Author: Arthur Edward Romilly BoakPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Two Studies in Later Roman and Byzantine Administration
Author: Arthur Edward Romilly BoakPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Two Studies in Later Roman and Byzantine Administration
Author: Arthur Edward Romilly BoakPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Two Studies in Later Roman and Byzantine Administration
Author: Arthur Edward Romilly BoakPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Byzantine Empire
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Two Studies in Later Roman and Byzantine Administration
Author: The Eunuch in Byzantine History and Society
Author: Shaun TougherPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135235708
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
The existence of eunuchs was one of the defining features of the Byzantine Empire. Covering the whole span of the history of the empire, from the fourth to the fifteenth centuries AD, Shaun Tougher presents a comprehensive survey of the history and roles of eunuchs, making use of extensive comparative material, such as from China, Persia and the Ottoman Empire, as well as about castrato singers of the eighteenth century of Enlightenment Europe, and self-castrating religious devotees such as the Galli of ancient Rome, early Christians, the Skoptsy of Russia and the Hijras of India. The various roles played by eunuchs are examined. They are not just found as servile attendants; some were powerful political players – such as Chrysaphius who plotted to assassinate Attila the Hun – and others were prominent figures in Orthodoxy as bishops and monks. Furthermore, there is offered an analysis of how society thought about eunuchs, especially their gender identity - were they perceived as men, women, or a third sex? The broad survey of the political and social position of eunuchs in the Byzantine Empire is placed in the context of the history of the eunuch in general. An appendix listing key eunuchs of the Byzantine Empire describing their careers is included, and the text is fully illustrated.
The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Constantine
Author: Noel Emmanuel LenskiPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521521574
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Constantine offers students a comprehensive one-volume survey of this pivotal emperor and his times. Richly illustrated and designed as a readable survey accessible to all audiences, it also achieves a level of scholarly sophistication and a freshness of interpretation that will be welcomed by the experts. The volume is divided into five sections that examine political history, religion, social and economic history, art, and foreign relations during the reign of Constantine, who steered the Roman Empire on a course parallel with his own personal development.
Byzantine Style, Religion and Civilization
Author: Elizabeth JeffreysPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521834457
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
A volume of cutting-edge essays written in honour of renowned Byzantinist Sir Steven Runciman.
Papers of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters
Author: Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and LettersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
Vols. 1-53 contain papers submitted at the annual meetings in 1921-1967.
The Ch'ing Imperial Household Department
Author: Preston M. TorbertPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 1684172020
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
This is the first full-length institutional study of the organization and functions of the Imperial Household Department under Ch'ing rule. That department constituted the emperor's 'personal bureaucracy.' In tracing the complex structure of this organization, Preston Torbert has avoided an exhaustive listing of nominal offices and their prescribed duties; instead, he has described the distinctive 'social groups' that made up the departments total personnel-the bondservants, the eunuchs, and the palace maids.
Reclaiming the Roman Capitol: Santa Maria in Aracoeli from the Altar of Augustus to the Franciscans, c. 500–1450
Author: Claudia BolgiaPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000949982
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 609
Book Description
Prominently located on the Arx, the northern summit of the Capitoline hill, S. Maria in Aracoeli is the most significant medieval church of Rome to survive to the present day. Second major church of the Lesser Brothers or fratres minores in the Italian peninsula, and Roman headquarters of the Order, the Aracoeli played a vital role in the interaction between the Franciscans and the papacy, the friars and the laity, and the religious and civic authorities, as reflected in its art and architecture. On the basis of an interdisciplinary approach combining archaeological analysis with the finding of new archival evidence, reinterpretation of documents and literary and epigraphic sources, this book offers a reconstruction of the original church, its monuments and its Benedictine as well as eighth/ninth-century predecessors, which differs radically from earlier hypotheses. This reassessment in turn allows the author to revisit a number of major questions, including the Franciscans’ physical and theoretical appropriation of the past, the adaptation of an ancient site by a ‘modern’ religious order, the use and functions of space, the interaction between friars, laity and artists, and the contribution of the Roman Franciscans to the development of Marian devotion, thus shedding new light on the social, political and religious history of late-medieval Italy and its impact beyond the peninsula, from England to Bohemia and the Holy Land.