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Serving Byzantium's Emperors
- The Courtly Life and Career of Michael Attaleiates
Engelsk Hardback
Serving Byzantium's Emperors
- The Courtly Life and Career of Michael Attaleiates
Engelsk Hardback

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This book is a microhistory of eleventh-century Byzantium, built around the biography of the state official Michael Attaleiates. Dimitris Krallis presents Byzantium as a cohesive, ever-evolving, dynamic, Roman political community, built on traditions of Roman governance and Hellenic culture. In the eleventh century, Byzantium faced a crisis as it navigated a shifting international environment of feudal polities, merchant republics, steppe migrations, and a rapidly transforming Islamic world. Attaleiates'' life, from provincial birth to Constantinopolitan death, and career, as a member of an ancient empire''s officialdom, raise questions of identity, family, education, governance, elite culture, Romanness, Hellenism, science and skepticism, as well as political ideology during this period. The life and work of Attaleiates is used as a prism through which to examine important questions about a long-lived medieval polity that is usually studied as exotic and distinct from both the European and the Near Eastern historical experience.



Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
288
ISBN-13:
9783030045241
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
3030045242
Udg. Dato:
18 feb 2019
Længde:
0mm
Bredde:
148mm
Højde:
210mm
Forlag:
Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Oplagsdato:
18 feb 2019
Forfatter(e):
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