History
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The Christianization of the Late Roman Period: Cities, Churches, Synagogues, Palaces, Private Houses and Monasteries in the Early Christian Period [Hardback]
Beat Brenk (Author)
£150.00ISBN: 9781899828722
Published by : Pindar Press
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A collection of papers which have appeared during the last 10 to 15 years which aim to explain the phenomenon of Christianisation based on the examination of religious, social and economic case studies. Brenk traces the transformation of the l... .... Learn More -
The Roman Art of War in Late Antiquity: The Strategikon of the Emperor Maurice: Volume II: Textual and Historical Studies [Hardback]
Philip R. Rance (Author)
£100.00ISBN: 9781138084520
Published by : Routledge
Series: Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman Studies
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The Strategikon of the Emperor Maurice, written towards the end of the 6th century, is a key text in the history of late Roman and Byzantine warfare. It stands midway between the classical genre of tactica, dating back to the 4th century BC, and t... .... Learn More -
The Roman Art of War in Late Antiquity: The Strategikon of the Emperor Maurice: Volume I: Translation and Commentary [Hardback]
Philip R. Rance (Author)
£100.00ISBN: 9781138084506
Published by : Routledge
Series: Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman Studies
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The Strategikon of the Emperor Maurice, written towards the end of the 6th century, is a key text in the history of late Roman and Byzantine warfare. It stands midway between the classical genre of tactica, dating back to the 4th century BC, and t... .... Learn More -
Asia Minor in the Long Sixth Century: Current Research and Future Directions [Paperback]
Ine Jacobs (Editor); Hugh Elton (Editor)
Regular Price: £38.00
Special Price: £28.50
ISBN: 9781789250077
Published by : Oxbow Books
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Asia Minor is considered to have been a fairly prosperous region in Late Antiquity. It was rarely disturbed by external invasions and remained largely untouched by the continuous Roman-Persian conflict until very late in the period, was apparently... .... Learn More -
The Novels of Justinian: A Complete Annotated English Translation [Hardback]
David Miller (Editor); Peter Sarris (Editor)
£180.00ISBN: 9781107000926
Published by : Cambridge University Press
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The novels comprise a series of laws issued in the sixth century by the famous Emperor Justinian (r.527-65), along with a number of measures issued by his immediate successors on the throne of Constantinople. They reveal the evolution of Roman law... .... Learn More -
Religion, Politics and the Arts in Early Medieval Italy: Iconophilia [Hardback]
Francesca Dell'Acqua (Author)
£95.00ISBN: 9780415793728
Published by : Routledge
Series: Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman Studies
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Through case studies examined in a comparative East-West approach, this book analyses how Byzantine iconoclasm (ca. 720s-843) impacted on the West and how it shaped a papal reaction in Rome. The policy on the production and veneration of sacred im... .... Learn More -
Imagining Emperors in the Later Roman Empire [Hardback]
Diederick P. W. Burgersdijk (Editor); Alan J. Ross (Editor)
£129.00ISBN: 9789004370890
Published by : Brill
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Imagining Emperors in the Later Roman Empire offers new analysis of the textual depictions of a series of emperors in the fourth century within overlapping historical, religious, and literary contexts. Drawing on the recent Representational Turn i... .... Learn More -
Emperors and Usurpers in the Later Roman Empire: Civil War, Panegyric, and the Construction of Legitimacy [Hardback]
Adrastos Omissi (Author)
£80.00ISBN: 9780198824824
Published by : Oxford University Press
Series: Oxford Studies in Byzantium
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One of the great maxims of history is that it is written by the victors, and nowhere does this find greater support than in the later Roman Empire. Between 284 and 395 AD, no fewer than 37 men claimed imperial power, though today we recognize bare... .... Learn More -
The Roman Empire in Late Antiquity: A Political and Military History [Hardback]
Hugh Elton (Author)
£77.00ISBN: 9780521899314
Published by : Cambridge University Press
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In this volume, Hugh Elton offers a detailed and up to date history of the last centuries of the Roman Empire. Beginning with the crisis of the third century, he covers the rise of Christianity, the key Church Councils, the fall of the West to the... .... Learn More -
A Companion to the Byzantine Culture of War, ca. 300-1204 [Hardback]
Ioannis Stouraitis (Editor)
£210.00ISBN: 9789004355514
Published by : Brill
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This collection of essays on the Byzantine culture of war in the period between the 4th and the 12th centuries offers a new critical approach to the study of warfare as a fundamental aspect of East Roman society and culture in Late Antiquity and t... .... Learn More
