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Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780190625948ISBN-10:190625945UPC:9780190625948Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:Byzantine Empire, AncientBook Topic:RomeSize:8.30 x 5.40 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.851Product ID:SCNGD2XSVD
A Cabinet of Byzantine Curiosities: Strange Tales and Surprising Facts from History's Most Orthodox Empire
Weird, decadent, degenerate, racially mixed, superstitious, theocratic, effeminate, and even hyper-literate, Byzantium has long been regarded by many as one big curiosity. According to Voltaire, it represented "a worthless collection of miracles, a disgrace for the human mind"; for Hegel, it was "a disgusting picture of imbecility." A Cabinet of Byzantine Curiosities will churn up these old...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780190625948ISBN-10:190625945UPC:9780190625948Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:Byzantine Empire, AncientBook Topic:RomeSize:8.30 x 5.40 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.851Product ID:SCNGD2XSVD
Anthony Kaldellis is Professor of Classics at The Ohio State University, and the author of The Christian Parthenon: Classicism and Pilgrimage in Byzantine Athens, Hellenism in Byzantium: The Transformations of Greek Identity and the Reception of the Classical Tradition, and Streams of Gold, Rivers of Blood: The Rise and Fall of Byzantium, 955 A.D. to the First Crusade.
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