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To Triumph Forever: Romans and Barbarians in Early Byzantium
2022The majority of recent scholarship on identity in the post-imperial West rightfully has sought to uncover the much more complex realities beneath the traditional tropes found in the early Byzantine literature. In this chapter, however, Stewart argues that analysing an ongoing belief amongst some Byzantines in the simplistic Roman/barbarian binarism can
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Byzantium and the Early Islamic Conquests
1992This is a study of how and why the Byzantine Empire lost many of its most valuable provinces to Islamic (Arab) conquerors in the seventh century, provinces which included Syria, Palestine, Mesopotamia, and Armenia. It investigates conditions on the eve of those conquests, mistakes in Byzantine policy toward the Arabs, the course of the military ...
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Sources for Early Medieval Byzantium
1996As one would expect, this book is written on the basis of a body of Byzantine sources, written mostly in Greek between the seventh and the eleventh centuries, that includes chronicles, saints’ lives, law codes, property documents, inscriptions, the acts of church councils, works of theology, sermons, homilies, letters, panegyrics and handbooks to ...
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Byzantium and the Early Islamic Conquests
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Inscriptions of Early Byzantium and the Continuity of Ancient Onomastics
2012Greek and Latin inscriptions are now fully embraced within the study of Late Antiquity and the Byzantine Era. At Constantinople, inscriptions of the Byzantine era were displayed along with ancient texts imported from elsewhere in the Empire, symbolising the welding of Hellenism and Romanitas.
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