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The Byzantine Republic: People and Power in New Rome, (Hardcover)
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- Although Byzantium is known to history as the Eastern Roman Empire, scholars have long claimed that this Greek Christian theocracy bore little resemblance to Rome. Here, in a revolutionary model of Byzantine politics and society, Anthony Kaldellis reconnects Byzantium to its Roman roots, arguing that from the fifth to the twelfth centuries CE the Eastern Roman Empire was essentially a republic, with power exercised on behalf of the people and sometimes by them too. The Byzantine Republic recovers for the historical record a less autocratic, more populist Byzantium whose Greek-speaking citizens considered themselves as fully Roman as their Latin-speaking ancestors. Kaldellis shows that the idea of Byzantium as a rigid imperial theocracy is a misleading construct of Western historians since the Enlightenment. With court proclamations often draped in Christian rhetoric, the notion of divine kingship emerged as a way to disguise the inherent vulnerability of each regime. The legitimacy of the emperors was not predicated on an absolute right to the throne but on the popularity of individual emperors, whose grip on power was tenuous despite the stability of the imperial institution itself. Kaldellis examines the overlooked Byzantine concept of the polity, along with the complex relationship of emperors to the law and the ways they bolstered their popular acceptance and avoided challenges. The rebellions that periodically rocked the empire were not aberrations, he shows, but an essential part of the functioning of the republican monarchy.
| Book format | Hardcover |
| Fiction/nonfiction | Non-Fiction |
| Genre | History |
| Publication date | February, 2015 |
| Pages | 312 |
| Reading level | Professional & Vocational |
| Subgenre | Europe |
| Series title | No Series |
| Edition | 1 |
| Publisher | Harvard University Press |
| Original languages | English |
| Language | English |
| Is collectible | N |
| Binding type | Case Binding |
| Recording time | 0 min |
| Retail packaging | Single Piece |
| Assembled product dimensions (l x w x h) | 6.30 x 1.00 x 9.70 in (16 x 2.5 x 24.6 cm) |
| Assembled product weight | 1.3 lb (590 grams) |
| Bisac subject heading | History |
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The Byzantine Republic: People and Power in New Rome, (Hardcover)
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