Witness Literature in Byzantium

Adam J Goldwyn

• Hardcover | Engels | New Approaches to Byzantine History and Culture
• This book analyzes Byzantine examples of witness literature, a genre that focuses on eyewitness accounts written by slaves, prisoners, refugees, and o... Lees meer

Political Memory and the Constantinian Dynasty

Rebecca Usherwood

• Hardcover | Engels | New Approaches to Byzantine History and Culture
• This book is an exploration of political memory and disgrace in the reigns of Constantine and his sons. It uses the conditions of the early to mid-fou... Lees meer

Pseudo-Dionysius and Christian Visual Culture, C.500-900

• Hardcover | Engels | New Approaches to Byzantine History and Culture
• This book uses Pseudo-Dionysius and his mystic theology to explore attitudes and beliefs about images in the early medieval West and Byzantium. Compos... Lees meer

Byzantine Tree Life

Thomas Arentzen, Virginia Burrus, Glenn Peers

• Hardcover | Engels | New Approaches to Byzantine History and Culture
• This book examines the many ways Byzantines lived with their trees. It takes seriously theological and hagiographic tree engagement as expressions of ... Lees meer

Justinian's Men

David Alan Parnell

• Hardcover | Engels | New Approaches to Byzantine History and Culture
• This book explores the professional and social lives of the soldiers who served in the army of the Byzantine Empire in the sixth century. Lees meer

Political Memory and the Constantinian Dynasty

Rebecca Usherwood

• Paperback | Engels | New Approaches to Byzantine History and Culture
• This book is an exploration of political memory and disgrace in the reigns of Constantine and his sons. It uses the conditions of the early to mid-fou... Lees meer

Michael Palaiologos and the Publics of the Byzantine Empire in Exile, C.1223-1259

Aleksandar Jovanovic

• Hardcover | Engels | New Approaches to Byzantine History and Culture
• This book follows the public life of Michael Palaiologos from his early days and upbringing, through to his assumption of the Byzantine imperial thron... Lees meer

The Sons of Constantine, AD 337-361

• Paperback | Engels | New Approaches to Byzantine History and Culture
• This edited collection focuses on the Roman empire during the period from AD 337 to 361. During this period the empire was ruled by three brothers: Co... Lees meer

Pseudo-Dionysius and Christian Visual Culture, C.500-900

• Paperback | Engels | New Approaches to Byzantine History and Culture
• This book uses Pseudo-Dionysius and his mystic theology to explore attitudes and beliefs about images in the early medieval West and Byzantium. Compos... Lees meer

The Avar Siege of Constantinople in 626

Martin Hurbanič

• Paperback | Engels | New Approaches to Byzantine History and Culture
• This book examines the Avar siege of Constantinople in 626, one of the most significant events of the seventh century, and the impact and repercussion... Lees meer

The Reign of Constantine, 306-337

Stanislav Dolezal

• Paperback | Engels | New Approaches to Byzantine History and Culture
• This book explores the reign of Constantine the Great (306-337) and, more generally, the political history of the third century, thus putting Constant... Lees meer

Michael Palaiologos and the Publics of the Byzantine Empire in Exile, C.1223-1259

Aleksandar Jovanovic

• Paperback | Engels | New Approaches to Byzantine History and Culture
• This book follows the public life of Michael Palaiologos from his early days and upbringing, through to his assumption of the Byzantine imperial thron... Lees meer

Witness Literature in Byzantium

Adam J Goldwyn

• Paperback | Engels | New Approaches to Byzantine History and Culture
• This book analyzes Byzantine examples of witness literature, a genre that focuses on eyewitness accounts written by slaves, prisoners, refugees, and o... Lees meer

The Velestino Hoard

Florin Curta, Bartlomiej Szymon Szmoniewski

• Hardcover | Engels | New Approaches to Byzantine History and Culture
• This book examines the remarkable Velestino hoard, found in Thessaly in the 1920s, and analyses the light that this collection of artifacts sheds on a... Lees meer

Emotions and Gender in Byzantine Culture

• Hardcover | Engels | New Approaches to Byzantine History and Culture
• This book examines the gendered dimensions of emotions and the emotional aspects of gender within Byzantine culture and suggests possible readings of ... Lees meer

Serving Byzantium's Emperors

Dimitris Krallis

• Hardcover | Engels | New Approaches to Byzantine History and Culture
• This book is a microhistory of eleventh-century Byzantium, built around the biography of the state official Michael Attaleiates. Dimitris Krallis pres... Lees meer

Managing Financial Resources in Late Antiquity

Gerasimos Merianos, George Gotsis

• Hardcover | Engels | New Approaches to Byzantine History and Culture
• This book examines the views of Greek Church Fathers on hoarding, saving, and management of economic surplus, and their development primarily in urban... Lees meer

Roman Identity from the Arab Conquests to the Triumph of Orthodoxy

Douglas Whalin

• Hardcover | Engels | New Approaches to Byzantine History and Culture
• This book asks how the inhabitants and neighbours of the Eastern Roman Empire understand their identity as Romans in the centuries following the emerg... Lees meer

Environment and Society in Byzantium, 650-1150

Alexander Olson

• Paperback | Engels | New Approaches to Byzantine History and Culture
• 1. Introduction 2. Middle Byzantium's Environmental and Economic Antecedents2.1 Taxes and Rents, Olives and Vines, Slaves and Cattle2.2 A Transformed ... Lees meer

Managing Financial Resources in Late Antiquity

Gerasimos Merianos, George Gotsis

• Paperback | Engels | New Approaches to Byzantine History and Culture
• This book examines the views of Greek Church Fathers on hoarding, saving, and management of economic surplus, and their development primarily in urban... Lees meer

The Byzantine City from Heraclius to the Fourth Crusade, 610-1204

Luca Zavagno

• Paperback | Engels | New Approaches to Byzantine History and Culture
• This book explores the Byzantine city and the changes it went through from 610 to 1204. Throughout this period, cities were always the centers of poli... Lees meer

Banditry in the Medieval Balkans, 800-1500

Panos Sophoulis

• Paperback | Engels | New Approaches to Byzantine History and Culture
• This book explores the history of banditry in the medieval Balkans between the ninth and fifteenth centuries. While several scholars have recognized t... Lees meer

Alexios I Komnenos in the Balkans, 1081-1095

Marek Mesko

• Hardcover | Engels | New Approaches to Byzantine History and Culture
• ​This book provides a new military history of Byzantine emperor Alexios I Komnenos's campaigns in the Balkans, during the first fourteen years of his ... Lees meer

Environment and Society in Byzantium, 650-1150

Alexander Olson

• Hardcover | Engels | New Approaches to Byzantine History and Culture
• This book illuminates Byzantines' relationship with woodland between the seventh and twelfth centuries. Using the oak and the olive as objects of stud... Lees meer