The Byzantine Empire lasted for 1123 years, a period longer than that which separates us from William the Conqueror. The third and final volume of the author's history of Byzantium, this book tells of the dire consequences of the defeat of the Seljuk Turks at the battle of Manzikert in 1071; of the Fourth Crusade, whose Crusaders, led by the octogenarian Doge of Venice, turned their attention away from the holy places to hurl themselves against Constantinople, sacking the city and setting up a succession of Frankish thugs on the imperial throne; and of the 200-year struggle by the restored Empire against the inexorable advance of the Ottoman Turks. This account of the city's fall, the last great epic in the history of the Middle Ages, is the climax of the story. The Byzantines, under their last Emperor, Constantine XI, heroically held out against the immense army of the Sultan Mehmet II for 55 days until, in 1453, the massive walls of Constantinople crumbled at last.
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• List of Maps - Transliteration and References - Abbreviations - Chronological List - Preface -Sources for Early Medieval Byzantium - The Strategic Geography of the Near East - The Roman World in
• 600 - The Fall of the Old Order - How the Roman Empire Survived - The Shock of Defeat - The Byzantine Response: On to the Defensive - The Byzantine Empire and its Non-Muslim Neighbours, c600-c950 - The Age of Reconquest, 863-976 - The Reign of Basil II, 976-1025 - Bibliography - Index.
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The book is a clear, up-to-date, reassessment of the Byzantine empire during a crucial phase in the history of the Near East. Against a geopolitical background (well-illustrated with 14 maps), it covers the last decade of the Roman empire as a superpower of the ancient world, the catastrophic crisis of the seventh century and the means whereby its embattled Byzantine successor hung on in Constantinople and Asia Minor until the Abbasid Caliphate's decline opened up new perspectives for Christian power in the Near East. Not confined to any narrow definition of Byzantine history, the empire's neighbours, allies and enemies in Europe and Asia also receive extensive treatment.
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• Sunuş = Preface / Ömer M. Koç
• Önsöz = Foreword / Ayla Ödekan, Engin Akyürek, Nevya Necipoğlu
• Açılış konuşması = Opening speech / S. Yıldız Ötüken
• Selâhaddîn Eyyûbî (1171-1193) ve Bizans / Casim Avcı
• How did the Byzantines deal with the earthquakes and their aftermath? / Mevlude Bakır
• The martyrdom of Niketas the Younger : a case of forced conversion under the Seljuk Sultan Masud II or a reflection of the Byzantine policy under Emperor Andronikos II? / Buket Kitapçı Bayri
• Historical geography of the Byzantine world in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries : problems of the sources / Johannes Koder
• Justification of war in thirteenth-century Byzantium : tracing down the Latin influence / Nikolaos S. Kanellopoulos, Ioanna K. Lekea
• Sultan Sencer'in Bizans İmparatoruna mektubu / Erdoğan Merçil
• Maurozomes in Konya / Scott Redford
• The authorship of Anna Komnene's Alexiad : the siege descriptions compared with the military instructional manuals and other historians / Denis F. Sullivan
• A unique saint's life of the thirteenth century : Akakios Sabbaites' Vita of Saints Barnabas and Sophronios / Alice-Mary Talbot
• Change in Byzantine historical self-awareness in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries / Alicia Simpson
• Bir merkez sembol olarak Bizans ve Selçuklu döneminde hayat ağacı motifi / Muradiya Bursalı
• Amasya'daki Selçuklu ve Osmanlı devri mimari eserlerindeki Bizans devri yapılarına air devşirme (şipolien) malzeme kullanımı / Muzaffer Doğanbaş
• Gender and patronage between Christianity and Islam in the thirteenth century / Antony Eastmond
• On ikinci ve on üçüncü yüzyillarda Kilikya Ermeni minyatürü bağlaminda Bizans ve komşu kültürlerle ilişkiler / Elmon Hançer
