A CONCISE HISTORY OF BYZANTIUM
W. Treadgold
Oprawa:
MIĘKKA
Wydawca:
Macmillan Education UK
ISBN:
9780333718308
Opis produktu
Between AD 285 when Byzantium first separated from the Western Roman Empire and 1461 when the last Byzantine splinter state disappeared the Byzantine state and society underwent many crises triumphs declines and recoveries. Spanning twelve centuries and three continents the Byzantine empire linked the ancient and modern worlds shaping and transmitting Greek Roman and Christian traditions including the Greek classics Roman law and Christian theology that remain vigorous today not only in Eastern Europe and the Middle East but through western civilisation.brThis book examines the causes behind Byzantiums successes failures and remarkable longevity. The author shows how Byzantine political leadership military strategy cultural attitudes and social institutional and demographic changes combined with the strengths and weaknesses of the empires enemies to explain the paradoxes of ByzantiumBetween AD 285 when Byzantium first separated from the Western Roman Empire and 1461 when the last Byzantine splinter state disappeared the Byzantine state and society underwent many crises triumphs declines and recoveries. Spanning twelve centuries and three continents the Byzantine empire linked the ancient and modern worlds shaping and transmitting Greek Roman and Christian traditions including the Greek classics Roman law and Christian theology that remain vigorous today not only in Eastern Europe and the Middle East but through western civilisation.BRThis book examines the causes behind Byzantiums successes failures and remarkable longevity. The author shows how Byzantine political leadership military strategy cultural attitudes and social institutional and demographic changes combined with the strengths and weaknesses of the empires enemies to explain the paradoxes of ByzantiumPreface. Introduction. The Formation of Byzantium 285457. Conquest and Crisis 457602. Catastrophe and Containment 602780. Recovery and Reconquest 7801025. Wealth and Weakness 10251204. Restoration and Fall 12041461. Conclusion. Bibliography. List of Emperors and Patriarchs of Constantinople.WARREN TREADGOLD is Professor of Late Ancient and Byzantine History at Saint Louis UniverA major new history by a renowned Byzantine scholarbr Covers the entire period of the Byzantine empirebr Includes social economic military and political aspects of the empires historybr Illustrated with haWymiary: 370 gr 155 mm 235 mm
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