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    Byzantium

    James Howard-Johnston

    In this collection of linked essays analysing economic, social, and institutional structures, James Howard-Johnston aims to explain Byzantium's longevity, first as a state geared to fighting a two-centuries long guerrilla…

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    East Rome, Sasanian Persia and the End of Antiquity: Historiographical and Historical Studies

    James Howard-Johnston

    The most damaging of the wars fought between East Rome and Sasanian Persia brought the classical phase of west Eurasian history to a dramatic close. This book explores the balance…

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    Social Change in Town and Country in Eleventh-Century Byzantium

    The eleventh century saw both the heyday of Byzantium and its almost immediate subsequent decline following serious military defeats and heavy territorial losses. The papers in this volume view the…

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    Witnesses to a World Crisis: Historians and Histories of the Middle East in the Seventh Century

    James Howard-Johnston (Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford)

    The first history of the formative phase of Islam to be grounded in important non-Islamic as well as Islamic sources, this book is essential reading for anyone wanting to understand…

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    Witnesses to a World Crisis: Historians and Histories of the Middle East in the Seventh Century

    James Howard-Johnston (Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford)

    The first history of the formative phase of Islam to be grounded in important non-Islamic as well as Islamic sources, this book is essential reading for anyone wanting to understand…

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    The Armenian History Attributed to Sebeos

    Sebeos traces the fortunes of Armenia in the 6th and 7th centuries within the broader framework of the Byzantine-Sasanian conflict. He covers the reign of Khosrov II (589-628) and the…

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    The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages: Essays on the Contribution of Peter Brown

    This text examines topics such as the characteristic traits/diverse functions of holy men; the fashioning of saints out of a minority of holy men and other individuals; the literary processes…

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    The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages: Essays on the Contribution of Peter Brown

    James Howard-Johnston,Paul Antony Hayward

    These essays discuss various related themes: the traits of holy men; creating saints out of a minority of holy men; and the role of hagiography in the diffusion of cults…

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    The Last Great War of Antiquity

    James Howard-Johnston (Emeritus Fellow, Emeritus Fellow, Corpus Christi College, Oxford)

    The last great war of antiquity was fought on an unprecedented scale along the full length of the Persian-Roman frontier. James Howard-Johnston pieces together the fragmentary evidence of this period…

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