Images of children in Byzantium

This book covers a subject that has never previously been addressed, and yet it is both a fascinating and a provocative one: the representation of children in Byzantium. The visual material is extensive, intriguing and striking, and the historical context is crucially important to our ...

Piety and plage from Byzantium to the Baroque

Plague was one of the enduring facts of everyday life on the European continent, from earliest antiquity through the first decades of the eighteenth century. It represents one of the most important influences on the development of Europe's society and culture. In order to ...

Memoria e invención de Bizancio

Bizancio y la sublime puerta no fueron un mundo cerrado. No dejaron de ser visitados por hombres y mujeres que atravesaron sus fronteras camino de Constantinopla/Estabul; y desde allí se desplazaron a Edirne, al Danubio y a otras tierras aún más lejanas. Al amparo ...

Dreambooks in Byzantium

six oneirocritica in translation with commentary and introduction

"Dreambooks in Byzantium" offers for the first time in English translation and with commentary six of the seven extant Byzantine oneirocritica, or manuals on the interpretation of dreams. (The seventh, "The Oneirocriticon of Achmet ibn Sereim" was published previously by the author.)Dreams permeated all ...

From Byzantium to modern Greece

medieval texts and their modern reception

The twelfth century was a time of cultural renewal and innovation in Byzantium, just as it was in the west. In literature, the long disused genres of epic, satire and the novel (or 'romance') took new forms during that century; at the same time, in ...

Enamels, crowns, relics and icons

studies on luxury arts in Byzantium

This volume gathers together 17 articles published over the last 30 years, together with one appearing here for the first time. Their focus is primarily on enamel, the brilliant and colourful art form for which the Byzantines were famous throughout the medieval world, but sculpture ...

The Cambridge history of the Byzantine Empire

c.500-1492

Ed., Jonathan Shepard. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Byzantium lasted a thousand years, ruled to the end by self-styled #emperors of the Romans#. It underwent kaleidoscopic territorial and structural changes, yet recovered repeatedly from disaster: even after the near-impregnable Constantinople fell in 1204, variant forms of the empire reconstituted themselves ...

The Oxford handbook of byzantine studies

Eds., Elizabeth Jeffreys, John Haldon and Robin Cormack. The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Studies presents discussions by leading experts on all significant aspects of this diverse and fast-growing field. The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Studies deals with the history and culture of the Byzantine Empire ...

The Byzantine Empire

From its humble beginnings as a small colonial Greek village, the Byzantine Empire - centered on its seat of power in Constantinople - grew to become the centre of Eastern Roman empire. During its thousand year reign as a bastion of Christianity, it provided a buffer against ...

Teología política bizantina

PARTE PRIMA: LA BASILEIA 1. Ai åniov Auºgoustov. L Eternità dell impero nella nuova Roma 2 L impero universale dal punto di vista costantinopolitano 3 Roma fondamento di legittimità politica e religiosa da Roma alla Terza Roma 4 La guerra santa nella Romània (impero romano ...

¿Existe una identidad mozárabe?

historia, lengua y cultura de los cristianos de al-Andalus (siglos IX- XII)

La presente obra reúne una serie de estudios que examinan la historia, la lengua y la cultura de los cristianos andalusíes desde el siglo IX hasta su desaparición en el siglo XII, y que contribuyen a la reflexión sobre la identidad de los <> y su ...

La Corte de los Califas

Ésta es la historia de los dos siglos de oro del Islam: la época en que los Abasidas rigieron un vasto imperio desde su corte de Bagdad. Hugh Kennedy, autor de Las grandes conquistas árabes, nos ofrece un libro que se aparta de los fríos ...

God's crucible

Islam and the making of Europe, 570-1215

In the autumn of 732, two great armies, one Christian and one Muslim, faced off on the central plains of France in an epic battle that would define European history. According to what we've always been told, Charles Martel, the leader of the Franks ...

From Arabian Tribes to Islamic Empire

army, state and society in the Near East c. 600-850

This second collection of articles by Patricia Crone brings together studies on the development of early Muslim society, above all the army with which it was originally synonymous, from shortly after the Prophet's death until the mid-Abbasid period. The focus is on the changes ...

La conquista de Tombuctú

la gran aventura de Yuder Pachá y otros hispanos en el reino de los negros

El mito de Tombuctú ha traspasado fronteras desde antaño. Por encima de su exotismo, su aire legendario ha ejercido una atracción casi sublime sobre personas y culturas que permantemente han viajado en busca de esta perla de África. Antes de que en el siglo XIX ...

The Fourth Crusade

event, aftermath, and perceptions

The Fourth Crusade (1201-1204), launched to restore Jerusalem to Christian control, veered widely off course, finally landing at Constantinople which it conquered and sacked. The effects of the crusade were far-reaching during the Middle Ages and remain powerful even today, which explains the continued vibrancy ...

Saracen Strongholds AD 630-1050

the Middle East and Central Asia

Illustrated by Adam Hook The Islamic world drew upon a myriad of pre-existing styles of fortification, taking Romano-Byzantine, Indian and Chinese ideas to create a highly effective and sophisticated hybrid fortification that was both new and distinctive. This book examines early Saracen fortifications, covering their ...

Les turcs face à l´Occident

des origines aux Seldjoukides

La demande d'adhésion de la Turquie à l'Union européenne incite à mieux connaître les Turcs et leurs ancêtres. Partis du nord-est de la Sibérie, ils ont effectué une poussée formidable, d'une part contre la Chine et de l'autre vers l'Europe ...

El Islam y Occidente

Auts., Pierre Guichard...[et al.]. Índice: 9. Presentación 13. Occidente e Islam en el Mediterráneo occidental (siglos VIII-X). Pierre Guichard 47. España y el Islam en la Edad Moderna: entre el enfrentamiento bélico, la actividad corsaria y el comercio. Eloy Martín Corrales 93. Estatus de ...

Les chevaliers teutoniques

Né à la fin du XIIe siècle en Palestine, " l'Ordre de l'hôpital Sainte- Marie-des-Allemands de Jérusalem " est le petit frère des Hospitaliers et des Templiers. A l'instar de ces ordres militaires, c'est une institution semi-monastique, où des frères chevaliers mènent une ...