Nova Roma (A History of the Byzantine Empire From the Accession of Justinian Till the Death of Basil II (518-1025))
Jungmook Oh | 퍼플
9,800원 | 20221215 | 9788924103885
Byzantium—the golden age, that ancient and hallowed Empire, that poetic name which stirs the love of history, that vision of gold and silver and lapis lazuli. That tale, that splendor, that glory.
The Byzantine Empire, or the Eastern Roman Empire, traces its beginnings to the year 330 when Emperor Constantine split the Roman Empire in two, and moved his capital to a newly constructed city called Nova Roma—or, as it was later to be known, Constantinople. It survived there, after the fall of the Roman West, for nearly a thousand years, until the year 1453 when Constantinople fell to the force of arms of the Ottoman sultan Mehmed II. With the ancient Roman administrative tradition, the culture of Greece, and the theology of Christianity as its pillars, the Byzantines thrived at Constantinople, both guarding and evolving the culture which they inherited. There is thus a great significance to this Empire, which throughout all its thousand-year-long life served as the Bulwark of Christianity which defended Europe from the Saracens, preserved the ancient Greek and Roman culture which was eventually to become the seed of the Renaissance, and left its spiritual successors in the realms of Russia and Eastern Europe. This book chronicles the height of Byzantine power: from the accession of Justinian the Great to the imperial throne, through the Empire’s crisis during the seventh and eighth centuries, and until the Macedonian Renaissance when Byzantium recovered from its wounds and rose again to become the greatest power in Europe and Asia Minor once more.
Let us explore that history, and marvel at deeds both great and terrible.
