Late Antiquity & Byzantium Products

Edited by Nikolaos Chrissis, Athina Kolia-Dermitzaki, Angeliki Papageorgiou

The interaction between Byzantium and the Latin West was intimately connected to practically all the major events and developments which shaped the medieval world in the High and Late Middle Ages – for example, the rise of the ‘papal monarchy’, the launch of the Crusades, the expansion of…

Hardback – 2019-02-21
Routledge

By Jaakkojuhani Peltonen

The life of Alexander the Great began to be retold from the moment of his death. The Greco-Roman authors used these stories as exemplars in a variety of ways. This book is concerned with the various stories of Alexander and how they were used in antiquity to promote certain policies, religious…

Hardback – 2019-02-21
Routledge

Edited by Justine Firnhaber-Baker, Dirk Schoenaers

The Routledge History Handbook of Medieval Revolt charts the history of medieval rebellion from Spain to Bohemia and from Italy to England, and includes chapters spanning the centuries between Imperial Rome and the Reformation. Drawing together an international group of leading scholars, chapters…

Paperback – 2019-02-07
Routledge
Routledge History Handbooks

By Ada Nifosi

How did Greco-Roman Egyptian society perceive women’s bodies and how did it acknowledge women’s reproductive functions? Detailing women’s lives in Greco-Roman Egypt this monograph examines understudied aspects of women's lives such as their coming of age, social and religious taboos of menstruation…

Hardback – 2019-02-05
Routledge
Medicine and the Body in Antiquity

Edited by Bissera Pentcheva

Emerging from the challenge to reconstruct sonic and spatial experiences of the deep past, this multidisciplinary collection of ten essays explores the intersection of liturgy, acoustics, and art in the churches of Constantinople, Jerusalem, Rome and Armenia, and reflects on the role digital…

Paperback – 2019-02-05
Routledge

By Ross Burns

Damascus, first published in 2005, was the first account in English of the history of the city, bringing out the crucial role it has played at many points in the region’s past. It traces the story of this colourful, significant and complex city through its physical development, from the its…

Paperback – 2019-02-01
Routledge
Cities of the Ancient World

By Georgios Chatzelis

This book studies the Sylloge Tacticorum, an important tenth-century Byzantine military manual. The text is used as a case study to connect military manuals with the challenges that Byzantium faced in its wars with the Arabs, but also with other aspects of Byzantine society such as education,…

Hardback – 2019-01-29
Routledge

By Anthony Cutler

Relations between Byzantium and its neighbours are the focus of this volume. The papers address questions of cultural exchange, with special attention to art historical relations as shown by technical, iconographic and diplomatic exchanges. While addressed to specialists, both their approach and…

Paperback – 2019-01-11
Routledge
Variorum Collected Studies

By Maria Vassilaki

The sixteen studies in this book include six specially translated from Greek and another two published here for the first time. They deal with the art of painting in Crete at a time when the island was under Venetian rule. The main emphasis is on the 15th century and especially on the painter…

Paperback – 2019-01-11
Routledge
Variorum Collected Studies

By Margaret Mullett

These studies look at general problems of reading Byzantine literature, at literacy practices and the literary process, but also at individual texts. The past thirty years have seen a revolution in the way Byzantine literature has been viewed: no longer is it considered a decadent form of classical…

Paperback – 2019-01-11
Routledge
Variorum Collected Studies

By Henry Maguire

The twelve studies contained in this second collection by Henry Maguire are linked together by a common theme, namely the relationship of Byzantine art to the imaginary. They show how art enabled the Byzantines not only to imagine the sacred events of the past, but also to visualize the invisible…

Paperback – 2019-01-11
Routledge
Variorum Collected Studies

By Stephen E. Potthoff

The Afterlife in Early Christian Carthage explores how the visionary experiences of early Christian martyrs shaped and informed early Christian ancestor cult and the construction of the cemetery as paradise. Taking the early Christian cemeteries in Carthage as a case study, the volume broadens our…

Paperback – 2019-01-11
Routledge
Routledge Studies in the Early Christian World