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Byzantine Christianity by Averil Cameron
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75'. . . I have sailed the seas and come To the holy city of Byzantium.' W. B. Yeats From the foundation of Constantinople in 330 to its fall in 1453, this brief history explores the key... -
Byzantine Matters by Averil Cameron
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $20.78Why 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,... -
Dialoguing in Late Antiquity by Averil Cameron 9780674428355
RRP: $22.71Booksplease Price: $20.05Christians talked, debated, and wrote dialogues in late antiquity and on throughout Byzantium. Some were philosophical, others more literary, theological, or Platonic; Aristotle also came into the... -
Modern Orthodox Thinkers: From the Philokalia to the Present by Andrew Louth
RRP: $41.53Booksplease Price: $29.45Starting with the influence of the Philokalia in nineteenth-century Russia, the book moves through the Slavophiles, Solovev, Florensky in Russia and then traces the story through the Christian... -
Eusebius' Life of Constantine by Eusebius 9780198149248
Booksplease Price: $158.23Eusebius' Life of Constantine is the most important single record of Constantine, the emperor who turned the Roman Empire from prosecuting the Church to supporting it, with huge and lasting... -
The Christians as the Romans Saw Them by Robert Louis Wilken 9780300098396
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $17.25This book, which includes a new preface by the author, offers an engrossing portrayal of the early years of the Christian movement from the perspective of the Romans. "A fascinating . . . account of... -
New Rome: The Roman Empire in the East, AD 395 - 700 - Longlisted for the Anglo-Hellenic Runciman Award by Paul Stephenson
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07'Fascinating ... illuminating ... Stephenson examines ordinary life, painting a vivid and intriguing picture.' The Times Long before Rome fell to the Ostrogoths in AD 476, a new city had risen... -
Treasure in Heaven: The Holy Poor in Early Christianity by Peter Brown
RRP: $28.13Booksplease Price: $24.44The ""holy poor"" have long maintained an elite status within Christianity. Differing from the ""real"" poor, these clergymen, teachers, and ascetics have historically been viewed by their fellow... -
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World by Peter Frankopan 9781408839997
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $14.73For centuries, fame and fortune was to be found in the west - in the New World of the Americas. Today, it is the east which calls out to those in search of adventure and riches. The region stretching... -
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World by Peter Frankopan 9781408839997 [USED COPY]
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $5.96For centuries, fame and fortune was to be found in the west - in the New World of the Americas. Today, it is the east which calls out to those in search of adventure and riches. The region stretching... -
Theodora: Actress, Empress, Saint by David Potter 9780199740765
Booksplease Price: $46.36Two of the most famous mosaics from the Byzantine period, from the church of San Vitale in Ravenna, depict the sixth-century Emperor Justinian and, on the wall facing him, his wife, Theodora... -
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World Professor Peter Frankopan 9781408839973
RRP: $46.90Booksplease Price: $36.34The No. 1 Sunday Times and international bestseller - a major reassessment of world history in light of the economic and political renaissance in the re-emerging east For centuries, fame and...