Alexios I Komnenos: I. Papers
Author | : Margaret Mullett |
Publisher | : Belfast Byzantine |
Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Margaret Mullett |
Publisher | : Belfast Byzantine |
Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Margaret Mullett |
Publisher | : Belfast Byzantine |
Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Marek Meško |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 437 |
Release | : 2023-06-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 3031262964 |
This book provides a new military history of Byzantine emperor Alexios I Komnenos's campaigns in the Balkans, during the first fourteen years of his rule. While the tactics and manoeuvres Alexios used against Robert Guiscard's Normans are relatively well-known, his strategy in dealing with Pecheneg and Cuman adversaries in the region has received less attention in historical scholarship. This book provides a much-need synthesis of these three closely linked campaigns – often treated as discrete events – revealing a surprising coherence in Alexios' response, and explores the position of Byzantium's army and navy on the eve of the First Crusade.
Author | : Margaret Mullett |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 437 |
Release | : 1996 |
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Author | : Margaret Mullett |
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Total Pages | : 437 |
Release | : 1996 |
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ISBN | : 9780853895817 |
Author | : Anna Komnene |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 1069 |
Release | : 2009-08-06 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0141904542 |
A revised edition of Anna Komnene's Alexiad, to replace our existing 1969 edition. This is the first European narrative history written by a woman - an account of the reign of a Byzantine emperor through the eyes and words of his daughter which offers an unparalleled view of the Byzantine world in the eleventh and twelfth centuries.
Author | : Marek Meško |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9783031262982 |
This book provides a new military history of Byzantine emperor Alexios I Komnenos's campaigns in the Balkans, during the first fourteen years of his rule. While the tactics and manoeuvres Alexios used against Robert Guiscard's Normans are relatively well-known, his strategy in dealing with Pecheneg and Cuman adversaries in the region has received less attention in historical scholarship. This book provides a much-need synthesis of these three closely linked campaigns - often treated as discrete events - revealing a surprising coherence in Alexios' response, and explores the position of Byzantium's army and navy on the eve of the First Crusade. Marek Meško is an assistant professor at the University of Hradec Kralove, Institute of History, Czech Republic. .
Author | : Margaret Mullett |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 415 |
Release | : 2023-06-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1000941647 |
These studies look at general problems of reading Byzantine literature, at literacy practices and the literary process, but also at individual texts. The past thirty years have seen a revolution in the way Byzantine literature has been viewed: no longer is it considered a decadent form of classical literature or a turgid precursor of modern Greek literature. There are still prejudices to overcome: that there was no literary public, or that Byzantium had no drama or humour, but Byzantine texts are now read as literature in the social context of literacy and book culture. One genre is treated here more fully: the letter (Derrida said that letters represent all literature). In these studies epistolography is examined from the point of view of genre, of originality, of communication and as evidence for political history. Other genres touched on include the novel, historiography, parainesis, panegyric, and hagiography. The section on literary process includes essays on genre, patronage and rhetoric, and the section on literacy practices deals with both writing and reading. The collection includes one unpublished lecture which acts as introduction, and additional notes and comments.
Author | : Teresa Shawcross |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 745 |
Release | : 2018-10-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108304907 |
Offering a comprehensive introduction to the history of books, readers and reading in the Byzantine Empire and its sphere of influence, this volume addresses a paradox. Advanced literacy was rare among imperial citizens, being restricted by gender and class. Yet the state's economic, religious and political institutions insisted on the fundamental importance of the written record. Starting from the materiality of codices, documents and inscriptions, the volume's contributors draw attention to the evidence for a range of interactions with texts. They examine the role of authors, compilers and scribes. They look at practices such as the close perusal of texts in order to produce excerpts, notes, commentaries and editions. But they also analyse the social implications of the constant intersection of writing with both image and speech. Showcasing current methodological approaches, this collection of essays aims to place a discussion of Byzantium within the mainstream of medieval textual studies.
Author | : Anna Komnene |
Publisher | : DigiCat |
Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 2022-08-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
This is a first-hand account, by his daughter, Alexia, of the reign of Emperor Alexius from 1081 - 1118, over the Eastern part of the Roman Empire, the Byzantine Empire. Since it was written it has formed the bedrock of knowledge about the fall of the Byzantine empire and the Crusades.