Storia di Bisanzio

Per molto tempo la storia dell'impero bizantino (285-1453) ha coinciso con la narrazione della sua decadenza. Eppure, quella bizantina è stata una civiltà ricca e affascinante, una cerniera essenziale tra mondo antico e moderno, e tra occidente europeo e oriente. In anni recenti l ...

Chute et mort de Constantinople

(1204-1453)

Depuis sa refondation au IVe siècle par Constantin, le premier empereur romain chrétien, l'ancienne Byzance, devenue alors Constantinople et depuis lors Istanbul, a résisté durant un millénaire aux assauts des Barbares et des Arabes. Elle n'a subi la honte et les drames d ...

Romano-Byzantine armies 4th-9th centuries

By the late 4th century the pressures on the frontiers of the Roman Empire had transformed the nature of the army which defended it. With the western half of the empire in economic decline and chronic manpower shortages the army had proved incapable of defending ...

Les derniers siècles de Byzance

(1261-1453)

L'empire byzantin est le nom donné par les historiens à la partie orientale de l'empire romain qui, au contraire de la partie occidentale, parvint au Ve siècle à contenir la poussée des barbares. Il se développa autour de Constantinople pour devenir au Xe ...

Les villages dans l'Empire byzantin

(IVe-XVe siècle)

Ce volume est issu des travaux du XXe Congrès international des Etudes byzantines réuni à Paris en 2001. Il comprend trente-neuf contributions dont vingt- deux en anglais, quinze en français, une en allemand et une en italien. Historiens et archéologues y analysent l'évolution du ...

The Ottoman Empire

1700-1922

The Ottoman Empire was one of the most important non-Western states to survive from medieval to modern times, and played a vital role in European and global history. It continues to affect the peoples of the Middle East, the Balkans and central and western Europe ...

Byzance et le monde extérieur

Contacs, relations, échanges

Byzance, un monde à part, retranché dans la splendeur de ses palais et de ses églises, peu accueillant envers l'étranger, menant une économie de subsistance ! Rien de plus faux que ces clichés persistants, rien de plus éloigné d'une réalité historique que les recherches ...

Byzantium

faith and power (1261-1557)

Historia de Bizancio

Bisanzio e la sua civiltà

Art and identity in thirteenth-Century Byzantium

Hagia Sophia and the Empire of Trebizond

Social and economic life in Byzantium

Authority in byzantine provincial society

950-1100

Cronaca <<A Latina>>

Cronaca veneziana del 1343

Justinien

l'épopée de l'Empire d'Orient (527-565)

Secular buildings and the archaeology of everyday life in the byzantine empire

The archaeology of everyday life is a relatively under- explored aspect of the Byzantine world, and often takes a back-seat to the more visible aspects of Byzantine history, such as works of art and ecclesiastical architecture. This book seeks to redress the imbalance by focusing ...

L'empire bizantin

565-1025

Byzantine butrint

excavations and surveys 1994-99

Women of Byzantium

Women played key roles in Byzantine society: some ruled or co-ruled the empire, and others commissioned art and buildings, went on pilgrimages, and wrote. This engrossing book draws on evidence ranging from pictorial mosaics and inscriptions on the walls of churches to women#s poetry ...

St John Damascene

tradition and originality in Byzantine Theology

John Damascene, one-time senior civil servant in the Umayyad Arab Empire, became a monk near Jerusalem in the early years of the eighth century. He never set foot in the Byzantine Empire, yet his influence on Byzantine theology was ultimately determinative, and beyond that his ...