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 ...

Insanity and sanctity in Byzantium

ahe ambiguity of religious experience

In the Roman and Byzantine Near East, the holy fool emerged in Christianity as a way of describing individuals whose apparent madness allowed them to achieve a higher level of spirituality. Insanity and Sanctity in Byzantium examines how the figure of the mad saint or ...

The Byzantine dark ages

The Byzantine Dark Ages explores current debates about the sudden transformation of the Byzantine Empire in the wake of environmental, social and political changes. Those studying the Byzantine Empire, the successor to the Roman Empire in the eastern Mediterranean, have long recognized that the mid-7th ...

Landscape, nature, and the sacred in Byzantium

Nature is as much an idea as a physical reality. By 'placing' nature within Byzantine culture and within the discourse of Orthodox Christian thought and practice, Landscape, Nature and the Sacred in Byzantium explores attitudes towards creation that are utterly and fascinatingly different from the ...

Nectar and illusion

nature in byzantine art and literature

Nature and Illusion is the first extended treatment of the portrayal of nature in Byzantine art and literature. In this richly illustrated study, Henry Maguire shows how the Byzantines embraced terrestrial creation in the decoration of their churches during the fifth to seventh centuries but ...

Muslim expansion and byzantine collapse in North Africa

Who 'lost' Christian North Africa? Who won it and how? Walter Kaegi examines these perennial questions, with maps and on-site observations, in this exciting book. Persisting clouds of suspicion and blame overshadowed many Byzantine attempts to defend North Africa, as Byzantines failed to meet the ...

Imagining the Byzantine past

the perception of history in the illustrated manuscripts of Skylitzes and Manasses

Two lavish, illustrated histories confronted and contested the Byzantine model of empire. The Madrid Skylitzes was created at the court of Roger II of Sicily in the mid-twelfth century. The Vatican Manasses was produced for Ivan Alexander of Bulgaria in the mid-fourteenth century. Through close ...

Performing orthodox ritual in Byzantium

In this groundbreaking, interdisciplinary study, Andrew Walker White explores the origins of Byzantine ritual - the rites of the early Greek Orthodox Church - and its unique relationship with traditional theatre. Tracing the secularization of pagan theatre, the rise of rhetoric as an alternative to acting, as ...

Topografía de Constantinopla

La obra de Pierre Gilles lo llevó a recorrer el imperio otomano y a escrutar a fondo el pasado de su capital, lo cual respondía a la necesidad de los soberanos europeos de conocer directamente, desde dentro, la realidad del imperio del Gran Turco, no ...

The lost world of Byzantium

For more than a millennium, the Byzantine Empire presided over the juncture between East and West, as well as the transition from the classical to the modern world. Jonathan Harris, a leading scholar of Byzantium, eschews the usual run-through of emperors and battles and instead ...

Bizancio y la Persia Sasánida: dos imperios frente a frente

Una comparación militar y económica. 565-642

El volumen ofrece un fascinante estudio sobre los aspectos militares y económicos de los imperios bizantino y persa de Sasán que se enfrentaron entre 564 y 642 d.C. El libro está estructurado en tres partes diferentes y tiene como objetivo descubrir el impacto de ...

Constantinopla 1453

el último gran asedio

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 bizantino, consiguió frenar el ímpetu de las conquistas árabes en ...

Diplomacy in the EarlyIslamic World

a Tenth-Century treatise on arab-byzantine relations

Arab messengers played a vital role in the medieval Islamic world and its diplomatic relations with foreign powers. An innovative treatise from the 10th Century ("Rusul al-Muluk", "Messengers of Kings") is perhaps the most important account of the diplomacy of the period, and it is ...

Byzantium in the Iconoclast Era c. 680-850

a history

Iconoclasm, the debate about the legitimacy of religious art that began in Byzantium around 720 and continued for nearly one hundred and twenty years, has long held a firm grip on the historical imagination. This is the first book in English for over fifty years ...

Viajes por Bizancio y Occidente

El libro recoge una selección de artículos del autor publicados entre 1983 y 2007 que tratan del trasvase de ideas desde el ámbito bizantino a Occidente desde distintas perspectivas. Para una primera sección, “El viaje de las personas”, se han elegido contribuciones que toman como ...

Byzantium and The Crusades

This new edition of Byzantium and the Crusades provides a fully-revised and updated version of Jonathan Harris's landmark text in the field of Byzantine and crusader history. The book offers a chronological exploration of Byzantium and the outlook of its rulers during the time ...

The Emperor Theophilos and the East, 829-842

court and frontier in Byzantium during the last phase of iconoclasm

Modern historiography has become accustomed to portraying the emperor Theophilos of Byzantium (829-842) in a favourable light, taking at face value the legendary account that makes of him a righteous and learned ruler, and excusing as ill fortune his apparent military failures against the Muslims ...