Tastes of Byzantium: The Cuisine of a Legendary Empire

Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire

✍ Herrin, Judith 📂 Fiction 📅 2006 🏛 Penguin UK 🌐 English ⚖ 1 MB

Byzantium. The name evokes grandeur and exoticism--gold, cunning, and complexity. In this unique book, Judith Herrin unveils the riches of a quite different civilization. Avoiding a standard chronological account of the Byzantine Empire's millennium--long history, she identifies the fundamental ques

Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire

✍ Herrin, Judith 📂 Fiction 📅 2001 🏛 Princeton University Press 🌐 English ⚖ 6 MB

In the eighth and ninth centuries, three Byzantine empresses--Irene, Euphrosyne, and Theodora--changed history. Their combined efforts restored the veneration of icons, saving Byzantium from a purely symbolic and decorative art and ensuring its influence for centuries to come. In this exhilarating

Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire

✍ Herrin, Judith 📂 Fiction 📅 2001 🏛 Princeton University Press 🌐 English ⚖ 1 MB

In the eighth and ninth centuries, three Byzantine empresses--Irene, Euphrosyne, and Theodora--changed history. Their combined efforts restored the veneration of icons, saving Byzantium from a purely symbolic and decorative art and ensuring its influence for centuries to come. In this exhilarating

Reflections on a Legendary Contribution

Reflections on a Legendary Contribution to the Empirical Study of Adolescence

✍ Roger J. R. Levesque 📂 Article 📅 2006 🏛 Springer US 🌐 English ⚖ 141 KB

The pasha of cuisine: a novel

✍ Ersin, Saygın;Wyers, Mark David 📂 Fiction 📅 2018 🏛 Arcade Publishing 🌐 English ⚖ 186 KB 👁 2 views

**A sweeping tale of love and the magic of food set during the Ottoman Empire.** A Pasha of Cuisine is a rare talent in Ottoman lore. Only two, maybe three are born with such a gift every few centuries. A natural master of gastronomy, he is the sovereign genius who reigns over aromas and flavors an

Epistemic foundations of cuisine: A soci

Epistemic foundations of cuisine: A socio-cognitive study of the configuration of cuisine in historical perspective

✍ Vanina Leschziner 📂 Article 📅 2006 🏛 Springer Netherlands 🌐 English ⚖ 349 KB