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Constantinople and Byzantium

Constantinople and Byzantium

Bloy, Léon
Robinson, Richard

Paperback

Eastern European HistoryGeneral Military HistoryGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1955392315
ISBN13: 9781955392310
Publisher: Linda S Miller
Published: Jul 16 2022
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.49
Height: 0.46 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English

Constantinople and Byzantium by Léon Bloy (1846-1917) was originally published in book form in 1917, itself a definitive re-printing of The Byzantine Epic and Gustave Schlumberger, published in 1906 by the Nouvelle Revue. This book is a summary and interpretation then, à la Bloy, of Schlumbergerʼs trilogy with its focus on the Macedonian dynasty of Byzantium from the middle of the tenth century to the middle of the eleventh. It covers the rise and fall of such warrior emperors as Nicephorus Phocas, John Tzimiskes, and Basil II, the Bulgar Slayer, under whom the Eastern Roman Empire experienced a kind of Renaissance, after a long series of wars with Bulgars, Rus (Russians), Saracens, and later Normans, to name only a few peoples, in the years and decades immediately preceding the Crusades. The last chapter treats of the two Porphyrogenita (born in the purple) empresses, Zoe and Theodora, last branches of the Macedonian oak.

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