The Byzantines / Edition 1

by Averil Cameron

Overview

Winner of the 2006 John D. Criticos Prize

This book introduces the reader to the complex history, ethnicity, and identity of the Byzantines.

• This volume brings Byzantium – often misconstrued as a vanished successor to the classical world – to the forefront of European history
• Deconstructs stereotypes surrounding Byzantium
• Beautifully illustrated with photographs and maps

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781405198332
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	11/09/2009
Series:	The Peoples of Europe , #13
Pages:	304
Sales rank:	704,227
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Averil Cameron is Professor of Late Antique and Byzantine History at the University of Oxford and the Warden of Keble College, and was recently awarded a DBE. Her publications include Changing Cultures in Early Byzantium (1996) and Eusebius, Life of Constantine (ed. with Stuart G. Hall, 1999), and she is a co-editor of volumes XII, XIII and XIV of the Cambridge Ancient History.

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Table of Contents

List of Figures vi

List of Maps vii

Preface viii

Acknowledgements xiii

Abbreviations xv

1 What was Byzantium? 1

2 The Changing Shape of Byzantium: From Late Antiquity to 1025 20

3 The Changing Shape of Byzantium: From 1025 to 1453 40

4 The Byzantine Mirage 63

5 Ruling the Byzantine State 78

6 An Orthodox Society? 96

7 How People Lived 116

8 Education and Culture 133

9 Byzantium and Europe 163

10 Byzantium and the Mediterranean 179

Conclusion 197

Chronology 199

References 207

Notes 229

Index 260

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

Winner of the 2006 John D. Criticos Prize

"Averil Cameron’s The Byzantines marks a welcome departure from most previous attempts to portray and characterize Byzantine civilization. The book focuses squarely on the people of the Byzantine Empire, their views of themselves and their culture, and how these changed over time. The result is a remarkably clear view of who the Byzantines were, and the book will contribute significantly to a restoration of Byzantium to its rightful place at the center of the historical tradition of Europe."
–Timothy Gregory, Ohio State University

Editorial Reviews

"The B.yzantines is a welcome addition to the renewal of Byzantine Studies in contemporary academia." (Canadian Journal of History, winter 2009)

"Seeks consistently to place Byzantium in Context and to make the reader question fundamental preconceptions about the Byzantine empire." (Anglo-Hellenic Review)

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