Weird, decadent, degenerate, racially mixed, superstitious, theocratic, effeminate, and even hyper-literate, Byzantium has long been regarded by many as one big curiosity. According to Voltaire, it re ... 続きを読む
Byzantine princess Anna Komnene is known for two things: plotting to murder her brother to usurp the throne, and writing the Alexiad, an epic history of her father Alexios I Komnenos (1081-1118) that ... 続きを読む
Ashes, Images, and Memories argues that the institution of public burial for the war dead and images of the deceased in civic and sacred spaces fundamentally changed how people conceived of military c ... 続きを読む
Among medieval Christian societies, Byzantium is unique in preserving an ecclesiastical ritual of adelphopoiesis that pronounces two men as brothers. It has its origin as a spiritual blessing in the m ... 続きを読む
Addresses the question of what was distinctive about Byzantine civilization as it developed in the Eastern Mediterranean
Details the urban, architectural, and social development of Byzantium
Co ... 続きを読む
The Revolt that ripped apart the sixteenth-century Netherlands began as a rebellion against Habsburg authority but it eventually became a war of religion that resulted in the formation of two new stat ... 続きを読む
Forging Germans explores the German nationalization and eventual National Socialist radicalization of ethnic Germans in the Batschka and the Western Banat, two multiethnic, post-Habsburg borderland te ... 続きを読む
Offers succinct, penetrating answers to a wide range of questions on the complicated place that is Kosovo
Reveals how things in Kosovo stand now and presents the history and geopolitical dynamics ... 続きを読む
Law was central to the ancient Roman's conception of themselves and their empire. Yet what happened to Roman law and the position it occupied ideologically during the turbulent years of the Iconoclast ... 続きを読む
Senior University Lecturer in Medieval History Robert Stein
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336 ページ
フォーマット
Hardcover
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153 x 234 mm
刊行日
2017年03月
シリーズ
Oxford Studies In Medieval European History
In the late fourteenth and the fifteenth centuries, the Dukes of Valois-Burgundy created a composite monarchy in the Netherlands, an area that had been dominated for centuries by several regional dyna ... 続きを読む
