The Oxford history of Byzantium Print
Byzantium
edited by Cyril Mango.
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.
- xviii, 334 p., [24] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 25 cm. Hardback book.
Includes Index and Bibliography
eastern empire from Constantine to Heraclius (306-641) / Life in city and country / New religion, old culture / rise of Islam / struggle for survival (641-780) / Iconoclasm / medieval empire (780-1204) / revival of learning / Spreading the word : Byzantine missions / Fragmentation (1204-1453) / Palaiologan learning / Towards a Franco-Greek culture / Cyril Mango -- Peter Sarris -- Clive Foss -- Cyril Mango -- Robert Hoyland -- Warren Treadgold -- Patricia Karlin-Hayter -- Paul Magdalino -- Cyril Mango -- Jonathan Shepard -- Stephen W. Reinert -- Elizabeth Jeffreys and Cyril Mango. Introduction / The The The The The Faces of Constantine / Status and its symbols / Constantinople / Pilgrimage / Icons / Commerce / Monasticism / Cyril Mango -- Marlia Mundell Mango -- Cyril Mango -- Marlia Mundell Mango -- Cyril Mango -- Marlia Mundell Mango -- Marlia Mundell Mango. List of special features :
This book provides detailed coverage of Byzantium from its Roman beginnings to the fall of Constantinople and assimilation into the Turkish Empire. Essays and illustrations portray the emergence and development of a distinctive civilization, covering the period from the 4th century to the mid-15th century. The authors outline the political history of the Byzantine state and bring to life the evolution of a colorful culture. In AD 324, the Emperor Constantine the Great chose Byzantion, an ancient Greek colony at the mouth of the Thracian Bosphorus, as his imperial residence. He renamed the place "Constaninopolis nova Roma", "Constantinople, the new Rome" and the city (modern Istanbul) became the Eastern capital of the later Roman empire. The new Rome outlived the old and Constantine's successors continued to regard themselves as the legitimate emperors of Rome, just as their subjects called themselves Romaioi, or Romans long after they had forgotten the Latin language.
0198140983 9780198140986
2002727278
Byzantine Empire--History.
949.502 Oxf 15
Includes Index and Bibliography
eastern empire from Constantine to Heraclius (306-641) / Life in city and country / New religion, old culture / rise of Islam / struggle for survival (641-780) / Iconoclasm / medieval empire (780-1204) / revival of learning / Spreading the word : Byzantine missions / Fragmentation (1204-1453) / Palaiologan learning / Towards a Franco-Greek culture / Cyril Mango -- Peter Sarris -- Clive Foss -- Cyril Mango -- Robert Hoyland -- Warren Treadgold -- Patricia Karlin-Hayter -- Paul Magdalino -- Cyril Mango -- Jonathan Shepard -- Stephen W. Reinert -- Elizabeth Jeffreys and Cyril Mango. Introduction / The The The The The Faces of Constantine / Status and its symbols / Constantinople / Pilgrimage / Icons / Commerce / Monasticism / Cyril Mango -- Marlia Mundell Mango -- Cyril Mango -- Marlia Mundell Mango -- Cyril Mango -- Marlia Mundell Mango -- Marlia Mundell Mango. List of special features :
This book provides detailed coverage of Byzantium from its Roman beginnings to the fall of Constantinople and assimilation into the Turkish Empire. Essays and illustrations portray the emergence and development of a distinctive civilization, covering the period from the 4th century to the mid-15th century. The authors outline the political history of the Byzantine state and bring to life the evolution of a colorful culture. In AD 324, the Emperor Constantine the Great chose Byzantion, an ancient Greek colony at the mouth of the Thracian Bosphorus, as his imperial residence. He renamed the place "Constaninopolis nova Roma", "Constantinople, the new Rome" and the city (modern Istanbul) became the Eastern capital of the later Roman empire. The new Rome outlived the old and Constantine's successors continued to regard themselves as the legitimate emperors of Rome, just as their subjects called themselves Romaioi, or Romans long after they had forgotten the Latin language.
0198140983 9780198140986
2002727278
Byzantine Empire--History.
949.502 Oxf 15