• On ikinci ve on üçüncü yüzyillarda Doğu Anadolu'da üretilen Ermeni-Gürcü maden eserlerinde Bizans ögeleri / Mine Kadiroğlu
• Alexander and the lambs : imitation Byzantine spolia at San Marco, Venice / Henry Maguire
• Frigya (Phrygia) bölgesi kaya mimarisinde Norman sanatının izleri / Yelda Olcay Uçkan
• Kültürlerarası etkileşim ve Mukarnas / Ayla Ödekan
• Ankara Arslanhane camii örneğinde Anadolu Selçuklu sanatı sentezinde harmanlanan Bizans unsurları / Gönül Öney
• Anadolu Selçuklu sikkelerinde Bizans etkileri / Adil Özme
• On some Oriental borrowings in Middle Greek (eleventh-fifteenth centuries) / Rustam Shukurov
• On ikinci ve on üçüncü yüzyıllarda Bizans kıyafetlerinda Türk ve doğu etkileri / Sabahattin Türkoğlu
• Les noms de fonctionnaires civils issus des familles contantinopolitaines durant les onzième et douzième siècles d'apres la sigillographie / Jean Claude Cheynet
• On ikinci yüzyıl Bizans dünyasinda para / Ahmet Tolga Tek, Zeliha Demiral Gökalp
• Thirteenth-century commercial exchange in the Aegean : continuity and change / David Jacoby
• Ideology and economy in the politics of John III Vatatzes (1221-1254) / Ekaterini Mitsou
• The big problem of small change in the Byzantine world (twelfth and thirteenth centuries) / Pagona Papadopoulou
• Taxation reform and the pronia system in thirteenth-century Byzantium / Kostis Smyrlis
• Between archons and bishops government in Epiros in the thirteenth century / Ece Turnator
• Anaia buluntusu bir sikkenin hatırlattıkları : on ikinci yüzyılda Bizans tahtındaki askeri aristokrasinin sikke ikonografisine yansıması / Ceren Ünal
• On ikinci yüzyılda batı Pamphylia'da Bizans varlığı : arkeolojik buluntular işığında bir değerlendirme / Engin Akyürek
• Between the Byzantine Empire, Venice and the Latin West : a case study of the city of Zara / Rozmerı Basıc
• On ikinci ve on üçüncü yüzyıllarda, Kayseri'nin Yeşilhisar ilçesi Erdemli vadisi'ndeki Bizans yerleşimi / Nilay Karakaya
• Frigya Pentapolisi'nde bir Bizans kentinin lokalizasyonu : otrous / Thomas Drew-Bear
• Yenikapı Liman kazıları / Metin Gökçay
• On ikinci ve on üçüncü yüzyıllarda batı Anadolu liman kentleri / Mehmet Kahyaoğlu
• Kommerkion ve Emporion olarak Anaia'nın değişken tarihsel yazgısı / Zeynep Mercangöz
• On ikinci ve on üçüncü yüzyıllarda Kilikya bölgesi'nde bir Kome : Minnetpınarı (Kahramanmaraş) / Vahit Macit Tekinalp
• On ikinci ve on üçüncü yüzyılların sosyopolitik ortamında yeşeren bir savunma ağı : "Neokastra" / Emine Tok Bayrakal
• Hellespont in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries / Ayşe Ç. Türker
• Konstantinopolis'te Locus Venetorum (1082-1261) : yapılar ve olası yerleri / Aygül Ağır
• Literary polemic in twelfth-century Constantinople / Pamela Armstrong
• The late Byzantine fortifications at Pegae on the Sea of Marmara / William Aylward
• How western is it? : the palace at Nympaion and its architectural setting / Suna Çağaptay --On ikinci ve on üçüncü yüzyıllarda Ayasofya / Hasan Fırat Diker
• Alanya'da Kızılcaşehir Kalesi ve on ikinci yüzyılda Akdeniz / Sema Doğan
• Kıbrıs'ta on ikinci ve on üçüncü yüzyıllarda Bizans mimarisi ve görülen değişimler / A. Ceren Erel
• Monks, monasteries and the Latin language in Constantinople / Elizabeth A. Fisher
• Relationship between monasteries and the city of Constantinople during the reign of Andronikos II, a case study : Bebaia Elpis Monastery of Theodora Synadene / Esra Güzel Erdoğan
• Gürcü ve Bizans kiliselerinde on birinci ve on üçüncü yüzyıllar arasına tariklenen ek mekânlar / Bülent İşler
• Why were monasteries founded in the Byzantine world in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries? / Michel Kaplan
• Marmaray-Üsküdar kazılarında ortaya çıkarılan on ikinci ve on üçüncü yüzyıl yapısı / Şehrazat Karagöz
• A new interpretation of the Church of Peribleptos and its place in Middle Byzantine architecture / Örgü Dalgıç, Thomas F. Mathews
• The decoration of the Pantokrator (Zeyrek Camii) : evidence old and new / Robert G. Ousterhout
