Sermons
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Conquest of Constantinople
The Fourth Crusade (1202-1204) set out to capture the Holy Land; it ended up sacking Constantinople, an Orthodox Christian city and the capital of the Byzantine Empire. Robert of Clari, an obscure knight from Picardy, provides an extraordinary rec...
Constantinople
Philip Mansel's highly acclaimed history of Constantinople (formerly known as Byzantium) absorbingly charts the interaction between the vibrantly cosmopolitan capital - the city of the world's desire - and its ruling family. In 1453, Mehmed the Co...
Constantinople
Jonathan Harris' new edition of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, Constantinople, provides an updated and extended introduction to the history of Byzantium and its capital city. Accessible and engaging, the book breaks new ground by exploring...
Constantinople
In the spring of 1453, the Ottoman Turks advanced on Constantinople in pursuit of an ancient Islamic dream: capturing the thousand-year-old capital of Christian Byzantium. During the siege that followed, a small band of badly organised defenders, ...
Constantinople
A remarkable nineteenth-century account of Istanbul - which begins with a dazzling description of the city gradually appearing through the fog as the author's ship approaches the harbour - Constantinople expertly combines personal anecdote, breath...
The Hippodrome of Constantinople
The Hippodrome of Constantinople was constructed in the fourth century AD, by the Roman Emperor Constantine I, in his new capital. Throughout Byzantine history the Hippodrome served as a ceremonial, sportive and recreational center of the city; in...
Forty Sieges of Constantinople
The great city of Byzantion/Constantinople/Istanbul stands on a commanding cape overlooking a busy waterway. It has been the target of repeated attempts to capture it for the past two and a half millennia. Most of these attacks failed, but some di...
Accounts of Medieval Constantinople
The Patria is a fascinating four-book collection of short historical notes, stories, and legends about the buildings and monuments of Constantinople, compiled in the late tenth century by an anonymous author who made ample use of older sources. It...
Ides Of Gemini: Constantinople
Ides Of Gemini: Constantinople [CD]
Commentary on John
Cyril of Alexandria (ca. 378-444), one of the most brilliant representatives of the Alexandrian theological tradition, is best known for championing the term Theotokos (God-bearer) in opposition to Nestorius of Constantinople. Cyril's great Commentary on John, offered here in the Ancient Christian Text series in two volumes, predates the Nestorian controversy, however, and focuses its theological fire power against Arianism. The commentary, which is addressed to catechists, displays Cyril's breath-taking mastery of the full content of the Bible and his painstaking attention to detail as he seeks to offer practical teaching on the cosmic story of God's salvation. David Maxwell provides readers with the first complete English translation of the text since the nineteenth century. It rests on Pusey's critical edition of the Greek text and puts on display Cyril's theological interpretation of Scripture and his appeal to the patristic tradition that preceded him. Today's readers will find
Jaco Pastorius: Jaco Pastorius
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Music of Asia Minor & Constantinopl
Music of Asia Minor & Constantinopl [CD]
Rome Constantinople Moscow
This is a compilation of essays on various historical and theological issues which discuss aspects of the estrangement between the two halves of the Christian world and present an evaluation of several attempts at healing the schism. It incluudes ...
Murder in Constantinople
A gripping, immersive historical murder mystery in which a wayward boy from London's East End is pulled into the hunt for a serial killer on the eve of the Crimean War London, 1854. Twenty-one-year-old Ben Canaan attracts trouble wherever h...
Rome and Constantinople
Imperial Rome and Christian Constantinople were both astonishingly large cities with over-sized appetites that served as potent symbols of the Roman Empire and its rulers. Esteemed historian Raymond Van Dam draws upon a wide array of evidence to r...
On Secret Service East of Constantinople
Under the banner of a Holy War, masterminded in Berlin and unleashed from Constantinople, the Germans and the Turks set out in 1914 to foment violent revolutionary uprisings against the British in India and the Russians in Central Asia. It was a n...
Constantinople: In the Footsteps of Rumi
Constantinople: In the Footsteps of Rumi [CD]
Constantinople
As Christian spaces and agents assumed prominent positions in civic life, the end of the long span of the fourth century was marked by large-scale religious change. Churches had overtaken once-thriving pagan temples, old civic priesthoods were replaced by prominent bishops, and the rituals of the city were directed toward the Christian God. Such changes were particularly pronounced in the newly established city of Constantinople, where elites from various groups contended to control civic and imperial religion. Rebecca Stephens Falcasantos argues that imperial Christianity was in fact a manifestation of traditional Roman religious structures. In particular, she explores how deeply established habits of ritual engagement in shared social spaces—ones that resonated with imperial ideology and appealed to the memories of previous generations—constructed meaning to create a new imperial religious identity. By examining three dynamics—ritual performance, rhetoric around violence, and the
Pastorius Jaco: Word Of Mouth
Pastorius Jaco: Word Of Mouth [CD]
Pastorius Jaco: Word of Mouth
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Jaco Pastorius
Teaching method entirely dedicated to the study of the greatest bass player in history, Jaco Pastorius. It will be the continuation of my previous collection with about 60 of his bass transcriptions. (All the info here ) Chapters and topics (all i...
Jaco Pastorius
Why a third book dedicated to Jaco? More than legitimate question! The fact is that, in my opinion, not even a hundred would be enough to study a musician of such importance in depth! After publishing my collection of 60 transcripts, many colleagu...
Summary of James Nestor's Breath
Get the Summary of James Nestor's Breath in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book.Original book introduction: Journalist James Nestor travels the world to figure out what went wrong and how to fix it. The answers a...
Pastorius Jaco: The Essential Jaco Pastorius
Pastorius Jaco: The Essential Jaco Pastorius [2 CD]
Pastorius Jaco: Jaco Pastorius 1976 (Rem)
Pastorius Jaco: Jaco Pastorius 1976 (Rem) [CD]
The Fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans
The Fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans
In Search of Constantinople
"The conspirators were dressed as priests. Daggers under their arms, they blended into the crowd of clergymen who gathered in front of the Ivory Gate after dark. During the third watch of the night, they made their way into the Great Palace with the rest.
From Byzantium to Constantinople
From Byzantium to Constantinople
Constantinople AD 717-18
The siege of Constantinople in AD 717-18 was the supreme crisis of Western civilization. The Byzantine Empire had been reeling under the onslaught of Arabic imperialism since the death of the Prophet, whilst Jihadist armies had detached Syria, Pal...
