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Streams of gold, rivers of blood : the rise and fall of Byzantium, 955 A.D. to the First Crusade / Anthony Kaldellis.
Author
Kaldellis, Anthony
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Language
English
Published/Created
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]
©2017
Description
xxxi, 399 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
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Firestone Library - Classics Collection
DF591 .K36 2017
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Byzantine Empire
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History
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527-1081
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Byzantine Empire
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History
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1081-1453
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Library of Congress genre(s)
History
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Series
Onassis series in Hellenic culture
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Summary note
In the second half of the tenth century, Byzantium embarked on a series of spectacular conquests, first in the southeast against the Arabs, then in Bulgaria, and finally in the Georgian and Armenian lands. By the early eleventh century, the empire was the most powerful state in the Mediterranean. It was also expanding economically, demographically, and, in time, intellectually as well. Yet this imperial project came to a crashing collapse fifty years later when political disunity, fiscal mismanagement, and defeat at the hands of the Seljuks in the east and the Normans in the west not only spelled the end of Byzantium's historical dominance of southern Italy, the Balkans, Caucasus, and northern Mesopotamia, but also threatened its very survival. Streams of Gold, Rivers of Blood offers new interpretations of key topics relevant to Medieval history. The narrative is in 3 parts: the first covers the years 955-1025, a period of imperial conquest and consolidation of authority under the emperor Basil. The second (1025-1059) examines the dispersal of centralized authority in Constantinople as well as the emergence of new foreign enemies (Pechenegs, Seljuks, Normans). The last section chronicles the spectacular collapse of the empire during the second half of the eleventh century, concluding with a look at the First Crusade and its consequences for Byzantine relations with the powers of Western Europe.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-376) and index.
Contents
Introduction: the Byzantine Empire in the tenth century
Part I. Conquest and consolidation
Part II. New enemies and the return of politics
Part III. Collapse
Epilogue: A Byzantine history of the first.
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ISBN
9780190253226 ((hardcover))
0190253223 ((hardcover))
LCCN
2016037388
OCLC
960030673
Other standard number
40027280462
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