Alexios I Komnenos: I. Papers
Title | Alexios I Komnenos: I. Papers PDF eBook |
Author | Margaret Mullett |
Publisher | Belfast Byzantine |
Pages | 464 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN |
Alexios I Komnenos in the Balkans, 1081–1095
Title | Alexios I Komnenos in the Balkans, 1081–1095 PDF eBook |
Author | Marek Meško |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Pages | 437 |
Release | 2023-06-14 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 3031262964 |
This book provides a new military history of Byzantine emperor Alexios I Komnenos's campaigns in the Balkans, during the first fourteen years of his rule. While the tactics and manoeuvres Alexios used against Robert Guiscard's Normans are relatively well-known, his strategy in dealing with Pecheneg and Cuman adversaries in the region has received less attention in historical scholarship. This book provides a much-need synthesis of these three closely linked campaigns – often treated as discrete events – revealing a surprising coherence in Alexios' response, and explores the position of Byzantium's army and navy on the eve of the First Crusade.
Alexios I Komnenos
Title | Alexios I Komnenos PDF eBook |
Author | Margaret Mullett |
Publisher | |
Pages | 437 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Alexios I Komnenos
Title | Alexios I Komnenos PDF eBook |
Author | Margaret Mullett |
Publisher | |
Pages | 437 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780853895817 |
The Alexiad
Title | The Alexiad PDF eBook |
Author | Anna Komnene |
Publisher | Penguin UK |
Pages | 1069 |
Release | 2009-08-06 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 0141904542 |
A revised edition of Anna Komnene's Alexiad, to replace our existing 1969 edition. This is the first European narrative history written by a woman - an account of the reign of a Byzantine emperor through the eyes and words of his daughter which offers an unparalleled view of the Byzantine world in the eleventh and twelfth centuries.
Alexios I Komnenos in the Balkans, 1081-1095
Title | Alexios I Komnenos in the Balkans, 1081-1095 PDF eBook |
Author | Marek Meško |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2023 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9783031262982 |
This book provides a new military history of Byzantine emperor Alexios I Komnenos's campaigns in the Balkans, during the first fourteen years of his rule. While the tactics and manoeuvres Alexios used against Robert Guiscard's Normans are relatively well-known, his strategy in dealing with Pecheneg and Cuman adversaries in the region has received less attention in historical scholarship. This book provides a much-need synthesis of these three closely linked campaigns - often treated as discrete events - revealing a surprising coherence in Alexios' response, and explores the position of Byzantium's army and navy on the eve of the First Crusade. Marek Meško is an assistant professor at the University of Hradec Kralove, Institute of History, Czech Republic. .
Letters, Literacy and Literature in Byzantium
Title | Letters, Literacy and Literature in Byzantium PDF eBook |
Author | Margaret Mullett |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Pages | 415 |
Release | 2023-06-09 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1000941647 |
These studies look at general problems of reading Byzantine literature, at literacy practices and the literary process, but also at individual texts. The past thirty years have seen a revolution in the way Byzantine literature has been viewed: no longer is it considered a decadent form of classical literature or a turgid precursor of modern Greek literature. There are still prejudices to overcome: that there was no literary public, or that Byzantium had no drama or humour, but Byzantine texts are now read as literature in the social context of literacy and book culture. One genre is treated here more fully: the letter (Derrida said that letters represent all literature). In these studies epistolography is examined from the point of view of genre, of originality, of communication and as evidence for political history. Other genres touched on include the novel, historiography, parainesis, panegyric, and hagiography. The section on literary process includes essays on genre, patronage and rhetoric, and the section on literacy practices deals with both writing and reading. The collection includes one unpublished lecture which acts as introduction, and additional notes and comments.