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Author : Speros Vryonis
Publisher : Undena Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Byzantine Studies in Honor of Milton V. Anastos written by Speros Vryonis and published by Undena Publications. This book was released on 1985 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andrew Roy Dyck
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Presence of Byzantium written by Andrew Roy Dyck and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Speros Vryonis
Publisher : Undena Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Byzantine Studies in Honor of Milton V. Anastos written by Speros Vryonis and published by Undena Publications. This book was released on 1985 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Milton Vasil Anastos
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789025606190
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Presence of Byzantium written by Milton Vasil Anastos and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Allegra Iafrate
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271085339
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)
Download or read book The Long Life of Magical Objects written by Allegra Iafrate and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2020-01-17 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores a series of powerful artifacts associated with King Solomon via legendary or extracanonical textual sources. Tracing their cultural resonance throughout history, art historian Allegra Iafrate delivers exciting insights into these objects and interrogates the ways in which magic manifests itself at a material level. Each chapter focuses on a different Solomonic object: a ring used to control demons; a mysterious set of bottles that constrain evil forces; an endless knot or seal with similar properties; the shamir, known for its supernatural ability to cut through stone; and a flying carpet that can bring the sitter anywhere he desires. Taken together, these chapters constitute a study on the reception of the figure of Solomon, but they are also cultural biographies of these magical objects and their inherent aesthetic, morphological, and technical qualities. Thought-provoking and engaging, Iafrate’s study shows how ancient magic artifacts live on in our imagination, in items such as Sauron’s ring of power, Aladdin’s lamp, and the magic carpet. It will appeal to historians of art, religion, folklore, and literature.
Author : Panos Sophoulis
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 303055905X
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Banditry in the Medieval Balkans, 800-1500 written by Panos Sophoulis and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-10-28 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the history of banditry in the medieval Balkans between the ninth and fifteenth centuries. While several scholars have recognized the problems which various outlaw groups caused in the region during the Middle Ages, few have given much attention to the bandits themselves, their origins, their reasons for taking up brigandage, and the steps taken by the central authorities to control their activity. Among other things, this book identifies three main sources of banditry: shepherds, soldiers and peasants. Far from being ʻlone wolvesʼ, these men operated within well-defined social networks. Poverty played a decisive role in driving them to a life of crime, but there is strong evidence to suggest that the growing economic prosperity in parts of the Balkans from the ninth century onwards may have also contributed to the rise of the phenomenon.
Author : Elizabeth Jeffreys
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0199252467
Total Pages : 1053 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Studies written by Elizabeth Jeffreys and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 1053 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Studies presents discussions by leading experts on all significant aspects of this diverse and fast-growing field. Byzantine Studies deals with the history and culture of the Byzantine Empire, the eastern half of the Late Roman Empire, from the fourth to the fourteenth century. Its centre was the city formerly known as Byzantium, refounded as Constantinople in 324 CE, the present-day Istanbul. Under its emperors, patriarchs, and all-pervasive bureaucracy Byzantium developed a distinctive society: Greek in language, Roman in legal system, and Christian in religion. Byzantium's impact in the European Middle Ages is hard to over-estimate, as a bulwark against invaders, as a meeting-point for trade from Asia and the Mediterranean, as a guardian of the classical literary and artistic heritage, and as a creator of its own magnificent artistic style.
Author : Guy Perry
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107196906
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)
Download or read book The Briennes written by Guy Perry and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-16 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive study of the Brienne dynasty, a fascinating example of the international aristocracy in the central Middle Ages.
Author : Lawrence A. Kuznar
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317251253
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)
Download or read book Studying Societies and Cultures written by Lawrence A. Kuznar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-03 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A thought-provoking, stimulating volume on the past, present and future of cultural materialism that is both laudatory of Harris' research strategy and critical of it." Paul Shankman, University of Colorado One of the most important anthropologists of all time, Marvin Harris was influential worldwide as the founder of cultural materialism. This book accessibly analyzes Harris's theories and their important legacies today. The chapters explore cultural materialism's epistemology and its relation to rational choice theory, Darwinian social science, and population pressures. The authors assess recent attempts to extend and reformulate cultural materialism and highlight cross-cultural, archaeological, and ethnographic applications of cultural materialism today.
Author : Ilia Rodov
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004244409
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book The Torah Ark in Renaissance Poland written by Ilia Rodov and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013-01-28 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume explores the stone carved shrines for the scrolls of the Mosaic Law from the mid-sixteenth to the mid-seventeenth century synagogues in the former Polish Kingdom. Created on the margin of mainstream art and at a crossroad of diverse cultures, artistic traditions, aesthetic attitudes and languages, these indoor architectural structures have hitherto not been the subject of a monographic study. Revisiting and integrating multiple sources, the author re-evaluates the relationship of the Jewish culture in Renaissance Poland with the medieval Jewish heritage, sepulchral art of the Polish court and nobles, and earlier adaptations of the Christian revival of classical antiquity by Italian Jews. The book uncovers the evolution of artistic patronage, aesthetics, expressions of identities, and emerging visions among a religious minority on the cusp of the modern age.
