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 ...

John Skylitzes

a synopsis of Byzantine history, 811-1057

Introduction, text and notes traslated by John Wortley. John Skylitzes' extraordinary Middle Byzantine chronicle covers the reigns of the Byzantine emperors from the death of Nicephorus I in 811 to the deposition of Michael VI in 1057, and provides the only surviving continuous narrative of ...

Three political voices from the age of Justinian

Agapetus, 'advice to the emperor dialogue on political science' Paul the Silentiary, 'Description of Hagia Sophia'

Translated with an introduction and notes by Peter N. Bell. This one-volume translation, with commentary and introduction brings together three important works. All three texts cast great, if generally neglected light on politics and ideology in early Byzantium. Agapetus wrote, c. 527-30CE, from a position ...

The grand turk

Sultan Mehmet II: conqueror of Constantinople, master of a Empire and lord of two seas

Sultan Mehmet II, the Grand Turk, known to his countrymen as Fatih, 'the Conqueror', and to much of Europe as 'the present Terror of the World', was once the most feared and powerful ruler in the world. The seventh of his line to rule the ...

Historia breve de Bizancio

Esta Historia Breve de Bizancio tiene como objetivo principal acercar al lector a un mundo fascinante como lo fue la Edad Media en el Oriente romano de lengua griega, religión cristiana y vocación imperial, con sus ciudades fastuosas, su cultura con elementos orientales y occidentales ...

Byzantium between the ottomans and the latins

politics and society in the Late Empire

This is the first detailed analysis of Byzantine political attitudes towards the Ottomans and western Europeans during the critical last century of Byzantium. The book covers three major regions of the Byzantine Empire # Thessalonike, Constantinople, and the Morea # where the political orientations of aristocrats, merchants ...

Byzantine cavalryman

c.900-1204

Illustrated by Giuseppe Rava. Regarded as the elite arm of the military during the Middle Byzantine period, the cavalry executed high speed reconnaissance, agile arrow barrages and crippling blows to enemy formations. Its ranks were filled primarily through direct recruitment or hereditary service by holders ...

The christian parthenon

classicism and pilgrimage in Byzantine Athens

Byzantine Athens was not a city without a history, as is commonly believed, but an important center about which much can now be said. Providing a wealth of new evidence, Professor Kaldellis argues that the Parthenon became a major site of Christian pilgrimage after its ...

Studies on the cult of relics in Byzantium up to 1204

Constantinople was well known in its heyday for the enormous collection of relics housed in its churches: bones, even whole bodies and intimate possessions of holy men and women. Almost all these objects had been imported from various parts of the Roman Empire between the ...

Monemvasia

a byzantien city state

This lavishly illustrated book stands out in its field as the only book currently available on the best-preserved Byzantine city in the Peloponnese - Monemvasia. Haris A. Kalligas, a world authority on Monemvasia's history and architecture, here explores the city's foundation, its status as ...

Bizancio

el imperio que hizo posible la Europa moderna

Traducción de Francisco J. Ramos Mena. Contiene ilustraciones. La mejor historia del Imperio bizantino publicada hasta el momento, desde la fundación de Constantinopla en 330 hasta su caída ante los ejércitos otomanos en 1453. Durante mil años, un extraordinario imperio hizo posible que Europa alcanzara ...

The Jaharis Gospel Lectionary

the story of a Byzantine book

Until 2008 the Jaharis Lectionary was a hidden treasure: an illuminated Byzantine manuscript that was almost entirely unknown, even to scholars. Superbly preserved, it is arguably the most important Byzantine work to come to the Metropolitan Museum's renowned collection since the 1917 gifts of ...

Bizancio

la raíz común

Contiene: 2 DVD. Instrucciones de uso: este DVD se puede ver como una película en un DVD común, pero además cuenta con material en diferentes idiomas que puede consultarse explorando el DVD en su ordenador. Duración: 38 minutos.

Beauty and the male body in Byzantium

perceptions and representations in art and text

Beauty and the Male Body in Byzantium looks into a subject previously ignored in discussions of the Byzantine world: it explores physical beauty as an attribute of the human and, in particular, of the male body through the evidence of imagery and writing from the ...

Costantinopoli

metropoli dai mille volti

Traduzione di Benedetta Heinemann Campana; Presentazione di Silvia Ronchey. La città che fu il centro dell#Impero d#Oriente per oltre mille anni: un quadro preciso e stimolante delle sue principali trasformazioni urbane sullo sfondo della storia politica, religiosa, culturale ed economica. Scelta come centro ...

The Byzantines

This book introduces the reader to the complex history, ethnicity, and identity of the Byzantines. This volume brings Byzantium # often misconstrued as a vanished successor to the classical world # to the forefront of European history Deconstructs stereotypes surrounding Byzantium Beautifully illustrated with photographs and maps.

Continuité des élites à Byzance durant les siècles obscurs

les princes caucasiens et l'empire du VIe aux IXe siècle

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 ...