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The new Roman empire : a history of Byzantium / Anthony Kaldellis.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2024]Description: vii, [17], 1133 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780197549322
  • 0197549322
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Contents:
A new empire. New Rome and the new Romans -- Government and the social order -- From Christian nation to Roman religion -- Dynastic insecurities and religious passions. The first Christian emperors (324-361) -- Competing religions of empire (337-363) -- Toward an independent east (364-395) -- City and desert : cultures old and new -- The return of civilian government. The political class ascendant (395-441) -- Barbarian terrors and military mobilization (441-491) -- Political consolidation and religious polarization (491-518) -- The strain of grand ambitions. Chalcedonian repression and the eastern axis (518-531) -- The Sleepless Emperor (527-540) -- "Death has entered our gates" (540-565) -- The cost of overextension (565-602) -- To the brink of despair. The great war with Persia (602-630) -- Commanders of the faithful (632-644) -- Holding the line (641-685) -- Resilience and recovery. Life and taxes among the ruins -- An empire of outposts (685-717) -- The lion and the dragon (717-775) -- Reform and consolidation (775-814) -- Growing confidence (815-867) -- The path toward empire. A new David and Solomon (867-912) -- A game of crowns (912-950) -- The triumph of Roman arms (950-1025) -- A brief hegemony (1025-1048) -- A new paradigm. The end of Italy and the east (1048-1081) -- Komnenian crisis management (1081-1118) -- Good John and the Sun King (1118-1180) -- Disintegration and betrayal (1180-1204) -- Exile and return. "A new France" : Colonial occupation -- Romans west and Romans east (1204-1261) -- Union with Rome and Roman Disunity (1261-1282) -- Territorial retrenchment and cultural innovation (1282-1328) -- Dignity in defeat. Military failure and mystical refuge (1328-1354) -- The noose tightens (1354-1402) -- The cusp of a new world (1402-1461) -- State revenues and payments to foreign groups, fifth-seventh centuries -- Emperors of the Romans in the East.
Summary: "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 by new approaches and sophisticated models for how its society and state operated. The book's core is an accessible and lively narrative of events, free of jargon, which incorporates new findings, explains recent models, and presents well-known historical characters and events in new light. Two overarching themes shape the narrative. First, by projecting accountability the Roman state persuaded its subjects that it was working in their interests and thereby forestalled separatist movements. To do so, it had to restrain the tendency of elites to extract ever more resources from the labor-force. Second, the effort to sustain a common identity, both Roman and Christian, was subject to powerful forces of internal division and put under severe strain by western Europeans in the later Middle Ages. The book explains in detail the alternating periods of success and failure in the long history of this polity. It foregrounds the dynamics of Christian identity, asking why it tended to fracture along lines of doctrine, practice, and ultimately over Union with the Catholic West."-- Provided by publisher.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

A major new history of the eastern Roman Empire, from Constantine to 1453.In recent decades, the study of the Eastern Roman Empire, also known as Byzantium, has been revolutionized by new approaches and more sophisticated models for how its society and state operated. No longer looked upon as a pale facsimile of classical Rome, Byzantium is now considered a vigorous state of its own, inheritor of many of Rome's features, and a vital node in the first truly globalized world, with far-flung connections to the Carolingians, Vikings, Arabs, Ethiopians, Indians, and Chinese. The New Roman Empire is the first full, single-author history of the eastern Roman empire to appear in over a generation. Covering political and military history as well as all the major changes in religion, society, demography, and economy, Anthony Kaldellis's volume is divided into ten chronological sections which begin with the foundation of Constantinople in 324 AD and end with the fall of the empire to the Ottoman Turks in the fifteenth century. The book incorporates new findings, explains recent interpretive models, and presents well-known historical characters and events in a new light.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"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 by new approaches and sophisticated models for how its society and state operated. The book's core is an accessible and lively narrative of events, free of jargon, which incorporates new findings, explains recent models, and presents well-known historical characters and events in new light. Two overarching themes shape the narrative. First, by projecting accountability the Roman state persuaded its subjects that it was working in their interests and thereby forestalled separatist movements. To do so, it had to restrain the tendency of elites to extract ever more resources from the labor-force. Second, the effort to sustain a common identity, both Roman and Christian, was subject to powerful forces of internal division and put under severe strain by western Europeans in the later Middle Ages. The book explains in detail the alternating periods of success and failure in the long history of this polity. It foregrounds the dynamics of Christian identity, asking why it tended to fracture along lines of doctrine, practice, and ultimately over Union with the Catholic West."-- Provided by publisher.

A new empire. New Rome and the new Romans -- Government and the social order -- From Christian nation to Roman religion -- Dynastic insecurities and religious passions. The first Christian emperors (324-361) -- Competing religions of empire (337-363) -- Toward an independent east (364-395) -- City and desert : cultures old and new -- The return of civilian government. The political class ascendant (395-441) -- Barbarian terrors and military mobilization (441-491) -- Political consolidation and religious polarization (491-518) -- The strain of grand ambitions. Chalcedonian repression and the eastern axis (518-531) -- The Sleepless Emperor (527-540) -- "Death has entered our gates" (540-565) -- The cost of overextension (565-602) -- To the brink of despair. The great war with Persia (602-630) -- Commanders of the faithful (632-644) -- Holding the line (641-685) -- Resilience and recovery. Life and taxes among the ruins -- An empire of outposts (685-717) -- The lion and the dragon (717-775) -- Reform and consolidation (775-814) -- Growing confidence (815-867) -- The path toward empire. A new David and Solomon (867-912) -- A game of crowns (912-950) -- The triumph of Roman arms (950-1025) -- A brief hegemony (1025-1048) -- A new paradigm. The end of Italy and the east (1048-1081) -- Komnenian crisis management (1081-1118) -- Good John and the Sun King (1118-1180) -- Disintegration and betrayal (1180-1204) -- Exile and return. "A new France" : Colonial occupation -- Romans west and Romans east (1204-1261) -- Union with Rome and Roman Disunity (1261-1282) -- Territorial retrenchment and cultural innovation (1282-1328) -- Dignity in defeat. Military failure and mystical refuge (1328-1354) -- The noose tightens (1354-1402) -- The cusp of a new world (1402-1461) -- State revenues and payments to foreign groups, fifth-seventh centuries -- Emperors of the Romans in the East.

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