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Serving Byzantium's Emperors
This book is a microhistory of eleventh-century Byzantium, built around the biography of the state official Michael Attaleiates.
The Ancient Middle Classes
Our image of the Roman world is shaped by the writings of Roman statesmen and upper class intellectuals. Yet most of the material evidence we have from Roman times—art, …
Modelling the Logistics of Mantzikert
In AD 1071, the Byzantine Emperor, Romanos IV Diogenes, set out from Constantinople for the eastern borders of his Empire with an army described as “more numerous than the sands of …
Enemy at the Gate
In 1683, two empires - the Ottoman, based in Constantinople, and the Habsburg dynasty in Vienna - came face to face in the culmination of a 250-year power struggle: the Great Siege …
History of Rome, Volume VI
Rome, from the beginning.Livy (Titus Livius), the great Roman historian, was born at Patavium (Padua) in 64 or 59 BC, where after years in Rome he died in AD 12 or 17. Livy’s …
Kings, Courtiers and Imperium
This work constitutes an appraisal of the development of kingship and royal administration in the kingdoms which, by the seventh century AD, had been established in the former …
The Reception of the Virgin in Byzantium
This book explores how the Virgin Mary's life is told in hymns, sermons, icons, art, and other media in the Byzantine Empire before AD 1204. A group of international specialists …
Rome and the north-western Mediterranean
To date, Rome’s intervention to the West from the mid-2nd century BC has not really been looked at with any sense of overview. Instead, there has been an unconnected series of …
Living Theatre in the Ancient Roman House
For the Romans, much of life was seen, expressed and experienced as a form of theatre. In their homes, patrons performed the lead, with a supporting cast of residents and visitors. …
Life and Literature in the Roman Republic
Life and Literature in the Roman Republic delves into the dynamic interplay between the societal environment and the literary evolution of early Rome. The text provides a …