The Trophies of the Martyrs

Galit Noga-Banai

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Byzantium
• In this pioneering study, the first of its kind, Galit Noga-Banai analyses silver reliquaries decorated with Christian figurative themes. She offers a... Lees meer

Innovation in Byzantine Medicine

Petros Bouras-Vallianatos

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Byzantium
• Byzantine medicine remains a little known and misrepresented field not only in the context of debates on medieval medicine, but also among Byzantinist... Lees meer

Debating the Saints' Cult in the Age of Gregory the Great

Matthew Dal Santo

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Byzantium
• In Debating the Saints' Cults in the Age of Gregory the Great , Dal Santo argues that the Dialogues , Pope Gregory the Great's most controversial work... Lees meer

Emperor John II Komnenos

Maximilian C G Lau

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Byzantium
• John II Komnenos was born into an empire on the brink of destruction, with his father Alexios barely preserving the empire in the face of civil wars a... Lees meer

Shaping a Muslim State

Petra M Sijpesteijn

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Byzantium
• Shaping a Muslim State provides a synthetic study of the political, social, and economic processes which formed early Islamic Egypt. Looking at a corp... Lees meer

The Byzantine-Islamic Transition in Palestine

Gideon Avni

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Byzantium
• Using a comprehensive evaluation of recent archaeological findings, Avni addresses the transformation of local societies in Palestine and Jordan betwe... Lees meer

Basil II and the Governance of Empire (976-1025)

Catherine Holmes

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Byzantium
• This is the first book-length study in English of the Byzantine emperor Basil II, the "Bulgar-slayer." Basil presided over a Byzantium which was the s... Lees meer

Social Change in Town and Country in Eleventh-Century Byzantium

James Howard-Johnston

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Byzantium
• The history of Byzantium pivots around the eleventh century, during which it reached its apogee in terms of power, prestige, and territorial extension... Lees meer

Emperors and Usurpers in the Later Roman Empire

Adrastos Omissi

• Paperback | Engels | Oxford Studies in Byzantium
• One of the great maxims of history is that it is written by the victors, and nowhere does this find greater support than in the later Roman Empire. Be... Lees meer

Holy Fools in Byzantium and Beyond

Sergey A Ivanov

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Byzantium
• There are saints in Orthodox Christian culture who overturn the conventional concept of sainthood. Their conduct may be unruly and salacious, they may... Lees meer

Writing and Reading Byzantine Secular Poetry, 1025-1081

Floris Bernard

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Byzantium
• In the mid-eleventh century, secular Byzantine poetry attained a hitherto unseen degree of wit, vividness, and personal involvement, chiefly exemplifi... Lees meer

John Zonaras' Epitome of Histories

Theofili Kampianaki

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Byzantium
• The twelfth-century chronicle of John Zonaras, which begins with the biblical Creation and ends in 1118, is one of the longest historical accounts wri... Lees meer

Theodoros Prodromos: Miscellaneous Poems

Nikos Zagklas

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Byzantium
• In twelfth-century Byzantium, poetry played a key part in various contexts of textual production and consumption. One of the leading poets of this per... Lees meer

Homer the Rhetorician

Baukje Van Den Berg

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Byzantium
• Homer the Rhetorician is the first monograph study devoted to the monumental Commentary on the Iliad by Eustathios of Thessalonike, one of the most re... Lees meer

Symeon Stylites the Younger and Late Antique Antioch

Lucy Parker

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Byzantium
• Symeon Stylites the Younger and Late Antique Antioch: From Hagiography to History is a study of the authority of the holy man and its limits in times ... Lees meer

Depicting Orthodoxy in the Russian Middle Ages

Ágnes Kriza

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Byzantium
• The image of Divine Wisdom, traditionally associated with the Sophia Cathedral in Novgorod, is an innovation of the fifteenth century. The icon repres... Lees meer

Tilling the Hateful Earth

Michael Decker

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Byzantium
• This book explores the agrarian landscape and economy of the eastern Mediterranean from modern Israel to Turkey. This region experienced a surge in po... Lees meer

George Akropolites

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Byzantium
• This is the first English translation and study of George Akropolites' History , the main Greek source for the history of Byzantium between 1204 and 1... Lees meer

The Embodied Icon

Warren T Woodfin

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Byzantium
• In spite of the Orthodox liturgy's reputation for resistance to change, Byzantine liturgical dress underwent a period of extraordinary elaboration fro... Lees meer

`We Have No King But Christ'

Philip Wood

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Byzantium
• Drawing on little-used sources in Syriac, once the lingua franca of the Middle East, Philip Wood examines how, at the close of the Roman Empire, Chris... Lees meer

A Byzantine Encyclopaedia of Horse Medicine

Anne McCabe

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Byzantium
• How were Greek texts on the care and medical treatment of the horse transmitted from antiquity to the present day? Using the evidence of Byzantine man... Lees meer

Byzantine Religious Law in Medieval Italy

James Morton

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Byzantium
• Southern Italy was conquered by the Norman Hauteville dynasty in the late eleventh century after over five hundred years of continuous Byzantine rule.... Lees meer

Niketas Choniates

Alicia Simpson

• Hardcover | Engels, Grieks | Oxford Studies in Byzantium
• Niketas Choniates' History is the single most important source for a crucial period in Byzantine history, which began with the death of Alexios I Komn... Lees meer

Holy Sites Encircled

Vered Shalev-Hurvitz

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Byzantium
• The round and octagonal churches of Jerusalem were the earliest of their kind. Powerful, monumental structures, recalling imperial mausolea and temple... Lees meer