Winner of the 2006 John D. Criticos Prize
This book introduces the reader to the complex history,
ethnicity, and identity of the Byzantines.
* This volume brings Byzantium – often misconstrued as a
vanished successor to the classical world – to the forefront
of European history
* Deconstructs stereotypes surrounding Byzantium
* Beautifully illustrated with photographs and maps
Spis treści
List of Figures vi
List of Maps vii
Preface viii
Acknowledgements xiii
Abbreviations xv
1 What was Byzantium? 1
2 The Changing Shape of Byzantium: From Late Antiquity to 1025 20
3 The Changing Shape of Byzantium: From 1025 to 1453 40
4 The Byzantine Mirage 63
5 Ruling the Byzantine State 78
6 An Orthodox Society? 96
7 How People Lived 116
8 Education and Culture 133
9 Byzantium and Europe 163
10 Byzantium and the Mediterranean 179
Conclusion 197
Chronology 199
References 207
Notes 229
Index 260
O autorze
Averil Cameron is Professor of Late Antique and Byzantine History at the University of Oxford and the Warden of Keble College, and was recently awarded a DBE. Her publications include Changing Cultures in Early Byzantium (1996) and Eusebius, Life of Constantine (ed. with Stuart G. Hall, 1999), and she is a co-editor of volumes XII, XIII and XIV of the Cambridge Ancient History.
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