Porphyrogenita
Subtitle: Essays on the History and Literature of Byzantium and the Latin East in Honour of Julian Chrysostomides (Publications for the Centre for Hellenic Studies, King's College, London)
Contributors: J. Chrysostomides (Editor); Jonathan Harris (Editor); Eirene Harvalia-Crook (Editor); Judith Herrin (Editor)
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Published: May 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 540
ISBN-13: 9780754636960
Subjects: European history: c 500 to c 1500; c 1000 CE to c 1500; History; Byzantine Empire; History - General History; Latin Orient; History: World; Europe; Europe - Greece; Medieval; Byzantine literature; History and criticism
First sentence: The historical encounter of the Byzantine Emperor Romanus IV Diogenes and the Turkish Sultan Alp Arslan on the field of battle remains one of the more spectacular events in the seemingly unending military encounters between the Greek speaking and the Islamic worlds.