Author: Cosmas Indicopleustes
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108012957
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Volume 98 of the Hakluyt Society publications (1897) describes voyages to South Asia in the mid-sixth century C.E.
The Christian Topography of Cosmas, an Egyptian Monk
Author: Cosmas Indicopleustes
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108012957
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Volume 98 of the Hakluyt Society publications (1897) describes voyages to South Asia in the mid-sixth century C.E.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108012957
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Volume 98 of the Hakluyt Society publications (1897) describes voyages to South Asia in the mid-sixth century C.E.
The Christian Topography of Cosmas Indicopleustes
Author: Cosmas (Indicopleustes)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classical geography
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classical geography
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Christian Topography of Cosmas
Author: Cosmas (Indicopleustes)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geography, Medieval
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geography, Medieval
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Aksum and Nubia
Author: George Hatke
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 081476066X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Aksum and Nubia assembles and analyzes the textual and archaeological evidence of interaction between Nubia and the Ethiopian kingdom of Aksum, focusing primarily on the fourth century CE. Although ancient Nubia and Ethiopia have been the subject of a growing number of studies in recent years, little attention has been given to contact between these two regions. Hatke argues that ancient Northeast Africa cannot be treated as a unified area politically, economically, or culturally. Rather, Nubia and Ethiopia developed within very different regional spheres of interaction, as a result of which the Nubian kingdom of Kush came to focus its energies on the Nile Valley, relying on this as its main route of contact with the outside world, while Aksum was oriented towards the Red Sea and Arabia. In this way Aksum and Kush coexisted in peace for most of their history, and such contact as they maintained with each other was limited to small-scale commerce. Only in the fourth century CE did Aksum take up arms against Kush, and even then the conflict seems to have been related mainly to security issues on Aksum’s western frontier. Although Aksum never managed to hold onto Kush for long, much less dealt the final death-blow to the Nubian kingdom, as is often believed, claims to Kush continued to play a role in Aksumite royal ideology as late as the sixth century. Aksum and Nubia critically examines the extent to which relations between two ancient African states were influenced by warfare, commerce, and political fictions.
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 081476066X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Aksum and Nubia assembles and analyzes the textual and archaeological evidence of interaction between Nubia and the Ethiopian kingdom of Aksum, focusing primarily on the fourth century CE. Although ancient Nubia and Ethiopia have been the subject of a growing number of studies in recent years, little attention has been given to contact between these two regions. Hatke argues that ancient Northeast Africa cannot be treated as a unified area politically, economically, or culturally. Rather, Nubia and Ethiopia developed within very different regional spheres of interaction, as a result of which the Nubian kingdom of Kush came to focus its energies on the Nile Valley, relying on this as its main route of contact with the outside world, while Aksum was oriented towards the Red Sea and Arabia. In this way Aksum and Kush coexisted in peace for most of their history, and such contact as they maintained with each other was limited to small-scale commerce. Only in the fourth century CE did Aksum take up arms against Kush, and even then the conflict seems to have been related mainly to security issues on Aksum’s western frontier. Although Aksum never managed to hold onto Kush for long, much less dealt the final death-blow to the Nubian kingdom, as is often believed, claims to Kush continued to play a role in Aksumite royal ideology as late as the sixth century. Aksum and Nubia critically examines the extent to which relations between two ancient African states were influenced by warfare, commerce, and political fictions.
CHRISTIAN TOPOGRAPHY OF COSMAS INDICOPLEUSTES
Author: E. O. WINSTEDT
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781033662038
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781033662038
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The World of Kosmas
Author: Maja Kominko
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107020883
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
New study of the Christian Topography, a sixth-century illustrated treatise, and its intellectual milieu.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107020883
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
New study of the Christian Topography, a sixth-century illustrated treatise, and its intellectual milieu.
Book Of Earths
Author: Edna Kenton
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1387785990
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
THIS BOOK OF EARTHS began years ago, as a collection--maps of the Earth, the Moon, the heavens. For it occurred to me, not long ago, that it would be "fun" to put them all together, and many others with them, chosen to fill in the gaps of the original group. Luckily for the fun of it, the search about to begin would not be limited to what we know about the Earth, else it would have ended before it began; for we live in a universe of which we know little, and on a planet of which we know perhaps less. It would include not only what we know, or think to-day we know, but also anything that has been believed or felt or no more than "guessed" to be the picture of the Earth and its place in the universe.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1387785990
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
THIS BOOK OF EARTHS began years ago, as a collection--maps of the Earth, the Moon, the heavens. For it occurred to me, not long ago, that it would be "fun" to put them all together, and many others with them, chosen to fill in the gaps of the original group. Luckily for the fun of it, the search about to begin would not be limited to what we know about the Earth, else it would have ended before it began; for we live in a universe of which we know little, and on a planet of which we know perhaps less. It would include not only what we know, or think to-day we know, but also anything that has been believed or felt or no more than "guessed" to be the picture of the Earth and its place in the universe.
Constantine Porphyrogennetos - The Book of Ceremonies
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004344926
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 912
Book Description
This is the first modern language translation of the entire text of the tenth-century Greek Book of Ceremonies (De ceremoniis), a work compiled and edited by the Byzantine emperor Constantine VII (905-959). It preserves material from the fifth century through to the 960s. Chapters deal with diverse subjects of concern to the emperor including the role of the court, secular and ecclesiastical ceremonies, processions within the Palace and through Constantinople to its churches, the imperial tombs, embassies, banquets and dress, the role of the demes, hippodrome festivals with chariot races, imperial appointments, the hierarchy of the Byzantine administration, the equipping of expeditions, including to recover Crete from the Arabs, and the lists of ecclesiastical provinces and bishoprics.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004344926
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 912
Book Description
This is the first modern language translation of the entire text of the tenth-century Greek Book of Ceremonies (De ceremoniis), a work compiled and edited by the Byzantine emperor Constantine VII (905-959). It preserves material from the fifth century through to the 960s. Chapters deal with diverse subjects of concern to the emperor including the role of the court, secular and ecclesiastical ceremonies, processions within the Palace and through Constantinople to its churches, the imperial tombs, embassies, banquets and dress, the role of the demes, hippodrome festivals with chariot races, imperial appointments, the hierarchy of the Byzantine administration, the equipping of expeditions, including to recover Crete from the Arabs, and the lists of ecclesiastical provinces and bishoprics.
The Christian Topography of Cosmas Indicopleustes
Author: Cosmas (Indicopleustes)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Revelation of St. John the Divine
Author: Pope John XXIII
Publisher: Penguin Group
ISBN: 9780146000737
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
This prophetical book depicts the ultimate victory of Christ.
Publisher: Penguin Group
ISBN: 9780146000737
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
This prophetical book depicts the ultimate victory of Christ.