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Language: en
Pages: 477
Pages: 477
Type: BOOK - Published: 1996-07-12 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
The book is a clear, up-to-date, reassessment of the Byzantine empire during a crucial phase in the history of the Near East. Against a geopolitical background
Language: en
Pages: 352
Pages: 352
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015 - Publisher: Univ of California Press
During the Principate (roughly 27 BCE to 235 CE), when the empire reached its maximum extent, Roman society and culture were radically transformed. But how was
Language: en
Pages: 640
Pages: 640
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005 - Publisher: Oxford Studies in Byzantium
Basil's Byzantium is revealed as a state where the rhetoric of imperial authority became reality through the astute manipulation of force and persuasion."--Jack
Language: en
Pages: 1228
Pages: 1228
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-06-30 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Byzantium lasted a thousand years, ruled to the end by self-styled 'emperors of the Romans'. It underwent kaleidoscopic territorial and structural changes, yet