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1998"Since the Turks first shattered the glory of the French crusaders in 1396, the Ottoman Empire has exerted a long, strong pull on Western minds. For six hundred years, the Empire swelled and declined. Islamic, martial, civilized, and tolerant, in three centuries it advanced from the dusty foothills of Anatolia to rule on the Danube and the Nile; at the Empire's height, Indian rajahs and the kings of France beseeched its aid. For the next three hundred years the Empire seemed ready to collapse, a prodigy of survival and decay. Early in the twentieth century it fell. In this dazzling evocation of its power, Jason Goodwin explores how the Ottomans rose and how, against all odds, they lingered on. In the process he unfolds a sequence of mysteries, triumphs, treasures, and terrors unknown to most American readers. This was a place where pillows spoke and birds were fed in the snow; where time itself unfolded at a different rate and clocks were banned; where sounds were different, and even the hyacinths too strong to sniff. Dramatic and passionate, comic and gruesome, Lords of the Horizons is a history, a travel book, and a vision of a lost world all in one."352p.illus bibliography.index Book
1996160p. ilus maps.index Book
1950Swashbuckling novel of the Fall of Constantinople 1453.".the rich,barbaric scenes of Moslem pageantry,the fascinating enterprises of wily Venetian merchants,the terrifying death throes of lovely and decadent Constantinople."302p. Book
1963Novel of the Comnenoi dynasty- John,Manuel and Andronicus. English translation by Kay Cicellis. 318p. Maps on end papers Book
1990Novel for young people about the Fall of Constantinople in1453. 274p. Name of owner, else fine. Book
1963Novel of the Comnenoi dynasty- John,Manuel and Andronicus. English translation by Kay Cicellis. 318p. Maps on end papers. Crisp tight unmarked copy, but a slice of the half title page has been cut away, else fne Book
Locally produced illustrated guide to Istanbul in English nd. (c 1970-1980 ?) .90p. illus (col.) Book
First edition, 8vo, viii, 268pp., half-title, photographic illustrations on endpapers, orig. cloth, uncut, d.w. The author sets out from Genoa; visits Capri and Paestum; enjoys a leisurely tour of Sicily; sees Tunis, Egypt, and then crosses to Constantinople and tours Greece before returning to Italy.
Gr. In-8, 318p. Traduit de l'anglais par J. Butler. Ouvrage illustré de 130 dessins par Hon. A. Y. Bingham et de 2 cartes en couleurs. Quelques rousseurs et pied de la page 67-68 curieusement découpé (mais sans manque au texte), néanmoins exemplaire tout-à-fait désirable.
1972Remainder mark to bottom of textblock. Minor shelfwear. DJ has creasing along top edge now in plastic sleeve. ; Harvard Historical Studies, V. 88; 390 pages; At the age of twenty-two, Andronicus II became sole ruler of Byzantium. His father, Michael VIII, had been a dashing figure--a good soldier, brilliant diplomat, and the liberator of Constantinople from its fifty-seven-year Latin occupation. By contrast Andronicus seemed colorless and ineffectual. His problems were immense--partly as a result of his father's policies--and his reign proved to be a series of frustrations and disasters. For forty-six years he fought to preserve the empire against constant encroachments. When he was finally deposed in 1328 by his grandson and co-emperor, Andronicus III, almost all of Asia Minor had been lost to the Turks, Westerners had taken over the defense of the Aegean, and the Catalan army he had invited to help him fight the Turks remained to fight the emperor. In this penetrating account of Andronicus' foreign policy, Angeliki E. Laiou focuses on Byzantium's relations with the Latin West, the far-reaching domestic implications of the hostility of western Europe, and the critical decision that faced Andronicus: whether to follow his father's lead and allow Byzantium to become a European state or to keep it an Eastern, orthodox power. The author, who argues that foreign policy cannot be understood without examining the domestic factors that influence, indeed create, it, devotes a large part of her study to domestic developments in Byzantium during Andronicus' reign-the decline of the power of the central government; the spread of semi-independent regional authorities; the state of finances, of the army, of the church. She concludes that, contrary to common opinion, Andronicus II sincerely desired the union of the Greek and Latin churches, when, in the last years of his reign, he realized that the political situation made such a union necessary. Maintaining also that the conquest of Asia Minor by the Turks was not a foregone conclusion when Andronicus II came to the throne, she discusses at length the errors of policy and the manifold circumstances which combined to precipitate that loss.
