Byzantium in the Eleventh Century Being in Between
March 2017
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Book
The eleventh century in Byzantium is all about being in between, whether this is between Basil II and Alexios Komnenos, between the forces of the Normans, the Pechenegs and the Turks, or between different social groupings, cultural ...
Byzantine Empire
The second fall: the place of the eleventh century in Roman history
March 2017
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Chapter
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Byzantium in the Eleventh Century Being in Between
The eleventh century in Byzantium is all about being in between, whether this is between Basil II and Alexios Komnenos, between the forces of the Normans, the Pechenegs and the Turks, or between different social groupings, cultural ...
Byzantine Empire
Staying on top in Byzantium, 963-1210
January 2017
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Chapter
1176 and all that
September 2016
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Journal article
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TLS - The Times Literary Supplement
When did the Ancient World end in the Büyük Menderes? New long-term narratives for regional history
January 2016
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Uluslararası Batı Beylikleri Tarih, Kültür ve Medeniyeti Sempozyumu-II Menteşeoğulları tarihi, 25-27 Nisan 2012, Muğla : bildiriler
Aegean Sea Coast (Turkey)
Dimitris Krallis, Michael Attaleiates and the Politics of Imperial Decline in Eleventh-Century Byzantium . (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies 422; Medieval Confluences Series 2.) Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval...
April 2015
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Speculum
36 Creative Arts and Writing, 3601 Art History, Theory and Criticism, 44 Human Society
Theodosius II: Rethinking the Roman Empire in Late Antiquity, ed. Christopher Kelly
April 2015
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Journal article
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The English Historical Review
4303 Historical Studies, 43 History, Heritage and Archaeology
Documentary Culture and the Laity in the Early Middle Ages, ed. Warren C. Brown, Marios Costambeys, Matthew Innes and Adam J. Kosto
February 2015
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The English Historical Review
4303 Historical Studies, 43 History, Heritage and Archaeology
Byzantine studies
September 2014
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TLS - The Times Literary Supplement
Book reviews
May 2014
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Early Medieval Europe
4303 Historical Studies, 43 History, Heritage and Archaeology
How Much Trade was Local, Regional and Inter-Regional? A Comparative Perspective on the Late Antique Economy
December 2013
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Journal article
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Late Antique Archaeology
One question lies at the heart of a fundamental debate in the study of the Roman world in Late Antiquity, namely whether the economy was essentially driven by state demand or the workings of the market. Although the growing volume of archaeological data has allowed a richer and more complex picture of the late antique economy, the fact that it can be harnessed by one side as well as the other, means that the debate itself has moved little further forward. For that we need the new models and new questions which can come from comparative approaches. Evidence from Late Medieval England is discussed here, with the suggestion that this rich material, long the focus of a sophisticated literature, has implications those who study Late Antiquity should not ignore.
Pirenne and Bohemond
December 2013
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Chapter
Jafnids
October 2013
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Internet publication
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Pirenne, Muhammad and Bohemond: Before Orientalism
January 2013
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Journal article
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Bulletin of the Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies
SBTMR
The Feudal Revolution
January 2013
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Book
Tributary Empires in Global History
January 2013
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Journal article
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ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW
When did the Ancient World end in the Büyük Menderes? New long-term narratives for regional history
January 2013
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Chapter
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International Symposium of the History, Culture and Civilization of Western Anatolian
'The First Crusade'
January 2012
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Journal article
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TLS-THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
Motherhood and Power in Early Medieval Europe, West and East: The Strange Case of the Empress Eirene
December 2011
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Chapter
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Motherhood, Religion, and Society in Medieval Europe, 400-1400
This volume focuses on the paradox of motherhood in the European Middle Ages: to be a mother is at once to hold great power, and by the same token to be acutely vulnerable. The essays analyse the powers and the dangers of motherhood.
