Overview
- Presents a systematic and interdisciplinary account of the history and legend of the Avar attack on Constantinople
- Examines how the siege of Constantinople secured the city's status as the spiritual centre of the Byzantine Empire
- Analyses how the siege transformed from being an historical event to being a timeless myth
Part of the book series: New Approaches to Byzantine History and Culture (NABHC)
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This book examines the Avar siege of Constantinople in 626, one of the most significant events of the seventh century, and the impact and repercussions this had on the political, military, economic and religious structures of the Byzantine Empire. The siege put an end to the power politics and hegemony of the Avars in South East Europe and was the first attempt to destroy Constantinople, the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire. Besides the far-reaching military factors, the siege had deeper ideological effects on the mentality of the inhabitants of the Empire, and it helped establish Constantinople as the spiritual centre of eastern Christianity protected by God and his Mother. Martin Hurbanič discusses, from a chronological and thematic perspective, the process through which the historical siege was transformed into a timeless myth, and examines the various aspects which make the event a unique historical moment in the history of mankind – a moment in which the modern story overlaps with the legend with far-reaching effects, not only in the Byzantine Empire but also in other European countries.
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Martin Hurbanič is Associate Professor at Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Avar Siege of Constantinople in 626
Book Subtitle: History and Legend
Authors: Martin Hurbanič
Series Title: New Approaches to Byzantine History and Culture
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16684-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-16683-0Published: 15 August 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-16686-1Published: 16 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-16684-7Published: 25 July 2019
Series ISSN: 2730-9363
Series E-ISSN: 2730-9371
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 361
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations, 9 illustrations in colour
Topics: History of Medieval Europe, History of Military, Social History, History of Religion, Cultural History