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Byzantium the surprising life of a medieval empire

Explores the rise and fall of the Byzantine Empire, including important figures who shaped its history and the role it played in protecting Christianity from Islam's expansion across western Europe.

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  • "Byzantium : the surprising life of a medieval empire"
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  • "Byzantium was one of the greatest civilisations the world has ever seen. Judith Herrin tells its extraordinary story afresh, exploring aspects familiar and unfamiliar, from the glorious church of Hagia Sophia to the secret of Greek Fire, from iconoclasm to eunuchs, from the historian Anna Komnene to the humble fork."
  • "Geschiedenis van het Byzantijnse Rijk (330-1453)."
  • "Explores the rise and fall of the Byzantine Empire, including important figures who shaped its history and the role it played in protecting Christianity from Islam's expansion across western Europe"
  • "Explores the rise and fall of the Byzantine Empire, including important figures who shaped its history and the role it played in protecting Christianity from Islam's expansion across western Europe."@en
  • "Explores the rise and fall of the Byzantine Empire, including important figures who shaped its history and the role it played in protecting Christianity from Islam's expansion across western Europe."
  • "Byzantium. the name evokes grandeur and exoticism - gold, cunning, and complexity. In this unique book, Judith Herrin unveils the riches of a quite different civilization. Avoiding a standard chronological account of the Byzantine Empire's millennium-long history, she identifies the fundamental questions about Byzantium- what it was, and what special significance it holds for us today.-inside jacket."@en
  • "Byzantium was one of the greatest civilizations the world has ever seen. Judith Herrin tells its extraordinary story afresh, exploring aspects familiar and unfamiliar, from the glorious church of Hagia Sophia to the secret of Greek Fire, from iconoclasm to eunuchs, from the historian Anna Komnene to the humble fork."
  • ""Die englische Byzantinistin Judith Herrin, eine internationale Doyenne ihres Faches, fasste eines Tages den Plan, die ganze Geschichte des tausendjährigen mittelalterlichen Kaiserreichs, dem sie ein Forscherleben gewidmet hat, auch und gerade Nichtfachleuten begreiflich und anschaulich zu machen. Entstanden ist dieses Buch, eine großartige Erzählung von Glanz und Elend der byzantinischen Geschichte, gruppiert um die vielen interessanten thematischen Knotenpunkte herum, die ihrerseits in eine große chronologische Zeitachse geordnet sind. Judith Herrin erzählt zunächst von den Grundkonstanten und historischen Keimen des byzantinischen Reichs: der Stadt Konstantinopel, dem römischen Recht und seiner Weiterentwicklung, der nachantiken griechischen Kultur, der christlichen Orthodoxie, sodann von den Episoden, Sternstunden und Tiefpunkten der Geschichte des Reichs im Zenith seiner Macht- und Prachtentfaltung und schließlich von den Bedrängnissen, Niederlagen und Katastrophen bis zu seinem Ende, bis zur Eroberung Konstantinopels durch die Türken."--Jacket."
  • "For a thousand years Byzantium was a byword for imperial power, gold and international trade. In this concise history of the empire, Judith Herrin focuses each short chapter around a theme such as a building, luxury silks, the fork, the crusades, or an individual, using them to take the reader on a journey from ancient to medieval times."

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  • "Byzantium the surprising life of a medieval empire"
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  • "Bizancio el imperio que hizo posible la Europa moderna"@es
  • "Bizancjum : niezwykłe dziedzictwo średniowiecznego imperium"@pl
  • "Bizans : bir ortaçağ imparatorluğunun şaşırtcı dramı"@tr
  • "Bizans : bir ortaçağ imparatorluğunun şaşırtcı dramı"
  • "Byzantium : het verrassende leven van een middeleeuws rijk"
  • "Bisanzio : [storia straordinaria di un impero millenario]"
  • "Byzantium : the surprising life of a medieval empire"
  • "Byzantium : the surprising life of a medieval empire"@en
  • "Byzantium"
  • "Byzanz : die erstaunliche Geschichte eines mittelalterlichen Imperiums"
  • "Byzantium : the surprising life of a Medieval empire"
  • "Bizancio : el imperio que hizo posible la Europa moderna"@es
  • "Bizancio : el imperio que hizo posible la Europa moderna"
  • "Bisanzio"
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