Featured Book: The Byzantine World
Whether you know little about Byzantine history and culture or are already familiar with this fascinating empire, The Byzantine World will provide new information and perspectives!
Part of the Routledge Worlds series, this book features the work of leading international scholars, offering an innovative approach to Byzantine history.
Some of the topics covered include:
- Byzantine women and children, men, eunuchs, emperors, patriarchs, aristocrats, and slaves
- churches and fortifications, monasteries, and palaces
- secular and sacred art as well as profane and spiritual literature
- the emergence of modern Byzantine studies
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The Byzantine World
Series: Routledge Worlds
The Byzantine World presents the latest insights of the leading scholars in the fields of Byzantine studies, history, art and architectural history, literature, and theology. Those who know little of Byzantine history, culture and civilization between AD 700 and 1453 will find overviews and...
Published February 14th 2010 by Routledge
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The Eunuch in Byzantine History and Society
Series: Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies
The existence of eunuchs was one of the defining features of the Byzantine Empire. Covering the whole span of the history of the empire, from the fourth to the fifteenth centuries AD, Shaun Tougher presents a comprehensive survey of the history and roles of eunuchs, making use of...
Published August 17th 2010 by Routledge
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Monemvasia
A Byzantine City State
This lavishly illustrated book stands out in its field as the only book currently available on the best-preserved Byzantine city in the Peloponnese – Monemvasia. Haris A. Kalligas, a world authority on Monemvasia’s history and architecture, here explores the city’s foundation, its status as a...
Published June 22nd 2009 by Routledge
