Product Description: This volume brings together in one compass the Orthodox Churches - the ecumenical patriarchate of Constantinople and the Russian, Armenian, Ethiopian, Egyptian and Syrian Churches. It follows their fortunes from the late Middle Ages until modern times - exactly the period when their history has been most neglected...read more

Details how the cultural inheritors of Rome, Islam, Christianity, the Orthodox church, and a scared monarchy struggled to coexist in Constantinople by documenting the evolution and character of Byzantium's art, society, and politics, and revealing the critical role Constantinople played in linking the world of antiquity with that of the divided Middle Ages. (view table of contents)

In this major study the theme of "church and society" provides a means of examining the condition of the Byzantine Empire at an important period of its history, up to and well beyond the fall of Constantinople in 1204. (view table of contents)

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Presents the biographies of over 100 composers and critical analyses of over 1,000 compositions arranged in chronological order from 1300-1900