This is the first book-length study in English of the Byzantine emperor Basil II, the "Bulgar-slayer." Basil presided over a Byzantium which was the superpower of the eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East in the century before the Crusades. Catherine Holmes peels away the layers of later interpretations to reveal an empire that was governed by a potent mixture of subtle persuasion and brute force.
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"Basil II and the Governance of Empire marks a major advance in the understanding of the late tenth and early eleventh century...[A] fundamental and balanaced monograph ." --Speculum
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Catherine Holmes is Tutor and Fellow in Medieval History, University College, University of Oxford.
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In the tenth and eleventh centuries the Byzantine Empire became the most formidable state in the Near East. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
sigillographical evidence, megas droungarios, appointed doux, sceaux byzantins, imperial field army, frontier governance, historiographical record, later eleventh century, conspicuous interest, later tenth, synoptic history, military lexicon, leading aristocratic families, des malheurs, eastern frontier, first thirteen years, military saints, small themes Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Synopsis Historion, Stephen of Taron, Bardas Phokas, Yahya ibn Sa'id, Bardas Skleros, Theophanes Con, John Tzimiskes, Leo the Deacon, Nikephoros Phokas, Byzantium's Western Frontiers, Asia Minor, Michael Psellos, John Skylitzes, Romanos Lekapenos, Michael Bourtzes, Anti Taurus, Aristakes of Lastivert, Ibn Shahram, Jean Skylitzès, Nikephoros Ouranos, Byzantine Lead Seals, Historiae Libri Decem, John Vladislav, Dumbarton Oaks, Black Sea New!
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sigillographical evidence, megas droungarios, appointed doux, sceaux byzantins, imperial field army, frontier governance, historiographical record, later eleventh century, conspicuous interest, later tenth, synoptic history, military lexicon, leading aristocratic families, des malheurs, eastern frontier, first thirteen years, military saints, small themes Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Synopsis Historion, Stephen of Taron, Bardas Phokas, Yahya ibn Sa'id, Bardas Skleros, Theophanes Con, John Tzimiskes, Leo the Deacon, Nikephoros Phokas, Byzantium's Western Frontiers, Asia Minor, Michael Psellos, John Skylitzes, Romanos Lekapenos, Michael Bourtzes, Anti Taurus, Aristakes of Lastivert, Ibn Shahram, Jean Skylitzès, Nikephoros Ouranos, Byzantine Lead Seals, Historiae Libri Decem, John Vladislav, Dumbarton Oaks, Black Sea New!
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- The Legend of Basil the Bulgar-Slayer by Paul Stephenson on 33 pages
- Byzantine Lead Seals (Byzantine Collection Publications Series, No 7) by Nicolas Oikonomides on 8 pages
- History of the Byzantine State by George Ostrogorsky on 5 pages
- The Argument of Psellos' Chronographia (Studien Und Texte Zur Geistesgeschichte Des Mittelalters) by Anthony Kaldellis on 5 pages
- The Tomb of Christ by Martin Biddle on 4 pages
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