Byzantine Greece: Microcosm of Empire?
Archibald Dunn, "Byzantine Greece: Microcosm of Empire? "
English | ISBN: 1138218588 | 2023 | 312 pages | EPUB | 21 MB
English | ISBN: 1138218588 | 2023 | 312 pages | EPUB | 21 MB
This volume offers a structured presentation of the progress of research into the internal history of a part of the Byzantine world - Greece - in the centuries before the multiple changes induced or accelerated by the Fourth Crusade. Greece is a large area (several Early and Middle Byzantine provinces), with records, archival, literary, archaeological, architectural, and art-historical, most of which are unequalled in terms of their density and range. This creates opportunities for useful synthesis, and for dialogue with those now engaged in the rewriting, or writing, of the inner history of Byzantium, from Italy to the Caucasus, who have been stimulated by, or involved in, the editing of archives and inscriptions (including sigillographic), and in the publication of monuments, excavations and surveys (for all of which the "Greek space", the elladikê khôra, is a particular, and fertile, focus of activity, as the conference showed).
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