Michael Attaleiates and the politics of imperial decline in eleventh-century Byzantium

Michael Attaleiates: The History [Illustrated] 0674057996, 9780674057999

In 1039 Byzantium was the most powerful empire in Europe and the Near East, controlling the Balkans south of the Danube

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Byzantium: Greatness and Decline

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Byzantium: The Decline and Fall [3] 9780670823772

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Byzantium and the Decline of the Roman Empire 9781400879557, 1400879558

Professor Kaegi studies the response of the eastern half of the Roman Empire to the disintegration of western Rome, usua

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Michael Psellos: Rhetoric and Authorship in Byzantium 9781107026223, 1107026229

This book explores Michael Psellos' place in the history of Greek rhetoric and self-representation and his impact o

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Imperial Spheres and the Adriatic: Byzantium, the Carolingians and the Treaty of Aachen (812) 1138225940, 9781138225947

Although often mentioned in textbooks about the Carolingian and Byzantine empires, the Treaty of Aachen has not received

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Oswald Spengler and the Politics of Decline 9781800735750

Oswald Spengler was one of the most important thinkers of the Weimar Republic. In Oswald Spengler and the Politics of De

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Politics and Government in Byzantium ; The Rise and Fall of the Bureaucrats 9780755601943

The eleventh century marked a turning point in the history of the Byzantine Empire. At its start Byzantium was the param

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Politics and Government in Byzantium: The Rise and Fall of the Bureaucrats 9780755601936, 9780755601967, 9780755601943

Jonathan Shea is Associate Curator of Coins and Seals at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, and Dean’s Dist

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Imperial Visions of Late Byzantium: Manuel II Palaiologos and Rhetoric in Purple 9781474441056

Explores a Byzantine emperor’s construction of authority with the help of his rhetorical texts Examines the changes in t

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