• Kars, Kızıl Kilise (Karmirvank/Dprevank) tarihlendirme sorunu üzerine bir deneme / Güner Sağir
• Kisleçukuru Manastırı : Antalya'da on ikinci yüzyıla ait bir Bizans Manastırı / Ayça Tiryaki
• Further remarks on the building history of the Church of the Transfiguration of Christ at Christianou, Messenia, Greece / Sotiris Voyadjis
• On ikinci ve on üçüncü yüzyıllarda Bizans liturjisi ve liturjik eserlerde değişimin tanıları / Meryem Acara Eser
• Bizans kurşun mühürleri ışığında on ikinci ve on üçüncü yüzyıllarda yönetim / Vera Bulgurlu
• Problems of ivory carving in the Christian East (twelfth and thirteenth centuries) / Anthony Cutler
• Wall-painting methods of Byzantine art : examples of Cappadocia / Buket Coşkuner
• Myra-demre Aziz Nikolaos Kilisesi'nde on ikinci ve on üçüncü yüzyıl cam buluntuları / Özgü Çömezoğlu
• On ikinci ve on üçüncü yüzyıllarda Bizans sirlı seramik sanatında form ve üslup değişimlerine ait bazı gözlemler / Lala Doğer
• Halûk Perk Müze ve koleksiyonu'ndaki örneklerle orta Bizans döneminden kutsal ekmek mühürleri / Gülgün Köroğlu, Halûk Perk
• On ikinci ve on üçüncü yüzyıl Bizans cam bileziklerinde bezeme ve biçim değişimleri / Zeynep Oral Çakmakçı
• Myra'daki Arsanlı levha ve on ikinci ve on üçüncü yüzyıl ortaçağ taş eserlerinde üslup ve ikonografik değişimler / Semiha Yıldız Ötüken
• Niğde, Aktaş'daki Konstantin ve Helena kilisesi duvar resimleri / M. Sacit Pekak
• Gülşehir Karşı Kilise duvar resimleri / Nilüfer Peker
• Suna ve İnan Kıraç vakfı Anadolu ağırlık ve ölçüleri koleksiyonu'ndaki bir kısım ağırlıklar ışığında Bizans ağırlık sistemine katkı / Halûk Perk
• Skulptur in Konstaninopel vor und nach der Lateinerherrschaft / Urs Peschlow
• Wings of salvation in thirteenth-century art / Brigitte Pitarakis
• Thirteenth-century Byzantine painting in Cappadocia : new evidence / Tolga Uyar
• The appearance of the winged-image of St. John the Baptist in the thirteenth-century Byzantine painting / Sercan Yandım
• Kapanış konuşması = Closing speech / Doğan Kuban.

• Table of Contents Introduction
• * Xenophon in Byzantium and the coded poem for Leon VI
• * The Excerpta historica of Konstantinos VII Porphyrogennetos
• * The Scholia on the Zosimos manuscript
• * Ioannes Tzetzes' verse scholia on Thucydides
• * Scholia on Diodoros of Sicily by Niketas Choniates and others
• * Theodoros Metochites and the Greek Historians
• * Ioannes Kanaboutzes' Commentary on the Roman Antiquities of Dionysios of Halikarnassos
• Bibliography.
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The survival of ancient Greek historiography is largely due to its preservation by Byzantine copyists and scholars. This process entailed selection, adaptation, and commentary, which shaped the corpus of Greek historiography in its transmission. By investigating those choices, Kaldellis enables a better understanding of the reception and survival of Greek historical writing. Byzantine Readings of Ancient Historians includes translations of texts written by Byzantines on specific ancient historians. Each translated text is accompanied by an introduction and notes to highlight the specific context and purpose of its composition. In order to present a rounded picture of the reception of Greek historiography in Byzantium, a wide range of genres have been considered, such as poems and epigrams, essays, personalized scholia, and commentaries. Byzantine Readings of Ancient Historians is therefore an important resource for scholars and students of ancient history.
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"Der erhaltene Teil des Chartulars enthält Urkunden vom 10. Jahrhundert bis 1246/1254 und ist eine der wesentlichen ... Quellen für die Geschichte der Region der Mäandermündung und des umgrenzenden Gebietes. Da das Chartular im erhaltenen Anfangsteil Kaiser- und Patriarchenurkunden überliefert, ermöglicht die kritische Edition neue Einblicke in Fragen der byzantischen Diplomatik."--Provided by publisher

• Vorwort : Was war Byzanz?
