Description |
1 online resource (xxiii, 391 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), maps |
Contents |
Introduction: A different history of Byzantium -- The city of Constantine -- Constantinople, the largest city in Christendom -- The East Roman Empire -- Greek orthodoxy -- The church of Hagia Sophia -- The Ravenna Mosaics -- Roman law -- The bulwark against Islam -- Icons, a new Christian art form -- Iconoclasm and icon veneration -- A literate and articulate society -- Saints Cyril and methodios, 'apostles to the slavs' -- Greek fire -- The Byzantine economy -- Eunuchs -- The imperial court -- Imperial children, 'born in the purple' -- Mount Athos -- Venice and the fork -- Basil II, 'the bulgar-slayer' -- Eleventh-century crisis -- Anna Komnene -- A cosmopolitan society -- The fulcrum of the crusades -- The towers of Trebizond, Arta, Nicaea and Thessanlonike -- Rebels and patrons -- 'Better the Turkish turban than the Papal tiara' -- The siege of 1453 -- Conclusion: The greatness and legacy of Byzantium |
Summary |
Explores the rise and fall of the Byzantine Empire, including important figures who shaped its history and the role it played in protecting Christianity from Islam's expansion across western Europe |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-353) and index |
Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
Subject |
HISTORY -- Europe -- General.
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HISTORY -- Ancient -- Greece.
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Civilization
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SUBJECT |
Byzantine Empire -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85018483
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Byzantine Empire -- Civilization.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85018476
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Subject |
Byzantine Empire
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Byzantinisches Reich
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Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9781400832736 |
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140083273X |
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