1972Very light foxing else fine. ; English Translations of accounts by Tedaldi, Leonard of Chios, Chalcocondylas, Ducas, Riccherio, Dolfin, Lomellino & an appendix: Mehmet's treaty with the Genoese. ; 137 pages
1988Eustathius of Thessalonica (1110c. - 1198) was a native of Constantinople who became archbishop of Thessalonica. The Sack of Thessalonica, an eye-witness account of the siege in 1185 and the subsequent sufferings of the people of Thessalonica. In the early sections of this compelling memoir Eustathius describes political events at Constantinople from the death of Manuel I Comnenus through the short reign of Alexius II Comnenus to the usurpation of Andronicus I Comnenus, with sharp comments on the activities of nobles and courtiers. The Greek text was edited most recently by Kyriakidis; ; Australian Association for Byzantine Studies. Byzantina Australiensia 8.; 244 pages; Isbn: 0959363649
1984Corner of front wrap is creased with light creasing to upper edge of front wrap near spine. Light wear to lower rear corner. ; 19 papers; xx, 358 p. , 3 p. Of plates. CONTENTS: Ian Martin: The Publications of Robert Browning; Trevor J. Saunders: The Controversy About Slavery Reported by Aristotle, Politics, I vi, 1255a4 ff. ; A. A. Long: Greek Ethics After MacIntyre and the Stoic Community of Reason; E. J. Jory: The Early Pantomime Riots; P. J. Bicknell: The Dark Side of the Moon; Alanna Emmett: An Early-Fourth-Century Female Monastic Community in Egypt? J. H. W. G. Liebeschuetz: Friends and Enemies of John Chrysostom; Samuel N. C. Lieu: The Holy Men and Their Biographers in Early Byzantium and Medieval China: A Preliminary Comparative Study in Hagiography; John R. S. Mair: Reflections Upon the Theological Tractates of Boethius; J. D. C. Frendo: The Poetic Achievement of George of Pisidia: A Literary and Historical Study; J. D. Howard-Johnston: Thema; Lydia Carras: The Life of St Athanasias of Aegina: A Critical Edition with Introduction; Paul Magdalino: The Bath of Leo the Wise; M. J. Jeffreys: Iakovos Monachos, Letter 3; Athanassios Angelou: Matthaios Gabalos and his Kephalaia; M. C. Davies: An Emperor Without Clothes? Niccolo Niccoli Under Attack; A. A. M. Bryer: 'The Faithless Kabazitai and Scholarioi'; Margaret Carroll: Constantine XI Palaeologus: Some Problems of Image; Ann Moffatt: The After-life of the Letters of Theophylaktos Simokatta. ; Australian Association for Byzantine Studies. Byzantina Australiensia 5; 358 pages
1984Corner of front wrap is starting to curl. Light edgewear to lower rear corner. Top of spine is bumped with small closed tear. ; 19 papers; xx, 358 p. , 3 p. Of plates. CONTENTS: Ian Martin: The Publications of Robert Browning; Trevor J. Saunders: The Controversy About Slavery Reported by Aristotle, Politics, I vi, 1255a4 ff. ; A. A. Long: Greek Ethics After MacIntyre and the Stoic Community of Reason; E. J. Jory: The Early Pantomime Riots; P. J. Bicknell: The Dark Side of the Moon; Alanna Emmett: An Early-Fourth-Century Female Monastic Community in Egypt? J. H. W. G. Liebeschuetz: Friends and Enemies of John Chrysostom; Samuel N. C. Lieu: The Holy Men and Their Biographers in Early Byzantium and Medieval China: A Preliminary Comparative Study in Hagiography; John R. S. Mair: Reflections Upon the Theological Tractates of Boethius; J. D. C. Frendo: The Poetic Achievement of George of Pisidia: A Literary and Historical Study; J. D. Howard-Johnston: Thema; Lydia Carras: The Life of St Athanasias of Aegina: A Critical Edition with Introduction; Paul Magdalino: The Bath of Leo the Wise; M. J. Jeffreys: Iakovos Monachos, Letter 3; Athanassios Angelou: Matthaios Gabalos and his Kephalaia; M. C. Davies: An Emperor Without Clothes? Niccolo Niccoli Under Attack; A. A. M. Bryer: 'The Faithless Kabazitai and Scholarioi'; Margaret Carroll: Constantine XI Palaeologus: Some Problems of Image; Ann Moffatt: The After-life of the Letters of Theophylaktos Simokatta. ; Australian Association for Byzantine Studies. Byzantina Australiensia 5; 358 pages
1985Upper corners lightly bumped. Small chip to base of spine. Light dustsoiling to top of textblock. Mild Rippling to back panel of DJ. A couple of small tears to DJ. Light edgewear to DJ. ; London, Paris, Venice, New York, Rome, Constantinople - the cities of the world have captured man's imagination for generations. In this lively, sumptuously illustrated book, the author of the best-selling 'Life In The English Country House' takes us on a tour of cities and their people through the centuries. Focusing on carefully selected cities at crucial periods in their history, Mark Girouard looks at their architecture and design in the light of the needs of the men and women who lived in them. ; 401 pages; May require extra shipping to overseas locations.
