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Author : Rose Macaulay
Release : 1956
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 588/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Towers of Trebizond by : Rose Macaulay
Download or read book The Towers of Trebizond written by Rose Macaulay. This book was released on 1956. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Serio-comic novel about English eccentrics who travel in Turkey.
Author : Antony Eastmond
Release : 2016
Genre : Byzantine Empire
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Book Rating : 009/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Byzantium's Other Empire by : Antony Eastmond
Download or read book Byzantium's Other Empire written by Antony Eastmond. This book was released on 2016. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book has been published on the occasion of the exhibition "Byzantium's other empire: Trebizond" at Kooc University Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations, Istanbul, June 24-September 18 2016. A Turkish edition appears under the title "Bizens'n eoteki imparatorlugu: Trabzon."
Author : N J Holmes
Release : 2013-09-01
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 093/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Trebizond by : N J Holmes
Download or read book Trebizond written by N J Holmes. This book was released on 2013-09-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Byzantines are a forgotten people. They called themselves Romans. In reality they were Greeks who saw themselves as the heirs of the Roman Caesars. When the Dark Ages enveloped Europe, they were the sole lantern bearers from a distant and glorious past. Their disciplined and iron-clad armies, a legacy of the Roman Legions, ensured their survival. By the eleventh century, they were still the greatest power in Europe. Their Empire extended from Syria to the Danube. It was in these years that a new enemy appeared from the Asian steppes. The course of history was about to be changed, not just for Byzantium but for the whole of Europe... Trebizond is set in the eleventh century, when Turkish hordes from Asia are storming into the Byzantine empire, slaughtering the imperial armies. Only one man can defeat them: a nobleman and true historical figure called Theodore Gabras. Only he can save the city of Trebizond and make it into the last bastion of Byzantine power in the East. The story is seen through eyes of three main protagonists: Gabras himself, his wife, Eirene, who is cruelly betrayed and captured by the Turks and makes her own perilous escape to re-join her husband, and the greatest of the Turkish warlords, Afsin, renowned for his brutality, who is entranced by Eirene. He vows to take Trebizond and kill Gabras... Trebizond is a gripping work of historical adventure fiction which has been inspired by other historical novelists, including Robert Graves, Alfred Duggan and Rosemary Sutcliff. Author N J Holmes is most comparable to modern novelists like Ben Kane, Simon Scarrow and Harry Sidebottom.
Author : Anthony Bryer
Release : 1980
Genre : Black Sea Region
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Book Synopsis The Empire of Trebizond and the Pontos by : Anthony Bryer
Download or read book The Empire of Trebizond and the Pontos written by Anthony Bryer. This book was released on 1980. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Antony Eastmond
Release : 2017-03-02
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 228/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Art and Identity in Thirteenth-Century Byzantium by : Antony Eastmond
Download or read book Art and Identity in Thirteenth-Century Byzantium written by Antony Eastmond. This book was released on 2017-03-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The church of Hagia Sophia in Trebizond, built by the emperor Manuel I Grand Komnenos (1238-63) in the aftermath of the fall of Constantinople to the Fourth Crusade, is the finest surviving Byzantine imperial monument of its period. Art and Identity in Thirteenth-Century Byzantium is the first investigation of the church in more than thirty years, and is extensively illustrated in colour and black-and-white, with many images that have never previously been published. Antony Eastmond examines the architectural, sculptural and painted decorations of the church, placing them in the context of contemporary developments elsewhere in the Byzantine world, in Seljuq Anatolia and among the Caucasian neighbours of Trebizond. Knowledge of this area has been transformed in the last twenty years, following the collapse of the Soviet Union. The new evidence that has emerged enables a radically different interpretation of the church to be reached, and raises questions of cultural interchange on the borders of the Christian and Muslim worlds of eastern Anatolia, the Caucasus and Persia. This study uses the church and its decoration to examine questions of Byzantine identity and imperial ideology in the thirteenth century. This is central to any understanding of the period, as the fall of Constantinople in 1204 divided the Byzantine empire and forced the successor states in Nicaea, Epiros and Trebizond to redefine their concepts of empire in exile. Art is here exploited as significant historical evidence for the nature of imperial power in a contested empire. It is suggested that imperial identity was determined as much by craftsmen and expectations of imperial power as by the emperor's decree; and that this was a credible alternative Byzantine identity to that developed in the empire of Nicaea.
