BYZANTIUM

bīzănˈshēəm, –shəm, –tēəm, ancient city of Thrace, on the site of the present-day Istanbul, Turkey. Founded by Greeks from Megara in 667 b.c., it early rose to importance because of its position on the Bosporus. In the Peloponnesian War it was captured and recaptured by the contending forces. It was taken (a.d. 196) by Roman Emperor Septimius Severus. Constantine I ordered (a.d. 330) a new city built there; this was Constantinople, later the capital of the Byzantine Empire.

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books on: Byzantium  - 4782 results

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Social and Political Thought in Byzantium, from Justinian I to the Last Palaeologus: Passages from Byzantine Writers and Documents
Book by Ernest Barker; Clarendon Press, 1957
Subjects: Byzantine Empire--Constitutional History--Sources, Social Sciences--History--Byzantine Empire--Sources
...Latin, 19 . Plato, influence of in Byzantium, 2 , 14 , 22 - 23 , 48 , 66 ff. esp...political thought, 4 - 5 ; nature of, in Byzantium, 1 , 20 ff. Politics , of Aristotle...also Church. Renaissance, Italian, Byzantium and, 34 , 49 , 219 ; periods of, in...
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Literacy, Education and Manuscript Transmission in Byzantium and Beyond
Book by Catherine Holmes, Judith Waring; Brill, 2002
Subjects: Byzantine Literature--History And Criticism--Congresses, Education--Byzantine Empire--Congresses, Transmission Of Texts--Byzantine Empire--Congresses, Written Communication--Byzantine Empire--Congresses
...Further Reflections on Literacy in Byzantium in To Hellenikon. Studies in Honor of...Vryonis, 7r., Hellenic Antzquity and Byzantium, eds. J.S. Langdon et al. (New...C.N. (1982) Higher Education in Byzantium in the Thirteenth and Early Fourteenth...
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Byzantium's Balkan Frontier: A Political Study of the Northern Balkans, 900-1204
Book by Paul Stephenson; Cambridge University Press, 2000
Subjects: Balkan Peninsula--Politics And Government, Byzantine Empire--Ethnic Relations, Byzantine Empire--Politics And Government--1081-1453, Byzantine Empire--Politics And Government--527-1081
...96 Moravcsik, G. 1966 , Hungary and Byzantium in the Middle Ages in CMH IV. 1, pp...Morris ed. , Church and People in Byzantium, Birmingham, pp. 125 47 Mullett...Washington, DC Nicol, D. M. 1988 , Byzantium and Venice. A Study in Diplomatic and...
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The Medieval Warhorse from Byzantium to the Crusades
Book by Ann Hyland; Combined Books, 1996
Subjects: Military History, Medieval, War Horses--Byzantine Empire--History, War Horses--Europe--History, War Horses--Middle East--History
...ninth century. He kept the pressure on Byzantium until his death in 814. The Bulgars...Omurtag concluded a peace treaty with Byzantium in 816. 253 But throughout the ninth...were to be an intermittent threat to Byzantium. They had concluded a peace treaty with...
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Byzantine Empresses: Women and Power in Byzantium, AD 527-1204
Book by Lynda Garland; Routledge, 1999
Subjects: Byzantine Empire--History--1081-1453, Byzantine Empire--History--527-1081, Empresses--Byzantine Empire--Biography, Leadership In Women--Byzantine Empire--History
Mango, C. (1981) Daily Life in Byzantium, JOB 31. 1: 337-53. Mango, C...Constantines: The Rhythm of Imperial Renewal in Byzantium, 4th-13th Centuries , ed. P. Magdalino...Powerful and the Poor in Tenth-century Byzantium: Law and Reality, PP 73: 3-27...
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City of Souls: Yeats's Byzantium as an Imaginary Place
Journal article by Edward Lense; West Virginia University Philological Papers, Vol. 53, 2006
Subjects: Poets--Works, Sailing to Byzantium (Poem)--Criticism and interpretation, Yeats, William Butler--Works
City of Souls: Yeatss Byzantium as an Imaginary Place. by Edward...creators intention. In the case of "Byzantium," Yeats, haunted all his life by...setting sun. The dancing spirits of "Byzantium" reach this strange shore in the...
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A Dubious Christological Formula: From Leontius of Byzantium to Karl Barth
Journal article by F. Leron Shults; Theological Studies, Vol. 57, 1996
Subjects: Barth, Karl--Influence, Leontius of Byzantium--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Theology, Protestant--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Typology (Theology)--Philosophy
...Christological formula: from Leontius of Byzantium to Karl Barth. by F. LeRon Shults THE...development of these terms from Leontius of Byzantium to Karl Barth in order to show the fateful...of the terms in question. LEONTIUS OF BYZANTIUM The fact that several persons with the...
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Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire
Journal article by Jonathan Harris; The Historian, Vol. 71, 2009
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews
Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire. by Jonathan Harris Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire. By...the spot by a passing request to explain what Byzantium actually was (xiii). It is the type of question...
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Byzantium and the Arabs in the Sixth Century
Journal article by Issa J. Boullata; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 130, 2010
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Byzantium and the Arabs in the Sixth Century: Economic, Social, and Cultural History, vol. 2, pt. 2 (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews
Byzantium and the Arabs in the Sixth Century. by Issa J. Boullata Byzantium and the Arabs in the Sixth Century, vol 2, pt...time and scholarship to the study of the history of Byzantium and the Arabs in late antiquity and, in addition...
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Byzantium Viewed by the Arabs
Journal article by Niall Christie; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 125, 2005
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Byzantium Viewed by the Arabs (Book)--Book reviews
Byzantium Viewed by the Arabs. by Niall Christie Byzantium Viewed by the Arabs. By NADIA MARIA EL CHEIKH. Harvard...UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2004. Pp. xi + 271. $19.95 (paper). Byzantium Viewed by the Arabs presents an exploration of the evolution...
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magazine articles on: Byzantium  - 301 results

