(Išleidimo metai: 02-Sep-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198864097)
Pinning down Byzantium (or East Rome) is as difficult today as it was for contemporaries during its 1,000-year-long existence. Dimitri Obolensky sought to characterize its impact on Eastern Europe in his classic The Byzantine Commonwealth, f...Daugiau...
This comparative study explores three key cultural and political spheres the Latin west, Byzantium and the Islamic world from Central Asia to the Atlantic roughly from the emergence of Islam to the fall of Constantinople. These spheres drew on a...Daugiau...
In the year 922 a remarkable encounter took place on the wide banks of the Middle Volga. The eyewitness account of Ibn Fadlan, an emissary to the leader of the Bulgars from the far-distant caliphate in Baghdad, vividly describes his meeting with the...Daugiau...
This volume highlights the trade in slaves during the ninth and tenth centuries as driving exchanges on a trans-continental scale. A combination of general surveys and regional case-studies sets Gotland and the early medieval slave trade in a firm...Daugiau...
Catherine Holmes, Jonathan Shepard, Jo van Steenbergen, Björn Weiler
(Išleidimo metai: 26-Aug-2021, Hardback, Leidėjas: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781316519769)
Our main aim is to provide a set of parallel studies to enable readers with experience in the history and historiography of one sphere to gain grounding in the fundamentals of the political cultures of the other two. We hope to provide a framework,...Daugiau...
That there was an influx of silver dirhams from the Muslim world into eastern and northern Europe in the ninth and tenth centuries is quite well-known, as is the fact that the largest concentration of finds of hoards is on the island of Gotland. R...Daugiau...
Although often mentioned in textbooks about the Carolingian and Byzantine empires, the Treaty of Aachen has not received much close attention. This volume attempts not just to fill the gap, but to view the episode through both micro- and macro-len...Daugiau...
Byzantium lasted a thousand years, ruled by self-styled emperors of the Romans. It underwent territorial and structural changes, yet recovered repeatedly from disaster. This book tells the story, tracing political and military events, religious con...Daugiau...
Although often mentioned in textbooks about the Carolingian and Byzantine empires, the Treaty of Aachen has not received much close attention. This volume attempts not just to fill the gap, but to view the episode through both micro- and macro-len...Daugiau...
This eagerly awaited volume, the first of its kind by western scholars, describes the development amongst the diverse inhabitants of the immense landmass between the Carpathians and Urals of a political, economic and social nexus (underpinned by a co...Daugiau...
According to Byzantiums leaders, their imperial order anchored in Constantinople was the centre of excellence - spiritual, moral, material and aesthetic. They rewarded individuals willing to join, and favoured outside groupings prepared to cooperate...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 08-Jan-2009, Hardback, Leidėjas: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9780521832311)
A history of the rise and fall of the Byzantine Empire. Byzantium lasted a thousand years, ruled to the end by self-styled emperors of the Romans. It underwent kaleidoscopic territorial and structural changes, yet recovered repeatedly from...Daugiau...
This volume aims to clarify the context for the expansion of Western Europe by focusing on what had been the greatest power in early medieval Europe, the Byzantine empire, and on the continuing strengths and expansion of the Orthodox world. Byzantine...Daugiau...
This eagerly awaited volume, the first of its kind by western scholars, describes the development amongst the diverse inhabitants of the immense landmass between the Carpathians and Urals of a political, economic and social nexus (underpinned by a co...Daugiau...
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A collection of papers arising from the 24th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, this book represents a comprehensive investigation of diplomacy in the foreign policy of the emperors of Byzantium. The book spans the emergence of the empire in lat...Daugiau...