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A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

The fourteenth century was a time of fabled crusades and chivalry, glittering cathedrals and grand c...

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Theodora: Actress, Empress, Saint

Two of the most famous mosaics from the ancient world, in the church of San Vitale in Ravenna, depic...

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A Cabinet of Byzantine Curiosities: Strange Tales and Surprising Facts from History's Most Orthodox Empire

Weird, decadent, degenerate, racially mixed, superstitious, theocratic, effeminate, and even hyper-l...

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In God's Path: The Arab Conquests and the Creation of An Islamic Empire

In just over a hundred years—from the death of the Mohammed in 632 to the beginning of the Abbasid C...

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The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Christianity

The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Christianity takes as its subject the beliefs, practices, and instit...

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Medieval Europe

A spirited and thought-provoking history of the vast changes that transformed Europe during the 1,00...

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Outlandish Knight: The Byzantine Life of Steven Runciman

'An extraordinary book ... exceptionally fascinating, always readable and penetratingly intelligent'...

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Christian Novels from the Menologion

Created in the tenth century, most likely as an imperial commission, the Menologion is a collection...

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The Middle Ages

Since the fifteenth century, when humanist writers began to speak of a “middle” period in history li...

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Housing the Stranger in the Mediterranean World: Lodging, Trade, and Travel in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages

The Greek pandocheion, Arabic funduq, and Latin fundicum (fondaco) were ubiquitous in the Mediterran...

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The Two Eyes of the Earth : Art and Ritual of Kingship Between Rome and Sasanian Iran

This pioneering study examines a pivotal period in the history of Europe and the Near East. Spanning...

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A Short History of Medieval Christianity

What did people really believe in the Middle Ages? Much of our sense of the medieval period has come...

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Michael Psellos Rhetoric and Authorship in Byzantium

This book explores Michael Psellos' place in the history of Greek rhetoric and self-representation a...

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From Byzantium to Italy : Greek Studies in the Italian Renaissance

Which famous poet treasured his copy of Homer, but could never learn Greek? What prompted diplomats...

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The Islamic-Byzantine Frontier: Interaction and Exchange Among Muslim and Christian Communities

The retreat of the Byzantine army from Syria in around 650 CE, in advance of the approaching Arab ar...

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