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Byzantium in the Eleventh Century

Author : Marc D. Lauxtermann
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351803964
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)

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Download or read book Byzantium in the Eleventh Century written by Marc D. Lauxtermann and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-10-18 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eleventh century in Byzantium is all about being in between, whether this is between Basil II and Alexios Komnenos, between the forces of the Normans, the Pechenegs and the Turks, or between different social groupings, cultural identities and religious persuasions. It is a period of fundamental changes and transformations, both internal and external, but also a period rife with clichés and dominated by the towering presence of Michael Psellos whose usually self-contradictory accounts continue to loom large in the field of Byzantine studies. The essays collected here, which were delivered at the 45th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, explore new avenues of research and offer new perspectives on this transitional period. The book is divided into four thematic clusters: 'The age of Psellos' studies this crucial figure and seeks to situate him in his time; 'Social structures' is concerned with the ways in which the deep structures of Byzantine society and economy responded to change; 'State and Church' offers a set of studies of various political developments in eleventh-century Byzantium; and 'The age of spirituality' offers the voices of those for whom Psellos had little time and little use: monks, religious thinkers and pious laymen.

Byzantium in the Eleventh Century

Author : Marc D Lauxtermann
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9780367885335
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book Byzantium in the Eleventh Century written by Marc D Lauxtermann and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-12-12 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eleventh century in Byzantium is all about being in between, whether this is between Basil II and Alexios Komnenos, between the forces of the Normans, the Pechenegs and the Turks, or between different social groupings, cultural identities and religious persuasions. It is a period of fundamental changes and transformations, both internal and external, but also a period rife with clichés and dominated by the towering presence of Michael Psellos whose usually self-contradictory accounts continue to loom large in the field of Byzantine studies. The essays collected here, which were delivered at the 45th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, explore new avenues of research and offer new perspectives on this transitional period. The book is divided into four thematic clusters: 'The age of Psellos' studies this crucial figure and seeks to situate him in his time; 'Social structures' is concerned with the ways in which the deep structures of Byzantine society and economy responded to change; 'State and Church' offers a set of studies of various political developments in eleventh-century Byzantium; and 'The age of spirituality' offers the voices of those for whom Psellos had little time and little use: monks, religious thinkers and pious laymen.

Change in Byzantine Culture in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries

Author : A. P. Kazhdan
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520069625
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Change in Byzantine Culture in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries written by A. P. Kazhdan and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1990-02 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Byzantium, that dark sphere on the periphery of medieval Europe, is commonly regarded as the immutable residue of Rome's decline. In this highly original and provocative work, Alexander Kazhdan and Ann Wharton Epstein revise this traditional image by documenting the dynamic social changes that occurred during the eleventh and twelfth centuries.

War in Eleventh-Century Byzantium

Author : Georgios Theotokis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429576889
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (295 download)

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Download or read book War in Eleventh-Century Byzantium written by Georgios Theotokis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: War in Eleventh-Century Byzantium presents new insights and critical approaches to warfare between the Byzantine Empire and its neighbours during the eleventh century. Modern historians have identified the eleventh century as a landmark era in Byzantine history. This was a period of invasions, political tumult, financial crisis and social disruption, but it was also a time of cultural and intellectual innovation and achievement. Despite this, the subject of warfare during this period remains underexplored. Addressing an important gap in the historiography of Byzantium, the volume argues that the eleventh century was a period of important geo-political change, when the Byzantine Empire was attacked on all sides, and its frontiers were breached. This book is valuable reading for scholars and students interested in Byzantium history and military history.

Social Change in Town and Country in Eleventh-Century Byzantium

Author : James Howard-Johnston
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198841612
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book Social Change in Town and Country in Eleventh-Century Byzantium written by James Howard-Johnston and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-06-04 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eleventh century saw both the heyday of Byzantium and its almost immediate subsequent decline following serious military defeats and heavy territorial losses. The papers in this volume view the social order as a prime determinant of change, tracking it through archaeological and documentary evidence to deepen our understanding of the period.

Poetry and its Contexts in Eleventh-century Byzantium

Author : Floris Bernard
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317079418
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Poetry and its Contexts in Eleventh-century Byzantium written by Floris Bernard and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Byzantine poetry of the eleventh century is fascinating, yet underexplored terrain. It presents a lively view on contemporary society, is often permeated with wit and elegance, and is concerned with a wide variety of subjects. Only now are we beginning to perceive the possibilities that this poetry offers for our knowledge of Byzantine culture in general, for the intellectual history of Byzantium, and for the evolution of poetry itself. It is, moreover, sometimes in the most neglected texts that the most fascinating discoveries can be made. This book, the first collaborative book-length study on the topic, takes an important step to fill this gap. It brings together specialists of the period who delve into this poetry with different but complementary objectives in mind, covering the links between art and text, linguistic evolutions, social functionality, contemporary reading attitudes, and the like. The authors aim to give the production of 11th-century verse a place in the Byzantine genre system and in the historic evolution of Byzantine poetry and metrics. As a result, this book will, to use the expression of two important poets of the period, "offer a small taste" of what can be gained from the serious study of this period.

