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Author : Louis Todière
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Last Cæsars of Byzantium written by Louis Todière and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marios Philippides
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351055402
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Constantine XI Dragaš Palaeologus (1404–1453) written by Marios Philippides and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-09-03 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Constantine XI’s last moments in life, as he stood before the walls of Constantinople in 1453, have bestowed a heroic status on him. This book produces a more balanced portrait of an intriguing individual: the last emperor of Constantinople. To be sure, the last of the Greek Caesars was a fascinating figure, not so much because he was a great statesman, as he was not, and not because of his military prowess, as he was neither a notable tactician nor a soldier of exceptional merit. This monarch may have formulated grandiose plans but his hopes and ambitions were ultimately doomed, because he failed to inspire his own subjects, who did not rally to his cause. Constantine lacked the skills to create, restore, or maintain harmony in his troubled realm. In addition, he was ineffective on the diplomatic front, as he proved unable to stimulate Latin Christendom to mount an expedition and come to the aid of south-eastern Orthodox Europe. Yet in sharp contrast to his numerous shortcomings, his military defeats, and the various disappointments during his reign, posterity still fondly remembers the last Constantine.
Author : L (Louis) B 1804 Todière
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781019749432
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (494 download)
Download or read book The Last Cæsars of Byzantium written by L (Louis) B 1804 Todière and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of the Byzantine Empire during the period known as the Palaiologan Restoration, which saw the reign of the last emperors of Byzantium. With its scholarly research and engaging prose, this book is perfect for anyone interested in the history of the Byzantine Empire. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : L. Todiere
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781331345466
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (454 download)
Download or read book The Last Cæsars of Byzantium (Classic Reprint) written by L. Todiere and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-04-22 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Last Cæsars of Byzantium I offer to the public a volume which may derive interest from the present attitude of Russia and Turkey in regard to each other, and from the great russian-turkish question which now claims the attention of every European Government. It con tains a simple narrative of the events which agitated the Byzantine empire, from the accession of the Palaeologi to the conquest of Greece by the Otto mans. I have endeavored to trace, together with the rapid progress of the Turks, the decline of the Greeks, whilst province after province is subj ugated, and one by one cities are snatched from their grasp, until at last the fall of the capital dealt the fatal blow to that power which had ruled for so many centuries. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Louis Todiere
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781499152364
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (523 download)
Download or read book The LAST CAESARS of BYZANTIUM written by Louis Todiere and published by . This book was released on 2014-04-18 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As early as the middle of the eleventh century, the noble family of the Palaeologi appears with honor in the history of Constantinople. If the father of the Comneni was able to place upon his brow the crown of the Caesars, he was indebted for it to George Palaeologus, whose descendants continued to command armies, to preside over councils of state, and to exercise a vast authority. Their alliance was sought by the imperial family, and if the law of female succession had been rigorously observed, the wife of Theodore Lascaris would have made way for the elder sister, the mother of that Michael Palaeologus, who afterwards elevated his family to the throne. To noble birth, Michael Palaeologus united brilliant qualities. Brave, accomplished, generous, eloquent, affable in his manners and conversation, he won all hearts. But the affection of the people and the army deprived him of favor at Court, and this prince thrice escaped the dangers to which he was exposed by the imprudence of his followers. The Emperor Theodore Lascaris, one of those fugitive Greeks who had replaced and maintained the Roman standard on the walls of Nicaea in Bithynia, in spite of the efforts of the Latins, then masters of Constantinople, had on his death-bed recommended his son John, six years of age, to Palaeologus, whose talents and influence he well knew (1259). At the same time he appointed as his guardian, with absolute control, George Muzalon, his chief favorite, associating, however, with him the Patriarch of Nicaea, Arsenius.The hatred entertained by the Greeks towards Muzalon had been expressed during the life of the Emperor, but it burst forth in undisguised fury after his death. Unable to cope openly with his enemies, the tutor endeavored to disarm their malice by gentleness; he convened at the palace an assembly consisting of the high nobility, the magistracy, the most distinguished officers of the army, and presented himself before them clothed in the insignia of his various dignities. In a crafty discourse, he offered aloud from the throne an explanation of his conduct, expressing his willingness to renounce the regency if they should judge his abdication conducive to the public good. The destruction of Muzalon had been determined, but his enemies considered that the favorable moment had not yet arrived; they overwhelmed his pretended modesty with protestations of esteem and fidelity, and his most implacable enemies were apparently the most eager to renew their oath of obedience. Among these, Michael Palaeologus, who even in boyhood had been elevated to the office of Constable or of Commandant of the mercenary chiefs, urgently implored the guardian and savior of the Romans not to renounce the guardianship of the young Emperor. Never had the Greeks been so perfidious, and the regent was soon the dupe of his credulity and ambition. On the ninth day after the death of Lascaris, the solemnity of his obsequies was celebrated according to custom, in the cathedral of Magnesia, a city of Asia. In the midst of the ceremonies, the guards rushed into the church, uttering horrible imprecations, and massacred, at the foot of the altar, Muzalon, his brothers, and all their partisans. Under these circumstances, Michael conducted himself in such a manner as to derive all the advantage of the massacre without participating in the crime, or, at least, without suffering the odium attaching to it. Claiming no honors, he trusted to the effect of his liberality, the more valued from the diminution of his fortune. The great lords having assembled to elect a regent, offered him the title of Grand Duke, and Arsenius left in his hands all executive authority.From that moment the ambitious Palaeologus regarded his dignity only as a stepping stone by which the more easily to ascend the throne to which he aspired.
