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A History of Byzantium by Timothy E. Gregory 9781405184717
RRP: $43.80$41.00This revised and expanded edition of the widely-praised A History of Byzantium covers the time of Constantine the Great in AD 306 to the fall of Constantinople in 1453. Expands treatment of the middle and later Byzantine periods, incorporating new... -
The Life and Death of Ancient Cities: A Natural History by Greg Woolf
RRP: $27.08$19.27The 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... -
The Fourth Crusade: The Conquest of Constantinople by Donald E. Queller
RRP: $38.69$34.04On August 15, 1199, Pope Innocent III called for a renewed effort to deliver Jerusalem from the Infidel, but the Fourth Crusade had a very different outcome from the one he preached. Proceeding no further than Constantinople, the Crusaders sacked the... -
Streams of Gold, Rivers of Blood: The Rise and Fall of Byzantine, 955 A.D. to the First Crusade by Anthony Kaldellis
RRP: $31.59$31.31In 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... -
Byzantine Fortifications: Protecting the Roman Empire in the East by Kontogiannis, Nikos D
RRP: $32.25$27.54The Byzantine empire was one of the most powerful forces in the Mediterranean and Near East for over a thousand years. Strong military organization, in particular widespread fortifications, was essential for its defence. Yet this aspect of its history is... -
Byzantine Matters by Averil Cameron
RRP: $20.63$16.27Why the marginalized story of Byzantium has much to teach us about Western historyFor many, Byzantium remains byzantine-obscure, marginal, difficult. Despite the efforts of some recent historians, prejudices still deform understanding of the Byzantine... -
The Empire of Manuel I Komnenos, 1143-1180 by Paul Magdalino
RRP: $49.01$44.93The reign of Manuel I (1143-1180) marked the high point of the revival of the Byzantine empire under the Comnenian dynasty. It was, however, followed by a rapid decline, leading to the sack of Constantinople by the Fourth Crusade in 1204. This book, the... -
The Legend of Basil the Bulgar-Slayer by Paul Stephenson 9780521158831
RRP: $25.79$22.10The reign of Basil II (976-1025), the longest of any Byzantine emperor, has long been considered as a 'golden age', in which his greatest achievement was the annexation of Bulgaria. This, we have been told, was achieved through a long and bloody war of... -
Byzantium Viewed by the Arabs by Nadia Maria El Cheikh 9780932885302
$23.85This book studies the Arabic-Islamic view of Byzantium, tracing the Byzantine image as it evolved through centuries of warfare, contact, and exchanges. Including previously inaccessible material on the Arabic textual tradition on Byzantium, this... -
Tastes of Byzantium: The Cuisine of a Legendary Empire by Andrew Dalby
RRP: $24.50$18.41A 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... -
The Life and Death of Theodore of Stoudios by Robert H. Jordan
RRP: $38.64$29.92Theodore (759-826), abbot of the influential Constantinopolitan monastery of Stoudios, is celebrated as a saint by the Orthodox Church for his stalwart defense of icon veneration. Three important texts promoting the monastery and the memory of its... -
Byzantium: A History by John Haldon
RRP: $19.34$14.55Originally the eastern half of the mighty Roman Empire, Byzantium grew to be one of the longest-surviving empires in world history, spanning nine centuries and three continents. It was a land of contrasts - from the glittering centre at Constantinople,... -
The Invention of Byzantium in Early Modern Europe by Nathanael Aschenbrenner
RRP: $43.80$35.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780884024842Author Nathanael AschenbrennerFormat HardbackPage Count 478Imprint Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & CollectionPublisher Dumbarton Oaks Research... -
The Canons of the Quinisext Council (691/2): 2020 by Richard Price
RRP: $42.51$40.45These canons (or rules) for church organization and life and Christian morals issued at a council held in Constantinople in 691/2 form the foundation of Byzantine Canon Law. They show an intense concern to restore the proper discipline of clerical... -
Empire of God: How the Byzantines Saved Civilization by Robert Spencer 9781637587423
RRP: $45.15$27.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637587423Author Robert SpencerFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Bombardier BooksPublisher Bombardier BooksWeight(grams) 599g -
Maria Lekapene, Empress of the Bulgarians: Neither a Saint Nor a Malefactress by Miroslaw J Leszka
RRP: $58.05$44.72The book presents the biography of Maria, daughter of Christopher Lekapenos (the eldest son of emperor Romanos I). For about 35 years, she was the tsaritsa of the Bulgarians at the side of her husband, Tsar Peter (927-969). Her character is but dimly... -
Politics and Government in Byzantium: The Rise and Fall of the Bureaucrats by Jonathan Shea
