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The Oxford History of Byzantium
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In AD 324, the Emperor Constantine the Great chose Byzantion, an ancient Greek colony at the mouth of the Thracian Bosphorous, as his imperial residence. He renamed the place 'Constaninopolis nova Roma', 'Constantinople, the new Rome' and the city (modern Istanbul) became the Eastern capital of the later Roman empire. The new Rome outlived the old and Constantine's successors continued to regard themselves as the legitimate emperors of Rome, just as their subjects called themselves Romaioi, or Romans long after they had forgotten the Latin language. In the sixteenth century, Western humanists gave this eastern Roman empire ruled from Constantinople the epithet 'Byzantine'.
Against a backdrop of stories of emperors, intrigues, battles, and bishops, this Oxford History uncovers the hidden mechanisms - economic, social, and demographic - that underlay the history of events. The authors explore everyday life in cities and villages, manufacture and trade, machinery of government, the church as an instrument of state, minorities, education, literary activity, beliefs and superstitions, monasticism, iconoclasm, the rise of Islam, and the fusion with Western, or Latin, culture. Byzantium linked the ancient and modern worlds, shaping traditions and handing down to both Eastern and Western civilization a vibrant legacy.
- ISBN-100198140983
- ISBN-13978-0198140986
- PublisherOxford University Press
- Publication dateDecember 5, 2002
- LanguageEnglish
- Dimensions9.83 x 7.26 x 0.95 inches
- Print length352 pages
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- Publisher : Oxford University Press (December 5, 2002)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 352 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0198140983
- ISBN-13 : 978-0198140986
- Item Weight : 2.31 pounds
- Dimensions : 9.83 x 7.26 x 0.95 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #155,191 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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- #326 in History of Civilization & Culture
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The book's structure subdivides into four broadly chronological sections covering (i) Late Antiquity (ii) the dark and crisis-wracked years of the seventh and eighth centuries (iii) the empire's medieval revival and (iv) its rather ignominious post-1204 afterlife. Each section starts with a fairly quickfire 'who did what when' chapter to give the reader their bearings, and then subsequent chapters within each section dive a little deeper into the major themes of the era (eg Iconoclasm, monasticism, heresy, diplomacy etc). Each of these themed essays is written by a different specialist, with Cyril Mango probably contributing the best of the lot with his gripping account of the empire's changing cultural beliefs in the 4th to 6th centuries. It's a structure that succeeds brilliantly, layering successive insights and perspectives into a well-rounded and surprisingly rich overview of over 1000 years of Byzantine history.
I'd recommend this to any undergraduate coming to Byzantine history for the first time, as the perfect warm-up before tackling George Ostrogorsky's magisterial History of the Byzantine State . More experienced readers will also purr with pleasure over the condensed, considered scholarship on display here - as well as over Professor Mango's waspish, donnish wit. It seems foolish to recommed a book about Byzantine history to the general reader - general readers don't as a rule tend to pick up books about Byzantine history, even ones as good as this - but anyone with an interest in early Medieval history will find much to divert and entertain them in this handsome, well-illustrated and thoughtful book.
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