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New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. Later printing. Hardcover w/pictorial boards. Very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. No dust jacket issued with this printing. x, 360 p. w/maps, chapter endnotes and bibliographies, index. An examination of the siege and its ramifications, including its effect on religion.

Canberra: Humanities Research Centre, Australian Nationaal University, 1981. First edition. Softcover. Very Good in Wraps. Octavo sized. Light wear to edges of covers with some minor scuffing and slight browning to edges of covers. Name of previous owner written on half title page in ink. Otherwise, clean unmarked text. Tight binding. Light foxing to upper edges of pages. 156 pages plus 13 plates with notes after each essay. The essays in this work are: 1. Thoughts on Some Early Medieval Miracles, 2. Malalas and Justinian's Codification, 3. Theophanes' Account of the Reign of Heraclius, 4. Byzantium and the Arabs : The Image of the Byzantines as Mirrored in Arabic Literature, 5. Illustrations from the "Triumph" of Joseph the Patriarch, 6. Anglo-Saxons and Icelanders at Byzantium, with Special Reference to the Icelandic Saga of St. Edward the Confessor, 6. Literary Evidence for the Dating of the Backovo Ossuary Frescoes, 7. The Vernacular ... for Agnes of France, 8. The Later… Read More

Pretoria: Univesity of South Africa, 1986. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. xxvii, 298 p. w/ tables, endnotes, bibliography, index, and many pages of figures, plans, and illustrations at rear. An uncommon and important summary of Byzantine fortifications, looking at their relation to Western European, Crusader, and Roman fortifications, as well as materials, chronologies, construction, an methods of defense.

Zutphen, Holland: Terra Publishing Co. , 1978. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Quarto (oversized). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. No dust jacket. xii, 150 p. w/footnotes. appendices, indices. A detailed study driven by the need to understand dates in early Byzantine papyri.

Gregg International Publishers Limited, 1969. Facsimile Reprint. Hardcover. Very good. Thick, small octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. No dj issued. Faint damp spots on boards. 686 p. w/ addtional pags for introduction, addnedda, index. Facsmilie of a 1677 work by this German scholar, whose best known work is a history of Silesia. The first study of Byzantine historiography.

Leipzig, Germany: B. G. Teubner, 1987. Reprint of 1901 ed. . Hardcover. Very good. Thin octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. No dust jacket. xi, 47 p. w/ footnotes, index. In Greek and Latin. Kydones was a medieval Byzantine Greek statesman, tehologian, and writer of the 14th century c.e.

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1971. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards, a bit more to faded, price clipped dust jacket. xvii, 532 p. w/ fold out map, footnotes, index. A detailed study of the transition from Greek speaking Byzantine Christian Anatolia to Turkish speaking Muslim Anatolia.

Washington DC: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1992. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Quarto (oversized). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. One corner bumped. xxxii, 243 p. w/footnots, illus., index. Twenty scholary articles focusing, but not exclusively, on the silver from two particular hoards of Byzatine Silver - the Kaper Koraon from Syria and the Sion treasure from Turkey. Section B

Munchen: Editio Maris, 1999.. First edition. Very good softcover. Covers have some light wear along the edges with a slight crease on the spine and minor scuffing to the covers. Slight tear on the fore-edge of the back cover. Clean, unmarked text with tight binding. Unpaginated (but does use the page numbers from the books where these articles originally appeared). Illustrations, footnotes, and bibliography. A collection of 20 articles, mainly in German, by Herbert Hunger on Byzantine history and culture.

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (standard size). Blue boards. Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. xvii, 438 p. w/maps, footnotes, list of soldiers, bibliography, index. A detailed survey of the shrinking army of the last 2 and a half centuries of the Byzantine Empire, noting their strength, weaknesses, organization, and similarity to some European armies.

Messina, Italy: Edizioni Dr. Antonino Sfameni, 1988. First edition. Softcover with glossy covers. Very good. Thin octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of covers.A bit of running on the front cover. 175 p. w/ footnotes, indeices. Text in Greek and Italian.

New York, NY: The American Numismatic Society, 1959. First edition. paperback. Very good. Thin octavo (standard size). Slight wear to paper covers and page edges. Emboss of former owner on flyleaf. Some corners creased. 104 p. w/ additional 10 pages of b&w plates. A detailed look at the coins of this late Roman Early Byzantine emperor, focusing on the iconography of his coins during this pre-Iconoclastic period.

Stuttgart, Germany: B. G. Teubner, 1995. reprint of 1893 work. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. No dust jacket. xxiv, 429 p. w/ footnotes, fragmenta, corrigenda for vols I & II. In Greek and Latin.

Stuttgart, Germany: B. G. Teubner, 1995. reprint of 1904 work. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. No dust jacket. lvi, 552 p. w/ footnotes, conspectus fragmentorum. In Greek and Latin.

Stuttgart, Germany: B. G. Teubner, 2001. reprint of 1904 work. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. No dust jacket. 251 p. w/ index, historiarum conspectus. In Greek and Latin.

Würtzberg, Germany: Ergon verlag / Orient-Institut Instanbul, 2012. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/No dust jacket issued. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges. Head of spine bumped. 356 p. w/ color illustrations at end. Includes sections on sources, historical overview, catalogue of secular compositions, composers, the social context, genres of secular music, Byzantine notations in secular melodies, echoi, makams, and rhythms and Usuls.

New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. Later printing. Hardcover w/pictorial boards. Near fine. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. No dust jacket issued with this printing. Small spot on back board. xxi, 228 p. w/ chapter endnotes, bibliographical essays, bibliography, index. A detailed study of this Byzantine courtier in 11th century Constantinople, using it as a window into the Empire during a difficult period.

Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. 269 p. w/ footnotes, index. 18 scholarly essays on a variety of topics related to "outsiders": hermits, foreigners, women, Jews, traders, ascetics, and others.