Byzantium: Beyond the Cliché - A Conversation with Maria Mavroudi
By Howard Burton
Length2h 15m
About this audiobook
This book is based on an in-depth conversation between Howard Burton and Maria Mavroudi, Professor of History at UC Berkeley. Maria Mavroudi specializes in the study of the Byzantine Empire and this wide-ranging conversation explores her extensive research on the Byzantine Empire and how it has repeatedly been undervalued by historians despite its having been a military and cultural powerhouse for more than a millennium.
This carefully-edited book includes an introduction, Beyond the High-School Narrative, and questions for discussion at the end of each chapter:
I. Becoming A Byzantinist - Inspiration and motivation
II. Historical Background - Byzantine beginnings
III. The High-School Narrative - History as a cultural mirror
IV. Recovering Truth - A never-ending goal
V. Building Knowledge - Standing on the shoulders of giants
VI. Annotated Discoveries - Leo the Mathematician, for example
VII. A Translational Discovery - From Arabic to Greek, surprisingly
VIII. Arrows of Causality - Consequential greatness
IX. Decline - A matter of opinion?
X. Extracting Meaning - Interpreting human experiences
XI. Ever-Moving Targets - Arab-Greek bilingualism and its implications
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Audiobook details
GenreHistory
Length2 hrs 15 mins
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FormateBook with Audio
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Contents
15VI. Annotated Discoveries
2A Note on the Text
16Questions for Discussion:
3Introduction
17VII. A Translational Discovery
4The Conversation
18Questions for Discussion:
5I. Becoming A Byzantinist
19VIII. Arrows of Causality
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6Questions for Discussion:
20Questions for Discussion:
7II. Historical Background
21IX. Decline
8Questions for Discussion:
22Questions for Discussion:
9III. The High-School Narrative
23X. Extracting Meaning
10Questions for Discussion:
24Questions for Discussion:
11IV. Recovering Truth
25XI. Ever-Moving Targets
12Questions for Discussion:
26Questions for Discussion:
13V. Building Knowledge
27Continuing the Conversation
14Questions for Discussion:
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