Mistra, Byzantine Capital of the Peloponnese
Steven Runciman
ISBN 10: 0500250715 ISBN 13: 9780500250716
Published by Thames & Hudson, 1980
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Title: Mistra, Byzantine Capital of the Peloponnese
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Publication Date: 1980
Binding: Hardcover
Illustrator: Well-illustrated
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Well-illustrated (illustrator). First Edition. 1980 1st edition with B&W illustrations; tightly bound in oliva green cloth with gilt lettering and design to front and spine. Light wear to dust jacket edges. page fore-edges very faintly foxed; otherwise, a clean, tidy copy. Used - Very Good. VG hardback in VG dust jacket. Seller Inventory # BOOKS323351I
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Well-illustrated (illustrator). Book and DJ are solid VG, except for former owner's embossed stamp on flyleaf, and another former owner's book plate on inside front cover. Binding tight. Clean DJ now in Brodart. Seller Inventory # 18212
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Mistra : Byzantine capital of the Peloponnese / Steve Runciman
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Well-illustrated (illustrator). First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly dust-dulled dust wrapper. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description; 160 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. Subjects; Mistra (Greece) History. Byzantine Empire History, Military 1081-1453. Peloponnesus (Greece) History. Greece Antiquities, Byzantine. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 452926
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Hardcover. Condition: Like new. Dust Jacket Condition: Like new. Well-illustrated (illustrator). Green cloth covered hardcover with gilt lettering to spine and decoration to the front cover. Like new dust jacket. 8vo. (9.5 x 5.5 x 1 inches) Clean text free of marks or underlining. B&W photos and illustrations. Includes maps, bibliographic note, genealogical table and an index. 160 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. Mistra, the Byzantine capital of the Morea, or Peloponnese, whose ruins climb a foothill of the Taygetus mountains, was founded in the thirteenth century after the Frankish conquest of the peninsula. Sparta, a few miles away in the rich valley of the Eurotas, had been a famous city since the days of Helen of Troy and became the favourite residence of the Frankish princes. To protect it from the untamed mountain tribes, William II of Villehardouin, Prince of Achaea, built in I249 a great castle on the summit of the hill which came to be known as Mistra. Ten years later at a battle in northern Greece he was defeated and captured by the Byzantine Emperor; and the terms for his release included the cession of Mistra to the Byzantine Greeks. Soon afterwards Mistra became the capital of the growing Greek province of the Peloponnese. A city developed, to which the people of Sparta moved for greater protection during the continual warfare between the Franks and the Greeks. Princes of the Imperial family, with the title of Despot, were sent to govern the province. Under their rule Mistra became a notable centre of learning and the arts and a focal point for the cultural development of Europe as a whole. The Greek reconquest of the Peloponnese was only completed on the eve of the extinction of Byzantium by the Ottoman Turks and Mistra fell in 1460. Thenceforward its history was one of slow decline, till it was half-destroyed by Albanian irregulars in the late eighteenth century and finally devastated by Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt during the Greek War of Independence. For many years the President of the British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara, and a former Chairman of the Anglo-Hellenic League, Sir Steven Runciman is the foremost authority on Byzantine history and has written many highly acclaimed books on this period, including the History of the Crusades, which is widely regarded as a classic. Seller Inventory # 202561
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Well-illustrated (illustrator). Very minor shelfwear to DJ. Foxing to textblock. ; 160 pages; Mistra and the Byzantine Peloponnese constituted one of the most important (and thriving) of the Empire's surviving provinces. In the early 1400's, when the Turks had already reduced Constantinople itself to an island in an Ottoman sea, the Byzantines were successfully completing their reconquest of the Peloponnese from the descendants of the French knights who had seized it after Constantinople fell to the Fourth Crusade. Mistra remained Byzantine for seven years after the Turks conquered Constantinople itself; Sultan Mehmed II finally extinguished Byzantine rule there in 1460. Seller Inventory # 3358