From Rome to Constantinople - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook From Rome to Constantinople write by Hagit Amirav. This book was released on 2007. From Rome to Constantinople available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Collection of articles arranged in 5 subsections: Historiography and rhetoric, Christianity in its social context, art and representation, Byzantium and the workings of the empire, and late antiquity in retrospect.
Two Romes
Two Romes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Two Romes write by Lucy Grig. This book was released on 2015. Two Romes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An integrated collection of essays by leading scholars, Two Romes explores the changing roles and perceptions of Rome and Constantinople in Late Antiquity. This important examination of the "two Romes" in comparative perspective illuminates our understanding not just of both cities but of the whole late Roman world.
New Rome Wasn't Built in a Day
New Rome Wasn't Built in a Day - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook New Rome Wasn't Built in a Day write by Justin M. Pigott. This book was released on 2020-06-04. New Rome Wasn't Built in a Day available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Traditional representations of Constantinople during the period from the First Council of Constantinople (381) to the Council of Chalcedon (451) portray a see that was undergoing exponential growth in episcopal authority and increasing in its confidence to assert supremacy over the churches of the east as well as to challenge Rome's authority in the west. Central to this assessment are two canons - canon 3 of 381 and canon 28 of 451 - which have for centuries been read as confirmation of Constantinople's ecclesiastical ambition and evidence for its growth in status. However, through close consideration of the political, episcopal, theological, and demographic characteristics unique to early Constantinople, this book argues that the city's later significance as the centre of eastern Christianity and foil to Rome has served to conceal deep institutional weaknesses that severely inhibited Constantinople's early ecclesiastical development. By unpicking teleological approaches to Constantinople's early history and deconstructing narratives synonymous with the city's later Byzantine legacy, this book offers an alternative reading of this crucial seventy-year period. It demonstrates that early Constantinople's bishops not only lacked the institutional stability to lay claim to geo-ecclesiastical leadership but that canon 3 and canon 28, rather than being indicative of Constantinople's rising episcopal strength, were in fact attempts to address deeply destructive internal weaknesses that had plagued the city's early episcopal and political institutions.
From Rome to Byzantium
From Rome to Byzantium - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook From Rome to Byzantium write by Michael Grant. This book was released on 2015-03-04. From Rome to Byzantium available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Byzantium was dismissed by Gibbon, in the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire,and his Victorian successors as a decadent, dark, oriental culture, given up to intrigue, forbidden pleasure and refined cruelty. This great empire, founded by Constantine as the seat of power in the East began to flourish in the fifth century AD, after the fall of Rome, yet its culture and history have been neglected by scholars in comparison to the privileging of interest in the Western and Roman Empire. Michael Grant's latest book aims to compensate for that neglect and to provide an insight into the nature of the Byzantine Empire in the fifth century; the prevalence of Christianity, the enormity and strangeness of the landscape of Asia Minor; and the history of invasion prior to the genesis of the empire. Michael Grant's narrative is lucid and colourful as always, lavishly illustrated with photographs and maps. He successfully provides an examination of a comparatively unexplored area and constructs the history of an empire which rivals the former richness and diversity of a now fallen Rome.
From Rome to Byzantium AD 363 to 565
From Rome to Byzantium AD 363 to 565 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook From Rome to Byzantium AD 363 to 565 write by A. D. Lee. This book was released on 2013-01-15. From Rome to Byzantium AD 363 to 565 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Between the deaths of the Emperors Julian (363) and Justinian (565), the Roman Empire underwent momentous changes. Most obviously, control of the west was lost to barbarian groups during the fifth century, and although parts were recovered by Justinian, the empire's centre of gravity shifted irrevocably to the east, with its focal point now the city of Constantinople. Equally important was the increasing dominance of Christianity not only in religious life, but also in politics, society and culture. Doug Lee charts these and other significant developments which contributed to the transformation of ancient Rome and its empire into Byzantium and the early medieval west. By emphasising the resilience of the east during late antiquity and the continuing vitality of urban life and the economy, this volume offers an alternative perspective to the traditional paradigm of decline and fall.
