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Julian the Apostate in Byzantine Culture
1st Edition
By Stefano Trovato
January 29, 2024
Julian, the last pagan emperor of the Roman empire, died in war in 363. In the Byzantine (that is, the Eastern Roman) empire, the figure of Julian aroused conflicting reactions: antipathy towards his apostasy but also admiration for his accomplishments, particularly as an author writing in Greek. ...
Secular Byzantine Women: Art, Archaeology, and Ethnography of Female Material Culture from Late Roman to Post-Byzantine Times
1st Edition
Edited
By Sophia Germanidou
September 25, 2023
Secular Byzantine Women examines female material culture during the Late Roman, Byzantine, and Post-Byzantine eras, to better understand the lives of ordinary and humble women during this period. Although recent scholarship has contributed greatly to our knowledge of Byzantine and medieval ...
Byzantine Childhood: Representations and Experiences of Children in Middle Byzantine Society
1st Edition
By Oana-Maria Cojocaru
May 31, 2023
Byzantine Childhood examines the intricacies of growing up in medieval Byzantium, children’s everyday experiences, and their agency. By piecing together a wide range of sources and utilising several methodological approaches inspired by intersectionality, history from below and microhistory, it ...
Byzantine Military Rhetoric in the Ninth Century: A Translation of the Anonymi Byzantini Rhetorica Militaris
1st Edition
By Georgios Theotokis, Dimitrios Sidiropoulos
January 09, 2023
Byzantine Military Rhetoric in the Ninth Century is the first English translation of the ninth-century Anonymi Byzantini Rhetorica Militaris. This influential text offers a valuable insight into the warrior ethic of the period, the role of religion in the justification of war, and the view of other...
War in Eleventh-Century Byzantium
1st Edition
Edited
By Georgios Theotokis, Marek Meško
April 29, 2022
War in Eleventh-Century Byzantium presents new insights and critical approaches to warfare between the Byzantine Empire and its neighbours during the eleventh century. Modern historians have identified the eleventh century as a landmark era in Byzantine history. This was a period of invasions, ...
(Re)writing History in Byzantium: A Critical Study of Collections of Historical Excerpts
1st Edition
By Panagiotis Manafis
December 13, 2021
Scholars have recently begun to study collections of Byzantine historical excerpts as autonomous pieces of literature. This book focuses on a series of minor collections that have received little or no scholarly attention, including the Epitome of the Seventh Century, the Excerpta Anonymi (tenth ...