2013Light wear to corners of rear wrap else fine. ; This book presents translations of six speeches by Eustathios of Thessaloniki, accompanied by a detailed commentary which analyses the language used in these complex pieces of oratory and explains the allusions to the historical events of the time that they contain. Ten appendices provide further details on a range of topics. ; Australian Association for Byzantine Studies. Byzantina Australiensia 19.; 241 pages
2006Bumping to top and bottom of spine; 41 papers, 650 pages including 105 illustrations. CONTENTS: Narrative in Historians, Chronicles & Fiction: Margaret Mullett Novelisation in Byzantium: Narrative after the Revival of Fiction; Roger Scott Narrating Justinian: From Malalas to Manasses; Ingela Nilsson To Narrate the Events of the Past: On Byzantine Historians, and Historians on Byzantium; Brian Croke Tradition and Originality in Photius' Historical Reading; Bronwen Neil Narrating the Trials and Death in Exile of Pope Martin I and Maximus the Confessor; Elizabeth McCartney The Use of Metaphor in Michael Psellos' Chronographia; Penelope Buckley War and Peace in the Alexiad; Theoni Sklavos Moralising History: The Synopsis Historiarum of John Skylitzes; Emma Strugnell The Representation of Augustae in John Skylitzes' Synopsis Historiarum; John Burke The Madrid Skylitzes as an Audio-Visual Experiment; Andrew Gillett The Goths and the Bees in Jordanes: A Narrative of No Return; Eamon H. R. Kelly From 'Fallen Woman' to Theotokos: Music, Women's Voices and Byzantine Narratives of Gender Identity; Nick Nicholas How the Entertaining Tale of Quadrupeds became a Tale: Grafting Narrative; Vicky Panayotopoulou-Doulavera Lamenting the Fall or Disguising a Manifesto? The Poem Conquest of Constantinople; Dean Sakel A Probable Solution to the Problem of the Chronicle of the Turkish Sultans. NARRATIVE IN BYZANTINE ART: Felicity Harley The Narration of Christ's Passion in Early Christian Art; Matthew Martin Observations on the Paintings of the Exodus Chapel, Bagawat Necropolis, Kharga Oasis, Egypt; Julia Kelly The Column of Arcadius: Reflections of a Roman Narrative Tradition; Debbie Del Frate Biblical Narrative in the Mosaics of Bishop Theodore's Cathedral, Aquileia; Balsa Djuric Plato, Plutarch and the Sibyl in the Fresco Decoration of the Episcopal Church of the Virgin Ljeviska in Prizren; Nira Stone Narrativity in Armenian Manuscript Illustration; Joan Barclay Lloyd Sources for the Story of the Creation in the Mosaics of Sicily and Venice; Ursula Betka Icon and Narrative: Memorializing Saint Francis in Assisi; Margaret Manion Authentication, Theology and Narrative in the Gospel Book of Theophanes; Nancy P. Sevcenko Spiritual Progression in the Canon Tables of the Melbourne Gospels. CHRISTIAN NARRATIVE AND ESCHATOLOGY: Eric Osborn Clement of Alexandria - From Prophecy to Plato; John Wortley The 'Sacred Remains' of Constantine and Helena; Bill Leadbetter A Byzantine Narrative of the Future and the Antecedents of the Last World Emperor; Michael Champion Kosmas Indikopleustes and Narratives in Sixth-century Liturgy and History; Annamma Varghese Kaiserkritik in Two Kontakia of Romanos; Andrei Timotin Byzantine Visionary Accounts of the Other World: A Reconsideration; Peter A. L. Hill A Ninth Century Passion Harmony. ARCHITECTURE, ARCHAEOLOGY, ECONOMY AND TA EXOTIKA: Geoffrey Nathan 'Pothos tes Philoktistou': Anicia Juliana's Architectural Narratology; Nigel Westbrook Spoliation and Imitation: Continuity and Radical Disjunction in Byzantine Palatine Architecture; Hartmut Ziche Historians and the Economy: Zosimos and Prokopios on Fifth- and Sixth- Century Economic Development; Tamara Lewit Stories in the Ground: Settlement Remains and Archaeology as Narrative in the Fourth- to Sixth-century Eastern Mediterranean; Timothy E. Gregory Narrative of the Byzantine Landscape; Jialing Xu Narratives of the Roman-Byzantine World in Ancient Chinese Sources Chen Zhi-Qiang Narrative Materials about the Byzantines in Chinese Sources; Robert Mihajlovski Three Byzantine Lead Seals from Devolgrad (Ancient Audaristos) near Stobi; Bob Priestley The Varangian Guard; Australian Association for Byzantine Studies. Byzantina Australiensia 16; 650 pages
