Histoires

guerres et malheurs du temps sous Justinien

Les Histoires d'Agathias couvrent à peine dix années du règne de Justinien (551-559), une période marquée par des guerres - fin de la reconquête de l'Italie par Narsès, guerre contre les Perses en Lazique, invasion de la Thrace par les Huns Kotrigours - et par ...

Letters, literacy and literature in Byzantium

These studies look at general problems of reading Byzantine literature, at literacy practices and the literary process, but also at individual texts. The past thirty years have seen a revolution in the way Byzantine literature has been viewed: no longer is it considered a decadent ...

The byzantine economy

A concise study of the economy of the Byzantine Empire, a state that lasted from the fourth century AD until 1453. Organised chronologically, the authors address key themes such as demography, agriculture, manufacturing and the urban economy, trade, monetary developments, and the role of the ...

Byzantines and crusaders in non-greek sources, 1025-1204

These essays survey the range of historical sources from the peoples who collided with the Byzantine Empire during this period of dramatic upheaval. The Empire that had been expanded and consolidated by Basil II (d. 1025) was to disintegrate in the face of incursions from ...

Tales from another Byzantium

celestial journey and local community in the Medieval Greek apocrypha

The rich corpus of medieval Greek apocryphal religious literature has been little used by historians. This book is the first full-length study of two medieval Greek visionary journeys to heaven and hell: the Apocalypse of the Theotokos and the Apocalypse of Anastasia. Composed anonymously sometime ...

Eat, drink, and be merry (Luke12:19) - food and wine in Byzantium

papers of the 37th Annual Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, in honour of professor A.A.M. Bryer

This volume brings together a group of scholars to consider the rituals of eating together in the Byzantine world, the material culture of Byzantine food and wine consumption, and the transport and exchange of agricultural products.The contributors present food in nearly every conceivable guise ...

Le monde Byzantin, 750-124

économie et société

Clefs concours : s'adressant à tous les candidats aux concours, en particulier Agrégation et CAPES, Clefs concours offre une synthèse par sujet. Conçu comme un repère par rapport aux monographies et aux cours et comme un outil de révision, chaque ouvrage est articulé autour de ...

Byzantine Infantryman

eastern roman empire c.900-1204

Illustrated by Angus McBride The Byzantine Army was the closest the middle ages came to producing a military superpower. Built on a strong belief system emphasising stealth, surprise, swift manoeuvre and overwhelming force, the Byzantine infantryman was trained in survival, sword, spear and archery techniques ...

Between Islam and Byzantium

Aght'amar and the visual construction of medieval armenian rulership

"Between Islam and Byzantium" provides the first complete analysis of the development of the visual expression of medieval Armenian rulership during the years 884-1045 CE. During this period, the Armenian rulers had loosened the ties that subjected them to the Arab caliphate, but by its ...

Soldados de Bizancio en tiempos de Justiniano

La transmission de l'idéologie imperiale dans les provinces de l Occident Romain

The Cambridge companion to the age of Constantine

The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Constantine offers students a comprehensive one-volume survey of this pivotal emperor and his times. Richly illustrated and designed as a readable survey accessible to all audiences, it also achieves a level of scholarly sophistication and a freshness of ...

Byzantine style, religion and civilization

in honour of Sir Steven Runciman

Sir Steven Runciman's History of the Crusades (1951-4) remains widely read and influential to this day but represents only a part of his wide-ranging, erudite and immensely readable literary activity. His early work focused on Byzantium in the tenth century (The Emperor Romanus Lecapenus ...

Imperial ideology and political thought in Byzantium

1204-1330

This is the first systematic study of Byzantine imperial ideology, court rhetoric and political thought after the Latin conquest of Constantinople in 1204 - in the Nicaean state (1204-1261) and during the early period of the restored empire of the Palaiologoi. The book explores Byzantine political ...

Byzantine dress

representation of secular dress in eighth-to twelfth-century painting

In Byzantium, two overlapping systems of dress existed: a semiotic one whereby dress was a code for rank and wealth, and a fashion system where dress was based on the desire to look a certain way. Courtiers participated in a semiotic system of dress, but ...

Holy fools in byzantium and beyond

There are saints in Orthodox Christian culture, who overturn the conventional concept of sainthood. Their conduct may be unruly and salacious, they may blaspheme and even kill - yet, mysteriously, those around them treat them with even more reverence. Such saints are called 'holy fools'. In ...

Daily life in the Byzantine Empire

This book explores everyday life in the Byzantine Empire, which covered much of the eastern Mediterranean in the Middle Ages. The author discusses general issues of everyday life, including Byzantine worldviews, how society and the economy functioned, and how families were structured, as well as ...

Bisanzio e Venezia

Venezia nasce bizantina nel VI secolo e tale rimane nell'alto Medioevo almeno fino al IX secolo. Poi, mentre il legame con Costantinopoli si allenta via via, seguendo la propria fortissima vocazione commerciale la città lagunare si proietta verso Oriente e si afferma per secoli ...

Byzance et les reliques du Christ

Au cours des siècles, les empereurs byzantins accumulent dans leur palais de Constantinople tout un trésor de reliques, en particulier celles du Christ : la Vraie Croix, la Couronne d#épines et les autres instruments de la Passion, mais aussi des reliques du Christ vivant, comme ...

Byzantium and the Crusades

The first great city to which the Crusaders came in 1089 was not Jerusalem but Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire. Almost as much as Jerusalem itself, Constantinople was the key to the foundation, survival and ultimate eclipse of the crusading kingdom. It was ...