Social Change in Town and Country in Eleventh-Century Byzantium

Author : James Howard-Johnston
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192578677
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book Social Change in Town and Country in Eleventh-Century Byzantium written by James Howard-Johnston and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-10 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of Byzantium pivots around the eleventh century, during which it reached its apogee in terms of power, prestige, and territorial extension, only then to plunge into steep political decline following serious military defeats and extensive territorial losses. The political, economic, and intellectual history of the period is reasonably well understood, but not so what was happening in that crucial intermediary sphere, the social order, which both shaped and was shaped by contemporary ideas and brute economic developments. This volume aims to deepen understanding of Byzantine society by examining material evidence for settlements and production in different regions and by sifting through the far from plentiful literary and documentary sources in order to track what was happening in town and country. There is evidence of significant change: the pattern of landownership continued to shift in favour of those with power and wealth, but there was sustained and effective resistance from peasant villages. Provincial towns prospered in what was an era of sustained economic growth, and, through newly emboldened local elites, took a more active part in public affairs. In the capital the middling classes, comprising much of officialdom and leading traders, gained in importance, while the twin military and civilian elites were merging to form a single governing class. However, despite this social upheaval, careful analysis of these various factors by a range of leading Byzantine historians and archaeologists leads to the overarching conclusion that it was not so much internal structural changes which contributed to the vertiginous decline suffered by Byzantium in the late eleventh century, as the unprecedented combination of dangerous adversaries on different fronts, in the east, north, and west.

Byzantium

Author : Norman Hepburn Baynes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Byzantium written by Norman Hepburn Baynes and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Companion to Byzantine Poetry

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004392882
Total Pages : 590 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Byzantine Poetry written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-05-06 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers the first complete survey of the Byzantine poetic production (4th to 15th centuries). It examines the use of poetry in various sociocultural settings in Constantinople and various other centres of the Byzantine empire.

Contesting the Logic of Painting

Author : Charles Barber
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047431618
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book Contesting the Logic of Painting written by Charles Barber and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007-10-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on a range of philosophical and theological writings produced in eleventh-century Byzantium, this book offers a reading of the icon and Byzantine aesthetics that not only expands our understanding of these topics but challenges our assumptions about the work of art itself.

Byzantine Studies

Author : Henrik Birnbaum
Publisher : Aristide D. Caratzas, Publisher
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Byzantine Studies written by Henrik Birnbaum and published by Aristide D. Caratzas, Publisher. This book was released on 1992 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Tradition and Transformation in Medieval Byzantium

Author : Paul Magdalino
Publisher : Variorum Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Tradition and Transformation in Medieval Byzantium written by Paul Magdalino and published by Variorum Publishing. This book was released on 1991 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the basic structures and the manifestations of Greek Byzantine identity between the 11th and 14th century and attempts to show how the elite subtly revised its political, religious and cultural outlook. It also considers the role of the Comnenian dynasty in shaping and provoking change.

War in Eleventh-Century Byzantium

Author : Georgios Theotokis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429574770
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (295 download)

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Download or read book War in Eleventh-Century Byzantium written by Georgios Theotokis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: War in Eleventh-Century Byzantium presents new insights and critical approaches to warfare between the Byzantine Empire and its neighbours during the eleventh century. Modern historians have identified the eleventh century as a landmark era in Byzantine history. This was a period of invasions, political tumult, financial crisis and social disruption, but it was also a time of cultural and intellectual innovation and achievement. Despite this, the subject of warfare during this period remains underexplored. Addressing an important gap in the historiography of Byzantium, the volume argues that the eleventh century was a period of important geo-political change, when the Byzantine Empire was attacked on all sides, and its frontiers were breached. This book is valuable reading for scholars and students interested in Byzantium history and military history.

Byzantium and Its Army, 284-1081

Author : Warren T. Treadgold
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804731638
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (316 download)

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Download or read book Byzantium and Its Army, 284-1081 written by Warren T. Treadgold and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this first general book on the Byzantine army, the author traces the army's impact on the Byzantine state and society from the army's reorganization under Diocletian until its disintegration in the aftermath of the battle of Manzikert.

Byzantine History in the 11th Century

Author : Eileen Stephenson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781094906904
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book Byzantine History in the 11th Century written by Eileen Stephenson and published by . This book was released on 2019-05-03 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The formidable Byzantine Empire lasted over a thousand years, but the fruit of its greatness and the seeds of its destruction can be found in the 11th century. This book is a brief introduction to the leading figures and events of those pivotal years - those who brought the empire to its pinnacle; the others who carelessly wasted its military might and treasure; and the hero who began its slow recovery. The drama of a hundred years of rebellions and murders, romance and political scheming will bring this fascinating civilization to life for the reader.

Byzantinum in the Year 1000

Author : Paul Magdalino
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004120971
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Byzantinum in the Year 1000 written by Paul Magdalino and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2003 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One thousand years ago, the Byzantine Empire was reaching the height of its revival as a medieval state. The ten contributions to this volume by scholars from six European countries re-assess key aspects of the empire's politics and culture in the long reign of the emperor Basil II, whose name has come to symbolise the greatness of Byzantium in the age before the crusades. The first five chapters deal with international diplomacy, the emperor's power, and government in Asia Minor and the frontier provinces of the Balkans and southern Italy. The second half of the volume covers aspects of law, history-writing, poetry and hagiography, and concludes with a discussion of Byzantine attitudes to the Millennium.

Michael Attaleiates and the Politics of Imperial Decline in Eleventh-century Byzantium

Author : Dimitris Krallis
Publisher : Mrts
ISBN 13 : 9780866984706
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (847 download)

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Download or read book Michael Attaleiates and the Politics of Imperial Decline in Eleventh-century Byzantium written by Dimitris Krallis and published by Mrts. This book was released on 2012 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book exposes Michael Attaleiates' engagement with the problem of Byzantine imperial decline some three decades before the Crusades. It suggests that in the History, his account of the empire's eleventh-century drama, Attaleiates creatively appropriates ancient genres and ideas and produces a mature and original critique of contemporary mores that escapes the confines of the dominant political and cultural orthodoxy, seeking solutions to the crisis faced by the Byzantine polity in its distant Roman past. The reader encounters here, in the person of this judge, one of the Empire's most interesting and least studied historians and with him participates in conversations that shaped politics in an era of cataclysmic cultural, economic, social and political change. Book jacket.