This book presents the first analytical account in English of major developments within Byzantine culture, society and the state in the crucial formative period from c.610-717. The seventh century saw the final collapse of ancient urban civilization and municipal culture, the rise of Islam, the evolution of patterns of thought and social structure that made imperial iconoclasm possible, and the development of state apparatuses--military, civil and fiscal--typical of the middle Byzantine state. Also, during this period, orthodox Christianity finally became the unquestioned dominant culture and...
This book presents the first analytical account in English of major developments within Byzantine culture, society and the state in the crucial format...
With original essays by leading scholars, this book explores the social history of the medieval eastern Roman Empire and offers illuminating new insights into our knowledge of Byzantine society.
Provides interconnected essays of original scholarship relating to the social history of the Byzantine empire
Offers groundbreaking theoretical and empirical research in the study of Byzantine society
Includes helpful glossaries of sociological/theoretical terms and Byzantine/medieval terms
With original essays by leading scholars, this book explores the social history of the medieval eastern Roman Empire and offers illuminating new insig...
With original essays by leading scholars, this book explores the social history of the medieval eastern Roman Empire and offers illuminating new insights into our knowledge of Byzantine society.
Provides interconnected essays of original scholarship relating to the social history of the Byzantine empire
Offers groundbreaking theoretical and empirical research in the study of Byzantine society
Includes helpful glossaries of sociological/theoretical terms and Byzantine/medieval terms
With original essays by leading scholars, this book explores the social history of the medieval eastern Roman Empire and offers illuminating new insig...
The eastern Roman Empire was the largest state in western Eurasia in the sixth century. Only a century later, it was a fraction of its former size. Surrounded by enemies, ravaged by warfare and disease, the empire seemed destined to collapse. Yet it did not die. In this holistic analysis, John Haldon elucidates the factors that allowed the eastern Roman Empire to survive against all odds into the eighth century.
By 700 CE the empire had lost three-quarters of its territory to the Islamic caliphate. But the rugged geography of its remaining territories in Anatolia and the Aegean was...
The eastern Roman Empire was the largest state in western Eurasia in the sixth century. Only a century later, it was a fraction of its former size....
