Constantine Porphyrogenitus and Hisworld
Author | : Arnold Toynbee |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1973 |
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Author | : Arnold Toynbee |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1973 |
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Author | : Arnold Toynbee |
Publisher | : London ; New York : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 802 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
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Author | : Arnold Toynbee |
Publisher | : London ; New York : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 804 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
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Author | : Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus (Emperor of the East) |
Publisher | : Dumbarton Oaks |
Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780884020219 |
This edition contains a wide variety of information on both foreign relations and internal administration and is one of the most important historical documents surviving from the Middle Byzantine period.
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Release | : 1989 |
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Author | : Hugh Goodacre |
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Total Pages | : 119 |
Release | : 19?? |
Genre | : Solidus |
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Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 912 |
Release | : 2017-11-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004344926 |
This is the first modern language translation of the entire text of the tenth-century Greek Book of Ceremonies (De ceremoniis) , a work compiled and edited by the Byzantine emperor Constantine VII (905-959). It preserves material from the fifth century through to the 960s. Chapters deal with diverse subjects of concern to the emperor including the role of the court, secular and ecclesiastical ceremonies, processions within the Palace and through Constantinople to its churches, the imperial tombs, embassies, banquets and dress, the role of the demes, hippodrome festivals with chariot races, imperial appointments, the hierarchy of the Byzantine administration, the equipping of expeditions, including to recover Crete from the Arabs, and the lists of ecclesiastical provinces and bishoprics.
Author | : Susan Wise Bauer |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 769 |
Release | : 2010-01-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0393059758 |
Chronicles the period between the 4th and 12th centuries, when religion became the justification for political and military action, a time that included the development of Islam, the crowning of Charlemagne, and the rise of the T'ang Dynasty.
Author | : Liz James |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 2017-05-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1317161769 |
Constantine of Rhodes's tenth-century poem is an account of public monuments in Constantinople and of the Church of the Holy Apostles. In the opening section of the work, Constantine describes columns and sculptures within the city, seven of which he calls 'wonders'. In the second part of the poem, he portrays the Church of the Holy Apostles, offering an account of its architecture and internal decoration, notably the mosaics, seven of which are also depicted as 'wonders'. On one level, the poem offers an account of what was visible, a sense of city topography and, in the case of the Apostoleion, a vital description of a now-lost building. But it cannot be read as a straightforward description. Rather, Constantine's work offers insights into Byzantine perceptions of works of art. The monuments Constantine decided to portray and the ways in which he chose to describe them say as much, if not more, about the social and cultural milieu in which he operated as about the actual physical appearance of the monuments themselves. Further, the poem itself, as it survives in one fifteenth-century manuscript, raises questions: is it, in its current form, a single poem or is it made up of a compilation of Constantine's writings? This book supersedes the two previous editions of the poem, both dating to 1896, and provides the first full translation of the text. It consists of a new Greek edition of Constantine's poem, with an introductory essay, prepared by Ioannis Vassis, and a translation and commentary by a group of scholars headed by Liz James. Liz James also contributes an extensive discussion of the two distinct parts of the poem, the city monuments and the Church of the Holy Apostles.
Author | : John Haldon |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2002-11-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1135364370 |
Warfare, State and Society in the Byznatine World is the first comprehensive study of the warfare and the Byzantine World from the sixth to the twelfth century. The book examines Byzantine attitudes to warfare, the effects of war on society and culture, and the relations between the soldiers, their leaders and society. The communications, logistics, resources and manpower capabilities of the Byzantine Empire are explored to set warfare in its geographical as well as historical context. In addition to the strategic and tactical evolution of the army, this book analyses the army in campaign and in battle, and its attitudes to violence in the context of the Byzantine Orthodox Church.