A long overdue and thrillingly paced narrative of one of the most dramatic periods in Medieval history Streams of Gold Rivers of Blood provides an engaging chronicle of the various imperial upheavals from the conquests of Basil to the collapse of Constantinople conc... Lees meer.

In the second half of the tenth century Byzantium embarked on a series of spectacular conquests. first in the southeast against the Arabs then in Bulgaria and finally in the Georgian and Armenian lands. By the early eleventh century the empire was the most powerful... Lees meer.

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War the most profitable economic activity in the ancient world transferred wealth from the vanquished to the victor. Invasions sieges massacres annexations and mass deportations all redistributed property with dramatic consequences for kings and commoners alike. N... Lees meer.

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Covering an expanse of more than three thousand years this title charts the history of Greece s religious cultures from antiquity all the way through to present post-independence Greece. Covering an expanse of more than three thousand years Hellenic Temples and Ch... Lees meer.

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Focusing on the first and last years of Libanius Antiochene career AD 354 388 this volume illustrates his great range of his rhetorical skills while at the same time illuminating the intrigues of city politics and university life. Focusing on the first and last y... Lees meer.

Modern readers find it hard to come to terms with the gods in Euripides dramas. Readers try to dismiss them as a literary convention. Stage productions leave them out especially in the cases when they appear ex machina. Instead they place disproportionate emphasis on... Lees meer.

Greece and Greek mean different things to different people. The historian of course will inform us that all Western civilisation has Greece for its mother. The author aims to throw some fresh light upon the secret of that people s greatness. It cannot be done by st... Lees meer.

Covering an expanse of more than three thousand years Hellenic Temples and Christian Churches charts in one concise volume the history of Greece s religious cultures from antiquity all the way through to present post-independence Greece. Focusing on the encounter and... Lees meer.

Among medieval Christian societies Byzantium is unique in preserving an ecclesiastical ritual of adelphopoiesis which pronounces two men not related by birth as brothers for life. It has its origin as a spiritual blessing in the monastic world of late antiquity and... Lees meer.

Byzantine princess Anna Komnene is known for two things. plotting to murder her brother to usurp the throne and writing the Alexiad an epic history of her father Alexios I Komnenos 1081-1118 that is a key historical source for the era of the First Crusade. Anna Ko... Lees meer.

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