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The Twilight of Byzantium: Aspects of Cultural and Religious History in the Late Byzantine Empire
By (Author) Slobodan Curcic
Edited by Doula Mouriki
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
29th April 2019
United States
General
Non Fiction
949.502
Hardback
312
Width 216mm, Height 279mm
The centuries-long economic and military decline of the Byznatine Empire, which culminated in its political disappearance as a state in 1459, was, paradoxically, accompanied by high levels of cultural achievement. Aimed at broadening our understanding of the final phase of the empire, this collection explores how Byzantine ideological, spiritual, a