A Cabinet of Byzantine Curiosities

A Cabinet of Byzantine Curiosities
Author: Anthony Kaldellis
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2017
Genre: History
ISBN: 0190625945


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Byzantium has long been regarded by many as one big curiosity - decadent, degenerate, superstitious, theocratic, effeminate. With its tales and trivia - ranging across religion, bureaucracy, food, theatre, medicine, xenophobia, warfare - this book will confirm some of these prejudices, but also open eyes to the life of this extraordinarily interesting civilization.


A Cabinet of Byzantine Curiosities
Language: en
Pages: 249
Authors: Anthony Kaldellis
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Byzantium has long been regarded by many as one big curiosity - decadent, degenerate, superstitious, theocratic, effeminate. With its tales and trivia - ranging
A Cabinet of Byzantine Curiosities
Language: en
Pages: 240
Authors: Anthony Kaldellis
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-09-01 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Weird, decadent, degenerate, racially mixed, superstitious, theocratic, effeminate, and even hyper-literate, Byzantium has long been regarded by many as one big
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Language: en
Pages: 261
Authors: J. C. McKeown
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-06-01 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Here is a whimsical and captivating collection of odd facts, strange beliefs, outlandish opinions, and other highly amusing trivia of the ancient Romans. We ten
A Cabinet of Greek Curiosities
Language: en
Pages: 303
Authors: J. C. McKeown
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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A miscellany of odd stories and facts about the ancient Greeks, demonstrating how much they were--and were not--like us.
The Byzantine Republic
Language: en
Pages: 309
Authors: Anthony Kaldellis
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-02-02 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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Although Byzantium is known to history as the Eastern Roman Empire, scholars have long claimed that this Greek Christian theocracy bore little resemblance to Ro