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Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
367 pages : maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Weaving together evolutionary microbiology, economics, military strategy, ecology, and ancient and modern medicine, author Rosen tells of history's first pandemic--a plague seven centuries before the Black Death that killed tens of millions, devastated the empires of Persia and Rome, left victims from Ireland to Iraq, and opened the way for the armies of Islam. Emperor Justinian had reunified Rome's fractured empire by defeating the Goths and Vandals...
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (208 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
For more than 1,000 years, the Byzantine Empire was the eye of the entire world. The origin of great literature, fine art, and modern government, it was also the first Christian empire. Pass through the gates of Constantinople, explore the magnificent mosque of Hagia Sophia and see the looted treasures of the empire now located in St. Marks, Venice.
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
vii, 1,133 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"This is the first comprehensive, single-author history of the eastern Roman empire (or Byzantium) to appear in over a generation. It begins with the foundation of Constantinople in 324 AD and ends with the fall of the empire to the Ottoman Turks in the fifteenth century, covering political and military history as well as all major changes in religion, society, demography, and economy. In recent decades, the study of Byzantium has been revolutionized...
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
106 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"As the ironic title indicates, Parker's latest tells the story of an individual life that takes extraordinary turns. As the story begins, the nameless, dying narrator takes us back to his childhood home in a remote corner of the ubiquitous Empire. The second of three sons, he lives there with his mother in a state of unrelieved poverty. Life eventually becomes so dire that the mother-- who can only find work as a prostitute-- is forced to sell one...
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
xvii, 332 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 31 cm
Language
English
Description
This magnificent volume explores the epochal transformations and unexpected continuities in the Byzantine Empire from the 7th to the 9th century. At the beginning of the 7th century, the Empire's southern provinces, the vibrant, diverse areas of North Africa and the eastern Mediterranean, were at the crossroads of exchanges reaching from Spain to China. These regions experienced historic upheavals when their Christian and Jewish communities encountered...
Author
Series
First Crusade novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
370 pages : maps ; 22 cm
Language
English
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