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Author : James Cochran Stevenson Runciman
Publisher : Plume Books
ISBN 13 : 9780452000230
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Byzantine Civilisation written by James Cochran Stevenson Runciman and published by Plume Books. This book was released on 1974-02 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Steven Runciman
Publisher : Penguin Group USA
ISBN 13 : 9780140137545
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)
Download or read book Byzantine Style and Civilization written by Steven Runciman and published by Penguin Group USA. This book was released on 1990 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elizabeth Jeffreys
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521834457
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)
Download or read book Byzantine Style, Religion and Civilization written by Elizabeth Jeffreys and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-10-12 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A volume of cutting-edge essays written in honour of renowned Byzantinist Sir Steven Runciman.
Author : Steven Runciman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Byzantine Civilisation, by Steven Runciman written by Steven Runciman and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The foundation of Constantinople -- Historical outline -- The imperial constitution and the reign of law -- The administration -- Religion and the church -- The army: the navy: the diplomatic service -- Commerce -- Town and country life -- Education and learning -- Byzantine learning -- Byzantine literature -- Byzantine art -- Byzantium and the neighbouring world.
Author : Steven Runciman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521545914
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (459 download)
Download or read book The Byzantine Theocracy written by Steven Runciman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-06-03 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the theocratic constitution of the Byzantine Empire.
Author : Minoo Dinshaw
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780141979472
Total Pages : 784 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (794 download)
Download or read book Outlandish Knight written by Minoo Dinshaw and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-06 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'An extraordinary book ... exceptionally fascinating, always readable and penetratingly intelligent' David Abulafia 'As rich, funny and teemingly peopled as Anthony Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time ... Dinshaw writes with wit and elegance, and the most elegiac passages of Outlandish Knight evoke a lost society London and way of life' Ben Judah, Financial Times 'This dazzling young writer is a mine of fascinating, memorable and totally useless information... I have been riveted by this book from start to finish, and leave the reader with one word of advice. Watch Minoo Dinshaw. He will go far' John Julius Norwich, Sunday Telegraph The biography of one of the greatest British historians - but also of a uniquely strange and various man In his enormously long life, Steven Runciman managed not just to be a great historian of the Crusades and Byzantium, but Grand Orator of the Orthodox Church, a member of the Order of Whirling Dervishes, Greek Astronomer Royal and Laird of Eigg. His friendships, curiosities and intrigues entangled him in a huge array of different artistic movements, civil wars, Cold War betrayals and, above all, the rediscovery of the history of the Eastern Mediterranean. He was as happy living in a remote part of the Inner Hebrides as in the heart of Istanbul. He was obsessed with historical truth, but also with tarot, second sight, ghosts and the uncanny. Outlandish Knight is a dazzling debut by a writer who has prodigious gifts, but who also has had the ability to spot one of the great biographical subjects. This is an extremely funny book about a man who attracted the strangest experiences, but also a very serious one. It is about the rigours of a life spent in the distant past, but also about the turbulent world of the twentieth century, where so much that Runciman studied and cherished would be destroyed.
Author : Steven Runciman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book Byzantine Civilization written by Steven Runciman and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Steven Runciman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781107604698
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (46 download)
Download or read book The Fall of Constantinople 1453 written by Steven Runciman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-26 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic account shows how the fall of Constantinople in May 1453, after a siege of several weeks, came as a bitter shock to Western Christendom. The city's plight had been neglected, and negligible help was sent in this crisis. To the Turks, victory not only brought a new imperial capital, but guaranteed that their empire would last. To the Greeks, the conquest meant the end of the civilisation of Byzantium, and led to the exodus of scholars stimulating the tremendous expansion of Greek studies in the European Renaissance.
Author : Steven Runciman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521097109
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (971 download)
Download or read book The Last Byzantine Renaissance written by Steven Runciman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-12-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the last two centuries of its existence the Byzantine Empire was politically in a state of utter decadence, but, in contrast, its intellectual life has never before shone so brilliantly. In these four lectures the author discusses the leading scholars of the period, their erudition, their intense individualism, their controversies and their achievements.
