Download or read book The Emperor Romanus Lecapenus and His Reign a Study of Tenth century Byzantium by Steven Runciman written by Steven Runciman and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Emperor Romanos Lecapenus and His Reign written by Steven Runciman and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Emperor Romanus Lecapenus and His Reign written by Steven Runciman and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Emperor Romanus Lecapenus and His Reign A Study of Tenth century Byzantium With Maps Genealogical Tables and a Bibliography written by James Cochran Stevenson Runciman (Hon. Sir.) and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Emperor Romanus Lecapnus and his reign written by Steven Runciman and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Genesios on the Reigns of the Emperors written by Kaldellis Anthony and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-11-06 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The work On the Reigns attributed to Genesios is an important and pivotal source for the history of the latter part of the ninth century and of the later stages of the iconoclast controversy. This is the first English translation. The translation is accompanied by a detailed commentary including references to current scholarly work in this area. Like the recently published translation of Theophanes, it will add to the increasing network of sources for Middle Byzantine history available in annotated English translation. Anthony Kaldellis, of the University of Michigan, has held a Bliss Fellowship at the Dumbarton Oaks Center for Byzantine Studies, where much of the work leading to the publication of this book was carried out.
Download or read book The Emperor Romanus Lecapenus and His Reign written by Steven Runciman and published by . This book was released on 1929-03-03 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1929, with a hardcover reissue in 1963, this study of the usurping Byzantium emperor is released again in response to the current revival of interest in Byzantium studies.
Download or read book The Papacy and the Orthodox written by A. Edward Siecienski and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-12 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Papacy and the Orthodox examines the centuries-long debate over the primacy and authority of the Bishop of Rome, especially in relation to the Christian East, and offers a comprehensive history of the debate and its underlying theological issues. Siecienski masterfully brings together all of the biblical, patristic, and historical material necessary to understand this longstanding debate. This book is an invaluable resource as both Catholics and Orthodox continue to reexamine the sources and history of the debate.
Download or read book The Reluctant Emperor written by Donald M. Nicol and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-08-22 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Cantacuzene reigned as Byzantine emperor in Constantinople from 1347 to 1354. A man of varied talents, as a scholar, soldier, statesman, theologian and monk, he was unique in being the only emperor to narrate the events of his own career. His memoirs form one of the most interesting and literate of all Byzantine histories. Following his abdication in 1354, he lived the last thirty years of his life as a monk, a writer and a grey eminence behind the throne. This book is not a social or political history of the Byzantine Empire in the fourteenth century. It is a biography of a much maligned man who had a hope, however naive, of coming to terms with the emerging Muslim world of Asia and of winning the co-operation of western Christendom without compromising the Orthodox faith of the Byzantine tradition.
Download or read book The History of Government from the Earliest Times The intermediate ages written by Samuel Edward Finer and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Perfect Servant written by Kathryn M. Ringrose and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Perfect Servant reevaluates the place of eunuchs in Byzantium. Kathryn Ringrose uses the modern concept of gender as a social construct to identify eunuchs as a distinct gender and to illustrate how gender was defined in the Byzantine world. At the same time she explores the changing role of the eunuch in Byzantium from 600 to 1100. Accepted for generations as a legitimate and functional part of Byzantine civilization, eunuchs were prominent in both the imperial court and the church. They were distinctive in physical appearance, dress, and manner and were considered uniquely suited for important roles in Byzantine life. Transcending conventional notions of male and female, eunuchs lived outside of normal patterns of procreation and inheritance and were assigned a unique capacity for mediating across social and spiritual boundaries. This allowed them to perform tasks from which prominent men and women were constrained, making them, in essence, perfect servants. Written with precision and meticulously researched, The Perfect Servant will immediately take its place as a major study on Byzantium and the history of gender.
Download or read book Power and Representation in Byzantium written by Neil Churchill and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-01-23 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the history of Byzantium 65 emperors were dethroned and only 39 reigns ended peacefully. How might a usurper get away with murdering his predecessor? And how could a bloody act of regicide lead to one of the most glorious of all eras in Byzantium? These were questions that puzzled Michael Psellos as he looked back at Basil I’s assassination of Michael III and the origin of the Macedonian dynasty. Might the imperial art of Basil, his sons and grandson help to explain how the dynasty overcame its violent beginnings and secured the loyalty of its subjects? It has long been recognised that the early Macedonian emperors were active propagandists but royal art has usually been viewed thematically over the span of centuries. Official iconography has been understood to project imperial power in ways which were impersonal and unchanging. This book instead adopts a chronological approach and considers how Basil justified his seizure of power, and how his successors went on to articulate their own ideas about authority. It concludes that imperial art did at times reflect the personality of the emperor and the political demands of the moment, such as the need for an heir, the nature of court politics or the choice of successor. This innovative account of the forging of the Macedonian dynasty will appeal to those interested in how early medieval kings and emperors used art to create their own image, to differentiate themselves from rivals and to extend the boundaries of their personal power.
Download or read book John Skylitzes A Synopsis of Byzantine History 811 1057 written by John Skylitzes and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-10-07 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was first published in 2010. John Skylitzes' extraordinary Middle Byzantine chronicle covers the reigns of the Byzantine emperors from the death of Nicephorus I in 811 to the deposition of Michael VI in 1057, and provides the only surviving continuous narrative of the late tenth and early eleventh centuries. A high official living in the late eleventh century, Skylitzes used a number of existing Greek histories (some of them no longer extant) to create a digest of the previous three centuries. It is without question the major historical source for the period and is cited constantly in modern scholarship. This edition features introductions by Jean-Claude Cheynet and Bernard Flusin, along with extensive notes. It will be an essential and exciting addition to the libraries of all historians of the Byzantine age.
Download or read book The Empress Theophano written by Adelbert Davids and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-08-15 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Byzantine princess Theophano, who came to the West in 972 to marry the Ottonian emperor Otto II, died as empress of the Ottonian Empire in Nijmegen in 991. In commemoration of this event a group of distinguished scholars met in 1991 at the castle of Hernen in the Netherlands with the aim of discussing various issues and aspects of Theophano's background in Byzantium, her life in the West, and her impact on society at the turn of the first millennium. This volume brings together in carefully edited form a group of the papers and proceedings from 1991. Each contribution helps to place Theophano in a broad cultural and historical context. The historical, intellectual and artistic background of her age are described, and there are essays on her education, her surroundings, and on the image of noble women in the middle ages.
Download or read book The History of Government from the Earliest Times Volume II The Intermediate Ages written by Samuel Edward Finer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1999-05-27 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unprecendented survey and analysis of government is planetary in its reach. The Late S.E. Finer's tour de force demonstrates the breadth of imagination and magisterial scholarship which characterized the work of one of the leading political scientists of the twentieth century.