$31.62The 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... -
The Holy Apostles - A Lost Monument, a Forgotten Project, and the Presentness of the Past by Margaret Mullett
RRP: $70.89$57.37Apologies 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... -
The Rich and the Pure: Philanthropy and the Making of Christian Society in Early Byzantium by Daniel Caner
RRP: $38.70$29.95A 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... -
The Conquered - Byzantium and America on the Cusp of Modernity by Eleni Kefala
RRP: $27.03$21.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780884024767Author Eleni KefalaFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & CollectionPublisher Dumbarton Oaks Research Library &... -
The Philosopher, or On Faith by George Amiroutzes
RRP: $48.96$39.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780884024859Author George AmiroutzesFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & CollectionPublisher Dumbarton Oaks Research... -
Almanac of Würzburg - 2023 by Douglas Deffenbaugh of Rome-Frankfurt 9781312105201
RRP: $109.92$99.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781312105201Author Douglas Deffenbaugh of Rome-FrankfurtFormat HardbackPage Count 528Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 1497g -
Early Creedal Formulations and Theological Discourse by Mark A Moore 9780578783956
RRP: $10.31$7.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578783956Author Mark A MooreFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Gcrr PressPublisher Gcrr PressWeight(grams) 152g -
Sebeos' History: Volume 2 by Sebeos 9781925937961
RRP: $30.96$26.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925937961Author SebeosFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint SophenePublisher SopheneWeight(grams) 231g -
Essence and Energies: Being and Naming God in St Gregory Palamas by Tikhon Pino 9781032244808
RRP: $51.59$47.36St. 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... -
Carthage, Constantinople and Rome: Imperial and Papal Interventions in the Life of the Church in Byzantine Africa (533-698) by S Adamiak 9788878393479
$40.70Apologies 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)... -
En Sofia mathitefsantes: Essays in Byzantine Material Culture and Society in Honour of Sophia Kalopissi-Verti by Charikleia Diamanti 9781789692624
RRP: $77.40$64.81En 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... -
Dumbarton Oaks Papers, 77 by Colin M. Whiting 9780884025009
RRP: $135.39$105.53Apologies 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 Acts of the Council of Constantinople of 869-70 by Richard Price 9781802073690
RRP: $51.59$48.70The 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 Chronicle of Constantine Manasses by Linda Yuretich 9781789621587
RRP: $42.51$40.45This 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... -
Rome and Byzantium in the Visigothic Kingdom: Beyond Imitatio Imperii by Damián Fernández 9789463726412
RRP: $147.06$145.47This 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... -
The Bulgarian State in 927-969: The Epoch of Tsar Peter I by Miroslaw J Leszka 9788323345459
RRP: $70.95$55.65Tsar 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... -
Cardinal Bessarion (1403–1472): Most Latin of Greeks, Most Greek of Latins by Michael Malone-Lee 9781032442402
RRP: $167.70$150.34A 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 De Thematibus ('on the themes') of Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus: Translated with introductory chapters and notes by John Haldon 9781802078435
RRP: $38.69$36.96The 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... -
First International Sevgi Gönül Byzantine Studie – Proceedings by Ayla Ödekan
RRP: $134.16$132.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786059388023Author Ayla ÖdekanFormat PaperbackPage Count 648Imprint Koc University PressPublisher Koc University PressWeight(grams) 1620g -
Dumbarton Oaks Papers, 76 by Colin M. Whiting
RRP: $135.39$105.53Apologies 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... -
The Byzantine Warrior Hero: Cypriot Folk Songs as History and Myth, 965-1571 by Chrysovalantis Kyriacou
RRP: $116.10$101.66Chrysovalantis 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... -
Hagia Sophia in Context: An Archaeological Re-examination of the Cathedral of Byzantine Constantinople by Ken Dark
RRP: $45.15$37.18The 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... -
Muhammad and the Origin of Islam in the Byzantine-Slavic Literary Context: A Bibliographical History by Zofia A Brzozowska
$65.47Apologies 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,... -
Catalogue of Byzantine Seals at Dumbarton Oaks a – Anonymous, with Bilateral Religious Imagery by John A. Cotsonis
RRP: $70.89$56.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780884024729Author John A. CotsonisFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & CollectionPublisher Dumbarton Oaks Research...