History of Byzantium 2e

ISBN-13: 9781405184717 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 480 str.

Timothy E Gregory

Opis

This revised and expanded edition of the widely-praised A History of Byzantium covers the time of Constantine the Great in AD 306 to the fall of Constantinople in 1453.

• Expands treatment of the middle and later Byzantine periods, incorporating new archaeological evidence
• Includes additional maps and photographs, and a newly annotated, updated bibliography
• Incorporates a new section on web resources for Byzantium studies
• Demonstrates that Byzantium was important in its own right but also served as a bridge between East and West and ancient and modern society
• Situates Byzantium in its broader historical context with a new comparative timeline and textboxes
  

Spis treści

List of Figures vii

List of Maps x

List of Boxes xi

Preface to the Second Edition xiv

Preface to the First Edition xvi

Introduction 1

1 The Crisis of the Third Century 23

2 The Revival under Diocletian 36

3 The Age of Constantine the Great 49

4 The Fourth Century: Constantius II to Theodosios I 72

5 The Fifth Century 103

6 The Age of Justinian 129

7 The Byzantine "Dark Ages": Late Sixth and Seventh Centuries 160

8 The Isaurian Dynasty and Iconoclasm 198

9 Continued Struggle over Ikons 220

10 The Beginnings of the Macedonian Dynasty 242

11 The Apogee of Byzantine Power 265

12 The Komnenoi 290

13 The Aftermath of the Fourth Crusade 330

14 The Beginnings of Decline 347

15 The End of the Empire 383

16 Byzantium after the Fall of the City 401

Glossary 421

General Bibliography 428

A Selection of Primary Sources in English Translation 435

List of Byzantine Rulers 438

Comparative Chronology 444

Electronic Resources 448

Index 451

O autorze

Timothy E. Gregory is Professor of Byzantine History at Ohio State University where he is also Adjunct Professor of Anthropology. He is the author of Vox Populi (1979), Isthmia V. The Fortress and the Hexamilion (1993), The Corinthia in the Roman Period (1993), archaeology editor of The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium (1991), and Director of the Ohio State University Excavations at Isthmia (Greece).

Blurb

This is a new edition of Gregory′s widely praised narrative of Byzantine history from the time of Constantine the Great (AD 306–337) to the fall of Constantinople in 1453. Gregory uses the chronological political history of the empire as a narrative frame, but balances politics with a consideration of social and economic life and the rich culture of Byzantium. Visual documents, such as photographs of art and architecture, are used alongside the text to illustrate discussions about life in the Byzantine Empire.

This second edition provides a deeper insight into social and economic conditions of the time, with more emphasis on how ordinary people lived during the history of the Empire. New research has been incorporated much from archaeological sources and there is fuller coverage of the middle and later Byzantine periods. A wider discussion of the relationship between Byzantium and the broader world has been added, as well as an annotated, extended bibliography, new photographs and maps, and a guide to Byzantine web resources.

Based on the very latest scholarship, and written in a clear, narrative prose, this fascinating volume is an ideal introduction to Byzantine History.