Author: Vasílis K.. GoúnarisPublisher:
ISBN: 9789604586134
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
Mines, Olives and Monasteries
Author: Vasílis K.. GoúnarisPublisher:
ISBN: 9789604586134
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
Environment and Society in Byzantium, 650-1150
Author: Alexander OlsonPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030599361
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
This book illuminates Byzantines' relationship with woodland between the seventh and twelfth centuries. Using the oak and the olive as objects of study, this work explores shifting economic strategies, environmental change, and the transformation of material culture throughout the middle Byzantine period. Drawing from texts, environmental data, and archaeological surveys, this book demonstrates that woodland's makeup was altered after Byzantium's seventh-century metamorphosis, and that people interacted in new ways with this re-worked ecology. Oak obtained prominence after late antiquity, illustrating the shift from that earlier era's intensive agriculture to a more sylvan middle Byzantine economy. Meanwhile, the olive faded into the background, re-emerging in the eleventh and twelfth centuries thanks to the initiative of people adapting yet again to newly changed political and economic circumstances. This book therefore shows that Byzantines' relationship with their ecology was far from static, and that Byzantines' decisions had environmental impacts.
Reading Eustathios of Thessalonike
Author: Filippomaria PontaniPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110523205
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Despite the relevance of Eustathios to both Classical and Byzantine studies, no monograph and no collective volume in English has yet been devoted to his figure. This book attempts to fill in this gap by addressing the various facets of his output - above all his commentaries on Homer, Dionysius the Periegete, Pindar, and the Iambic Canon on the Pentecost; but also his historiographical work, his speeches and his theological production receive due attention. The book also tackles several aspects of Eustathios‘ style (proverbs, allusions, etc.), and the meaning of his work in the context of his historical moment. Addressed at specialists but also at graduate students with an interest in the reception of Classical antiquity and in Byzantine civilisation, the volume gathers papers by leading scholars from various countries, and it opens up new paths of research in several areas of philology and history, above all by interweaving and juxtaposing Eustathios‘ dimension as an Homerist and an immensely learned classical scholar with his capacities as an orator, a highly praised teacher, a rhetorically refined writer of Greek prose, an historian of his own turbulent times, and an archbishop who had to fulfil his everyday duties.
The Oxford History of the Archaic Greek World
Author: A G Leventis Senior Research Fellow Inaugural A G Leventis Professor of Greek Culture Emeritus Paul CartledgePublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199383553
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 865
Book Description
The ancient Greek world consisted of approximately 1,000 autonomous polities scattered across the Mediterranean basin, and each one developed its own, unique set of socio-political institutions and social practices. The Oxford History of the Archaic Greek World offers twenty-one detailed studies of key sites from across the Greek world between c. 750 and c. 480 BCE--a crucial period when much of what is now seen as distinctive about Greek culture emerged. All the studies in this seven-volume series use the same structure and methodology so that readers can easily compare a wide range of Greek communities. The series thus offers a new and unique resource for the study of ancient Greece that will transform how we study and think about a crucial era in ancient Greek history. Volume IV contains detailed and up-to-date studies of Cyrene, Delphi, Macedonia, Massalia, and Metapontion.
Vine and Olive
Author: Oliver OpticPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3732688232
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: Vine and Olive by Oliver Optic
Mining and Engineering Record. ...
Author: Vine and Olive Oil
Author: Oliver OpticPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Adventure stories
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Byzantine Monastic Foundation Documents
Author: John Philip ThomasPublisher: Dumbarton Oaks
ISBN: 9780884022329
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
The nature of the typkia, discussed by John Thomas in the introduction, was one of flexible and personal documents, which differed considerably in form, length, and content. Not all of them were foundation documents in the strict sense, since they could be issued at any time in the history of an institution. Some were wills; others were reform decrees and rules; yet others were primarily liturgical in character.
The Story of Cyprus Mines Corporation
Author: David LavenderPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
"After Great Britain acquired ... Cyprus, an occasional engineer made sporadic attempts to rediscover the old [copper] mines, dormant since the Romans had abandoned them fifteen centuries earlier. ... book tells of Charles Godfrey Gunther's discovery of the prospects and of his long struggle to bring them into production in a region where modern tehcnological skills were almost unknown." -- p. v.