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Founded by the emperor Constantine the Great in AD 324 as "the new Rome", the city of Constantinople was to become the centre of the powerful, vast, heterogeneous Byzantine world. Until Constantinople fell to the Turks in 1453, the city was the capital of an empire which stretched, at one time, from Gibraltar in the west to the banks of the Euphrates in the east.
Astoundingly rich, this civilisation left behind it a legacy of magnificent art, architecture and literature, inspired by orthodox Christianity. Professor Mango's authoritative survey covers all the fundamental aspects of Byzantine culture and way of life-peoples, languages, society, the economy and trade, the disappearance and revival of cities monasticism and education.
Astoundingly rich, this civilisation left behind it a legacy of magnificent art, architecture and literature, inspired by orthodox Christianity. Professor Mango's authoritative survey covers all the fundamental aspects of Byzantine culture and way of life-peoples, languages, society, the economy and trade, the disappearance and revival of cities monasticism and education.
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- PublisherOrion Publishing Group
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 1857991303
- ISBN 13 9781857991307
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages334
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Book Description Condition: Antiquarian. Phoenix, London, 1994. IX,334p. Paperback. Small personal library mark and name on free endpaper. There are two key themes which Prof. Mango has been developing for some time. (.) The Byzantines were first and foremost orthodox Christians. It might be thought that this world provide an excellent foundation for a national identity, but it was cut across by local loyalties. (.) The other key theme is that Byzantium remained in all aspects of its culture anchored in late antiquity 9.) and 'for a thousand years Byzantium made a virtue of arrested development' (Lewis Mumford). A great strenght of this book is to make clear that change was almost impossible, because these basic principles lay at the centre of a network of ideas, which provided logically consistent explanations of a vast range of phenomena, natural and supernatural, historical and eschatological.' (MICHAEL ANGOLD in The Classical Review (New Series), 1981, p.279-80). From the library of the late Sir Kenneth James Dover. Antiquarian. Seller Inventory # 24286
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