Télécharger le livre :  Byzantine Historical Writing
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In this collection of essays, James Howard-Johnston evaluates historical sources from across the entire existence of the Byzantine empire. Byzantium was peculiarly well endowed for the writing of history, given a relatively high degree of literacy, a large governing...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2026-03-18

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Télécharger le livre :  Byzantine Historical Writing
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In this collection of essays, James Howard-Johnston evaluates historical sources from across the entire existence of the Byzantine empire. Byzantium was peculiarly well endowed for the writing of history, given a relatively high degree of literacy, a large governing...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2026-03-06

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Télécharger le livre :  Byzantium in a Changing World
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Byzantium is commonly taken to be a somewhat exotic entity on the margin of medieval Europe--bureaucratic, Greek- rather than Latin-speaking, Orthodox rather than Catholic, wealthy and effete, relying on cunning rather than martial exploits to foil its enemies. Since...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2025-06-25

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Télécharger le livre :  Byzantium in a Changing World
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Byzantium is commonly taken to be a somewhat exotic entity on the margin of medieval Europe--bureaucratic, Greek- rather than Latin-speaking, Orthodox rather than Catholic, wealthy and effete, relying on cunning rather than martial exploits to foil its enemies. Since...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2025-06-13

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Télécharger le livre :  The Last Great War of Antiquity
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The last and longest war of classical antiquity was fought in the early seventh century. It was ideologically charged and fought along the full length of the Persian-Roman frontier, drawing in all the available resources and great powers of the steppe world.The conflict...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2021-05-13

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Télécharger le livre :  The Last Great War of Antiquity
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The last and longest war of classical antiquity was fought in the early seventh century. It was ideologically charged and fought along the full length of the Persian-Roman frontier, drawing in all the available resources and great powers of the steppe world.The conflict...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2021-05-13

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Télécharger le livre :  Social Change in Town and Country in Eleventh-Century Byzantium
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The history of Byzantium pivots around the eleventh century, during which it reached its apogee in terms of power, prestige, and territorial extension, only then to plunge into steep political decline following serious military defeats and extensive territorial losses....

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2020-09-10

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Télécharger le livre :  Social Change in Town and Country in Eleventh-Century Byzantium
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The history of Byzantium pivots around the eleventh century, during which it reached its apogee in terms of power, prestige, and territorial extension, only then to plunge into steep political decline following serious military defeats and extensive territorial losses....

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2020-09-10

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Télécharger le livre :  Witnesses to a World Crisis
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James Howard-Johnston provides a sweeping and highly readable account of probably the most dramatic single episode in world history - the emergence of a new religion (Islam), the destruction of two established great powers (Roman and Iranian), and the creation of a new...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2010-06-10

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Télécharger le livre :  The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
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This book contains eleven essays, prefaced by a general introduction, on a set of related themes: the characteristic traits and diverse functions of holy men; the fashioning of saints out of a small minority of holy men and a number of other individuals of high social...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2000-01-07

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