• Die Geographie des Byzantinischen Reiches
• Die Entstehung eines neuen Reiches : das Ende der alten Welt und der Neubeginn im Osten (330-641)
• Erste Reichsteilungen
• Konstantin I. der Große (306-337)
• Die Bedeutung des Christentums
• Von Valentinian I. bis Zenon und das Ende des Weströmischen Reiches (337-476)
• Das Ostreich von Theodosius II. bis Justinian (408-527)
• Das Zeitalter Justinians und seiner Nachfolger (518-641)
• Das Dunkle Zeitalter von Byzanz : das späte sechste und das siebte Jahrhundert (641-717)
• Soziale und wirtschaftliche Veränderungen im 7. Jahrhundert
• Das Themensystem und die Reorganisation der Verwaltung
• Die Dynastie der Isaurier und das Zeitalter des Bilderstreites (717-842)
• Leben in Byzanz
• Der Hof des Kaisers-- Das Heerwesen
• Die byzantinische Marine
• Die makedonische Dynastie auf dem Kaiserthron (867-976)
• Der Höhepunkt byzantinischer Macht (976-1057)
• Die byzantinische Gesellschaft
• Die Verwaltung
• Die Mönche
• Handwerker und städtische Arbeiter
• Die Frauen
• Die Landwirtschaft
• Die Armen
• Der Hausbau
• Das Münzwesen
• Erziehungswesen
• Die Dynastien der Dukai und der Komnenen (1057-1185)
• Das Reich im 12. Jahrhundert
• Der Vierte Kreuzzug (1202-1204)
• Das Lateinische Reich von Byzanz (1204-1261)
• Die Herrschaft der Palaiologen und der Niedergang von Byzanz (1261-1354)
• Die letzten Jahre des Byzantinischen Reiches (1354-1453)
• Der Fall Konstantinopels 1453
• Byzanz nach 1453
• Die orthodoxe Kirche unter türkischer Herrschaft
• Das Weiterleben der byzantinischen Kultur
• Das byzantinische Erbe
• Zeittafel
• Liste der spätrömischen und byzantinischen Kaiser
• Literatur (in Auswahl).

• List of Figures.List of Maps. List of Boxes. Preface to the Second Edition. Preface to the First Edition. Introduction.
• 1. The Crisis of the Third Century.
• 2. The Revival under Diocletian.
• 3. The Age of Constantine the Great.
• 4. The Fourth Century: Constantius II to Theodosios I.
• 5. The Fifth Century.
• 6. The Age of Justinian.
• 7. The Byzantine "Dark Ages": Late Sixth and Seventh Centuries.
• 8. The Isaurian Dynasty and Iconoclasm.
• 9. Continued Struggle over Ikons.
• 10. The Beginnings of the Macedonian Dynasty.
• 11. The Apogee of Byzantine Power.
• 12. The Komnenoi.
• 13. The Aftermath of the Fourth Crusade.
• 14. The Beginnings of Decline.
• 15. The End of the Empire.
• 16. Byzantium after the Fall of the City. Glossary. General Bibliography. A Selection of Primary Sources in English Translation. List of Byzantine Rulers. Comparative Chronology. Electronic Resources. Index.
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This revised and expanded edition of the widely-praised "A History of Byzantium" covers the time of Constantine the Great in AD 306 to the fall of Constantinople in 1453. The book expands treatment of the middle and later Byzantine periods, incorporating new archaeological evidence; includes additional maps and photographs, and a newly annotated, updated bibliography; incorporates a new section on web resources for Byzantium studies; demonstrates that Byzantium was important in its own right but also served as a bridge between East and West and ancient and modern society; and, situates Byzantium in its broader historical context with a new comparative timeline and textboxes.
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• Preface, Cyril Mango-- Introduction-- General: The origins of Christian veneration of body parts. Building the Byzantine Hoard: The Byzantine component of the relic-hoard of Constantinople-- The legend of Constantine the relic-provider-- The earliest relic-importations to Constantinople-- The 'sacred remains' of Constantine and Helena-- The wood of the True Cross. Icons and Relics: Iconoclasm and Leipsanoclasm: Leo III, Constantine V and the relics: a comparison. How the Relics Worked: Three not-so-miraculous miracles-- De latrone converso: the tale of the converted robber. Some Relics in Particular: The Marian relics at Constantinople-- Hagia Skepe and Pokrov Bogoroditsi-- The oration of Theodore Syncellus (BHG 1058) and the siege of 860-- Relics of 'the friends of Jesus' at Constantinople-- The relics of Our Lord's Passion in The Russian Primary Chronicle. A Curious Omission: Relics and the Great Church-- Index.
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Constantinople was well known in its heyday for the enormous collection of relics housed in its churches: bones, even whole bodies and intimate possessions of holy men and women. Almost all these objects had been imported from various parts of the Roman Empire between the late 4th to the 10th centuries. They had been acquired because they were believed to have miraculous powers to ward off enemies, to heal sicknesses and to ensure that the capital was indeed the 'God-guarded' (Theophylaktos) city it believed itself to be. These studies examine the means by which relics were acquired, the ways in which they were used and some of the reasons why for so long they were believed to be effective. The role of relics in the development of the cult of the Mother of God (Theotokos) is discussed as well as the curious relationship between relics and icons. The so-called 'deviation' of the Fourth Crusade and the subsequent sacking of Constantinople in 1204 may also in part be explained by an unbridled yearning to possess her relics; they were certainly pillaged and disseminated to the west, thus concluding an era of relic-history at Byzantium and initiating a different one in the west.
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