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  • - The Material for History of Nikephoros Bryennios
    af University of Wisconsin, Madison) Neville & Leonora (John W. and Jeanne M. Rowe Professor of Byzantine History
    420,95 - 1.139,95 kr.

    This first book-length study of Nikephoros Bryennios' history of the Byzantine Empire examines his use of classical Roman constructions of masculinity and honor. It will be important for the study of medieval gender, nobility, memory, historiography, rhetoric of warfare and political and military history of the eleventh and twelfth centuries.

  • - The Life and Work of a Medieval Historian
    af Leonora (John W. and Jeanne M. Rowe Professor of Byzantine History, University of Wisconsin-Madison) Neville & John W. and Jeanne M. Rowe Professor of Byzantine History
    497,95 - 1.164,95 kr.

    Byzantine princess Anna Komnene is known for writing history and plotting to become empress by murdering her brother. This book explains how Anna broke her culture's rules for women's behavior by writing history, her efforts to be acceptable, and how her writing nonetheless fired the story of her bloodthirsty ambition.

  • af Catholic University of America, Leonora (John W. and Jeanne M. Rowe Professor of Byzantine History & Washington DC) Neville
    494,95 - 1.107,95 kr.

    The imperial government over the central provinces of the Byzantine Empire c.950-1100 was both sovereign and apathetic, dealing effectively with a narrow set of objectives, chiefly collecting revenue and maintaining imperial sovereignty. This 2004 book examines in detail the mechanisms provincial households used to acquire and dispute authority.