Author: Siren CelikPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
A Historical Biography of Manuel II Palaiologos (1350-1425).
Author: Siren CelikManuel II Palaiologos (1350–1425)
Author: Siren ÇelikPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108836593
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 473
Book Description
New portrait of Manuel II Palaiologos, investigating his tumultuous reign, literary, philosophical and theological oeuvre and personal life.
The Immortal Emperor
Author: Donald M. NicolPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521894098
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
The first biography of the last Byzantine Emperor.
The Byzantine Hellene
Author: Dimiter AngelovPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108480713
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 463
Book Description
Tells the story of Theodore Laskaris, a thirteenth-century Byzantine emperor, imaginative philosopher, and ideologue of Hellenism.
Byzantium Between the Ottomans and the Latins
Author: Nevra NecipoğluPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521877385
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
This book examines Byzantine political attitudes towards the Ottomans and western Europeans during the critical last century of Byzantium. It explores the political orientations of aristocrats, merchants, the urban populace, peasants, and members of ecclesiastical and monastic circles in three major areas of the Byzantine Empire in their social and economic context.
The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Studies
Author: Elizabeth JeffreysPublisher:
ISBN: 0199252467
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1053
Book Description
The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Studies presents discussions by leading experts on all significant aspects of this diverse and fast-growing field. Byzantine Studies deals with the history and culture of the Byzantine Empire, the eastern half of the Late Roman Empire, from the fourth to the fourteenth century. Its centre was the city formerly known as Byzantium, refounded as Constantinople in 324 CE, the present-day Istanbul. Under its emperors, patriarchs, and all-pervasive bureaucracy Byzantium developed a distinctive society: Greek in language, Roman in legal system, and Christian in religion. Byzantium's impact in the European Middle Ages is hard to over-estimate, as a bulwark against invaders, as a meeting-point for trade from Asia and the Mediterranean, as a guardian of the classical literary and artistic heritage, and as a creator of its own magnificent artistic style.
Manuel II Kaiser von Byzanz
Author: Manuel II Palaeologus (Emperor of the East)Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks
ISBN: 9780884020684
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Of the nearly ninety emperors who ruled in Constantinople, Manuel II Palaeologus (r. 1391–1425) was one of the most sympathetic as a human being and one of the most gifted as a statesman. A man of broad intellectual interests, he was also dedicated to his God-given task of preserving what remained of the Byzantine Empire when he came to power. This conflict is reflected in his letters, written in such distant places as Ankara, Paris, and London. The correspondence provides new insights into his reign and enable us to understand better the emperor himself, his friends, and the times in which they lived.
Encyclopedia of Greece and the Hellenic Tradition
Author: Graham SpeakePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135942064
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1941
Book Description
Hellenism is the living culture of the Greek-speaking peoples and has a continuing history of more than 3,500 years. The Encyclopedia of Greece and the Hellenic Tradition contains approximately 900 entries devoted to people, places, periods, events, and themes, examining every aspect of that culture from the Bronze Age to the present day. The focus throughout is on the Greeks themselves, and the continuities within their own cultural tradition. Language and religion are perhaps the most obvious vehicles of continuity; but there have been many others--law, taxation, gardens, music, magic, education, shipping, and countless other elements have all played their part in maintaining this unique culture. Today, Greek arts have blossomed again; Greece has taken its place in the European Union; Greeks control a substantial proportion of the world's merchant marine; and Greek communities in the United States, Australia, and South Africa have carried the Hellenic tradition throughout the world. This is the first reference work to embrace all aspects of that tradition in every period of its existence.
A Companion to Byzantine Epistolography
Author: Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900442461X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 543
Book Description
A Companion to Byzantine Epistolography offers the first comprehensive introduction and scholarly guide to the cultural practice and literary genre of letter-writing in the Byzantine Empire.
Byzantine Art and Diplomacy in an Age of Decline
Author: Cecily J. HilsdalePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107033306
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description
Questions how political decline refigures the visual culture of empire by examining the imperial image and the gift in later Byzantium (1261-1453). Provides a more nuanced account of medieval artistic cultural exchange that considers the temporal dimensions of power and the changing fates of empires.