Byzantium

  • Byzantium: Faith and Power (1261-1557)
    Byzantium: Faith and Power (1261-1557)
    By Metropolitan Museum of Art, N.Y.)

    Taylor identified the background patterns and elements of the costumes of the figures as representing the contemporary taste of the Timurids, who dominated the region." In contrast to this dramatically exotic detailing, the iconography ...

  • Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire
    Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire
    By Judith Herrin

    (Liverpool 2005), vol. 2, p. 240. Eusebius, Life of Constantine, tr. Averil Cameron and Stuart G. Hall (Oxford 1999). Leslie Brubaker, 'Memories of Helena: Patterns of Imperial Female Matronage 339 Further Reading.

  • Byzantium: An Illustrated History
    Byzantium: An Illustrated History
    By Sean McLachlan

    When Constantius II died in 361 , Julian ( 361–63 ) rose to power . Julian was an emperor of a different sort . His family had been on the losing side of Constantius II's dynastic plotting . His own father was murdered by the emperor's ...

  • Byzantium: Stories
    Byzantium: Stories
    By Ben Stroud

    I didn't want to think about why, and staring out at the field of houses I ignored his legs wiggling over the sill and let my mind drift to the moonflesh beneath Angela's shirt. I struggled with my inadequate map, itched.

  • Byzantium: From Antiquity to the Renaissance
    Byzantium: From Antiquity to the Renaissance
    By Thomas F. Mathews

    Featuring more than one hundred color plates of mosaics, metalwork, architecture, frescoes and religious artifacts, as well as maps, diagrams, and a timeline, this definitive work provides a complete yet succinct introduction to the full ...

  • Byzantium
    Byzantium
    By Stephen R. Lawhead

    He is chosen to accompany a small band of monks on a quest to the farthest eastern reaches of the known world, to the fabled city of Byzantium, where they are to present a beautiful and costly hand-illuminated manuscript, the Book of Kells, ...

  • Byzantium
    Byzantium
    By Rowena Loverance

    Lavishly illustrated, this history of the Byzantine empire is updated with a new Introduction and includes the most recent finds and interpretations.

  • Byzantium: A History
    Byzantium: A History
    By John Haldon

    C.M. Brand, 'Two Byzantine Treatises on Taxation', Traditio 25 (1969) 35–60 J.B. Bury, A history of the later Roman ... Life and society in Byzantine Cappadocia (Basingstoke 2012) G. Duby, The early growth of the European economy.

  • Byzantium: A Very Short Introduction
    Byzantium: A Very Short Introduction
    By Peter Sarris

    Explores the fusion of Roman political culture, Greek intellectual tradition, and Christian faith that characterized Byzantium. Shows how the empire held power for eleven centuries and why it ultimately fell.

  • Byzantium: The Apogee
    Byzantium: The Apogee
    By John Julius Norwich

    Describes Byzantium's battles against foreign threats, its internal conflicts, the return of iconoclasm in the ninth century, and the struggles between Anatolia's military aristocracy and the eunuchs of the capital

  • Byzantium: The Bridge from Antiquity to the Middle Ages
    Byzantium: The Bridge from Antiquity to the Middle Ages
    By Michael Angold

    Details how the cultural inheritors of Rome, Islam, Christianity, the Orthodox church, and a scared monarchy struggled to coexist in Constantinople by documenting the evolution and character of Byzantium's art, society, and politics, and ...

  • Byzantium
    Byzantium
    By Robert Wernick

    Here, from New York Times bestselling author Robert Wernick, is the unforgettable story of the Byzantine Empire, which dominated the world for more than 1,000 years.

  • Byzantium
    Byzantium
    By William Butler Yeats

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  • Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire
    Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire
    By Judith Herrin

    Byzantium. The name evokes grandeur and exoticism—gold, cunning, and complexity. In this unique book, Judith Herrin unveils the riches of a quite different civilization.

  • Byzantium
    By Michael Ennis

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  • Byzantium: The Early Centuries
    Byzantium: The Early Centuries
    By John Julius Norwich

    In this brilliant narrative, John Julius Norwich tells the story of the Byzantine Empire from its beginnings to the emergence of its only European rival, the Holy Roman Empire, with...

  • Byzantium: Church, Society, and Civilization Seen Through Contemporary Eyes
    Byzantium: Church, Society, and Civilization Seen Through Contemporary Eyes
    By Deno John Geanakoplos

    Deno John Geanakoplos here offers a prodigious collection of source materials on the Byzantine church, society, and civilization (many translated for the first time into English), arranged chronologically and topically, and knit together ...

  • Byzantium
    Byzantium
    By David Oconner

    The city of Integrity, located on the Sea of Tranquility, was mankind's proof to ourselves that yes, they could indeed build a whole city on virtually nothing, from virtually nothing, and make it breathtakingly beautiful afterward.

  • Byzantium: Capital of an Ancient Empire
    Byzantium: Capital of an Ancient Empire
    By Giles Morgan

    The term 'Byzantine' derives from the ancient Greek city of Byzantium founded in 667 BC by colonists from Megara. It was named in honor of their leader Byzas.

  • Byzantium: The Empire of New Rome
    By Cyril A. Mango

    Byzantium: The Empire of New Rome