Author : Michael McCormick
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521661027
Total Pages : 1138 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Origins of the European Economy written by Michael McCormick and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 1138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive analysis of economic transition between the later Roman empire and Charlemagne's reigne.
Author : Alexandru Madgearu
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810858466
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (584 download)
Download or read book The Wars of the Balkan Peninsula written by Alexandru Madgearu and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Balkan Peninsula is often referred to as the "powder keg of Europe," but it is more accurately described as the "melting pot of Europe." In The Wars of the Balkan Peninsula: Their Medieval Origins, Alexandru Madgearu discusses the ethnic heterogeneity in modern-day Bosnia, Kosovo, and Macedonia and traces its history. Madgearu examines the historical evolution that led to the genesis of several conflicts in the Balkans. The affected areas and associated events have transformed the Balkan Peninsula into an intricate ethnic mosaic, where no single group of people has the majority. The various ethnic and religious differences these groups possess have survived the many occupations of this land over the years, whether by the Roman, Byzantine, or Ottoman Empires, and then became manifest when the modern Balkan states were created. With the dissolution of the strong outside forces once dominating the area, the Balkan states-prompted by political propaganda and nationalist ideologies-then used history to support territorial claims, defend ethnic-cleansing actions, and justify conflicts with other countries. The Wars of the Balkan Peninsula argues that the current ethnic structure is the basis for the solution of the disputes between the Balkan states and that history should be used to explain, not legitimize, the conflicts. Book jacket.
Author : Irfan Shahîd
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780884023470
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (234 download)
Download or read book Byzantium and the Arabs in the Sixth Century written by Irfan Shahîd and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fourth installment of Byzantium and the Arabs in the Sixth Century resumes the previous volume's discussion of the Ghassanids by examining their economic, social, and cultural history. First, Irfan Shahîd focuses on the economy of the Ghassanids and presents information on various trade routes and fairs. Second, the author reconstructs Ghassanid daily life by discussing topics as varied as music, food, medicine, the role of women, and horse racing. Shahîd concludes the volume with an examination of cultural life, including descriptions of urbanization, Arabic script, chivalry, and poetry. Throughout the volume, the author reveals the history of a fully developed and unique Christian-Arab culture. Shahîd exhaustively describes the society of the Ghassanids, and their contributions to the cultural environment that persisted in Oriens during the sixth century and continued into the period of the Umayyad caliphate.
Author : Virgil S. Crisafulli
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004105744
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (57 download)
Download or read book The Miracles of St. Artemios written by Virgil S. Crisafulli and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1997 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A translation of and philological-historical commentary on an anonymous hagiographical text, which provides insights into faith healing and the treatment of hernias in 7th-century Constantinople.
Author : Guy Perry
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107043107
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book John of Brienne written by Guy Perry and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-17 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores John of Brienne's remarkable thirteenth-century career from mid-ranking knight to king of Jerusalem and Latin emperor of Constantinople.
Author : David Jacoby
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000947440
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Latins, Greeks and Muslims: Encounters in the Eastern Mediterranean, 10th-15th Centuries written by David Jacoby and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-05-31 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trade, shipping, military conquest, migration and settlement in the eastern Mediterranean of the 10th-15th centuries generated multiple encounters between states, social and 'national' groups, and individuals belonging to Latin Christianity, Byzantium and the Islamic world. The nature of these encounters varied widely, depending on whether they were the result of cooperation, rivalry or clashes between states, the outcome of Latin conquest, which altered the social and legal status of indigenous subjects, or the result of economic activity. They had wide-ranging social and economic repercussions, and shaped both individual and collective perceptions and attitudes. These often differed, depending upon 'nationality', standing within the dominant or subject social strata, or purely economic considerations. In any event, at the individual level common economic interests transcended collective 'national' and cultural boundaries, except in times of crisis. The studies in this latest collection by David Jacoby explore the multiple facets of these eastern Mediterranean encounters and their impact upon individual economic activities, with special attention to the 'other', outsiders in foreign environments, foreign privileged versus indigenous traders, the link between governmental intervention, 'naturalization', and fiscal status, as well as the interaction between markets and peasants.
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004344608
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book The Chronicle of John Malalas written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1986-01-01 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Malalas' purpose in writing his work is twofold: 1) to set out the course of sacred history as interpreted by the Christian chronicle tradition (covered by Books 1-9); and 2) to provide a summary account of events under the Roman emperors up to and including his own lifetime (covered by Books 10-18).
