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The Colonies of Genoa in the Black Sea Region
Author: Evgeny Khvalkov
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-07-28
Total Pages: 437
ISBN-13: 1351623060
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book focuses on the network of the Genoese colonies in the Black Sea area and their diverse multi-ethnic societies. It raises the problems of continuity of the colonial patterns, reveals the importance of the formation of the late medieval / early modern colonialism, the urban demography, and the functioning of the polyethnic entangled society of Caffa in its interaction with the outer world. It offers a novel interpretation of the functioning of this late medieval colonial polyethnic society and rejects the widely accepted narrative portraying the whole history of Caffa of the fifteenth century as a period of constant decline and depopulation.
The Last Centuries of Byzantium, 1261-1453
Author: Donald M. Nicol
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1993-10-14
Total Pages: 502
ISBN-13: 9780521439916
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Byzantine Empire, fragmented and enfeebled by the Fourth Crusade in 1204, never again recovered its former extent, power and influence. Its greatest revival came when the Byzantines in exile reclaimed their capital city of Constantinople in 1261 and this book narrates the history of this restored empire from 1261 to its conquest by the Ottoman Turks in 1453. First published in 1972, the book has been completely revised, amended, and in part rewritten, with its source references and bibliography updated to take account of scholarly research on this last period of Byzantine history carried out over the past twenty years.
The Reluctant Emperor
Author: Donald M. Nicol
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2002-08-22
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780521522014
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →John Cantacuzene reigned as Byzantine emperor in Constantinople from 1347 to 1354. A man of varied talents, as a scholar, soldier, statesman, theologian and monk, he was unique in being the only emperor to narrate the events of his own career. His memoirs form one of the most interesting and literate of all Byzantine histories. Following his abdication in 1354, he lived the last thirty years of his life as a monk, a writer and a grey eminence behind the throne. This book is not a social or political history of the Byzantine Empire in the fourteenth century. It is a biography of a much maligned man who had a hope, however naive, of coming to terms with the emerging Muslim world of Asia and of winning the co-operation of western Christendom without compromising the Orthodox faith of the Byzantine tradition.
Michael Palaiologos and the Publics of the Byzantine Empire in Exile, c.1223–1259
Author: Aleksandar Jovanović
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2022-09-28
Total Pages: 267
ISBN-13: 3031092783
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book follows the public life of Michael Palaiologos from his early days and upbringing, through to his assumption of the Byzantine imperial throne in 1258. It explores multiple narratives, highlighting the various public communities in the Byzantine polity, primarily focusing on intellectuals and clerks rather than the emperor himself. Drawing on insights from power relations, studies of class and the public sphere, this book provides an account of thirteenth-century Byzantium that highlights the role of communicative and symbolic actions in the public sphere, and argues they were integral to Palaiologos' political success.
Political Culture in the Latin West, Byzantium and the Islamic World, c.700–c.1500
Author: Catherine Holmes
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-08-26
Total Pages: 706
ISBN-13: 1009021907
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This comparative study explores three key cultural and political spheres – the Latin west, Byzantium and the Islamic world from Central Asia to the Atlantic – roughly from the emergence of Islam to the fall of Constantinople. These spheres drew on a shared pool of late antique Mediterranean culture, philosophy and science, and they had monotheism and historical antecedents in common. Yet where exactly political and spiritual power lay, and how it was exercised, differed. This book focuses on power dynamics and resource-allocation among ruling elites; the legitimisation of power and property with the aid of religion; and on rulers' interactions with local elites and societies. Offering the reader route-maps towards navigating each sphere and grasping the fundamentals of its political culture, this set of parallel studies offers a timely and much needed framework for comparing the societies surrounding the medieval Mediterranean.
Intercultural Contacts in the Medieval Mediterranean
Author: Benjamin Arbel
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-04-15
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 1135781885
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →These essays by medievalists touch upon many aspects of intercultural links in the medieval Mediterranean, covering not only strictly cultural and religious contacts, but also political, military, ethnic, social institutional, scientific and technological relationships.
The Papacy and the Orthodox
Author: A. Edward Siecienski
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2017-01-12
Total Pages: 544
ISBN-13: 0190245263
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Papacy and the Orthodox examines the centuries-long debate over the primacy and authority of the Bishop of Rome, especially in relation to the Christian East, and offers a comprehensive history of the debate and its underlying theological issues. Siecienski masterfully brings together all of the biblical, patristic, and historical material necessary to understand this longstanding debate. This book is an invaluable resource as both Catholics and Orthodox continue to reexamine the sources and history of the debate.
Constantinople and the West
Author: Deno John Geanakoplos
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 330
ISBN-13: 9780299118846
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The glory of the Italian Renaissance came not only from Europe's Latin heritage, but also from the rich legacy of another renaissance - the palaeologan of late Byzantium. This nexus of Byzantine and Latin cultural and ecclesiastical relations in the Renaissance and Medieval periods is the underlying theme of the diverse and far-ranging essays in Constantinople and the West.
Byzantium and Venice
Author: Donald M. Nicol
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1992-05-07
Total Pages: 484
ISBN-13: 9780521428941
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book, the first of this scope to have been published, traces the diplomatic, cultural and commercial links between Constantinople and Venice from the foundation of the Venetian republic to the fall of the Byzantine Empire. It aims to show how, especially after the Fourth Crusade in 1204, the Venetians came to dominate first the Genoese and thereafter the whole Byzantine economy. At the same time the author points to those important cultural and, above all, political reasons why the relationship between the two states was always inherently unstable.
