Byzantium. The name evokes grandeur and exoticism--gold, cunning, and complexity. In this unique book, Judith Herrin unveils the riches of a quite different civilization. Avoiding a standard chronological account of the Byzantine Empire's millennium--long history, she identifies the fundamental questions about Byzantium--what it was, and its special significance for us today....(展开全部)

A major new history of the eastern Roman Empire, from Constantine to 1453. In recent decades, the study of the Eastern Roman Empire, also known as Byzantium, has been revolutionized by new approaches and more sophisticated models for how its society and state operated. No longer looked upon as a pale facsimile of classical Rome, Byzantium is now considered a vigorous state of i...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 彼得·渥雷本，1964 年出生于德国，童年即立志成为自然资源的守护者。大学时选择攻读林业经济学，毕业后二十余年，一直在林业管理局做公务员。为实现用生态平衡体系管理林区的理想，他辞去公职，在德国埃菲尔（Eifel）地区领导并管理着一片环保林区，致力于恢复这片森林的原始形态，并就森林和环保等主题发表演说，开设课程，著书立说。已出版《树的秘密生命》《森林—— 一场发现之旅》等十余部作品。 【译者简介】 本名许洁，1965 年生于上海，先后毕业于中央戏剧学院戏剧文学系、德国科隆大学戏剧电影电视学院，后获中国科学院心理所心理学硕士学位。2008 年移居德国慕尼黑。现主要从事网络文学创作和翻译工作。翻译作品有《弗朗兹系列》《在那遥远的森林里》《草原精灵小矮人》《小熊帮》《妈妈走了》《火鞋与风鞋》等。其中《弗朗兹系列》2015 年获得由德国图书信息中...(展开全部)

The Oxford History of Byzantium is the only history to provide in concise form detailed coverage of Byzantium from its Roman beginnings to the fall of Constantinople and assimilation into the Turkish Empire. Lively essays and beautiful illustrations portray the emergence and development of a distinctive civilization, covering the period from the fourth century to the mid-fiftee...(展开全部)

本書作者安德依．馬金尼，以《法蘭西遺囑》榮獲一九九五年法國龔固爾獎和梅第西獎，是史上第一位同時獲得這兩大文學獎肯定的非法籍作家。 這本有著如詩般節奏的《生命的樂章》，是他的最新傑作，內容如歌如泣，讓人不忍釋卷。

Iran often appears in the media as a hostile and difficult country. But beneath the headlines there is a fascinating story of a nation of great intellectual variety and depth, and enormous cultural importance. A nation whose impact has been tremendous, not only on its neighbours in the Middle East but on the world as a whole - and through ideas and creativity rather than by the...(展开全部)

Prospect “His account of modern Iranian politics and culture is more gripping than most novels…. Consistently intelligent, notably up to date and lucidly written.”

A leading historian argues that in the empire we know as Byzantium, the Greek-speaking population was actually Roman, and scholars have deliberately mislabeled their ethnicity for the past two centuries for political reasons. Was there ever such a thing as Byzantium? Certainly no emperor ever called himself "Byzantine." And while the identities of minorities in the eastern empi...(展开全部)

The third book from the most gifted young travel writer at work today, author of the best-selling In Xanadu ('one of the best travel books produced in the last twenty years' -- Scotland on Sunday) and City of Djinns ('the best travel book I have ever read' -- George Mackay Brown). In the spring of 587 AD, two monks set off on an extraordinary journey that would take them in an...(展开全部)

The third book from the most gifted young travel writer at work today, author of the best-selling In Xanadu ('one of the best travel books produced in the last twenty years' -- Scotland on Sunday) and City of Djinns ('the best travel book I have ever read' -- George Mackay Brown). In the spring of 587 AD, two monks set off on an extraordinary journey that would take them in an ...(展开全部)