Author : L. (Louis) B. 1804 Todiere
Publisher : Wentworth Press
ISBN 13 : 9781371949174
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (491 download)
Download or read book LAST CAESARS OF BYZANTIUM written by L. (Louis) B. 1804 Todiere and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2016-08-28 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Louis Todiére
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783741190179
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Last Cæsars of Byzantium written by Louis Todiére and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Donald M. Nicol
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521894098
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (94 download)
Download or read book The Immortal Emperor written by Donald M. Nicol and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-05-09 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first biography of the last Byzantine Emperor.
Author : Jill Harries
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Theodosian Code written by Jill Harries and published by Bloomsbury Academic. This book was released on 1993 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lars Brownworth
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307407969
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Lost to the West written by Lars Brownworth and published by Crown. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Filled with unforgettable stories of emperors, generals, and religious patriarchs, as well as fascinating glimpses into the life of the ordinary citizen, Lost to the West reveals how much we owe to the Byzantine Empire that was the equal of any in its achievements, appetites, and enduring legacy. For more than a millennium, Byzantium reigned as the glittering seat of Christian civilization. When Europe fell into the Dark Ages, Byzantium held fast against Muslim expansion, keeping Christianity alive. Streams of wealth flowed into Constantinople, making possible unprecedented wonders of art and architecture. And the emperors who ruled Byzantium enacted a saga of political intrigue and conquest as astonishing as anything in recorded history. Lost to the West is replete with stories of assassination, mass mutilation and execution, sexual scheming, ruthless grasping for power, and clashing armies that soaked battlefields with the blood of slain warriors numbering in the tens of thousands.
Author : Barry Strauss
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451668848
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)
Download or read book Ten Caesars written by Barry Strauss and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bestselling classical historian Barry Strauss delivers “an exceptionally accessible history of the Roman Empire…much of Ten Caesars reads like a script for Game of Thrones” (The Wall Street Journal)—a summation of three and a half centuries of the Roman Empire as seen through the lives of ten of the most important emperors, from Augustus to Constantine. In this essential and “enlightening” (The New York Times Book Review) work, Barry Strauss tells the story of the Roman Empire from rise to reinvention, from Augustus, who founded the empire, to Constantine, who made it Christian and moved the capital east to Constantinople. During these centuries Rome gained in splendor and territory, then lost both. By the fourth century, the time of Constantine, the Roman Empire had changed so dramatically in geography, ethnicity, religion, and culture that it would have been virtually unrecognizable to Augustus. Rome’s legacy remains today in so many ways, from language, law, and architecture to the seat of the Roman Catholic Church. Strauss examines this enduring heritage through the lives of the men who shaped it: Augustus, Tiberius, Nero, Vespasian, Trajan, Hadrian, Marcus Aurelius, Septimius Severus, Diocletian, and Constantine. Over the ages, they learned to maintain the family business—the government of an empire—by adapting when necessary and always persevering no matter the cost. Ten Caesars is a “captivating narrative that breathes new life into a host of transformative figures” (Publishers Weekly). This “superb summation of four centuries of Roman history, a masterpiece of compression, confirms Barry Strauss as the foremost academic classicist writing for the general reader today” (The Wall Street Journal).
Author : Ian Hughes
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1844689417
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (446 download)
Download or read book Belisarius written by Ian Hughes and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2009-01-15 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A military history of the campaigns of Flavius Belisarius, the greatest general of the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Emperor Justinian. Back in the 6th century, Belisarius twice defeated the Persians and reconquered North Africa from the Vandals in a single year at the age of 29, before going on to regain Spain and Italy, including Rome (briefly), from the barbarians. This book discusses the evolution from classical Roman to Byzantine armies and systems of warfare, as well as those of their chief enemies: the Persians, Goths, and Vandals. Belisarius: The Last Roman General reassesses Belisarius’s generalship and compares him with the likes of Caesar, Alexander, and Hannibal. It is also illustrated with line drawings and battle plans as well as photographs.
