Streams of gold, rivers of blood : the rise and fall of Byzantium, 955 A.D. to the First Crusade / Anthony Kaldellis.

Author
Kaldellis, Anthony [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]
  • ©2017
Description
xxxi, 399 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.

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    Onassis series in Hellenic culture [More in this series]
    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.
    Bibliographic references
    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.
    ISBN
    • 9780190253226 ((hardcover))
    • 0190253223 ((hardcover))
    LCCN
    2016037388
    OCLC
    960030673
    Other standard number
    • 40027280462
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