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Siegecraft : two tenth-century instructional manuals
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ISBN: 0884022706 9780884022701 Year: 2000 Volume: 36 Publisher: Washington, D. C. Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection

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The “Parangelmata Poliorcetica” and the “Geodesia,” two Greek treatises on the construction of devices for siege warfare, are products of 10th-century Byzantium. The texts are presented here in critical editions based, for the first time, on the archetype manuscript Vaticanus graecus 1605 and accompanied by an English translation and commentary. The illustrations, reproduced in this edition, go beyond the traditional ground plans of the time and show elevations to represent finished devices in action.


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Byzantium in the time of troubles : the continuation of the Chronicle of John Skylitzes (1057-1079)
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ISSN: 09285520 ISBN: 9789004418943 9004418946 9004419403 9789004419407 Year: 2020 Volume: 120 Publisher: Leiden, The Netherlands ; Boston : Brill,

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"The years before and after the battle of Manzikert (1071) mark a turning point in the history of the Byzantine Empire. The invasions of the Seljuk Turks in the east and the encroachment of the Normans from the west altered the balance of power in the eastern Mediterranean and forced the Byzantines to confront new threats to their survival. These threats came at a time when internal rivalries made an effective military response all but impossible and led to a significant transformation of the Byzantine polity under the Komnenoi. The Continuation of the Chronicle of John Skylitzes, now translated for the first time, provides a contemporary view of these troubled times. An extension of the principal source for the middle Byzantine period, and a subtle reworking of the History of Michael Attaleiates, the Continuation offers a high court official's narrative of the events and personages that shaped the course of Byzantine history on the eve of the Crusades.".


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Pseudo-Kodinos and the Constantinopolitan court : offices and ceremonies
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ISBN: 9780754667520 0754667529 9781315602790 9781317073949 Year: 2013 Volume: 15 Publisher: Farnham ; Burlington, VT Ashgate


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St Theodore the studite's defence of the icons : theology and philosophy in ninth-century Byzantium
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ISBN: 9780198816775 0198816774 0191858374 0192548727 0192548735 Year: 2018 Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press,

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This title provides an investigation of the icon-theology of St Theodore the Studite, mainly as it is presented in his three refutations of the iconoclasts, the Antirrhetici tres adversus iconomachos. Torstein Theodor Tollefsen explores Theodore's 'philosophy of images', namely his doctrine of images and his arguments that justify the legitimacy of images in general and of Christ in particular. Tollefsen offers a historical, theological, and philosophical exploration of Theodore's doctrine of images and his arguments justifying the legitimacy of images and of Christ.


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Pseudo-Kodinos, the Constantinopolitan court : offices and ceremonies
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ISBN: 1317073967 1472418050 9781472418050 9781317073956 1317073959 9780754667520 0754667529 1315602792 Year: 2013 Publisher: Farnham, Surrey, UK ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Variorum,

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The work known as Pseudo-Kodinos, the fourteenth-century text which is one of two surviving ceremonial books from the Byzantine empire, is presented here for the first time in English translation. With facing page Greek text and the first in-depth analysis in the form of commentary and individual studies on the hierarchy, the ceremonies, court attire, the Blachernai palace, lighting, music, gestures and postures, this volume makes an important new contribution to the study of the Byzantine court, and to the history and culture of Byzantium more broadly.

A Byzantine encyclopaedia of horse medicine : the sources, compilation, and transmission of the Hippiatrica
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ISBN: 9780199277551 0199277559 Year: 2007 Publisher: Oxford New York : Oxford University Press,

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How were Greek texts on the care and medical treatment of the horse transmitted from antiquity to the present day? Using the evidence of Byzantine manuscripts of the veterinary compilation known as the Hippiatrica, Anne McCabe traces the journey of the texts from the stables to the medieval scriptorium and ultimately to the printed edition. Surviving manuscripts include both magnificent presentation copies and plain ones intended for use in the field. The Hippiatrica is a rich and little-known source of information about horses, medicine, and magic. This book provides a guide to its complex history as well as a host of fascinating details, and includes colour illustrations of a number of manuscript pages.


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ISSN: 03983811 ISBN: 9782271083401 2271083400 Year: 2015 Volume: 41 Publisher: Paris : CNRS éditions,

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Liudprand (vers 920-972 ?), originaire de Pavie où il entra dans la carrière ecclésiastique, est un témoin privilégié des vicissitudes politiques du Xe siècle. Retour d'une ambassade à Constantinople menée pour le compte du roi d'Italie Bérenger II en 949, il s'exila en Germanie : un choix gagnant, qui lui valut de devenir évêque de Crémone en 962, au moment où Otton Ier vint ceindre la couronne impériale à Rome. C'est à la cour ottonienne qu'il fit ses armes d'écrivain d'église, en composant un sermon pour les fêtes de Pâques. Mais Liudprand est surtout connu pour son œuvre historiographique engagée. Avec la "Rétribution (Antapodosis)", il répond à une sollicitation de son confrère mozarabe d'Elvire (Grenade), en dressant une "histoire des empereurs et des rois de toute l'Europe" depuis l'éclatement de l'empire carolingien en 888 jusqu'à son temps, et dans laquelle le point de vue alterne entre l'Italie, la Germanie et Byzance. Il s'agit en réalité de justifier les prétentions ottoniennes sur l'Italie. L'"Histoire d'Otton" est un court pamphlet qui veut donner le point de vue du nouvel empereur saxon sur les conditions discutées de l'éviction du pape Jean XII, en 964. Enfin, l'"Ambassade à Constantinople", récit d'un autre séjour dans l'Orient grec, en 968, dresse un tableau aussi noir que précis des usages diplomatiques byzantins. Au fil de ses écrits, Liudprand, l'évêque courtisan spécialiste des relations diplomatiques, délivre un message moral sans cesse répété sur la responsabilité qu'implique le libre arbitre. Il le fait dans un style alerte farci de références classiques, maniant sans retenue l'invective, la harangue et les scènes hautes en couleur teintées d'un humour scabreux, qui ont beaucoup fait pour la légende noire du "siècle de fer". La présente traduction donne pour la première fois accès à l'intégralité du texte en français, en regard du latin. Elle est précédée d'une présentation historique et littéraire et s'accompagne d'un commentaire nourri, avec un accent particulier sur l'identification des sources.

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