"The reign of Manuel I (1143–1180) marked the high point of the revival of the Byzantine empire under the Comnenian dynasty. It was, however, followed by a rapid decline, leading to the sack of Constantinople by the Fourth Crusade in 1204. This book, the first devoted to Manuel's reign for over eighty years, re-evaluates the emperor and his milieu in the light of recent scholarship. It shows that his foreign policy was a natural response ..."
"This volume contains selected papers from a December 2006 Dumbarton Oaks symposium that complemented an exhibition of early Bible manuscripts at the Freer Gallery and Sackler Gallery of Art titled "In the Beginning: Bibles before the Year 1000." Speakers were invited to examine the use of the Greek Old Testament as a text, social practice, and cultural experience in the Byzantine Empire. Not only are reminiscences of the Old Testament u ..."
"9 The Sense of the Past in Italian Communal Narratives Chris Wickham Caffaro
di Rustico of Caschifellone, who lived from c. 1080 to 1166, was many times a
consul de comuni, the principal office of his city, Genoa, and held several other
civic offices as well. When he turned up in front of the consuls of 1152, at the age
of 72, with a manuscript of a history of Genoa compiled by himself on the basis of
notes he had taken since he wa ..."
"The reign of Manuel I (1143–1180) marked the high point of the revival of the Byzantine empire under the Comnenian dynasty. It was, however, followed by a rapid decline, leading to the sack of Constantinople by the Fourth Crusade in 1204. This book, the first devoted to Manuel's reign for over eighty years, re-evaluates the emperor and his milieu in the light of recent scholarship. It shows that his foreign policy was a natural response ..."
" This volume contains selected papers from a December 2006 Dumbarton Oaks symposium that complemented an exhibition of early Bible manuscripts at the Freer Gallery and Sackler Gallery of Art titled “In the Beginning: Bibles before the Year 1000.” Speakers were invited to examine the use of the Greek Old Testament as a text, social practice, and cultural experience in the Byzantine Empire. Not only are reminiscences of the Old Testament ..."
"Constantinople originated in 330 A.D. as the last great urban foundation of the ancient world. When it was sacked by the Fourth Crusade in 1204 it was the greatest city of the European Middle Ages. Its transition from the one to the other was determined partly by its continuous function as an imperial capital, partly by the steady proliferation of churches, monasteries, and Christian philanthropic institutions, and partly by the widespr ..."
"David Ricks, Paul Magdalino. Editors'. preface. One possible reaction to this
volume's title might be surprise that the topic could merit scholarly investigation.
Of course Byzantium is (at the very least) part of the Modern Greek identity, it
might quite reasonably be said, given that Greece is a country whose population
is, almost in its entirety, of the Orthodox Christian confession and whose church
architecture, iconography, mu ..."
"Explores the basic structures and the manifestations of Greek Byzantine identity between the 11th and 14th century and attempts to show how the elite subtly revised its political, religious and cultural outlook. It also considers the role of the Comnenian dynasty in shaping and provoking change."
Rome and Byzantium (The Making of the past) by Clive Foss, PaulMagdalino Hardcover, 152 Pages, Published 1977 by Elsevier-Phaidon ISBN-13: 978-0-7290-0012-3, ISBN: 0-7290-0012-5
New Constantines The Rhythm of Imperial Renewal in Byzantium, 4Th-13th Centuries : Papers from the Twenty-Sixth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studi ... of Byzantine Studies (Great Britain)), 2.) by PaulMagdalino Hardcover, 272 Pages, Published 1994 by Variorum ISBN-13: 978-0-86078-409-8, ISBN: 0-86078-409-6
"This volume is the second in a series on Byzantine Studies. These papers cover topics such as: Constantine and Justinian - propaganda in the seventh century; Constantine the Great in Macedonian historiography; politics and rhetoric in the late tenth century; and Byzantium in the 11th century."
"Most of the relevant studies already published are reprinted together in my
Tradition and Transformation (see n.4 of the introduction to this volume)
particularly, no. I, 'Byzantine Snobbery', first published in The Byzantine
Aristocracy, IX t0 XIII Centuries, ed. M. Angold, British Archaeological Reports,
International Series, 221 (Oxford, 1984), 58-78. See also, in general, the works of
Angold, Harvey, Hendy and Kazhdan referred ..."
"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 status but with more dubious spiritual credentials; the literary processes involved in the construction of hagiographical texts; the role of hagiography in the creation an ..."
Alexios 1 Komnenos Papers of the Second Belfast Byzantine International Colloquium, 14-16 April 1989 (Belfast Byzantine Texts & Translations) by Margaret Mullett, Dion Smythe Hardcover, 452 Pages, Published 1996 by Belfast Byzantine Texts And Translations (Bbtt) ISBN-13: 978-0-85389-581-7, ISBN: 0-85389-581-3
"Imperial Geographies in Byzantine and Ottoman Space opens new and insightful vistas on the nexus between empire and geography. The volume redirects attention from the Atlantic to the space of the eastern Mediterranean shaped by two empires of remarkable duration and territorial extent, the Byzantine and the Ottoman. The essays offer a diachronic and comparative account that spans the medieval and early modern periods and reaches into th ..."