Author : Warren Treadgold
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804779376
Total Pages : 971 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)
Download or read book A History of the Byzantine State and Society written by Warren Treadgold and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1997-11-01 with total page 971 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A vivid story of Byzantium’s existence over the span of 1,100 years . . . . this work may well become the standard English-language history of Byzantium.” —Library Journal This is the first comprehensive and up-to-date history of Byzantium to appear in almost sixty years, and the first ever to cover both the Byzantine state and Byzantine society. It begins in A.D. 285, when the emperor Diocletian separated what became Byzantium from the western Roman Empire, and ends in 1461, when the last Byzantine outposts fell to the Ottoman Turks. Spanning twelve centuries and three continents, the Byzantine Empire linked the ancient and modern worlds, shaping and transmitting Greek, Roman, and Christian traditions—including the Greek classics, Roman law, and Christian theology—that remain vigorous today, not only in Eastern Europe and the Middle East but throughout Western civilization. Though in its politics Byzantium often resembled a third-world dictatorship, it has never yet been matched in maintaining a single state for so long, over a wide area inhabited by heterogeneous peoples. Drawing on a wealth of original sources and modern works, the author treats political and social developments as a single vivid story, told partly in detailed narrative and partly in essays that clarify long-term changes. He avoids stereotypes and rejects such old and new historical orthodoxies as the persistent weakness of the Byzantine economy and the pervasive importance of holy men in Late Antiquity. Without neglecting underlying social, cultural, and economic trends, the author shows the often-crucial impact of nearly a hundred Byzantine emperors and empresses. What the emperor or empress did, or did not do, could rapidly confront ordinary Byzantines with economic ruin, new religious doctrines, or conquest by a foreign power. Much attention is also paid to the complex life of the court and bureaucracy that has given us the adjective “byzantine.” The major personalities include such famous names as Constantine, Justinian, Theodora, and Heraclius, along with lesser-known figures like Constans II, Irene, Basil II the Bulgar-Slayer, and Michael VIII Palaeologus. Byzantine civilization emerges as durable, creative, and realistic, overcoming repeated setbacks to remain prosperous almost to the end. With 221 illustrations and 18 maps, A History of the Byzantine State and Society should long remain the standard history of Byzantium not just for students and scholars but for all readers. “Fluently written for the general reader.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review “Though several others have recently assayed to cover the complex history of the Eastern Roman Empire . . . none has done so as completely and satisfactorily as Treadgold.” —Libraries & Culture
Author : Peter Sarris
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199236119
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)
Download or read book Byzantium written by Peter Sarris and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the fusion of Roman political culture, Greek intellectual tradition, and Christian faith that characterized Byzantium. Shows how the empire held power for eleven centuries and why it ultimately fell.
Author : Hourly History
Publisher : Hourly History
ISBN 13 : 1979037205
Total Pages : 47 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (79 download)
Download or read book Byzantine Empire written by Hourly History and published by Hourly History. This book was released on 2018-01-02 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to history books, the Roman Empire ended in 476 CE with the fall of Rome. But if you asked most people alive at that time, they would have pointed you to what they considered the continuation of the Roman Empire—the civilization we now call the Byzantine Empire. The Byzantines, however, were more than just a remnant of Roman glory. At its geographical peak, the Byzantine Empire stretched out across the Mediterranean world. Culturally, the Byzantines both preserved the knowledge of the classical world, much of which was lost in the West, and added to it. Inside you will read about... ✓ A Divided Empire ✓ The Fall of the West ✓ Rising to Glory ✓ An Age of War ✓ The Destruction of Icons ✓ The House of Macedon ✓ The Comnenian Revival ✓ The Final Decline And much more! Shaped by its classical roots, its Christian religion, and the changing medieval world, the story of the Byzantine Empire is one of both glorious victories and terrible defeats, of a civilization that rose from the brink of destruction again and again, and of the development of a culture whose vestiges remain today.
Author : Edward Luttwak
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674035194
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)
Download or read book The Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire written by Edward Luttwak and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-11 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, the distinguished writer Edward N. Luttwak presents the grand strategy of the eastern Roman empire we know as Byzantine, which lasted more than twice as long as the more familiar western Roman empire, eight hundred years by the shortest definition. This extraordinary endurance is all the more remarkable because the Byzantine empire was favored neither by geography nor by military preponderance. Yet it was the western empire that dissolved during the fifth century. The Byzantine empire so greatly outlasted its western counterpart because its rulers were able to adapt strategically to diminished circumstances, by devising new ways of coping with successive enemies. It relied less on military strength and more on persuasion—to recruit allies, dissuade threatening neighbors, and manipulate potential enemies into attacking one another instead. Even when the Byzantines fought—which they often did with great skill—they were less inclined to destroy their enemies than to contain them, for they were aware that today’s enemies could be tomorrow’s allies. Born in the fifth century when the formidable threat of Attila’s Huns were deflected with a minimum of force, Byzantine strategy continued to be refined over the centuries, incidentally leaving for us several fascinating guidebooks to statecraft and war. The Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire is a broad, interpretive account of Byzantine strategy, intelligence, and diplomacy over the course of eight centuries that will appeal to scholars, classicists, military history buffs, and professional soldiers.
Author : Todiere L.
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780259657354
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (573 download)
Download or read book Last Caesars of Byzantium written by Todiere L. and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
