Late Antiquity & Byzantium
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The Georgian Churches of Oski and Iskhani: Architecture and Ornament [Hardback]
Dora Piquet-Panayatova (Author)
£120.00ISBN: 9781899828913
Published by : Pindar Press
This study deals with the churches of Oski and Iskhani, in the ancient Georgian province of Tao-Klardeti, now in eastern Turkey.Each church is examined separately, with a focus on the architecture and carved decoration. The architectural... .... Learn More -
The Bosporus: Gateway between the Ancient West and East (1st Millennium BC-5th Century AD): Proceedings of the Fourth International Congress on Black Sea Antiquities Istanbul, 14th-18th September 2009 [Paperback]
Gocha R. Tsetskhladze (Editor); Sumer Atasoy (Editor); A. Avram (Editor); Şevket Dönmez (Editor); James Hargrave (Editor)
£62.00ISBN: 9781407311357
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
Series: BAR S
Volume: 2517
The book consists of 49 papers and two Appendices. The themes covered are: Greeks around the Hellespont, the Sea of Marmara, the Bosporus, and the Western, Northern and Eastern Black Sea, and Relations with the Mediterranean World... .... Learn More -
Exploring the Hospitable Sea : Proceedings of the International Workshop on the Black Sea in Antiquity held in Thessaloniki, 21-23 September 2012 [Paperback]
£35.00ISBN: 9781407311142
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
Series: Bar S
Volume: 2498
This volume presents the proceedings of an international workshop hosted by the School of Humanities of the International Hellenic University, Thessaloniki (September 2012) on the theme of ‘The Black Sea in Antiquity’,... .... Learn More -
Authority in Byzantium [Hardback]
Pamela Armstrong (Author)
£70.00ISBN: 9781409436089
Published by : Ashgate Publishing Ltd
Authority is an important concept in Byzantine culture whose myriad modes of implementation helped maintain the existence of the Byzantine state across so many centuries, binding together people from different ethnic groups, in di... .... Learn More -
Palladius: Opus Agriculturae [Hardback]
John G. Fitch (Author)
£30.00ISBN: 9781903018927
Published by : Prospect Books
Palladius wrote in the 5th century AD. His is the latest of Roman agricultural texts and perhaps for that reason was the treatise most widely distributed in the medieval world, being translated into Italian, Catalan and Middle English, among other... .... Learn More -
Augustine: De Civitate Dei VIII and IX [Hardback]
P. G. Walsh (Author)
£50.00ISBN: 9780856688546
Published by : Aris & Phillips
Series: Classical Texts
This edition of St Augustine's City of God is the only one in English to provide a text and translation as well as a detailed commentary of this most influential document in the history of western Christianity. In these books, written in the af... .... Learn More -
Augustine: De Civitate Dei VIII and IX [Paperback]
P. G. Walsh (Author)
£24.99ISBN: 9780856688539
Published by : Aris & Phillips
Series: Classical Texts
This edition of St Augustine's City of God is the only one in English to provide a text and translation as well as a detailed commentary of this most influential document in the history of western Christianity. In these books, written in the af... .... Learn More -
The Rise of Western Christendom: Tenth Anniversary Revised Edition [Paperback]
Peter Brown (Author)
£27.99ISBN: 9781118301265
Published by : Blackwell Publishing Ltd
This substantial and comprehensive overview of the emergence of Christian Europe has been largely rewritten and expanded since its first publication in 1996. Brown's synthesis asks the student reader to re-evaluate his view of the political and... .... Learn More -
From Rome to Byzantium AD 363 to 565 [Hardback]
Doug Lee (Author)
£95.00ISBN: 9780748627905
Published by : Edinburgh University Press
Between the deaths of the Emperors Julian (363) and Justinian (565), the Roman Empire underwent momentous changes. Most obviously, control of the west was lost to barbarian groups during the fifth century, and although parts were... .... Learn More -
Land and Privilege in Byzantium: The Institution of Pronoia [Hardback]
M. C. Bartusis (Author)
£100.00ISBN: 9781107009622
Published by : Cambridge University Press
A pronoia was a type of conditional grant from the emperor, often to soldiers, of various properties and privileges. Filling the need for a comprehensive study of the institution, this book examines the origin, evolution and char... .... Learn More

