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The Empire That Would Not Die – The Paradox of Eastern Roman Survival, 640–740 de John Haldon

The Empire That Would Not Die – The Paradox of Eastern Roman Survival, 640–740: Carl Newell Jackson Lectures

Autor John Haldon
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 8 iun 2016
The eastern Roman Empire was the largest state in western Eurasia in the sixth century. A century later, it was a fraction of its former size. Ravaged by warfare and disease, the empire seemed destined to collapse. Yet it did not die. John Haldon elucidates the factors that allowed the empire to survive against all odds into the eighth century.
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ISBN-13: 9780674088771
ISBN-10: 0674088778
Pagini: 432
Dimensiuni: 162 x 244 x 37 mm
Greutate: 0.77 kg
Editura: Harvard University Press
Seria Carl Newell Jackson Lectures

Descriere

The eastern Roman Empire was the largest state in western Eurasia in the sixth century. Only a century later, it was a fraction of its former size. Surrounded by enemies, ravaged by warfare and disease, the empire seemed destined to collapse.

Yet it did not die. In this holistic analysis, John Haldon elucidates the factors that allowed the empire to survive against all odds into the eighth century. By 700 CE, three-quarters of the empire's territory had been lost to the Islamic Caliphate.

But the rugged territories of Anatolia and the Aegean held strategic advantages, preventing enemies from permanently occupying imperial towns and cities while leaving them vulnerable to Roman counterattacks. The more the empire shrank, the more it became centered around Constantinople, whose ability to withstand siege after siege proved decisive. The crisis forced the imperial court, the provincial ruling classes, and the church closer together.

State and church together embodied a sacralized empire that held the emperor, not the patriarch, as Christendom's symbolic head. Despite territorial losses, what remained became the heartland of a medieval Christian Roman state, with a powerful political theology that predicted the emperor would eventually establish Orthodox Christianity's world dominion.

Notă biografică

John Haldon is Professor of Byzantine History and Hellenic Studies at Princeton University.