Late Antiquity & Byzantium

ISBN: 9789774165443
Published by : American Univ. in Cairo Press
This book examines the historic process traditionally referred to as the fall of Rome and rise of Islam from the perspective of the Red Sea, a strategic waterway linking the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean and a distinct region ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781107026384
Published by : Cambridge University Press
This book examines the role of social networks in the formation of identity among sophists, philosophers and Christians in the early Roman Empire. From clashes over admission to classrooms and communion to construction of the grou... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781107009455
Published by : Cambridge University Press
Nikephoros Bryennios' history of the Byzantine Empire in the 1070s is a story of civil war and aristocratic rebellion in the midst of the Turkish conquest of Anatolia. Commonly remembered as the passive and unambitious husband of ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780521124133
Published by : Cambridge University Press
This book provides an introduction to the archaeology and history of ancient Palestine - modern Israel, Jordan and the Palestinian territories - from the destruction of Solomon's temple in 586 BCE to the Muslim conquest in 640 CE.... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780199663088
Published by : Oxford University Press
In 1947 the first of the Dead Sea Scroll discoveries was made near the site of Qumran, at the northern end of the Dead Sea. This handbook seeks to probe the main disputed issues in their study. Lively debate continues over the archaeology and ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781409431671
Published by : Ashgate Publishing Ltd
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 cit... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780754665625
Published by : Ashgate Publishing Ltd
This volume explores the phenomenon of urban loss and abandonment from Roman to medieval times across the former Roman Empire. Through a series of case studies two main aspects are examined: firstly, the sequences and chronologies... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780812244458
Published by : Pennsylvania University Press
The literature of late ancient Christianity is rich both in saints who lead lives of almost Edenic health and in saints who court and endure horrifying diseases. In Thorns in the Flesh, Andrew Crislip draws on a wide range of text... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780674057999
Published by : Harvard University Press
In 1039 Byzantium was the most powerful empire in Europe and the Near East, controlling the Balkans south of the Danube and all of Asia Minor into Armenia and Syria. By 1079 it had become a politically unstable state half the siz... .... Learn More