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• Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
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• Release Date : 29 April 2024

Explores the fusion of Roman political culture, Greek intellectual tradition, and Christian faith that characterized Byzantium. Shows how the empire held power for eleven centuries and why it ultimately fell.

• Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
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• Release Date : 29 April 2024

The Middle Ages (c.500-1500) includes a thousand years of European history. In this Very Short Introduction Miri Rubin tells the story of the times through the people and their

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
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• Release Date : 29 April 2024

An exhaustive treatment of ritual brotherhood in Byzantium, this book challenges the 'Boswell Thesis' and argues that the ecclesiastical ritual to bless a relationship between two men bears no resemblance

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
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• Release Date : 24 August 2006

The Roman Empire was a remarkable achievement. With a population of sixty million people, it encircled the Mediterranean and stretched from northern England to North Africa and Syria. This Very

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
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• Release Date : 24 February 2011

Sheds light on the concept of late antiquity and the events of its time, showing that this was in fact a period of great transformation

• Publisher : OUP Oxford
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• Release Date : 23 October 2014

The Middle Ages is a term coined around 1450 to describe a thousand years of European History. In this Very Short Introduction, Miri Rubin provides an exploration of the variety, change,

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
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• Release Date : 25 November 2021

The Virgin Mary - a Jewish mother - is central to Christianity, a revered woman in Islam, and a person of persistent fascination for centuries. Marian worship and theology has

• Publisher : OUP Oxford
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• Release Date : 22 October 2009

The contribution of the Ancient Greeks to modern western culture is incalculable. In the worlds of art, architecture, myth, literature, and philosophy, the world we live in would be unrecognizably

• Publisher : OUP Oxford
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• Release Date : 24 October 2002

The Oxford History of Byzantium is the only history to provide in concise form detailed coverage of Byzantium from its Roman beginnings to the fall of Constantinople and assimilation into

• Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
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• Release Date : 29 January 2010

Using new methodological and theoretical approaches, A Companionto Byzantium presents an overview of the Byzantine world fromits inception in 330 A.D. to its fall to the Ottoman Turks in 1453. Provides