Late Antiquity & Byzantium Products

By Chad Tyler Gerber

St Augustine's pneumatology remains one of his most distinctive, decisive, and ultimately divisive contributions to the story of Christian thought. How did his understanding of the Spirit develop? Why does he identity the Spirit with divine love and cosmic order? And from what personal and…

Paperback – 2016-11-15
Routledge
Studies in Philosophy and Theology in Late Antiquity

By Linda Ellis, Frank L. Kidner

Travel, Communication and Geography in Late Antiquity brings together a set of papers that consider anew issues of travel, communication and landscape in Late Antiquity. This period witnessed an increase in long-distance travel and the construction of large new inter-provincial communications…

Paperback – 2016-11-15
Routledge

By Marie-France Auzépy

The Life of Stephen the Younger is one of the rare sources for Byzantium in the ’Dark Ages’ and one of the key witnesses to the history of Iconoclasm. This book presents a new edition of the text, together with a French translation and commentary, and an important introduction. Stephen was a hermit…

Paperback – 2016-11-11
Routledge
Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman Studies

By Margaret Mullett

Few works exist on Byzantine literature as literature and still fewer studies of individual texts. This reading of the letter-collection (c.1090-c.1110) of Theophylact of Ochrid employs a variety of approaches to characterise a work which is both a literary artefact in a long Greek tradition and…

Paperback – 2016-11-11
Routledge
Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman Studies

By Ronnie Ellenblum

Edited by Iris Shagrir

In the thirty-five years since B.Z. Kedar published the first of his many studies on the crusades, he has become a leading historian of this field, and of medieval and Middle Eastern history more broadly. His work has been groundbreaking, uncovering new evidence and developing new research tools…

Paperback – 2016-11-11
Routledge
Crusades - Subsidia

By Christopher Walter

Christopher Walter's study of the cult and iconography of Byzantine warrior saints - George, Demetrius, the two Theodores, and dozens more - is at once encyclopaedic and interpretative, and the first comprehensive study of the subject. The author delineates their origins and development as a…

Paperback – 2016-10-31
Routledge

By David Brakke, Deborah Deliyannis

Shifting Cultural Frontiers in Late Antiquity explores the transformation of classical culture in late antiquity by studying cultures at the borders - the borders of empires, of social classes, of public and private spaces, of literary genres, of linguistic communities, and of the modern…

Paperback – 2016-10-28
Routledge

Edited by Lynda Garland

This volume brings together a group of international scholars, who explore many unusual aspects of the world of Byzantine women in the period 800-1200. The specific aim of this collection is to investigate the participation of women - non-imperial women in particular - in supposedly 'masculine'…

Paperback – 2016-10-19
Routledge
Publications of the Centre for Hellenic Studies, King's College London

Edited by Liz James

Constantine of Rhodes's tenth-century poem is an account of public monuments in Constantinople and of the Church of the Holy Apostles. In the opening section of the work, Constantine describes columns and sculptures within the city, seven of which he calls 'wonders'. In the second part of the poem,…

Paperback – 2016-10-19
Routledge

Edited by Nikolaos G. Chrissis, Mike Carr

The conquest of Constantinople by the Fourth Crusade shattered irreversibly the political and cultural unity of the Byzantine world in the Greek peninsula, the Aegean and western Asia Minor. Between the disintegration of the Byzantine Empire after 1204 and the consolidation of Ottoman power in the…

Paperback – 2016-10-17
Routledge
Crusades - Subsidia

Edited by Maria Vassilaki

Fully illustrated in colour and black and white, Images of the Mother of God complements the successful exhibition catalogue of the 'Mother of God' exhibition at the Benaki Museum in Athens. It brings together the work of leading international authorities and younger scholars to provide a…

Paperback – 2016-10-14
Routledge

By Ruth Webb

This is a study of ekphrasis, the art of making listeners and readers 'see' in their imagination through words alone, as taught in ancient rhetorical schools and as used by Greek writers of the Imperial period (2nd-6th centuries CE). The author places the practice of ekphrasis within its cultural…

Paperback – 2016-10-03
Routledge