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David Rockwell

Financial Lobbying in Sixth-Century Byzantium

This book is a study of the nexus between money and power in early Byzantium. Or rather, of one aspect of that nexus, namely the ways in which Constantinople's financiers (money) sought and obtained legal…

Warren Treadgold

A Concise History of Byzantium

No other book on Byzantium manages to pack so much useful information into so few pages.' -Jonathan Harris, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK.Now published in the Bloomsbury Revelations series, thi…

Byzantium at Early Modern Courts

The present volume constitutes a compendium of papers from a conference held in Mainz in November of 2022. The objective of this volume is to examine the various dimensions of the presence of Byzantium at…

George E. Demacopoulos

Sacralizing Violence in Byzantium

Sacralizing Violence in Byzantium is the first book to examine the complex and shifting perceptions of premodern Christians toward violence and war through the lens of hymnography, with a profound transfo…

Vasileios Marinis

The Cult of the Martyr Euphemia in Byzantium

The martyr Euphemia, a young woman who was put to death in 303 CE in Chalcedon, was one of the most popular saints in Byzantium. In addition to the complex dedicated to her in that city, consisting of a l…

Chill Out: Masterpieces To Relax

Die warme Jahreszeit kommt und damit auch wieder die Zeit in der Sonne zum entspannen. Ausgewählte Tracks verbreiten auf dieser Doppel-CD die richtige Stimmung zum Relaxen. Zu einem Sundowner oder zum…

Byzantium in the 16th century: Constantinople and its Afterlife

The contributors to the present volume investigate diverse aspects of the urban physiognomy and cultural activity of Constantinople/Istanbul during its early Ottoman phase by concentrating on the urban an…

Nad Sylvan

Spiritus Mundi (Limited Edition)

Nach dem Abschluss der erfolgreichen »Vampirate«-Trilogie (2015: »Courting the Widow«, 2017: »The Bride Said No« und 2019: »The Regal Bastard«) hat sich Sänger Nad Sylvan für sein nächstes Projekt einen a…

The Akathistos Hymnos and Intermedial Compositional Processes in Later Byzantium

This book explores intermedial compositional processes in later Byzantium, building on the Akathistos Hymnos. The relationship between the hymn's text, music, and illustrations has yet to be explored in d…

Byzantine Patmos - Documents Of Greek Orthodox Church Music

Donald Ostrowski

Europe, Byzantium, and the "Intellectual Silence" of Rus' Culture

Препятствует ли Православная церковь свободному развитию культуры? Сторонники западноцентричных моделей полагают, что да. Тем не менее американский славист Дональд Островский демонстрирует, что непредвзят…

Tim Sparks

Guitar Bazaar

Rezensionen ,,Mit virtuosem, exaktem und doch locker-stimmungsvoIIem Spiel wirbelt Sparks durch die verschachtelten Rhytmen, absolut berauschend. (Akustik Gitarre) "Another guitarist, Leo Kottke,…

Power and People

How did people climb the social ladder in the Byzantine empire? Did Byzantium have guilds? What did horse-racing fan clubs in the hippodrome have in common with other social organizations? What causes and…

Anthony Kaldellis

The New Roman Empire

A major new history of the eastern Roman Empire, from Constantine to 1453.In recent decades, the study of the Eastern Roman Empire, also known as Byzantium, has been revolutionized by new approaches and m…

Tim Blake

Tide Of The Century

Esoteric Recordings veröffentlichen eine neu remasterte Edition des Albums »The Tide of the Century« aus dem Jahr 2000 von Tim Blake. Tim wurde als Mitglied der Band Gong bekannt, wo er sein Können am Syn…

Processions

Processions of all kinds-military, civic, religious, and more-were hallmarks of the ancient and medieval world. Yet urban processions in Byzantine culture have never been thoroughly studied, even though t…

Tim Blake

Lighthouse: An Anthology 1973 - 2012

Tim wurde bekannt als Mitglied von Gong und Hawkwind (1979 – 1980, ab November 2007). Nach seinem Ausstieg bei Gong in 1975 gründete er mit dem französischen Lichtdesigner Patrice Warrener die Band Crysta…

Isaac Komnenos Porphyrogennetos

Twelfth-century Byzantium is characterized by a striking artistic vitality and profound socio-political changes. The Constantinopolitan elites, led by the Komnenian dynasty initiated by Alexios I, were th…

Ancient Medicine and Philosophy

What were the ancient and medieval conceptions of health and disease? How can medical thinking be understood in its broader philosophical, religious, and ethical context?Rather than treating medicine as a…