牛津拜占庭史 The Oxford History of Byzantium

基本信息

Format: Hardback| 352 pages  

Dimensions: 192x 251x 23mm| 904g  

Publication date: 05 Dec 2002 

Publisher: Oxford University Press 

ISBN: 9780198140986

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

内容简介

《牛津大学拜占庭史》是一部以简明形式详细介绍拜占庭从罗马时代开始到君士坦丁堡陷落并被土耳其帝国同化的历史。生动的文章和精美的插图描绘了一个独特的文明的出现和发展，涵盖了从四世纪到十五世纪中叶这段时间。作者们--都是在其特定领域的前沿工作--概述了拜占庭国家的政治历史，并将一个丰富多彩的文化演变带到了现实中。

公元324年，君士坦丁大帝选择了位于色雷斯博斯普鲁斯河口的古希腊殖民地拜占庭作为他的皇室居所。他把这个地方改名为 "Constaninopolis nova Roma"，即 "君士坦丁堡，新罗马"，这个城市（现代伊斯坦布尔）成为后来罗马帝国的东部首都。新罗马超越了旧罗马，君士坦丁的继任者继续将自己视为罗马的合法皇帝，就像他们的臣民在忘记拉丁语很久之后仍称自己为Romaioi，或罗马人。

在16世纪，西方人文主义者给这个从君士坦丁堡统治的东罗马帝国冠以 "拜占庭 "的称号。在皇帝、阴谋、战斗和主教的故事背景下，这本《牛津历史》揭开了隐藏的机制--经济、社会和人口--这些事件的历史基础。作者探讨了城市和乡村的日常生活、制造业和贸易、政府机构、作为国家工具的教会、少数民族、教育、文学活动和迷信、修道院、圣像崇拜、伊斯兰教的崛起以及与西方或拉丁文化的融合。

拜占庭将古代和现代世界联系在一起，塑造了各种传统，并为东方和西方文明留下了一份充满活力的遗产。

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-fifteenth century. The authors - all working at the cutting edge of their particularfields - outline the political history of the Byzantine state and bring to life the evolution of a colourful culture.

In AD 324, the Emperor Constantine the Great chose Byzantion, an ancient Greek colony at the mouth of the Thracian Bosphorous, as his imperial residence. He renamed the place 'Constaninopolis nova Roma', 'Constantinople, the new Rome' and the city (modern Istanbul) became the Eastern capital of the later Roman empire. The new Rome outlived the old and Constantine's successors continued to regard themselves as the legitimate emperors of Rome, just as their subjects called themselves Romaioi, orRomans long after they had forgotten the Latin language.

In the sixteenth century, Western humanists gave this eastern Roman empire ruled from Constantinople the epithet 'Byzantine'. Against a backdrop of stories of emperors, intrigues, battles, and bishops, this Oxford History uncovers the hidden mechanisms - economic, social, and demographic - that underlay the history of events. The authors explore everyday life in cities and villages, manufacture and trade, machinery of government, the church as an instrument of state, minorities, education, literary activity, beliefs and superstitions, monasticism, iconoclasm, the rise of Islam, and the fusion with Western, or Latin,culture.

Byzantium linked the ancient and modern worlds, shaping traditions and handing down to both Eastern and Western civilization a vibrant legacy.

作者简介

西里尔·曼戈曾是牛津大学拜沃特和索斯比的拜占庭和现代希腊语言文学教授，直到他退休。

Cyril Mango was Bywater and Sotheby Professor of Byzantine and Modern Greek Language and Literature at Oxford until his retirement.