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  • Mosaics, Empresses and Other Things in Byzantium

    Art and Culture 330 – 1453

    by Liz James ...
    Series series Variorum Collected Studies
    This volume consists of 15 articles published between 1991 and 2018. It falls into three sections, reflecting different areas of Liz James’s interests.The first section deals with light and colour and mosaics: four articles considering light and colour in mosaics and the making of mosaics, as well as the question of what it means to define mosaics as ‘Byzantine’ are reprinted. The second brings ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Constantine of Rhodes, On Constantinople and the Church of the Holy Apostles

    With a new edition of the Greek text by Ioannis Vassis

    Edited by Liz James ...
    Constantine of Rhodes's tenth-century poem is an account of public monuments in Constantinople and of the Church of the Holy Apostles. In the opening section of the work, Constantine describes columns and sculptures within the city, seven of which he calls 'wonders'. In the second part of the poem, he portrays the Church of the Holy Apostles, offering an account of its architecture and internal ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Desire and Denial in Byzantium

    Papers from the 31st Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Brighton, March 1997

    Edited by Liz James ...
    Series series Publications of the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies
    The papers in this volume derive from the 31st Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies held for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies at the University of Sussex, Brighton, in March 1997. Desire, sex, love and the erotic are not terms usually associated with Byzantium and Byzantine Studies, unlike celibacy, virginity and asceticism, which more readily spring to mind. In order to examine whether the ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Mosaics in the Medieval World

    From Late Antiquity to the Fifteenth Century

    by Liz James ...
    In this book, Liz James offers a comprehensive history of wall mosaics produced in the European and Islamic middle ages. Taking into account a wide range of issues, including style and iconography, technique and material, and function and patronage, she examines mosaics within their historical context. She asks why the mosaic was such a popular medium and considers how mosaics work as historical ... Read more

    $196.79 USD

  • After the Text

    Byzantine Enquiries in Honour of Margaret Mullett

    Edited by Liz James, Oliver Nicholson, Roger Scott ...
    Series series Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman Studies
    After the Text honours the work of renowned historian Margaret Mullett, who since the 1970s has transformed the study of Byzantine literature.Her work has been influential in demonstrating the strength and variety of Byzantine texts. Byzantium is renowned for its achievements in architecture and the visual arts. Byzantium is renowned for its achievements in architecture and the visual arts. ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Wonderful Things: Byzantium through its Art

    Papers from the 42nd Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, London, 20-22 March 2009

    Edited by Liz James, Antony Eastmond ...
    Series series Publications of the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies
    The essays collected in this book were delivered at the XLII Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, held in London in 2009 to accompany the exhibition Byzantium 330-1453, at the Royal Academy. The exhibition was one of the most ambitious and complex exhibitions ever mounted at the Royal Academy, as well as one of the most popular, and the overall aim of the book is to reflect on the exhibition of ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

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    Edited by Philip Rousseau ...
    Series Book 163 - Wiley Companions to the Ancient World
    An accessible and authoritative overview capturing the vitality and diversity of scholarship that exists on the transformative time period known as late antiquity.Provides an essential overview of current scholarship on late antiquity – from between the accession of Diocletian in AD 284 and the end of Roman rule in the MediterraneanComprises 39 essays from some of the world's foremost scholars of ... Read more

    $48.00 USD

  • Theodosius II

    Rethinking the Roman Empire in Late Antiquity

    Edited by Christopher Kelly ...
    Series series Cambridge Classical Studies
    Theodosius II (AD 408–450) was the longest reigning Roman emperor. Ever since Edward Gibbon, he has been dismissed as mediocre and ineffectual. Yet Theodosius ruled an empire which retained its integrity while the West was broken up by barbarian invasions. This book explores Theodosius' challenges and successes. Ten essays by leading scholars of late antiquity provide important new insights into ... Read more

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  • Procopius and the Sixth Century

    by Averil Cameron ...
    Originally published by Duckworth and the University of California Press, Procopius is now available for the first time in paperback. Professor Cameron emphasises the essential unity of Procopius' three works and, starting from the `minor' ones, demonstrates their intimate connection with the Wars. Procopius' writings are seen to comprise a subtle whole; only if they are understood in this way can ... Read more

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  • Brother-Making in Late Antiquity and Byzantium

    Monks, Laymen, and Christian Ritual

    by Claudia Rapp ...
    Series series Onassis Series in Hellenic Culture
    Among medieval Christian societies, Byzantium is unique in preserving an ecclesiastical ritual of adelphopoiesis, which pronounces two men, not related by birth, as brothers for life. It has its origin as a spiritual blessing in the monastic world of late antiquity, and it becomes a popular social networking strategy among lay people from the ninth century onwards, even finding application in ... Read more

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  • Through the Eye of a Needle

    Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD

    by Peter Brown ...
    Jesus taught his followers that it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter heaven. Yet by the fall of Rome, the church was becoming rich beyond measure. Through the Eye of a Needle is a sweeping intellectual and social history of the vexing problem of wealth in Christianity in the waning days of the Roman Empire, written by the world's foremost scholar ... Read more

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  • The Ransom of the Soul

    Afterlife and Wealth in Early Western Christianity

    by Peter Brown ...
    A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the YearA Tablet Book of the YearMarking a departure in our understanding of Christian views of the afterlife from 250 to 650 CE, The Ransom of the Soul explores a revolutionary shift in thinking about the fate of the soul that occurred around the time of Rome’s fall. Peter Brown describes how this shift transformed the Church’s institutional relationship to ... Read more

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