Byzantines

Name: Byzantines
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ISBN: 9780226097923

ISBN-10: 0226097927

ISBN-13: 9780226097923

Edition: 1997

Authors: Guglielmo Cavallo

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For more than a thousand years, Byzantium flourished at the crossroads of the Eastern and Western worlds. But who were the people of the first modern civilized state? What features distinguished them from earlier civilizations, and what cultural characteristics, despite their multi-ethnic origins, made them uniquely Byzantine? Through a series of remarkably detailed composite portraits, an international collection of distinguished scholars has created a startlingly clear vision of the Byzantines and their social world. Paupers, peasants, soldiers, teachers, bureaucrats, clerics, emperors, and saints--all are vividly and authentically presented in the context of ordinary Byzantine life. No…

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List price: $34.00
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 5/1/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 302
Size: 0.60" wide x 0.89" long x 0.07" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Translators' Note Introduction Guglielmo Cavallo



The Poor Evelyne Patlagean



The Peasantry Alexander Kazhdan



Soldiers Peter Schreiner



Teachers Robert Browning



Women Alice-Mary Talbot



Entrepreneurs Nicolas Oikonomides



Bishops Vera von Falkenhausen



Functionaries Andre Guillou



Emperors Michael McCormick



Saints Cyril Mango


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