By Averil Cameron
ISBN-10: 0631202625
ISBN-13: 9780631202622
This ebook introduces the reader to the complicated historical past, ethnicity, and id of the Byzantines. This quantity brings Byzantium – frequently misconstrued as a vanished successor to the classical international – to the leading edge of ecu historyDeconstructs stereotypes surrounding ByzantiumBeautifully illustrated with photos and maps
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The presence of foreigners at the court, which carried both advantages and disadvantages, needed to be managed. Some even received imperial salaries during their stay and attended major state occasions such as the Christmas banquet in the room in the palace known as the Hall of the Nineteen Beds. We must not be misled by the smooth surface of Constantine’s treatises into imagining that the taxis, or ‘order’, which Constantine recommends implies an absence of struggle. Constantine VII’s reign coincided with a time when the Byzantines were able to recover significant ground from the Arabs in Asia Minor.
Not only had the True Cross, the very symbol of Christianity, been taken into Persian captivity, but Constantinople itself had been in great danger. For the Jews living in Byzantine Palestine, on the other hand, Persian rule was an unimagined liberation from the Christians, and Byzantine writers in Palestine blamed the Jewish population there for assisting the invaders and aiding in massacres of Christians. In Constantinople the deliverance of the city from the Avar and Persian siege was attributed to the active intervention of the Virgin, who was invested from then on with the role of protectress of the city.
Some even received imperial salaries during their stay and attended major state occasions such as the Christmas banquet in the room in the palace known as the Hall of the Nineteen Beds. We must not be misled by the smooth surface of Constantine’s treatises into imagining that the taxis, or ‘order’, which Constantine recommends implies an absence of struggle. Constantine VII’s reign coincided with a time when the Byzantines were able to recover significant ground from the Arabs in Asia Minor. 44 The acquisition for Constantinople in ad 944, during the eastern campaigns TBC02 37 2/8/06, 2:54 PM 38 Byzantium from Late Antiquity to 1025 of the general John Kourkouas, of the image of Christ’s face miraculously imprinted on a cloth, the famous Mandylion from Edessa in Mesopotamia, was made the occasion for a solemn imperial reception and an appropriate retelling of its legendary history.
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