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Filosofie [Middeleeuwse ] --- Medieval philosophy --- Middeleeuwse filosofie --- Philosophie médiévale --- Philosophy [Medieval ] --- Philosophy, Medieval --- Psellus, Michael. --- Byzantine Empire --- Empire byzantin --- Civilization --- Historiography --- Civilisation --- Historiographie --- 930.21 MICHAEL PSELLUS --- Scholasticism --- Historiografie. Geschiedenis van de geschiedwetenschap--MICHAEL PSELLUS --- Psellus, Michael --- Psell, Mikhail --- Psellus, Constantinus --- Psello, Michele --- Psellos, Michaēl --- Psellus, Constantine --- Psellos, Michał --- Psel, Mikhail --- Psel, Mihailo --- Ψελλός, Μιχαὴλ --- Psellos, Mihail --- Psellos, Konstantine --- -Civilization --- Philosophy, Medieval. --- 930.21 MICHAEL PSELLUS Historiografie. Geschiedenis van de geschiedwetenschap--MICHAEL PSELLUS --- Philosophie médiévale --- Byzantium (Empire) --- Vizantii︠a︡ --- Bajo Imperio --- Bizancjum --- Byzantinē Autokratoria --- Vyzantinon Kratos --- Vyzantinē Autokratoria --- Impero bizantino --- Bizantia --- Historiography. --- Michael Psellus --- Psellos, Michel

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In the second half of the tenth century, Byzantium embarked on a series of spectacular conquests, first in the southeast against the Arabs, then in Bulgaria, and finally in the Georgian and Armenian lands. By the early eleventh century, the empire was the most powerful state in the Mediterranean. It was also expanding economically, demographically, and, in time, intellectually as well. Yet this imperial project came to a crashing collapse fifty years later when political disunity, fiscal mismanagement, and defeat at the hands of the Seljuks in the east and the Normans in the west not only spelled the end of Byzantium's historical dominance of southern Italy, the Balkans, Caucasus, and northern Mesopotamia, but also threatened its very survival. Streams of Gold, Rivers of Blood offers new interpretations of key topics relevant to Medieval history. The narrative is in 3 parts: the first covers the years 955-1025, a period of imperial conquest and consolidation of authority under the emperor Basil. The second (1025-1059) examines the dispersal of centralized authority in Constantinople as well as the emergence of new foreign enemies (Pechenegs, Seljuks, Normans). The last section chronicles the spectacular collapse of the empire during the second half of the eleventh century, concluding with a look at the First Crusade and its consequences for Byzantine relations with the powers of Western Europe.

Byzantine Empire --- History --- 527-1453. --- Byzantine Empire. --- 527-1453 --- Byzance --- Byzantine Empire - History - 527-1081 --- Byzantine Empire - History - 1081-1453

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This book proposes a long view of Byzantium, one that begins in the early Roman empire and extends all the way to the modern period. It is a provocative thought-experiment which posits Byzantium as the most stable and enduring form of Greco-Roman society, forming a sturdy bridge between antiquity and the early modern period, as well as between East and West, and which sees the ancient Greek, Roman, and Christian traditions as flowing together. It offers a Byzantium unbound by other cultures and fields of study that would artificially cut it down to size.

Byzantine Empire --- History. --- Civilization. --- HISTORY / Civilization. --- Ancient history. --- Byzantium. --- Constantinople. --- Greco-Roman. --- Mediterranean. --- civilization.

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"This volume brings into being the field of Byzantine intellectual history. Shifting focus from the cultural, social, and economic study of Byzantium to the life and evolution of ideas in their context, it provides an authoritative history of intellectual endeavors from Late Antiquity to the fifteenth century. At its heart lie the transmission, transformation, and shifts of Hellenic, Christian, and Byzantine ideas and concepts as exemplified in diverse aspects of intellectual life, from philosophy, theology, and rhetoric to astrology, astronomy, and politics. Case studies introduce the major players in Byzantine intellectual life, and particular emphasis is placed on the reception of ancient thought and its significance for secular as well as religious modes of thinking and acting. New insights are offered regarding controversial, understudied, or promising topics of research, such as philosophy and medical thought in Byzantium, and intellectual exchanges with the Arab world"--Provided by publisher.

History / europe / general. --- Intellectual life. --- Byzantine Empire --- Byzantine Empire. --- Civilization.

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This book presents a new history of the leadership, organization, and disposition of the field armies of the east Roman empire between Julian (361-363) and Herakleios (610-641). To date, scholars studying this topic have privileged a poorly understood document, the Notitia dignitatum, and imposed it on the entire period from 395 to 630. This study, by contrast, gathers all of the available narrative, legal, papyrological, and epigraphic evidence to demonstrate empirically that the Notitia system emerged only in the 440s and that it was already mutating by the late fifth century before being fundamentally reformed during Justinian's wars of reconquest. This realization calls for a new, revised history of the eastern armies. Every facet of military policy must be reassessed, often with broad implications for the period. The volume provides a new military narrative for the period 361-630 and appendices revising the prosopography of high-ranking generals and arguing for a later Notitia.

Rome --- Byzantine Empire --- Army. --- History, Military --- History --- History, Military.