Byzantium in the seventh century : the transformation of a culture / J.F. Haldon.

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Haldon, John F

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TextPublication details: Cambridge [England] : Cambridge University Press, 1990.Description: 1 online resource (xxiii, 486 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

0585131880
9780585131887
0521264928
9780521264921
052131917X
9780521319171
0511582315
9780511582318
0511000715
9780511000713

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Byzantium in the seventh century.DDC classification:

949.5/01 20

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DF571 .H35 1990eb

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K134

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Summary: This book presents the first analytical account in English of the major developments within Byzantine culture, society and the state in the crucial formative period from c. 610 to 717. Since its original publication in 1990, the text has been revised throughout to take account of the latest research. The seventh century saw the final collapse of ancient urban civilisation and municipal culture, the rise of Islam, the evolution of patterns of thought and social structure which made imperial iconoclasm possible, and the development of state apparatuses - military, civil and fiscal - typical of the middle Byzantine state. Conflicting ideas of how these changes and developments are to be understood have proliferated in the last fifty years. This book is the first serious attempt to provide a comprehensive, detailed survey of all the major changes in this period.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 459-475) and index.

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This book presents the first analytical account in English of the major developments within Byzantine culture, society and the state in the crucial formative period from c. 610 to 717. Since its original publication in 1990, the text has been revised throughout to take account of the latest research. The seventh century saw the final collapse of ancient urban civilisation and municipal culture, the rise of Islam, the evolution of patterns of thought and social structure which made imperial iconoclasm possible, and the development of state apparatuses - military, civil and fiscal - typical of the middle Byzantine state. Conflicting ideas of how these changes and developments are to be understood have proliferated in the last fifty years. This book is the first serious attempt to provide a comprehensive, detailed survey of all the major changes in this period.

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