The Emperor and the World - 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 The Emperor and the World write by Alicia Walker. This book was released on 2012-04-30. The Emperor and the World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Offers a new perspective on Byzantine imperial imagery, demonstrating the role foreign styles and iconography played in the visual articulation of imperial power.
Emperor of the World
Emperor of the World - 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 Emperor of the World write by Anne A. Latowsky. This book was released on 2013-02-15. Emperor of the World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Emperor of the World, traces the curious history of the story of the alliances forged by Charlemagne while visiting Jerusalem and Constantinople, revealing how the memory of the Frankish Emperor was manipulated to shape the institutions of kingship and empire in the High Middle Ages. The legend incorporates apocalyptic themes such as the succession of world monarchies at the End of Days and the prophecy of the Last Roman Emperor. Charlemagne's apocryphal journey to the East increasingly resembled the eschatological final journey of the Last Emperor, who was expected to end his reign in Jerusalem after reuniting the Roman Empire prior to the Last Judgment. Latowsky finds that the writers who incorporated this legend did so to support, or in certain cases to criticize, the imperial pretentions of the regimes under which they wrote. Latowsky removes Charlemagne's encounters with the East from their long-presumed Crusading context and shows how a story that began as a rhetorical commonplace of imperial praise evolved over the centuries as an expression of Christian Roman universalism.
The Emperor in the Roman World (31 BC-AD 337)
The Emperor in the Roman World (31 BC-AD 337) - 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 The Emperor in the Roman World (31 BC-AD 337) write by Fergus Millar. This book was released on 1992. The Emperor in the Roman World (31 BC-AD 337) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Emperor in the Byzantine World
The Emperor in the Byzantine World - 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 The Emperor in the Byzantine World write by Shaun Tougher. This book was released on 2019-03-15. The Emperor in the Byzantine World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The subject of the emperor in the Byzantine world may seem likely to be a well-studied topic but there is no book devoted to the emperor in general covering the span of the Byzantine empire. Of course there are studies on individual emperors, dynasties and aspects of the imperial office/role, but there remains no equivalent to Fergus Millar’s The Emperor in the Roman World (from which the proposed volume takes inspiration for its title and scope). The oddity of a lack of a general study of the Byzantine emperor is compounded by the fact that a series of books devoted to Byzantine empresses was published in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Thus it is appropriate to turn the spotlight on the emperor. Themes covered by the contributions include: questions of dynasty and imperial families; the imperial court and the emperor’s men; imperial duties and the emperor as ruler; imperial literature (the emperor as subject and author); and the material emperor, including imperial images and spaces. The volume fills a need in the field and the market, and also brings new and cutting-edge approaches to the study of the Byzantine emperor. Although the volume cannot hope to be a comprehensive treatment of the emperor in the Byzantine world it aims to cover a broad chronological and thematic span and to play a vital part in setting the agenda for future work. The subject of the Byzantine emperor has also an obvious relevance for historians working on rulership in other cultures and periods.
The Roman Emperor Aurelian
The Roman Emperor Aurelian - 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 The Roman Emperor Aurelian write by John F. White. This book was released on 2015-11-30. The Roman Emperor Aurelian available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The leader who helped keep the Dark Ages at bay: “An excellent picture of the Crisis of the Third Century and the life and work of Aurelian” (StrategyPage). The ancient Sibylline prophecies had foretold that the Roman Empire would last for one thousand years. As the time for the expected dissolution approached in the middle of the third century AD, the empire was lapsing into chaos, with seemingly interminable civil wars over the imperial succession. The western empire had seceded under a rebel emperor, and the eastern empire was controlled by another usurper. Barbarians took advantage of the anarchy to kill and plunder all over the provinces. Yet within the space of just five years, the general, and later emperor, Aurelian had expelled all the barbarians from within the Roman frontiers, reunited the entire empire, and inaugurated major reforms of the currency, pagan religion, and civil administration. His accomplishments have been hailed by classical scholars as those of a superman, yet Aurelian himself remains little known to a wider audience. His achievements enabled the Roman Empire to survive for another two centuries, ensuring a lasting legacy of Roman civilization for the successor European states. Without Aurelian, the Dark Ages would probably have lasted centuries longer.