Family & Relationships
The Late Roman / Early Byzantine Near East
November 2010
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Chapter
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The New Cambridge History of Islam
In many areas of the Near East the Late Roman period, in terms of population size, settlement density and levels of exploitation, marks a pre-modern high. The territorial expansion of Rome began in earnest in the second century BCE, and had its roots in the competitive aristocratic politics of the republic. The crisis of the mid-third century was surmounted, but it left emperors in no doubt that relations with the Persians had to be their first priority, and that major deployments anywhere other than the Persian front would depend on peace there. The Nabataean kingdom in what is now Jordan and northern Saudi Arabia was annexed in 106 to create the province of Arabia. The rise of Islam as it actually happened is comprehensible only in the context of the history of the Roman empire, a history that culminated in what James Howard-Johnston has evocatively dubbed the 'the last great war of Antiquity'.
Early medieval Byzantium and the end of the ancient world
The Cambridge History of the Byzantine Empire c.500–1492
The Middle Byzantine Economy (600–1204)
January 2009
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Chapter
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The Cambridge History of the Byzantine Empire C.500-1492
The Byzantine economy is an important subject on a number of grounds. It is arguably the key to the history of the Byzantine state, society and culture. A once widespread picture of late antique decline has been replaced by an appreciation of the wealth and complexity of the late antique economy. By the tenth century at latest it is clear that the Mediterranean economy was reviving and, equally, that the Byzantine world shared in this process. Using the same indices that plotted the decline of the late antique economy, buildings, pottery, coinage, settlement surveys and pollen analysis, a new prosperity can be seen emerging. The crucial issue for the twelfth century as a whole is not taxation, but the role of the great landed estates. A number of documentary texts make it plain that vast areas of the Komnenian empire were run as the estates of various Constantinopolitan landlords.
History
Geographical Survey
October 2008
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Chapter
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The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Studies
The geography of Byzantium shaped its history by defining its strategic possibilities and challenges, setting limits to the resources that the empire and its inhabitants could draw upon and exploit, and imposing restrictions on the movement of goods and people. The Roman Empire of the sixth century—Byzantium before the rise of Islam—annexed varying territories in the central and western Mediterranean, essentially forming the eastern half of the Roman Empire of the fourth and fifth centuries. Its core territories lay in the east and consisted of the Balkan peninsula, Anatolia, the western Transcaucasus, the Levant, northern Mesopotamia, and Egypt. Long before the empire ended in 1453, it had lost most of these territories, but even in its last two centuries this remained the wider geographical context in which Byzantium continued to exist. Rather than being a Mediterranean empire, Byzantium existed in the Mediterranean.
Literary Criticism
Geographical Survey
October 2008
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Chapter
Nicopolis ad Istrum: Backward and Balkan?
December 2007
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The Transition to Late Antiquity, on the Danube and Beyond
<p>The story of Nicopolis ad Istrum and its citizens exemplifies much that is common to the urban history of the whole Roman Empire. This chapter reviews the history of Nicopolis and its transition into the small fortified site of the fifth to seventh centuries and compares it with the evidence from the Near East and Asia Minor. It argues that Nicopolis may not have experienced a cataclysm as has been suggested, and that, as in the fifth and sixth century west, where landowning elites showed a striking ability to adapt and survive, there was an important element of continuity on the lower Danube, which in turn may account for the distinctive ‘Roman’ element in the early medieval Bulgar state. It also suggests that the term ‘transition to Late Antiquity’ should be applied to what happened at Nicopolis in the third century: what happened there in the fifth was the transition to the middle ages. This chapter also describes late antique urbanism in the Balkans by focusing on the Justiniana Prima site.</p>
The Transition to Late Antiquity, on the Danube and Beyond
December 2007
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Chapter
4705 Literary Studies, 43 History, Heritage and Archaeology, 4301 Archaeology, 47 Language, Communication and Culture, 4303 Historical Studies
The Life of St Lazaros of Galesion: How to found and maintain a successful
January 2007
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Chapter
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Founders and refounders of Byzantine monasteries: Belfast Byzantine Texts and Translations
The Life of St Lazaros of Galesion: How to found and maintain a successful monastery
January 2007
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Chapter
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Founders and Refounders of Byzantine Monasteries
Decline and Fall? Studying Long-term Change in the East
January 2003
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Chapter
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Theory and Practice in Late Antique Archaeology
Recent Research on the Late Antique City in Asia Minor: the second half of the 6th c. revisited
October 2001
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Chapter
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Recent Research in Late-Antique Urbanism
Antiques & Collectibles
Was Gibbon politically incorrect, or just wrong?
