Published 1942
by Pub. for the International Institute of African languages & cultures by the Oxford university press in London, New York [etc.] .
Written in
Edition Notes
Bibliographical foot-notes. Bibliography: p. 404.
| Statement | by S. F. Nadel, with a foreword by Right Hon. Lord Lugard. |
| Classifications | |
|---|---|
| LC Classifications | DT515 .N27 |
| The Physical Object | |
| Pagination | xiv p., 1 l., 420 p. incl. illus., tables, diagrs. front., plates, maps (part fold.) |
| Number of Pages | 420 |
| ID Numbers | |
| Open Library | OL6450990M |
| LC Control Number | 43006377 |
A Black Byzantium is a study of the Nupe of Northern Nigeria, based on intensive field research carried out by Nadel in and as a Research Fellow of the International African Institute. The economic and political complexity of their kingdom evoked comparison with 4/5(2). Aidan, an Irish monk, is on a pilgrimage to Byzantium, but a shipwreck and marauding Vikings change Aidan's destiny. Aidan's journey takes the reader far beyond Byzantium into unbelievable situations and circumstances. The core of the book for me was Aidan's loss of /5. Byzantium Chapter One. I saw Byzantium in a dream, and knew that I would die there. That vast city seemed to me a living thing: a great golden lion, or a crested serpent coiled upon a rock, beautiful and deadly. With trembling steps I walked alone /5(52). Additional Physical Format: Online version: Nadel, S.F. (Siegfried Frederick), Black Byzantium. London, New York [etc.] Pub. for the International Institute of African languages & cultures by the Oxford University Press,
The first book on your list, Fourteen Byzantine Rulers by Michael Psellus, is an autobiographical history. What made you choose this work? I decided that it was very important to have a book by a Byzantine, because you get a much stronger sense of the culture and the atmosphere of Byzantium by reading what an individual who lived then wrote. Black Germany. History of the Black Holy Roman Empire (2) The fall of Rome. The date for the Fall of Rome is conventionally acceptable because that's when the Germanic Odoacer deposed the last Roman emperor to rule the western part of the Roman Empire. The bestselling author of the Pendragon Cycle now tells the story of Aidan, a 10th-century Irish monk sent to take the Book of Kells to the Byzantine Emperor in Constantinople. Separated from his fell. A Black Byzantium. DOI link for A Black Byzantium. A Black Byzantium bookAuthor: S. F. Nadel.
A new venture from the author of the Pendragon Cycle (The Endless Knot, , etc.), though here the fantasy elements— ghosts, angels, some prophetic dreams—are all but imperceptible. In the tenth century, the Irish monks of Kells have prepared a magnificent illuminated manuscript, its cover splendid with silver and jewels. This Book of Kells will be presented to the Holy Roman Emperor at Author: Stephen R. Lawhead. DOI link for A Black Byzantium. A Black Byzantium book. The Kingdom of Nupe in Nigeria. A Black Byzantium. DOI link for A Black Byzantium. A Black Byzantium book. The Kingdom of Nupe in Nigeria. By S. F. Nadel. Edition 1st Edition. First Published eBook Published 3 September Pub. location : S. F. Nadel. Byzantium (/ b ɪ ˈ z æ n t i ə m,-ʃ ə m / or Byzantion; (Ancient Greek: Βυζάντιον, romanized: Byzántion, Latin: Byzantium) was an ancient Greek city in classical antiquity that became known as Constantinople in late antiquity and is now Greek name Byzantion and its Latinization Byzantium continued to be used as a name of Constantinople during the Byzantine Empire. Originally published in this now classic book is a study of the Nupe of Northern Nigeria. The economic and political complexity of their kingdom evoked comparisons with the civilization of Byzantium. The detailed description and analysis of their social life and political institutions was the first study of a Muslim Emirate in Nigeria and as.
