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| Author | : Marios Philippides |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 432 |
| Release | : 2018-09-03 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1351055402 |
Constantine XI’s last moments in life, as he stood before the walls of Constantinople in 1453, have bestowed a heroic status on him. This book produces a more balanced portrait of an intriguing individual: the last emperor of Constantinople. To be sure, the last of the Greek Caesars was a fascinating figure, not so much because he was a great statesman, as he was not, and not because of his military prowess, as he was neither a notable tactician nor a soldier of exceptional merit. This monarch may have formulated grandiose plans but his hopes and ambitions were ultimately doomed, because he failed to inspire his own subjects, who did not rally to his cause. Constantine lacked the skills to create, restore, or maintain harmony in his troubled realm. In addition, he was ineffective on the diplomatic front, as he proved unable to stimulate Latin Christendom to mount an expedition and come to the aid of south-eastern Orthodox Europe. Yet in sharp contrast to his numerous shortcomings, his military defeats, and the various disappointments during his reign, posterity still fondly remembers the last Constantine.
| Author | : |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 912 |
| Release | : 2017-11-27 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9004344926 |
This is the first modern language translation of the entire text of the tenth-century Greek Book of Ceremonies (De ceremoniis), a work compiled and edited by the Byzantine emperor Constantine VII (905-959). It preserves material from the fifth century through to the 960s. Chapters deal with diverse subjects of concern to the emperor including the role of the court, secular and ecclesiastical ceremonies, processions within the Palace and through Constantinople to its churches, the imperial tombs, embassies, banquets and dress, the role of the demes, hippodrome festivals with chariot races, imperial appointments, the hierarchy of the Byzantine administration, the equipping of expeditions, including to recover Crete from the Arabs, and the lists of ecclesiastical provinces and bishoprics.
| Author | : András Németh |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 353 |
| Release | : 2018-10-11 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1108423639 |
Presents the first comprehensive study of the 'Byzantine Google' and how it reshaped Byzantine court culture in the tenth century.
| Author | : Donald M. Nicol |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 180 |
| Release | : 2002-05-09 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9780521894098 |
The first biography of the last Byzantine Emperor.
| Author | : Timothy David Barnes |
| Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
| Total Pages | : 472 |
| Release | : 1981 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780674165311 |
Here is the fullest available narrative history of the reigns of Diocletian and Constantine, and a new assessment of the part Christianity played in the Roman world of the third and fourth centuries.
| Author | : Marios Philippides |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 919 |
| Release | : 2017-05-02 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1317016084 |
This major study is a comprehensive scholarly work on a key moment in the history of Europe, the fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks in 1453. The result of years of research, it presents all available sources along with critical evaluations of these narratives. The authors have consulted texts in all relevant languages, both those that remain only in manuscript and others that have been printed, often in careless and inferior editions. Attention is also given to 'folk history' as it evolved over centuries, producing prominent myths and folktales in Greek, medieval Russian, Italian, and Turkish folklore. Part I, The Pen, addresses the complex questions introduced by this myriad of original literature and secondary sources.
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| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 989 |
| Release | : 1894 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Constantine I (Emperor of Rome) |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 200 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
This volume makes available three works attributed to Constantine - two of which were certainly not written by him - which are important sources for historians of the papacy, Christianity and Constantine himself. The Oration to the Saints is an intellectual defence of Christianity, which puts the case for monotheism, extols the incarnation and voluntary abasement of the Son of God, and finally declares Constantine's personal adherence to the Saviour. The legend of the discovery of the True Cross by the empress Helena, mother of Constantine, following her conversion to Christianity is presented in translations of two variant accounts. The third text, the Edict of Constantine, presents Constantine's supposed edict to Pope Silvester transferring lands to the papacy. An introduction considers the authorship, motivation and historical context for each of the works, and extensive annotation elucidates textual difficulties and allusions.
| Author | : Eusebius |
| Publisher | : Clarendon Press |
| Total Pages | : 418 |
| Release | : 1999-09-10 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0191588474 |
Eusebius' Life of Constantine is the most important single record of Constantine, the emperor who turned the Roman Empire from prosecuting the Church to supporting it, with huge and lasting consequences for Europe and Christianity. The only English version previously available is based on a seventeenth-century Greek edition, but two new critical editions produced this century make a new English version necessary. The authors of this edition present the results of the recent scholarly debate, as well as their own researches so as to clarify the significance of Eusebius' work and introduce the student to the text and its interpretation, thus opening up the contentious issues. At face value much of what Eusebius wrote is false. This book shows how, once his partisan interpretations and rhetoric are properly understood, both Eusebius' text and the documents it contains give vital historical insights.
| Author | : Charles Kendall Adams |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 996 |
| Release | : 1894 |
| Genre | : Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
| ISBN | : |
