Cambridge University Press, Date: 2007-02-08. Hardcover. New. NEW!! Orders ship same or next business day w/ free tracking. Choose Expedited shipping for fastest (2-6 business day) delivery. Satisfaction Guaranteed! 2007. Cambridge University Press ISBN 0521857031 9780521857031 [US]

ISBN10: 0521857031, ISBN13: 9780521857031, [publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr] Hardcover 1st edition. 453 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.50 inches. In Stock.
[Exeter, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2007]

ISBN10: 0521857031, ISBN13: 9780521857031, [publisher: Cambridge University Press] Hardcover Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - This is the first systematic study of Byzantine imperial ideology, court rhetoric and political thought after the Latin conquest of Constantinople in 1204 - in the Nicaean state (1204?1261) and during the early period of the restored empire of the Palaiologoi. The book explores Byzantine political imagination at a time of crisis when the Empire ceased to be a first-rate power in the Mediterranean. It investigates the correspondence and fissures between official political rhetoric, on the one hand, and the political ideas of lay thinkers and churchmen, on the other. Through the analysis of a wide body of sources (some of them little known or unpublished), a picture of Byzantine political thought emerges which differs significantly from the traditional one. The period saw refreshing developments in court rhetoric and political thought, some with interesting parallels in the medieval and Renaissance West, which arose in response to the new historical realities.
[Einbeck, Germany] [Publication Year: 2007]
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