In the eighth and ninth centuries, three Byzantine empresses - Irene, Euphrosyne, and Theodora - changed history. Their efforts restored the veneration of icons, saving Byzantium from a symbolic and d...
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For a thousand years, an extraordinary empire made possible Europe's transition to the modern world: Byzantium. This book provides various short chapters that focus on a theme, such as a building (the...
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Charts the theological defense of icons during the Iconoclastic controversies of the eighth and ninth centuries, whose high point came in AD 787, when the Second Council of Nicaea restored the cult of...
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Identifies the fundamental questions about Byzantine Empire - what it was, and what special significance it holds for us today. This work argues that Byzantium's crucial role as the eastern defender o...
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Outlines the origins of Europe from the end of late antiquity to the coronation of Charlemagne. This book shows that the clash between nascent Islam and stubburn Byzantium was the central contest that...
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