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Streams of Gold, Rivers of Blood The Rise and Fall of Byzantine, 955 A.D. to the First Crusade

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Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

01.09.2019

Verlag

KNV Besorgung

Seitenzahl

436

Maße (L/B/H)

23,4/15,6/2,6 cm

Gewicht

738 g

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-0-19-005320-8

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...very useful and readable book ... Summing Up: Essential. Upper-division undergraduates and above. R. T. Ingoglia, CHOICE

Produktdetails

Einband

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

01.09.2019

Verlag

KNV Besorgung

Seitenzahl

436

Maße (L/B/H)

23,4/15,6/2,6 cm

Gewicht

738 g

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-0-19-005320-8

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Libri GmbH
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DE

Email: gpsr@libri.de

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  • Produktbild: Streams of Gold, Rivers of Blood
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    • Table of Contents
    • Preface
    • Maps
    • Genealogies
    • Introduction: The Byzantine Empire in the Tenth Century
    • Romanía
    • Imperial governance
    • The army and war
    • Landed aristocracy
    • Anatolian magnates
    • Part I: CONQUEST AND CONSOLIDATION
    • "Avengers of Rome": The First Phase of Conquest in the East (955-963)
    • The cast of the conquest: The final years of Konstantinos VII (d. 959)
    • Turning the tide in the southeast
    • Southern Italy
    • A smooth succession: Romanos II
    • The conquest of Crete
    • The conquest of Cilicia (phase I)
    • The rise of Phokas
    • "The White Death of the Saracens": Nikephoros II Phokas (963-969)
    • The new regime
    • Failure in Sicily
    • The conquest of Cilicia (phase II) and Cyprus
    • The annexation of Taron
    • Declining popularity
    • Tension with Bulgaria
    • Tension in Italy with the German empire
    • Military victory, political failure: the final years
    • "A Mind Full of Cares, Brave in Danger": Ioannes I Tzimiskes (969-976)
    • The new regime
    • The defeat of the Rus' and Bulgaria
    • Eastern incursions: toward a new balance of power
    • An otherwise obscure reign
    • "From Spectator to Contestant": Basil II (976-1025), Part I
    • The new regime
    • The first rebellion of Bardas Skleros
    • The foreign policy of Lakapenos and Phokas, 979-985
    • The fall of Lakapenos and the rebellion of Phokas and Skleros
    • "Guarding the Children of New Rome": Basil II (976-1025), Part II
    • From status quo to peace in the east, 990-1001
    • The war against Bulgaria, 991-1003
    • The emperor and the "aristocracy"
    • "No One Ever Saw My Spear at Rest": Basil II (976-1025), Part III
    • The missing decade and conquest of Bulgaria, 1004-1018
    • Monitoring Aleppo, 1000-1025
    • The war with Abkhazia-Kartli and the last rebellion, 1021-1022
    • The apogee of Byzantine Italy
    • The end of an era
    • GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS: THE AGE OF CONQUEST
    • PART II: NEW ENEMIES AND THE RETURN OF POLITICS
    • "Intrigues of the Women's Quarters": From Macedonians to Paphlagonians
    • Konstantinos VIII (1025-1028)
    • Romanos III Argyros (1028-1034): The same insecurity
    • The debacle at Aleppo and the capture of Edessa
    • Diplomacy and dynastic instability
    • Michael IV (1034-1041): Family rule
    • Frontier integrity
    • The conquest, and loss, of Sicily
    • The Bulgarian revolt
    • The dramatic fall of Michael V (1041-1042)
    • "No Less Laws than Arms": Konstantinos IX Monomachos (1042-1055), Part I
    • Enter the Normans
    • 1043: Trial by fire
    • Domestic initiatives (phase I)
    • The annexation of Ani
    • Enter the Pechenegs - the revolt of Tornikios
    • "Squaring the Circle": Konstantinos IX Monomachos (1042-1055), Part II
    • Enter the Seljuks - the Pecheneg wars
    • Domestic initiatives (phase II)
    • Italy on the brink and the Schism of 1054
    • Coping with new challenges
    • "With Sword Drawn": It All Comes to a Head, 1055-1059
    • Theodora (1055-1056)
    • Michael VI (1056-1057)
    • Isaakios I Komnenos (1057-1059): Fiscal reforms and the fall of Keroularios
    • Barbarians of the east and west
    • GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS: THE RETURN OF MULTI-POLARITY
    • PART III: COLLAPSE
    • "The Agony of a Virulent Poison": The Road to Mantzikert, 1059-1071
    • Konstantinos X Doukas (1059-1067): Domestic mispriorities
    • Frayed frontiers: Seljuks and Oghuz
    • The end of Byzantine Italy
    • Eudokia and the succession: Romanos IV Diogenes (1068-1071)
    • Chasing Turks
    • Mantzikert
    • Civil war
    • "Squeezed by the Pangs of Death": The Empire on the Verge, 1071-1081
    • Michael VII Doukas (1071-1078): The new regime
    • The state of the provinces
    • A Norman statelet in Asia Minor
    • Breakdown
    • Nikephoros III Botaneiates (1078-1081)
    • GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS: IMPERIAL COLLAPSE
    • EPILOGUE
    • A Byzantine History of the First Crusade
    • Crusading in broader perspective
    • The making of a surrogate Byzantine army
    • Restoring the Roman east
    • Guide to the ten most important narrative sources
    • Glossary
    • Bibliography
    • Index of Persons and Places
    • Restoring the Roman east