher Dumbarton Oaks Research...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781641890281Author Nathan LeidholmFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Arc Humanities PressPublisher Arc Humanities Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780884024835Author Colin M. WhitingFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & CollectionPublisher Dumbarton Oaks Research...

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Perceptions of the Body and Sacred Space in Late Antiquity and Byzantium seeks to reveal Christian understanding of the body and sacred space in the medieval Mediterranean. Case studies examine encounters with the holy through the perspective of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780884024378Author Elena BoeckFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & CollectionPublisher Dumbarton Oaks Research Library...

The 10th-century treatise on the military provinces (the 'themes') of the medieval East Roman (Byzantine) empire is one of the most enigmatic of the works ascribed to the emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogennetos. A mix of historical geography, imperial...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780884024798Author Colin M. WhitingFormat HardbackPage Count 362Imprint Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & CollectionPublisher Dumbarton Oaks Research...

This book translates the mid-12th-century Synopsis Chronike by Constantine Manasses which was widely circulated. It extends to 1081, marking the end of Nikephoros Botaneiates' reign and the accession of Alexios I Komnenos. Commissioned by the...