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Byzantium's Balkan Frontier is the first narrative history in English of the northern Balkans in the tenth to twelfth centuries. Where previous histories have been concerned principally with the medieval history of distinct and autonomous Balkan nations, this study regards Byzantine political authority as a unifying factor in the various lands which formed the empire's frontier in the north and west. It takes as its central concern Byzantine relations with all Slavic and non-Slavic peoples - including the Serbs, Croats, Bulgarians and Hungarians - in and beyond the Balkan Peninsula, and explores in detail imperial responses, first to the migrations of nomadic peoples, and subsequently to the expansion of Latin Christendom. It also examines the changing conception of the frontier in Byzantine thought and literature through the middle Byzantine period.

Balkan Peninsula --- Byzantine Empire --- Byzantium (Empire) --- Vizantii︠a︡ --- Bajo Imperio --- Bizancjum --- Byzantinē Autokratoria --- Vyzantinon Kratos --- Vyzantinē Autokratoria --- Impero bizantino --- Bizantia --- Politics and government. --- Politics and government --- Ethnic relations. --- Balkans --- Empire byzantin --- Ethnic relations --- Politique et gouvernement --- Relations interethniques --- History of Greece --- anno 900-999 --- anno 1000-1099 --- anno 1100-1199 --- 527-1081 --- 1081-1453 --- Arts and Humanities --- History --- Balkan Peninsula - Politics and government --- Byzantine Empire - Politics and government - 527-1081 --- Byzantine Empire - Politics and government - 1081-1453 --- Byzantine Empire - Ethnic relations

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Byzantine Empresses provides a series of biographical portraits of the most significant Byzantine women who ruled or shared the throne between 527 and 1204. It presents and analyses the available historical data in order to outline what these empresses did, what the sources thought they did, and what they wanted to do.

Empresses --- Leadership in women --- Impératrices --- Leadership chez la femme --- Biography. --- Biographie --- Byzantine Empire --- Empire byzantin --- History --- Politics and government --- Histoire --- Politique et gouvernement --- -Empresses --- -Leadership in women --- -Women's leadership --- Women --- Monarchy --- Queens --- -History --- Psychology --- Keizerinnen. --- Byzantijnse rijk. --- Women rulers --- Kaiserin --- History. --- Geschichte 527-1204. --- Byzantinisches Reich --- Kaiserin. --- Byzantinisches Reich. --- -Byzantine Empire --- -Byzantijnse rijk. --- Impératrices --- Women's leadership --- Leadership in women - Byzantine Empire - History --- Empresses - Byzantine Empire - Biography --- Theodora, imperatrix vidua Theophili --- Theodora imp. de Byzance --- Irene iunior Atheniensis imp. --- Theophano imp. uxor Leonis VI --- Byzance --- Byzantine Empire - History - 527-1081. --- Byzantine Empire - History - 1081-1453.

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The rulers of the Byzantine Empire and its commonwealth were protected both by their own soldiers and by a heavenly army: the military saints. The transformation of Saints George, Demetrios, Theodore and others into the patrons of imperial armies was one of the defining developments of religious life under the Macedonian emperors. This book provides a comprehensive study of military sainthood and its roots in late antiquity. The emergence of the cults is situated within a broader social context, in which mortal soldiers were equated with martyrs and martyrs of the early Church recruited to protect them on the battlefield. Dr White then traces the fate of these saints in early Rus, drawing on unpublished manuscripts and other under-utilised sources to discuss their veneration within the princely clan and their influence on the first native saints of Rus, Boris and Gleb, who eventually joined the ranks of their ancient counterparts.

War --- Christian patron saints --- Christian martyrs --- Guerre --- Saints patrons chrétiens --- Martyrs chrétiens --- Religious aspects --- Christianity --- History of doctrines --- Cult --- Aspect religieux --- Christianisme --- Histoire des doctrines --- Culte --- Byzantine Empire. --- Religious life --- Byzantine Empire --- Empire byzantin --- History, Military --- Church history. --- Histoire militaire --- Histoire religieuse --- Church history --- Saints patrons chrétiens --- Martyrs chrétiens --- Armed conflict (War) --- Conflict, Armed (War) --- Fighting --- Hostilities --- Wars --- International relations --- Military art and science --- Martyrs --- Martyrdom --- Christian saints, Patron --- Patron Christian saints --- Patron saints --- Patron saints, Christian --- Christian saints --- Christian patron saints - Cult - Byzantine Empire --- Christian martyrs - Cult - Byzantine Empire --- War - Religious aspects - Christianity - History of doctrines - Middle Ages, 600-1500 --- Saints militaires --- Byzance --- Russie --- Byzantine Empire - History, Military - 1081-1453 --- Byzantine Empire - Church history --- Arts and Humanities --- History

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In 1204 the army of the Fourth Crusade sacked the great city of Constantinople. In earlier historiography the view prevailed that these Western barons and knights temporarily destroyed the Byzantine state and replaced it with a series of feudal states of their own making. Through a comprehensive rereading of better and lesser-known sources this book offers an alternative perspective arguing that the Latin rulers did not abolish, but very consciously wanted to continue the Eastern Empire. In this, the new imperial dynasty coming from Flanders-Hainaut played a pivotal role. Despite religious and other differences many Byzantines sided with the new regime and administrative practices at the different governmental levels were to a larger or lesser degree maintained.

Crusades --- Imperialism --- Social change --- Change, Social --- Cultural change --- Cultural transformation --- Societal change --- Socio-cultural change --- Social history --- Social evolution --- Colonialism --- Empires --- Expansion (United States politics) --- Neocolonialism --- Political science --- Anti-imperialist movements --- Caesarism --- Chauvinism and jingoism --- Militarism --- Social aspects --- History. --- Byzantine Empire --- Istanbul (Turkey) --- Latin Empire, 1204-1261. --- France --- Latin Orient --- Stamboul (Turkey) --- Stampōl (Turkey) --- Stambul (Turkey) --- Stěmpol (Turkey) --- T︠S︡arigrad (Turkey) --- Istāmbūl (Turkey) --- T︠S︡arʹgrad (Turkey) --- Āsitānah (Turkey) --- Ḳushṭa (Turkey) --- İstanbul Büyük Şehir Belediyesi (Turkey) --- Greater Istanbul Municipality (Turkey) --- İstanbul Anakent Belediyesi (Turkey) --- İstanbul Büyükşehir Belediyesi (Turkey) --- Polē (Turkey) --- Estambul (Turkey) --- Baladīyat Isṭānbūl (Turkey) --- Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality (Turkey) --- Constantinople --- History --- Politics and government. --- Social conditions. --- Siege, 1203-1204 --- Crusades - Fourth, 1202-1204 --- Byzantine Empire - History - 1081-1453 --- Byzantine Empire - Politics and government --- Imperialism - Social aspects - Byzantine Empire - History --- Social change - Byzantine Empire - History --- Latin Empire, 1204-1261 --- Istanbul (Turkey) - History - Siege, 1203-1204 --- Istanbul (Turkey) - History - To 1453 --- Istanbul (Turkey) - Politics and government --- Istanbul (Turkey) - Social conditions