October 2001
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Chapter
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Recent research in late-antique urbanism
Antiques & Collectibles
The Survey of Medieval Castles of Anatolia (1992-6): the Maeander Region
December 1998
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Chapter
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Ancient Anatolia: Fifty Years' Work by the British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara
Since 1948 the British Archaeology at Ankara has been engaged in the discovery and exploration of the past of Anatolia. In this illustrated volume, some 30 essays by the archaeologists themselves present wide-ranging discoveries in an accessible and attractive manner.
History
The Making of Orthodox Byzantium, 600-1025
December 1996
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Book
The book is a clear, up-to-date, reassessment of the Byzantine empire during a crucial phase in the history of the Near East. Against a geopolitical background (well-illustrated with 14 maps), it covers the last decade of the Roman empire as a superpower of the ancient world, the catastrophic crisis of the seventh century and the means whereby its embattled Byzantine successor hung on in Constantinople and Asia Minor until the Abbasid Caliphate's decline opened up new perspectives for Christian power in the Near East. Not confined to any narrow definition of Byzantine history, the empire's neighbours, allies and enemies in Europe and Asia also receive extensive treatment.
Byzantine Empire
How the East was lost: The Background to the Komnenian Reconquista
March 1996
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Chapter
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Alexios I Komnenos Papers of the second Belfast Byzantine International Colloquium, 14-16 April 1989
Rural Fortifications in Western Europe and Byzantium, 10th-12th century
January 1995
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Chapter
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Bosphorus Essays in Honour of Cyril Mango: Presented in Oxford, 6 July 1995
The Oxford University/British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara Survey of Medieval Castles of Anatolia (1993): Yılanlı Kalesi: Preliminary Report and New Perspectives
December 1994
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Journal article
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Anatolian Studies
1993 was the second season of the five-year survey which it is planned will record five castles from the area of the Büyük and Küçük Menderes in western Turkey. Work at the site of Yılanlı kalesi was carried out between 20th March and 28th April. The team members were Dr. Mark Whittow (Director), Hugh Barnes (Surveyor), Katrina Batchelor, Kevin Chesters, Michael Harrington and Penelope Tunbridge. We are extremely grateful to the Department of Antiquities for granting us a permit to carry out this survey, to the Director and staff of the museum at Ödemiş. for their friendly help and encouragement, and to our Department representative, Ahmet Bayram Üner from the Türk İslam Eserleri Müzesi in Bursa, whose contribution to the success of this project can hardly be overestimated. Our warmest thanks too to the muhtar and villagers of Yılanlı köyü, above all to Nihat and Güller Girgin and family, for whose generosity and kindness we are extremely indebted.
The Oxford University/British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara Survey of Medieval Castles of Anatolia (1992) Mastaura Kalesi: a Preliminary Report
December 1993
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Journal article
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Anatolian Studies
4301 Archaeology, 4303 Historical Studies, 43 History, Heritage and Archaeology
Ruling the Late Roman and Early Byzantine City: A Continuous History
January 1990
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Journal article
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Past and Present: A Journal of Historical Studies
Rethinking the Jafnids: new approaches to Rome’s Arab clients
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Regards croisés de l’histoire et de l’archéologie sur la dynastie Jafnide