2010, ISBN: 9781532786297

Hardcover

UK: AuthorHouse, 2010. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 2.2 x 22.6 x 15 cm. h/b 306 pages, condition is very good. In 1453 the collapse of Byzantine Orthodox Christianity's most sacr… More...

UK: AuthorHouse, 2010. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 2.2 x 22.6 x 15 cm. h/b 306 pages, condition is very good. In 1453 the collapse of Byzantine Orthodox Christianity's most sacred City, Constantinople, radiated shocks through the entirety of the Christian world. Symbolically, the Islamic Ottoman Turks had made Santa Sophia, the most famous Christian church in the world, into a mosque. Any doubts that there was a now an Ottoman Empire poised to conquer the Christian West were dispelled. But the history around the collapse itself was surrounded with loose ends and oddities. This novel fastens on one of these pieces. When Constantinople fell there was a huge amount of slaughter and pillage by the Ottomans. There are some doubts about what happened to the Christian Emperor, Constantius. It is said that he was killed in battle but some accounts suggest otherwise. During much of World War II Nazis occupied Greece. The Greeks put up a torrid resistance to this occupation. On the island of Lesbos two resistance fighters came onto a cache of objects that could turn history on its head. But the cache is re-buried until at last the two fighters, now in their eighties, must face the question of whether to reveal their find., AuthorHouse, 2010, Istanbul: TEM Vakfi Yayinlari, 2005. Soft cover. As New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Paperback. Pbo. Mint. Cr. 8vo. (20 x 14 cm). In Turkish. 232 p. Patriarchate history in Turkey. Baslangiçtan günümüze patrikhane dosyasi., TEM Vakfi Yayinlari, 2005, Princeton University Press. Near Fine. 1989. Softcover. 0691008310 . Very minor shelfwear else Fine. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 530 pages; In a lucid history of what used to be termed "the Dark Ages, " Judith Herrin outlines the origins of Europe from the end of late antiquity to the coronation of Charlemagne. She shows that the clash between nascent Islam and stubborn Byzantium was the central contest that allowed "Europe" to develop, and she thereby places the rise of the West in its true Mediterranean context. Her inquiry centers on the notion of "Christendom. " Instead of taking medieval beliefs for granted or separating theology from politics, she treats the faith as a material force. In a path-breaking account of the arguments over Christian doctrine, she shows how the northern sphere of the Roman world divided into two distinct and self-conscious imperial units, as the Arabs swept through the southern regions. One of the most interesting strands of the author's argument concerns religious art and iconoclasm. Her book shows how the impact of Islam's Judaic ban on graven images precipitated both the iconoclast crisis in Constantinople and the West's unique commitment to pictorial narrative, as justified by Pope Gregory the Great. ., Princeton University Press, 1989, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. Paperback. New. NEW BOOK, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform<

2016, ISBN: 1532786298

Paperback, [EAN: 9781532786297], CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, Book, [PU: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform], 2016-04… More...

Paperback, [EAN: 9781532786297], CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, Book, [PU: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform], 2016-04-18, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 266788, Art Issues, 91, Art, Architecture & Photography, 1025612, Subjects, 266239, Books<