Tag: Byzantium

Free Download Anna C. Kelley, "Approaching Social Hierarchies in Byzantium "
English | ISBN: 1032543639 | 2025 | 354 pages | EPUB, PDF | 14 MB + 24 MB
Utilising new methodological approaches to understanding not only the poor as a social and economic group but also of the internal means of stratification which informed social organisation within local communities, this book looks at the place of the poor within the multi-layered hierarchies of Byzantine society using evidence from archaeology, art, architecture, as well as narrative, theological, and legal texts. Rather than treating the different levels of society independently, it looks at the social interactions which replicated and reinforced hierarchies but were also subject to negotiation within local communities. Fifteen leading Byzantine scholars discuss and analyse the topic of social hierarchies in the Byzantine Empire, covering topics such as working lives, the material world, the stratification of space, and philanthropy and social obligation.

Free Download Power and Representation in Byzantium: The Forging of the Macedonian Dynasty
by Neil Churchill
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1032185929 | 279 Pages | True PDF | 35 MB

Free Download Africa and Byzantium
by Andrea Myers Achi
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1588397718 | 354 Pages | PDF | 226 MB

Free Download Masculinity in Byzantium, c. 1000-1200: Scholars, Clerics and Violence
by Maroula Perisanidi
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1009499793 | 204 Pages | PDF | 1.74 MB

Free Download Milton V. Anastos, "Aspects of the Mind of Byzantium: Political Theory, Theology, and Ecclesiastical Relations with the See of Rome "
English | ISBN: 0860788407 | 2001 | 368 pages | EPUB, PDF | 6 MB + 28 MB
This volume of studies by the late Milton Anastos contains his major articles published after his previous collection appeared, along with the first publication of a portion of ‘The Mind of Byzantium’, Anastos’s projected multi-volume survey of Byzantine intellectual history. These essays deal with the theoretical foundations of Byzantine imperial autocracy, with the formulation of Byzantine theology, and with the often contentious relations between the Churches of Constantinople and Rome. The Byzantine concept of imperial absolutism is shown to have been derived from ancient Greek philosophy and to have persisted unchanged throughout Byzantine history. Other articles focus on the theology of Basil of Caesarea, which is found to be inconsistent with orthodox doctrine in important respects. Last, the relations between the Roman Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church in the Byzantine period are surveyed, with emphasis on the theological and ecclesiological controversies that divided them.

Free Download Catherine Holmes, "Literacy, Education and Manuscript Transmission in Byzantium and Beyond "
English | ISBN: 9004120963 | 2002 | 268 pages | PDF | 65 MB
The papers in this volumes consider literacy, education and manuscript transmission in Byzantium and its neighbouring worlds, areas which to date have received surprisingly little sustained scholarly treatment among Byzantinists. Contributions include an overview, survey papers and individual case studies, many of which draw on recently discovered or rarely consulted sources: literary sources include astrological texts, saints’ lives and florilegia as well as documentary texts, art and archaeological evidence. The contributors’ fields reflect the interdisciplinary scope of this volume, covering history, art history, literary studies and palaeography. The volume looks in detail at Byzantium, but also includes papers on Rus, the Middle East, and the Jewish contribution. The book’s eastern perspectives offer interesting comparisons and contrasts with the medieval West. The book is illustrated with plates showing illuminated manuscripts and archaeological artefacts.

Free Download Catherine Holmes, "Literacy, Education and Manuscript Transmission in Byzantium and Beyond "
English | ISBN: 9004120963 | 2002 | 268 pages | PDF | 65 MB
The papers in this volumes consider literacy, education and manuscript transmission in Byzantium and its neighbouring worlds, areas which to date have received surprisingly little sustained scholarly treatment among Byzantinists. Contributions include an overview, survey papers and individual case studies, many of which draw on recently discovered or rarely consulted sources: literary sources include astrological texts, saints’ lives and florilegia as well as documentary texts, art and archaeological evidence. The contributors’ fields reflect the interdisciplinary scope of this volume, covering history, art history, literary studies and palaeography. The volume looks in detail at Byzantium, but also includes papers on Rus, the Middle East, and the Jewish contribution. The book’s eastern perspectives offer interesting comparisons and contrasts with the medieval West. The book is illustrated with plates showing illuminated manuscripts and archaeological artefacts.

Free Download Jonathan Harris, "The Lost World of Byzantium"
English | ISBN: 0300178573 | 2015 | 298 pages | AZW3 | 4 MB
A fresh, concise, and accessible history of one of the medieval world’s greatest empires

Free Download Anthony Kaldellis, "Romanland: Ethnicity and Empire in Byzantium"
English | ISBN: 0674986512 | 2019 | 392 pages | AZW3 | 4 MB
A leading historian argues that in the empire we know as Byzantium, the Greek-speaking population was actually Roman, and scholars have deliberately mislabeled their ethnicity for the past two centuries for political reasons.

Free Download Susan T. Stevens, "North Africa under Byzantium and Early Islam "
English | ISBN: 0884024083 | 2016 | 336 pages | PDF | 53 MB
The profound economic and strategic significance of the province of "Africa" made the Maghreb highly contested in the Byzantine period―by the Roman (Byzantine) empire, Berber kingdoms, and eventually also Muslim Arabs―as each group sought to gain, control, and exploit the region to its own advantage. Scholars have typically taken the failure of the Byzantine endeavor in Africa as a foregone conclusion. North Africa under Byzantium and Early Islam reassesses this pessimistic vision both by examining those elements of Romano-African identity that provided continuity in a period of remarkable transition, and by seeking to understand the transformations in African society in the context of the larger post-Roman Mediterranean. Chapters in this book address topics including the legacy of Vandal rule in Africa, historiography and literature, art and architectural history, the archaeology of cities and their rural hinterlands, the economy, the family, theology, the cult of saints, Berbers, and the Islamic conquest, in an effort to consider the ways in which the imperial legacy was re-interpreted, re-imagined, and put to new uses in Byzantine and early Islamic Africa.