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The Persistence of Byzantium
Magazine article by Warren Treadgold; The Wilson Quarterly, Vol. 22, Autumn 1998
Subjects: Byzantium (Ancient city)--Analysis, Cities and towns, Ruined, extinct, etc.--Analysis
The persistence of Byzantium by Warren Treadgold Longevity alone makes Byzantium remarkable. Lasting almost...outlived the Western Empire. Byzantiums longevity was, in fact...lasted almost 1,200 years. Byzantium naturally had its ups and...
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Byzantium: Judith Herrin
Magazine article by Clive Foss; History Today, Vol. 57, November 2007
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Byzantium: Judith Herrin (Book)--Book reviews
...Islam, even claiming that Byzantium made Europe possible. She...neglected role of women in Byzantium, though perhaps exaggerating...in her treatment of one of Byzantiums most colourful characters...considered: how rich was Byzantium in relation to the West or...
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Revelations on Display: 'The Glory of Byzantium' at the Met
Magazine article by Paul Elie; Commonweal, Vol. 124, May 23, 1997
Subjects: Art, Greek--Exhibitions, Byzantium (Ancient city)--Antiquities
...Revelations on display: The Glory of Byzantium at the Met by Paul Elie The 350 works in "The Glory of Byzantium" (at the Metropolitan Museum in New...who have spent time in what was once Byzantium came away from the Met exhibition disappointed...
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The Oxford History of Byzantium
Magazine article by Charles Freeman; History Today, Vol. 53, May 2003
Subjects: Book reviews, Books--Book reviews, The Evolution of the Late Antique World (Book)--Book reviews, The Oxford History of Byzantium (Book)--Book reviews
The Oxford History of Byzantium. by Charles Freeman Edited by Cyril...compatriot, evoked in his poem Sailing to Byzantium (1927) a lethargic imperial court...Introduction. There were aspects of Byzantium--such as diplomacy and other survival...
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Take Me Back to Constantinople: How Byzantium, Not Rome, Can Help Preserve Pax Americana
Magazine article by Edward Luttwak; Foreign Policy, November 2009
Subjects: Byzantine Empire, 330-1453--Educational aspects, Byzantine Empire, 330-1453--Social aspects, Byzantium (Ancient city)--Educational aspects, Byzantium (Ancient city)--Social aspects, United States foreign relations
Take Me Back to Constantinople: How Byzantium, Not Rome, Can Help Preserve Pax Americana. by Edward Luttwak...Better instead to look to the empires eastern incarnation: Byzantium, which outlasted its Roman predecessor by eight centuries...
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newspaper articles on: Byzantium  - 157 results

