The poems of Christopher of Mytilene and John Mauropous

(Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library; 50)

The witty and self-assertive poetry of Christopher of Mytilene and John Mauropous provides unique snapshots of eleventh-century Constantinople at the height of its splendor and elegance. Their collections, aptly called "various verses," greatly range in length and style-including epigrams, polemics, encomia, and more-and their poems ...

I Bizantini in Italia

Cinque secoli di una storia che inizia nel 535, con lo sbarco in Sicilia delle truppe di Costantinopoli e l’avvio di una guerra che condusse alla conquista bizantina dell’intera penisola. Ma già con l’invasione dei Longobardi nel 568 quella presenza comincia a ...

Hagia Sophia

sound, apce, and spirit in Byzantium

Experiencing the resonant acoustics of the church of Hagia Sophia allowed the Byzantine participants in its liturgical rituals to be filled with the Spirit of God, and even to become his image on earth. Bissera Pentcheva's vibrant analysis examines how these sung rites combined ...

Charlemagne's practice of Empire

Revisiting one of the great puzzles of European political history, Jennifer R. Davis examines how the Frankish king Charlemagne and his men held together the vast new empire he created during the first decades of his reign. Davis explores how Charlemagne overcame the two main ...

Historias: guerras en Italia y Persia

El Oriente islamo-bizantino

Siria, Palestina y Egipto, 632-661

Constantinopla 1453

el último gran asedio

Constantinopla 1453: el último gran asedio de la Edad Media Constantinopla, a caballo entre Asia y Europa, fue una de las ciudades más legendarias del mundo. Fundada por Constantino el Grande y capital del Imperio romano de Oriente y luego de su heredero, el Imperio ...

Reading in the Byzantine Empire and beyond

Offering a comprehensive introduction to the history of books, readers and reading in the Byzantine Empire and its sphere of influence, this volume addresses a paradox. Advanced literacy was rare among imperial citizens, being restricted by gender and class. Yet the state's economic, religious ...

Barbarism and Religion

Volume 6. Barbarism: Triumph in the West

This sixth and final volume in John Pocock's acclaimed sequence of works on Barbarism and Religion examines Volumes II and III of Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, carrying Gibbon's narrative to the end of empire in the west ...

The Cambridge intellectual history of Byzantium

This volume brings into being the field of Byzantine intellectual history. Shifting focus from the cultural, social, and economic study of Byzantium to the life and evolution of ideas in their context, it provides an authoritative history of intellectual endeavors from Late Antiquity to the ...

A cabinet of Byzantine curiosities

Weird, decadent, degenerate, racially mixed, superstitious, theocratic, effeminate, and even hyper-literate, Byzantium has long been regarded by many as one big curiosity. According to Voltaire, it represented "a worthless collection of miracles, a disgrace for the human mind" for Hegel it was "a disgusting picture ...

Constantinople

capital of Byzantium

Jonathan Harris' new edition of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, Constantinople, provides an updated and extended introduction to the history of Byzantium and its capital city. Accessible and engaging, the book breaks new ground by exploring Constantinople's mystical dimensions and examining the relationship between ...

Histoire de Byzance

Le 11 mai 330, les cérémonies qui accompagnèrent la fondation par Constantin de la ville à laquelle il donne son nom marquent la naissance du futur Empire que nous appelons byzantin, mais que les empereurs et leurs sujets ont toujours conçu comme romain. Cet empire ...

Leer en Bizancio

Este volumen, que recoge y ordena los seminarios dictados por el paleógrafo italiano en 2003 en la EHESS de París, plantea preguntas fundamentales para comprender la cultura y la civilización bizantinas. ¿Quién leía en Bizancio? ¿Cómo y por qué? Cavallo, uno de los más reconocidos ...

Byzantine legal culture and the roman legal tradition, 867-1056

This social history of Byzantine law offers an introduction to one of the world's richest yet hitherto understudied legal traditions. In the first study of its kind, Chitwood explores and reinterprets the seminal legal-historical events of the Byzantine Empire under the Macedonian dynasty, including ...

The islamic-byzantine frontier

interaction and exchange among muslim and christian communities

The retreat of the Byzantine army from Syria in around 650 CE, in advance of the approaching Arab armies, is one that has resounded emphatically in the works of both Islamic and Christian writers, and created an enduring motif: that of the Islamic-Byzantine frontier. For ...

Cuestiones bizantinas

Para muchos de nosotros, Bizancio sigue siendo "bizantino", es decir, oscuro, marginal y difícil. A pesar de los esfuerzos recientes de algunos historiadores, los prejuicios deforman todavía la comprensión popular y erudita de la civilización bizantina, reduciéndola con frecuencia a la categoría de pariente pobre ...

Sueños y curaciones

relatos de milagros en la Alejandría bizantina

Cada historia de las setenta taumatúrgicas que integran este volumen guardan algunas claves para comprender la vida diaria de la Antigüedad tardía. Avanzando en su lectura, el lector encuentra información a cerca de la geografía y la historia del Oriente cristiano, la sociedad y las ...

The rhetorical exercises of Nikephoros Basilakes

Progymnasmata, preliminary exercises in the study of declamation, were the cornerstone of elite education from Hellenistic through Byzantine times. Using material from Greek literary, mythological, and historical traditions, students and writers composed examples ranging from simple fables to complex arguments about fictional laws. In the ...

La Alexíada

una historia del Imperio Bizantino durante la Primera Cruzada

Un apasionante retrato del Imperio Bizantino de la mano de la primera gran historiadora La Alexíada es una de las grandes joyas de la literatura universal escrita hacia 1148 por la primera gran mujer historiadora, Ana Comnena (1083-1153). La obra relata la épica carrera política ...