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Femina: The instant Sunday Times bestseller – A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of It by Janina Ramirez
RRP: $16.76$11.73THE 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... -
Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages by Janina Ramirez
RRP: $28.38$20.67THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'The women of the Middle Ages, so often silent and inconspicuous in our histories, find voice, agency and justice in this brilliant book' - Alice Roberts, bestselling author of Ancestors: A Prehistory of Britain in... -
Millennium: The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom by Tom Holland
RRP: $16.76$6.85Of 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... -
Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History by Nur Masalha 9780755649426
RRP: $14.18$11.03This 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 New Roman Empire: A History of Byzantium by Anthony Kaldellis 9780197549322
RRP: $45.14$40.88A 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... -
The First Crusade: The Call from the East by Peter Frankopan
RRP: $16.76$11.73FROM 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 Last Viking: The True Story of King Harald Hardrada by Don Hollway
RRP: $14.18$10.51'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... -
A Cabinet of Byzantine Curiosities: Strange Tales and Surprising Facts from History's Most Orthodox Empire by Anthony Kaldellis
RRP: $19.34$14.13Weird, 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... -
Ravenna: Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe by Judith Herrin
RRP: $21.92$15.84'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... -
Belisarius & Antonina: Love and War in the Age of Justinian by David Alan Parnell 9780197574706
RRP: $25.79$22.10A 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... -
Hardcore History: Humanity vs the Apocalypse, from the Bronze Age to Today by Dan Carlin
RRP: $14.18$9.35THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Do tough times create tougher people? Can humanity handle the power of its weapons without destroying itself? Will human technology ever peak or regress? And why, since the dawn of time,... -
A Short History of Byzantium by John Julius Norwich
RRP: $21.92$15.84A 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... -
The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World by Virginia Postrel
RRP: $19.34$12.02The 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,... -
Romanland: Ethnicity and Empire in Byzantium by Anthony Kaldellis
RRP: $54.12$43.06A leading historian argues that in the empire we know as Byzantium, the Greek-speaking population was actually Roman, and scholars have deliberately mislabeled their ethnicity for the past two centuries for political reasons.Was there ever such a thing... -
The Life and Death of Ancient Cities: A Natural History by Greg Woolf 9780199664733
RRP: $38.70$27.54The 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... -
Byzantine Cavalryman vs Vandal Warrior: North Africa AD 533–36 by Dr Murray Dahm
RRP: $20.63$14.98Fully 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... -
Byzantine Art by Mr Robin Cormack
RRP: $28.37$20.14The 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... -
Athens: City of Wisdom by Bruce Clark
RRP: $15.48$10.89A 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 Young Alexander by Alex Rowson
RRP: $32.25$23.25'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 Young Alexander: The Making of Alexander the Great by Alex Rowson
RRP: $14.18$9.35'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 Lost World of Byzantium by Jonathan Harris
RRP: $19.34$17.58A 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... -
Constantinople AD 717-18: The Crucible of History by Si Sheppard
RRP: $20.63$14.98The siege of Constantinople in AD 717-18 was the supreme crisis of Western civilization. The Byzantine Empire had been reeling under the onslaught of Arabic imperialism since the death of the Prophet, whilst Jihadist armies had detached Syria,... -
Athens: A History by Bruce Clark
RRP: $32.25$29.40A 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... -
Roman Heavy Cavalry (2): AD 500–1450 by Dr Andrei Evgenevich Negin
RRP: $19.34$14.13In 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... -
Streams of Gold, Rivers of Blood: The Rise and Fall of Byzantium, 955 A.D. to the First Crusade by Anthony Kaldellis 9780190253226
RRP: $47.72$41.47In 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... -
Byzantium and the Crusades by Dr Jonathan Harris
RRP: $34.82$33.23Jonathan Harris's classic text chronologically surveys Byzantine history in the time of the Crusades. The book reveals the attitudes of the Byzantine ruling elites towards the Crusades and their ultimate inability to adapt to the challenges this... -
Road to Manzikert: Byzantine and Islamic Warfare, 527-1071 by Brian Todd Carey
RRP: $19.34$14.13In August 1071, the Byzantine Emperor Romanus IV Diogenese led out a powerful army in an attempt to roll back Seljuk Turkish incursions into the Anatolian heartland of the Empire. Outmanoeuvred by the Turkish sultan, Alp Arslan, Romanus was forced to... -
The Sasanian Empire at War: Persia, Rome, and the Rise of Islam, 224-651 by Michael J Decker
RRP: $45.15$29.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594163692Author Michael J DeckerFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Westholme PublishingPublisher Westholme PublishingWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm)... -
Gregory Palamas: The Hesychast Controversy and the Debate with Islam by Norman Russell
RRP: $51.59$48.70Gregory Palamas, a monk of Mount Athos and metropolitan of Thessalonike from 1347 to 1357, was a leading fourteenth-century Byzantine intellectual. He was the chief spokesman for the hesychasts in the controversy bearing that name, which began when a... -
Is Byzantine Studies a Colonialist Discipline?: Toward a Critical Historiography by Benjamin Anderson
RRP: $27.03$23.53Is Byzantine Studies a colonialist discipline? Rather than provide a definitive answer to this question, this book defines the parameters of the debate and proposes ways of thinking about what it would mean to engage seriously with the field's political... -
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... -
Streams of Gold, Rivers of Blood: The Rise and Fall of Byzantine, 955 A.D. to the First Crusade by Anthony Kaldellis
$33.94In 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... -
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$28.08Apologies 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...