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The Glory That Was Byzantium
Newspaper article by Richard Slusser; The Washington Times, August 17, 1997
Subjects: Byzantium (Ancient city)
The glory that was Byzantium by Richard Slusser By...Levant and Asia Minor. Byzantiums capital, Constantinople...host and writer of "Byzantium: The Lost Empire...ancient Greek city known as Byzantium, 1,000 miles east...
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Royal in Byzantium
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, February 17, 2002
...could even serve as priests in Byzantium. Irene placed her loyal eunuchs...her informed conjectures. "Byzantiums successful resistance to Islam...purple-robed rulers of old Byzantium. Bart McDowell is the author...PURPLE: RULERS OF MEDIEVAL BYZANTIUM By Judith Herrin Princeton...
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A Place to Call Home Ecumenical Byzantium Draws European Crowd
Newspaper article by Barbara Vitello; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), August 13, 2004
...Portokalis Euro-centric Byzantium. Named after the Byzantine...echoing the comments of Byzantiums regulars many of whom...home." Thats what Byzantium regulars seek, a semblance...a DJ Spaz, one of Byzantiums resident DJs. "They...need to know Name: Byzantium, 232 S. Halsted St...
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Unlocking the Grisly Secrets of Glorious Byzantium
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), October 22, 2008
...over-complication. Yet Byzantium, originally the Eastern Roman...For the next 10 centuries, Byzantium was one of the dominant powers...Academys exhibition shows, Byzantium was the original cradle of...Londoners could only sample Byzantiums unrivalled cultural glories...
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Licentious in Byzantium?
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, June 13, 2004
Licentious in Byzantium? Byline: Carol Herman, THE WASHINGTON...his biography "Theodora: Empress of Byzantium" and there is every reason to understand...panoramic landscape of sixth-century Byzantium that emerges here. Mr. Cesaretti...
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encyclopedia articles on: Byzantium  - 70 results

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Byzantium
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
BYZANTIUM bizan she m, sh m, te m, ancient city of Thrace, on the site of the present-day Istanbul, Turkey. Founded by Greeks from...
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Aristophanes of Byzantium
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ARISTOPHANES OF BYZANTIUM ar istof nez, bizan she m, te m, c.257 180 b.c., Greek scholar. He was librarian at Alexandria, edited various texts...
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Kievan Rus
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...economy of the Kievan state was based on agriculture and on extensive trade with Byzantium, Asia, and Scandinavia. Culture, as well as religion, was drawn from Byzantium; Church Slavonic was the literary and liturgical language of the state...
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Organ
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...throughout the Middle Ages. Evidence of the first purely pneumatic organ is found on an obelisk erected at Byzantium before a.d. 393. Byzantium became the center of organ building in the Middle Ages, and in 757 Constantine V presented a Byzantine...
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Byzantine Empire
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Eastern Empire and East Roman Empire. It was named after Byzantium, which Emperor Constantine I rebuilt (a.d. 330) as Constantinople...West at Rome. Thus ended even the theoretical primacy of Byzantium over Europe. A Truly Eastern State The political division...
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