2006Still wrapped in plastic. ; 41 papers, 650 pages including 105 illustrations. CONTENTS: Narrative in Historians, Chronicles & Fiction: Margaret Mullett Novelisation in Byzantium: Narrative after the Revival of Fiction; Roger Scott Narrating Justinian: From Malalas to Manasses; Ingela Nilsson To Narrate the Events of the Past: On Byzantine Historians, and Historians on Byzantium; Brian Croke Tradition and Originality in Photius' Historical Reading; Bronwen Neil Narrating the Trials and Death in Exile of Pope Martin I and Maximus the Confessor; Elizabeth McCartney The Use of Metaphor in Michael Psellos' Chronographia; Penelope Buckley War and Peace in the Alexiad; Theoni Sklavos Moralising History: The Synopsis Historiarum of John Skylitzes; Emma Strugnell The Representation of Augustae in John Skylitzes' Synopsis Historiarum; John Burke The Madrid Skylitzes as an Audio-Visual Experiment; Andrew Gillett The Goths and the Bees in Jordanes: A Narrative of No Return; Eamon H. R. Kelly From 'Fallen Woman' to Theotokos: Music, Women's Voices and Byzantine Narratives of Gender Identity; Nick Nicholas How the Entertaining Tale of Quadrupeds became a Tale: Grafting Narrative; Vicky Panayotopoulou-Doulavera Lamenting the Fall or Disguising a Manifesto? The Poem Conquest of Constantinople; Dean Sakel A Probable Solution to the Problem of the Chronicle of the Turkish Sultans. NARRATIVE IN BYZANTINE ART: Felicity Harley The Narration of Christ's Passion in Early Christian Art; Matthew Martin Observations on the Paintings of the Exodus Chapel, Bagawat Necropolis, Kharga Oasis, Egypt; Julia Kelly The Column of Arcadius: Reflections of a Roman Narrative Tradition; Debbie Del Frate Biblical Narrative in the Mosaics of Bishop Theodore's Cathedral, Aquileia; Balsa Djuric Plato, Plutarch and the Sibyl in the Fresco Decoration of the Episcopal Church of the Virgin Ljeviska in Prizren; Nira Stone Narrativity in Armenian Manuscript Illustration; Joan Barclay Lloyd Sources for the Story of the Creation in the Mosaics of Sicily and Venice; Ursula Betka Icon and Narrative: Memorializing Saint Francis in Assisi; Margaret Manion Authentication, Theology and Narrative in the Gospel Book of Theophanes; Nancy P. Sevcenko Spiritual Progression in the Canon Tables of the Melbourne Gospels. CHRISTIAN NARRATIVE AND ESCHATOLOGY: Eric Osborn Clement of Alexandria - From Prophecy to Plato; John Wortley The 'Sacred Remains' of Constantine and Helena; Bill Leadbetter A Byzantine Narrative of the Future and the Antecedents of the Last World Emperor; Michael Champion Kosmas Indikopleustes and Narratives in Sixth-century Liturgy and History; Annamma Varghese Kaiserkritik in Two Kontakia of Romanos; Andrei Timotin Byzantine Visionary Accounts of the Other World: A Reconsideration; Peter A. L. Hill A Ninth Century Passion Harmony. ARCHITECTURE, ARCHAEOLOGY, ECONOMY AND TA EXOTIKA: Geoffrey Nathan 'Pothos tes Philoktistou': Anicia Juliana's Architectural Narratology; Nigel Westbrook Spoliation and Imitation: Continuity and Radical Disjunction in Byzantine Palatine Architecture; Hartmut Ziche Historians and the Economy: Zosimos and Prokopios on Fifth- and Sixth- Century Economic Development; Tamara Lewit Stories in the Ground: Settlement Remains and Archaeology as Narrative in the Fourth- to Sixth-century Eastern Mediterranean; Timothy E. Gregory Narrative of the Byzantine Landscape; Jialing Xu Narratives of the Roman-Byzantine World in Ancient Chinese Sources Chen Zhi-Qiang Narrative Materials about the Byzantines in Chinese Sources; Robert Mihajlovski Three Byzantine Lead Seals from Devolgrad (Ancient Audaristos) near Stobi; Bob Priestley The Varangian Guard; Australian Association for Byzantine Studies. Byzantina Australiensia 16; 650 pages
2011Faint crease. Very light shelfwear. Else fine. ; Basileia brings together 18 essays on the topic of Imperium and Culture in the Byzantine Empire, from the fourth to the fifteenth centuries. The volume is dedicated to Elizabeth and Michael Jeffreys, who number among the founding members of the Australian Association for Byzantine Studies and whose contribution to the field is internationally recognised. Each of the honorands has contributed a chapter; other contributors include Roger Scott, Pauline Allen, Brian Croke, Ann Mullett, Geoffrey Nathan, Lynda Garland, Bronwen Neil, Andrew Gillett, Amelia Brown, Andrew Stone, Nigel Westbrook and Erika Gielen. This collection will have a broad appeal to those interested in the complex relationship between imperial rule and culture in Byzantium. The volume includes 50 colour and black-and-white images. ; Australian Association for Byzantine Studies. Byzantina Australiensia 17; 266 pages; 18 essays, 266 pages including 50 illustrations
