Memoria e invención de Bizancio

Bizancio y la sublime puerta no fueron un mundo cerrado. No dejaron de ser visitados por hombres y mujeres que atravesaron sus fronteras camino de Constantinopla/Estabul; y desde allí se desplazaron a Edirne, al Danubio y a otras tierras aún más lejanas. Al amparo ...

Dreambooks in Byzantium

six oneirocritica in translation with commentary and introduction

"Dreambooks in Byzantium" offers for the first time in English translation and with commentary six of the seven extant Byzantine oneirocritica, or manuals on the interpretation of dreams. (The seventh, "The Oneirocriticon of Achmet ibn Sereim" was published previously by the author.)Dreams permeated all ...

From Byzantium to modern Greece

medieval texts and their modern reception

The twelfth century was a time of cultural renewal and innovation in Byzantium, just as it was in the west. In literature, the long disused genres of epic, satire and the novel (or 'romance') took new forms during that century; at the same time, in ...

Enamels, crowns, relics and icons

studies on luxury arts in Byzantium

This volume gathers together 17 articles published over the last 30 years, together with one appearing here for the first time. Their focus is primarily on enamel, the brilliant and colourful art form for which the Byzantines were famous throughout the medieval world, but sculpture ...

The Cambridge history of the Byzantine Empire

c.500-1492

Ed., Jonathan Shepard. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Byzantium lasted a thousand years, ruled to the end by self-styled #emperors of the Romans#. It underwent kaleidoscopic territorial and structural changes, yet recovered repeatedly from disaster: even after the near-impregnable Constantinople fell in 1204, variant forms of the empire reconstituted themselves ...

The Oxford handbook of byzantine studies

Eds., Elizabeth Jeffreys, John Haldon and Robin Cormack. The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Studies presents discussions by leading experts on all significant aspects of this diverse and fast-growing field. The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Studies deals with the history and culture of the Byzantine Empire ...

The Byzantine Empire

From its humble beginnings as a small colonial Greek village, the Byzantine Empire - centered on its seat of power in Constantinople - grew to become the centre of Eastern Roman empire. During its thousand year reign as a bastion of Christianity, it provided a buffer against ...

Teología política bizantina

PARTE PRIMA: LA BASILEIA 1. Ai åniov Auºgoustov. L Eternità dell impero nella nuova Roma 2 L impero universale dal punto di vista costantinopolitano 3 Roma fondamento di legittimità politica e religiosa da Roma alla Terza Roma 4 La guerra santa nella Romània (impero romano ...

Emperador y sacerdote

estudio sobre el "cesaropapismo" bizantino

Hoy ya nadie se arriesgaría a hablar de la Iglesia y del Estado como de dos instituciones, o canceptos, que el sentido común o el m,ovimientos de la historia nos hubiesen definitivamente enseñado a distinguir. En este final de siglo XX, estamos mejor preparados ...

Caminos de Bizancio

Bizancio nunca fue un mundo cerrado, no dejó de ser recorrido por hombres y mujeres que atravesaron sus fronteras: del desierto a la Gran Ciudad, del Occidente europeo a Constantinopla y desde allí hacía el Mar Negro y a las tierras del Islam; monjes anacoretas ...

Constantinople

capital of Byzantium

During the early Middle Ages, travellers to the East returned with stories of a place called Miklagarth, a city so vast that its churches, palaces and monasteries covered the land and so rich that its ruler could scatter bagfuls of gold among his astonished guests ...

La caída de Constantinopla 1453

Libro de culto, desaparecido del mercado español, desde hace años. Narra la pérdida del imperio bizantino por parte de los cristianos, tras una resistencia realmente heroica, y la conquista, ya para siempre hasta hoy, de la ciudad (hoy Estambul) por parte de los turcos. Fue ...

Silencio y quietud

místicos bizantinos entre los siglos XIII y XV

Durante los siglos XIII-XV, al amparo de los emperadores de Bizancio, el monaquismo de la iglesia de Oriente alcanzó uno de los momentos más creativos y controvertidos de la espiritualidad cristiana. El tema central de los tratados escritos por autores como Gregorio Palamás o Gregorio ...

Le monde byzantin.T.II: L'Empire byzantin (641-1204)

Un premier volume avait présenté la fondation de l'Empire byzantin. Cet ouvrage, consacré aux siècles suivants (VIIe- XIIIe s.), est également le fruit du travail d'une équipe associant des spécialistes des principales disciplines, seuls capables de prendre en compte les changements historiographiques. L ...

Byzance

économie et société. Du milieu du VIIIe siècle à 1204

Entre le VIII et le XIIIe siècle, le monde byzantin a connu une expansion économique importante qui a permis le développement d'une brillante société. Comme en Occident, cette expansion est facilitée par la reprise démographique, mais aussi par la croissance des échanges. Les IXe ...

La Antapódosis o retribución de Liutprando de Cremona

INDICE: Prefacio. Introducción. Bibliografía. Versión y notas. Libros. Índices.

A byzantine encyclopaedia of horse medicine

the sources, compilation, and transmission of the Hippiatrica

How were Greek texts on the care and medical treatment of the horse transmitted from antiquity to the present day? Using the evidence of Byzantine manuscripts of the veterinary compilation known as the Hippiatrica, Anne McCabe traces the journey of the texts from the stables ...

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 ...

The history

This is the first English translation and study of George Akropolites' History, the main Greek source for the history of Byzantium between 1204 and 1261. Akropolites relates what happened to Byzantium after the Latin conquest of its capital, Constantinople, by the Fourth Crusade in 1204 ...

Egypt in the byzantine world, 300-700

Egypt in the period from the reign of the emperor Constantine to the Arab conquest was both a vital part of the Late Roman and Byzantine world, participating fully in the culture of its wider Mediterranean society, and a distinctive milieu, launched on a path ...