ENGLISH

Byzantium in the Seventh Century: The Transformation of a Culture

By J. F. Haldon

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1991
ISBN
0521264928, 9780521264921
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
49 MB (51018473 bytes)
Pages
510\521
Time added
2017-09-01 12:44:04
Europe;Belgium;France;Germany;Great Britain;Greenl

Description

This book presents the first analytical account in English of major developments within Byzantine culture, society and the state in the crucial formative period from c.610-717. The seventh century saw the final collapse of ancient urban civilization and municipal culture, the rise of Islam, the evolution of patterns of thought and social structure that made imperial iconoclasm possible, and the development of state apparatuses--military, civil and fiscal--typical of the middle Byzantine state. Also, during this period, orthodox Christianity finally became the unquestioned dominant culture and a religious framework of belief (to the exclusion of alternative systems, which were henceforth marginalized or proscribed).

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