Author : Steven Runciman
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521061612
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (616 download)
Download or read book A History of the Crusades: Volume 1, The First Crusade and the Foundation of the Kingdom of Jerusalem written by Steven Runciman and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1951 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir Steven Runciman explores the First Crusade and the foundation of the kingdom of Jerusalem.
Author : James Cochran Stevenson Runciman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (898 download)
Download or read book Byzantine Civilization written by James Cochran Stevenson Runciman and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Steven Runciman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Lost Capital of Byzantium written by Steven Runciman and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clinging to a rugged hillside in the lush valley of Sparta lies Mistra, one of the most beautiful Byzantine cities in Greece, a place steeped in history, myth, and romance. The Lost Capital of Byzantium tells the story of this once-great city--its rise and fall and its place in the history of the Peloponnese and the Byzantine empire.
Author : Peter Frankopan
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674970780
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)
Download or read book The First Crusade written by Peter Frankopan and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2016-10-17 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to tradition, the First Crusade began at the instigation of Pope Urban II and culminated in July 1099, when thousands of western European knights liberated Jerusalem from the rising menace of Islam. But what if the First Crusade's real catalyst lay far to the east of Rome? In this groundbreaking book, countering nearly a millennium of scholarship, Peter Frankopan reveals the untold history of the First Crusade. Nearly all historians of the First Crusade focus on the papacy and its willing warriors in the West, along with innumerable popular tales of bravery, tragedy, and resilience. In sharp contrast, Frankopan examines events from the East, in particular from Constantinople, seat of the Christian Byzantine Empire. The result is revelatory. The true instigator of the First Crusade, we see, was the Emperor Alexios I Komnenos, who in 1095, with his realm under siege from the Turks and on the point of collapse, begged the pope for military support. Basing his account on long-ignored eastern sources, Frankopan also gives a provocative and highly original explanation of the world-changing events that followed the First Crusade. The Vatican's victory cemented papal power, while Constantinople, the heart of the still-vital Byzantine Empire, never recovered. As a result, both Alexios and Byzantium were consigned to the margins of history. From Frankopan's revolutionary work, we gain a more faithful understanding of the way the taking of Jerusalem set the stage for western Europe's dominance up to the present day and shaped the modern world.
Author : Steven Runciman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (213 download)
Download or read book Mistra written by Steven Runciman and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Steven Runciman
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0359041434
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (59 download)
Download or read book A History of the First Bulgarian Empire written by Steven Runciman and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-08-22 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir Steven Runciman tells the story of the First Bulgarian Empire as only he can. Few other historians before or since have been able to tell such a riveting and vibrant tale while maintaining such a high standard of academic rigor. Sir Steven is the rare writer who can engage a popular audience and satisfy the demands of the professional historian at the same time.
Author : Steven Runciman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521071888
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (718 download)
Download or read book The Great Church in Captivity written by Steven Runciman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1968-10-02 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is Sir Steven Runciman's established and widely admired classic account of the Patriarchate of Constantinople, first published in 1968. The Great Church, as the Greeks called the Orthodox Patriarchate, was the spiritual centre of the Byzantine world. The Church's survival during the four centuries of Turkish rule which followed the fall of Constantinople bore witness to its strenght and to the unquenchable vitality of Hellenism. Sir Steven Runciman's history of the Great Church in this period is written with scholarship, sympathy and style.
Author : Steven Runciman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781107604742
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (47 download)
Download or read book The Sicilian Vespers written by Steven Runciman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-29 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 30 March 1282, as the bells of Palermo were ringing for Vespers, the Sicilian townsfolk, crying 'Death to the French', slaughtered the garrison and administration of their Angevin King. Seen in historical perspective it was not an especially big massacre: the revolt of the long-subjugated Sicilians might seem just another resistance movement. But the events of 1282 came at a crucial moment. Steven Runciman takes the Vespers as the climax of a great narrative sweep covering the whole of the Mediterranean in the thirteenth century. His sustained narrative power is displayed here with concentrated brilliance in the rise and fall of this fascinating episode. This is also an excellent guide to the historical background to Dante's Divine Comedy, forming almost a Who's Who of the political figures in it, and providing insight into their placement in Hell, Paradise or Purgatory.
