Bizancio y los Sasánidas

Esta obra constituye una actualización de la historia del Oriente de los siglos VI y VII, en el momento en que coincidieron en un mismo espacio los imperios bizantino y persa sasánida, mientras hacía su arrolladora aparición el Islam.

Bizancio y Venecia

historia de un Imperio

En este libro se reconstruye el período milenario que en el curso del medioevo ha unido a Venecia con el Imperio bizantino, hasta la caída de Constantinopla en el año 1453. La relación entre Bizancio y Venecia comienza en el siglo vi, dejando un legado ...

The grand strategy of the Byzantine Empire

In this book, the distinguished writer Edward Luttwak presents the grand strategy of the eastern Roman empire we know as Byzantine, which lasted more than twice as long as the more familiar western Roman empire, eight hundred years by the shortest definition. This extraordinary endurance ...

The Ashgate Research Companion to byzantine hagiography

Volume I: Periods and places

Hagiography is the most abundantly represented genre of Byzantine literature and it offers crucial insight to the development of religious thought and practice, social and literary life, and the history of the empire. It emerged in the fourth century with the pioneering "Life of St ...

The power game in Byzantium

Antonina and the empress Theodora

This title presents an original portrayal of Justinian's reign, its politics and theological disputes, focusing on the lives of two extraordinary women who wielded power and influence. A fascinating exploration of the corridors of power in Byzantium of the time of Justinian (527-565), the ...

Estilos de vida en Bizancio

Latinos, esclavos y musulmanes se sintieron fascinados por Bizancio, un Imperio heredero del romano, defensor tenaz de la Ortodoxia, que estableció sus dominios sobre buena parte del Mediterráneo oriental y desarrolló una civilización cuyo brillo había de deslumbrar a sis contemporáneos.

Le monde Byzantin

T.III: L'Empire grec et ses voisins. XIIIe-XVe siècle

1204 : prise de Constantinople par les Croisés; 1453 par les Turcs. Entre ces deux grandes dates, le troisième et dernier volume du Monde byzantin retrace le crépuscule de l'empire grec, de son poste avancé, Trébizonde et de ses voisins serbes, bulgares ainsi que des ...

Early Carolingian wafare

prelude to empire

Without the complex military machine that his forebears had built up over the course of the eighth century, it would have been impossible for Charlemagne to revive the Roman empire in the West. Early Carolingian Warfare is the first book-length study of how the Frankish ...

Inventing byzantine iconoclasm

Byzantine 'iconoclasm' is famous and has influenced iconoclast movements from the English Reformation and French Revolution to Taliban, but it has also been woefully misunderstood: this book shows how and why the debate about images was more complicated, and more interesting, than it has been ...

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 ...

Greece, the hidden centuries

turkish rule from the fall of Constantinople to Greek independence

For almost four hundred years, between the fall of Constantinople in 1453 and the Greek War of Independence, the history of Greece is shrouded in mystery: distorted by Greek writers and largely neglected by others. What was life really like for the Greeks under Ottoman ...

Byzantine monuments of Istanbul

'This book is about the Byzantine monuments of Istanbul, most notably, Haghia Sophia. The remains of the land and sea walls, the Hippodrome, imperial palaces, commemorative columns, reservoirs and cisterns, an aqueduct, a triumphal archway, a fortified port, and twenty churches are also described in ...

The Early Byzantine Historians

The Early Byzantine Historians is the first original study of every significant Byzantine historian from Eusebius of Caesarea (c.255-339) to Theophylact Simocatta (c.585-after 641?). Written for general readers as well as professional scholars, and filled with new discoveries and interpretations, the book presents ...

Breve historia del Imperio Bizantino

La apasionante historia de la invulnerable Constantinopla y del Imperio Bizantino, toda la esencia de un convulso periodo histórico de invasiones, conquistas y grandes batallas. La apasionante historia de la invulnerable Constantinopla, capital del imperio que mantuvo la cultura clásica y el Estado romano a ...

A Social History of Ottoman Istanbul

Using a wealth of contemporary Ottoman sources, this book recreates the social history of Istanbul, a huge, cosmopolitan metropolis and imperial capital of the Ottoman Empire. Seat of the sultan and an opulent international emporium, Istanbul was also a city of violence, shaken regularly by ...

The Palgrave atlas of Byzantine history

The dominant Mediterranean power in the fifth and sixth centuries, by the time of its demise at the hands of the Ottomans in 1453 the Byzantine empire was a shadow of its former self restricted essentially to the city of Constantinople, modern Istanbul. Surrounded by ...

Tastes of Byzantium

the cuisine of a legendary empire

For centuries, the food and culinary delights of the Byzantine empire - centred on Constantinople - have captivated the west, although it appeared that very little information had been passed down to us. Andrew Dalby's "Tastes of Byzantium" now reveals in astonishing detail, for the first ...

Bizancio

el triunfo de las imágenes sagradas

Bizancio, el Imperio heredero del romano y defensor tenaz de la religión cristiana, desarrolló una civilización tan espléndida que acabó por ser irresistible para sus contemporáneos. Los trabajos de sus orfebres, las sedas finas, los vasos de piedras duras, manuscritos y marfiles fueron buscados con ...

The end of Byzantium

By 1400, the once-mighty Byzantine Empire stood on the verge of destruction. Most of its territories had been lost to the Ottoman Turks, and Constantinople was under close blockade. Against all odds, Byzantium lingered on for another fifty years until 1453, when the Ottomans dramatically ...

Byzantium

from Antiquity to the Renaissance

With images culled from eleven hundred years of history, this comprehensive survey explores the Byzantine empire's vast range of artistic splendours that indelibly informed the art of modern Europe. Renowned scholar Thomas Mathews emphasizes that the Byzantines' interest in humanism and painting the human ...