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  • BYZANTIUM IN THE ICONOCLAST ERA (CA 680–850): THE SOURCES
    LESLIE BRUBAKER / JOHN HALDON
    Iconoclasm, the debate about the legitimacy of religious art that began in Byzantium around 730 and continued for nearly 120 years, has long held a firm grip on the historical imagination. Byzantium in the Iconoclast Era is the first book in English to survey the original sources crucial for a modern understanding of this most elusive and fascinating period in medieval history....

    $1,480.00

  • THE CULT OF THE MOTHER OF GOD IN BYZANTIUM
    LESLIE BRUBAKER
    This volume, on the cult of the Theotokos (Virgin Mary) in Byzantium, focuses on textual and historical aspects of the subject, thus complementing previous work which has centred more on the cult of images of the Mother of God. The papers presented here, by an international team of scholars, consider the development and transformation of the cult from approximately the fourth ...

    $1,560.00

  • BYZANTIUM IN THE NINTH CENTURY: DEAD OR ALIVE?
    LESLIE BRUBAKER
    9th-century Byzantium has always been viewed as a mid-point between Iconoclasm and the so-called Macedonian revival; in scholarly terms it is often treated as a ’dead’ century. The object of these papers is to question such an assumption. They present a picture of political and military developments, legal and literary innovations, artisanal production, and religious and liturg...

    $1,600.00

  • APPROACHES TO THE BYZANTINE FAMILY
    LESLIE BRUBAKER
    The study of the family is one of the major lacunas in Byzantine Studies. Angeliki Laiou remarked in 1989 that ’the study of the Byzantine family is still in its infancy’, and this assertion remains true today. The present volume addresses this lacuna. It comprises 19 chapters written by international experts in the field which take a variety of approaches to the study of the B...

    $1,240.00