{"product_id":"constantinople-and-byzantium-paperback","title":"Constantinople and Byzantium - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLéon Bloy\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eRichard Robinson\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eConstantinople and Byzantium\u003c\/em\u003e by Léon Bloy (1846-1917) was originally published in book form in 1917, itself a \"definitive re-printing of \u003cem\u003eThe Byzantine Epic\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eand Gustave Schlumberger\u003c\/em\u003e, published in 1906 by the \u003cem\u003eNouvelle Revue.\" \u003c\/em\u003eThis book is a summary and interpretation then, à la Bloy, of Schlumbergerʼs \"trilogy\" with its focus on the Macedonian dynasty of Byzantium from the middle of the tenth century to the middle of the eleventh. It covers the rise and fall of such warrior emperors as Nicephorus Phocas, John Tzimiskes, and Basil II, the \"Bulgar Slayer,\" under whom the Eastern Roman Empire experienced a kind of Renaissance, after a long series of wars with Bulgars, Rus (Russians), Saracens, and later Normans, to name only a few peoples, in the years and decades immediately preceding the Crusades. The last chapter treats of the two Porphyrogenita (\"born in the purple\") empresses, Zoe and Theodora, \"last branches of the Macedonian oak.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"It is proven that God has no need of anyoneʼs ʻday after,ʼ and that his eternal \u003cem\u003etoday\u003c\/em\u003e satisfies him. Pettiness is no less asked for than Greatness in the laboratory of prodigies. Disparate or desperate successions operate inexpressibly in a mysterious and adored way, in view of compensations or ineffable recuperations. So it is very simple that a series of mediocre or abject emperors should succeed a personage like the great Basil in order to destroy his work. Thirty years after his death, in 1055, his empire was ruined forever.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 200\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.46 x 8 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 16, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53521953915187,"sku":"9781955392310","price":32.85,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/9mysidoZYC9781955392310.webp?v=1781961457","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/constantinople-and-byzantium-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}