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Byzantine Christianity by Averil Cameron
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.84'. . . 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: $37.78Booksplease Price: $32.57Why 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,... -
The Later Roman Empire by Averil Cameron 9780006861720
Booksplease Price: $20.98Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Dialoguing in Late Antiquity by Averil Cameron 9780674428355
RRP: $35.60Booksplease Price: $31.42Christians 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... -
Law and Family in Late Antiquity: The Emperor Constantine's Marriage Legislation by Judith Evans Grubbs 9780198147688
Booksplease Price: $130.39A new and thought-provoking study of marriage and the law in late antiquity, looking particularly at the new legislation enacted by the emperor Constantine (reigned AD 307-337). Constantine was... -
Modern Orthodox Thinkers: From the Philokalia to the Present by Andrew Louth
RRP: $65.08Booksplease Price: $46.16Starting 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: $247.97Eusebius' 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: $29.38Booksplease Price: $27.03This 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: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.05'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: $44.08Booksplease Price: $38.30The ""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: $35.68Booksplease Price: $23.08For 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: $35.68Booksplease Price: $9.35For 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: $74.13Two 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: $73.50Booksplease Price: $56.95The 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...