Icon and minaret : sources of Byzantine and Islamic civilization /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Englewood Cliffs, N.J. :
Prentice-Hall,
[1969]
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| Series: | Sources of civilization in the West.
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Table of Contents:
- Tridecennial Oration (A.D. 335) / Eusebius of Caesaren
- Prologue to an oration (ca. A.D. 958) / Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus
- Preface to the book of ceremonies / Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus
- Byzantine coronation ceremony: Manuel II and Helena Dragǎs, 1392
- Life of Constantine (after A.D. 337) / Eusebius of Caesaren
- Life of Constantine IX, Monomachus (1042-1055) / Michael Psellus
- Alexiad (1140s) / Anna Comnena
- Life of Constantine / Eusebius of Caesarea
- Letter on the Council of Nicaea / Eusebius of Caesaren
- Decree of the Council of Chalcedon (451)
- Decree of the Second Council of Nicaea (787)
- Alexiad: Trial of Basil the Bogomil (1140s) / Anna Comnena
- Life of St. Antony / Athanasius
- The long rules / Basil of Caesarea
- Theodosian Code
- Deed of Surety for a serf (A.D. 579)
- The Farmer's Law (seventh-eighth centuries)
- First Law of Romanus I (A.D. 922)
- Second Law of Romanus I (A.D. 934)
- Law of Nicephorus II Phocas regarding Property (A.D. 966-967)
- Law of Nicephorus II Phocas Regarding Military Lands (A.D. 963-969)
- Law of Basil II regarding peasant properties (A.D. 996)
- Journey of Louis VII to the East (1147) / Odo of Deuil
- Itinerary (1160s) / Benjamin of Tudela
- Book of the Prefect (tenth century)
- History of the Wars (sixth century): The Nika Riot (532) / Procopius
- History of deeds done beyond the sea: The Latin Massacre (1182) / William of Tyre
- Humbert, Cardinal of Silva Candida
- The Embassy to Constantinople (908) / Liudprand of Cremona
- Alexiad / Anna Comnena
- Funeral Oration / Nicholas Mesarites
- The Koran
- Alchemy of happiness / Al-Ghazzali (1058-1111)
- Treatise on the small-pox and measles / Rhazes (864-925)
- "Autobiography" and "On the Nature of God" / Avicenna (960-1037)
- Confessions / Al-Ghazzali (1058-1111)
- Muqaddimah / Ibn Khaldun (1132-1406).