2011Basileia brings together 18 essays on the topic of Imperium and Culture in the Byzantine Empire, from the fourth to the fifteenth centuries. The volume is dedicated to Elizabeth and Michael Jeffreys, who number among the founding members of the Australian Association for Byzantine Studies and whose contribution to the field is internationally recognised. Each of the honorands has contributed a chapter; other contributors include Roger Scott, Pauline Allen, Brian Croke, Ann Mullett, Geoffrey Nathan, Lynda Garland, Bronwen Neil, Andrew Gillett, Amelia Brown, Andrew Stone, Nigel Westbrook and Erika Gielen. This collection will have a broad appeal to those interested in the complex relationship between imperial rule and culture in Byzantium. The volume includes 50 colour and black-and-white images. ; Australian Association for Byzantine Studies. Byzantina Australiensia 17; 266 pages; 18 essays, 266 pages including 50 illustrations
2011Faint crease to lower edge of front wrap. Else fine. ; Basileia brings together 18 essays on the topic of Imperium and Culture in the Byzantine Empire, from the fourth to the fifteenth centuries. The volume is dedicated to Elizabeth and Michael Jeffreys, who number among the founding members of the Australian Association for Byzantine Studies and whose contribution to the field is internationally recognised. Each of the honorands has contributed a chapter; other contributors include Roger Scott, Pauline Allen, Brian Croke, Ann Mullett, Geoffrey Nathan, Lynda Garland, Bronwen Neil, Andrew Gillett, Amelia Brown, Andrew Stone, Nigel Westbrook and Erika Gielen. This collection will have a broad appeal to those interested in the complex relationship between imperial rule and culture in Byzantium. The volume includes 50 colour and black-and-white images. ; Australian Association for Byzantine Studies. Byzantina Australiensia 17; 266 pages; 18 essays, 266 pages including 50 illustrations
1958Minor shelfwear. Minor chipping to base of spines. Faint tanning to wraps. ; 2 volume set. V1 494 pp; V2: 471 pp. ; 2 Volume Set; 0.94 x 7.98 x 5.44 Inches; One of the world's foremost historians chronicles the major forces and events in the history of the Western and Byzantine Empires from the death of Theodosius (395 AD) to the death of Justinian (565 AD).
2013Book is fine. ; This book presents translations of six speeches by Eustathios of Thessaloniki, accompanied by a detailed commentary which analyses the language used in these complex pieces of oratory and explains the allusions to the historical events of the time that they contain. Ten appendices provide further details on a range of topics. ; Australian Association for Byzantine Studies. Byzantina Australiensia 19.; 241 pages
2004Narrating the development and disappearance of the world's first war machine, this book reminds readers that much of the power of ancient empires was two-wheeled and horse-driven. Harnessed to other historians' broad-spectrum research on the causes of the end of the Bronze Age, Cotterell argues that, much like the later introduction of the stirrup, chariot technology dramatically recast battlefield strategy across the ancient world. Egyptians employed chariots as all-purpose fighting machines, while Roman chariots were more ceremonial, and Indian troops used theirs as archery platforms; Chinese engineers developed more efficient harnesses, permitting heavier cars. The author's comparative approach broadens the appeal of what would otherwise seem a narrow topic, but this account nevertheless behaves as a detailed military history. Particularly interesting for such scholarship, the author also discusses the chariot as a vehicle for modern popular culture; it aims to dispel the notion that chariots were simply horse-pulled tanks. Scholarly yet accessible, ; 344 pages
1969Useful Reference for Classical, Byzantine, Oriental and African Literature and History. ; The Penguin companion to world literature; 360 pages