Fourteen Byzantine Rulers

Author: Michael Psellus
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141904550
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 400

Book Description
This chronicle of the Byzantine Empire, beginning in 1025, shows a profound understanding of the power politics that characterized the empire and led to its decline.

John Skylitzes: A Synopsis of Byzantine History, 811–1057

Author: John Skylitzes
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139489151
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
This book was first published in 2010. John Skylitzes' extraordinary Middle Byzantine chronicle covers the reigns of the Byzantine emperors from the death of Nicephorus I in 811 to the deposition of Michael VI in 1057, and provides the only surviving continuous narrative of the late tenth and early eleventh centuries. A high official living in the late eleventh century, Skylitzes used a number of existing Greek histories (some of them no longer extant) to create a digest of the previous three centuries. It is without question the major historical source for the period and is cited constantly in modern scholarship. This edition features introductions by Jean-Claude Cheynet and Bernard Flusin, along with extensive notes. It will be an essential and exciting addition to the libraries of all historians of the Byzantine age.

Fourteen Byzantine Rulers

Author: Michael Psellus
Publisher: ePenguin
ISBN: 9780140441697
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 400

Book Description
This chronicle of the Byzantine Empire, beginning in 1025, shows a profound understanding of the power politics that characterized the empire and led to its decline.

Constantinople

Author: Jonathan Harris
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1474254675
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 301

Book Description
Jonathan Harris' new edition of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, Constantinople, provides an updated and extended introduction to the history of Byzantium and its capital city. Accessible and engaging, the book breaks new ground by exploring Constantinople's mystical dimensions and examining the relationship between the spiritual and political in the city. This second edition includes a range of new material, such as: * Historiographical updates reflecting recently published work in the field * Detailed coverage of archaeological developments relating to Byzantine Constantinople * Extra chapters on the 14th century and social 'outsiders' in the city * More on the city as a centre of learning; the development of Galata/Pera; charitable hospitals; religious processions and festivals; the lives of ordinary people; and the Crusades * Source translation textboxes, new maps and images, a timeline and a list of emperors It is an important volume for anyone wanting to know more about the history of the Byzantine Empire.

Byzantium

Author: Cyril A. Mango
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781898800446
Category : Byzantine Empire
Languages : en
Pages : 334

Book Description

The Alexiad

Author: Anna Komnene
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141904542
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 1069

Book Description
A revised edition of Anna Komnene's Alexiad, to replace our existing 1969 edition. This is the first European narrative history written by a woman - an account of the reign of a Byzantine emperor through the eyes and words of his daughter which offers an unparalleled view of the Byzantine world in the eleventh and twelfth centuries.

History of the Byzantine State

Author: Georgije Ostrogorski
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 9780813511986
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 736

Book Description
Succinctly traces the Byzantine Empire's thousand-year course with emphasis on political development and social, aesthetic, economic and ecclesiastical factors

Emperor and Priest

Author: Gilbert Dagron
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521801232
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 374

Book Description
A complex study of the dual role of the emperor in Byzantium.

The History

Author: Michael Attaleiates
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674057996
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 657

Book Description
In 1039 Byzantium was the most powerful empire in Europe and the Near East. By 1079 it was a politically unstable state half the size, menaced by enemies on all sides. The History of Michael Attaleiates is our main source for this astonishing reversal. This translation, based on the most recent critical edition, includes notes, maps, and glossary.

Fourteen Byzantine Rulers

Author: Michael Psellus
Publisher: Penguin Classics
ISBN: 9780140441697
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
The death of Basil II in A.D. 1025, after fifty glorious years as sole emperor, ushered in decades of turbulence, corruption, and incompetence. For the following half-century of extraordinary decline, our main source is Michael Psellus, one of the greatest courtiers and men of letters of the age. His vivid and forceful chronicle, full of psychological insight and deep understanding of power politics, is a historical and literary document of the first importance. Recent scholars have shattered forever the view that the Byzantine Age was just a shabby and disreputable appendage to the Roman Empire; Psellus, a man of striking refinement and humanity, both portrays and exemplifies at its best the Byzantine way of life.