Main entry:

Diehl, Charles, 1859-1944, author.

Title & Author:

Byzantium : greatness and decline / Charles Diehl ; translated from the French by Naomi Walford ; with introduction and bibliography by Peter Charanis.

Publication:

New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [1957]
©1957

Description:

xviii, 366 pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 25 cm.

Series:

Rutgers Byzantine series

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-356).
Book 1, Evolution of Byzantine history. The shaping of the eastern empire -- From climax to fall (867-1453) -- Book 2, Elements of power. Government -- The army and the defence of the monarchy -- Byzantine diplomacy -- Administration -- Economic power -- Constantinople -- Asia, the empire's strength -- Book 3, Elements of weakness. Political demoralization -- Social demoralization -- Elements of dissolution : feudal peril and class warfare -- Elements of dissolution : the religious peril -- Byzantine imperialism -- Economic decay -- Military decay and territorial disintegration -- Byzantium and the west -- Book 4, Byzantium's contribution to the world. Byzantine civilization -- The spread of orthodoxy and the formation of the slavic world -- The spread of Byzantine civilization in the west -- Conclusion : Byzantium's heritage.

ISBN:

0813503280
9780813503288

Subject:

Art, Byzantine.
Art byzantin.
Civilization.
Verval (geschiedenis)
Byzantine Empire History.
Byzantine Empire Civilization.
Empire byzantin Histoire.
Empire byzantin Civilisation.
Byzantine Empire.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Walford, Naomi, translator.
Charanis, Peter, writer of introduction.
Rutgers Byzantine series.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 92660
Call No.: ID:86-B18309
Status: Available