Constantine Porphyrogennetos The Book Of Ceremonies

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 912 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004344921

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Constantine Porphyrogennetos - The Book of Ceremonies by Anonim Pdf

This is the first modern language translation of the entire text of the tenth-century Greek Book of Ceremonies (De ceremoniis) , a work compiled and edited by the Byzantine emperor Constantine VII (905-959). It preserves material from the fifth century through to the 960s. Chapters deal with diverse subjects of concern to the emperor including the role of the court, secular and ecclesiastical ceremonies, processions within the Palace and through Constantinople to its churches, the imperial tombs, embassies, banquets and dress, the role of the demes, hippodrome festivals with chariot races, imperial appointments, the hierarchy of the Byzantine administration, the equipping of expeditions, including to recover Crete from the Arabs, and the lists of ecclesiastical provinces and bishoprics.

Author : Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus (Emperor of the East)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 870 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Byzantine Empire
ISBN : 1876503424

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The Book of Ceremonies by Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus (Emperor of the East) Pdf

"Ostensibly Constantine was the author of the Book of Ceremonies....His purpose...was to 'save from oblivion' knowledge that had become faded and fragmented through a period of neglect and was in danger of disappearing altogether. He was concerned that the imperial ceremonial should be well ordered so that it would bring renown to the emperor and the senate...reflecting 'the harmonious movement of the creator in relation to the whole.' To this end it was necessary to collect the records of ancestral customs and current practices from many sources and to arrange these in an accessible form in simple language both for his own use and for future generations...."--Introduction, p. xxiii.

Author : Niels Gaul,Volker-Lorenz Menze,Csanád Bálint
Publisher : Harrassowitz
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Byzantine Empire
ISBN : 3447109297

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Center, Province and Periphery in the Age of Constantine VII Porphyrogennetos by Niels Gaul,Volker-Lorenz Menze,Csanád Bálint Pdf

This comprehensive volume offers new insights into a seminal period of medieval Eastern Roman imperial history: the rule of Constantine VII Porphyrogennetos (913/945-959). Its fifteen chapters are organized around the concepts of center, province and periphery and take the reader from the splendor of Constantinople to the fringes of the empire. They examine life in the imperial city in the age of Constantine VII, the cultural revivals in Byzantium and the Carolingian West, as well as the emperor's historiographical projects, including his historical excerpts and the famous Book of Ceremonies. Entering the sphere of the provinces, the authors explore visual messages on the coinage of Romanos I Lekapenos and Constantine Porphyrogennetos and its circulation through the provinces, provincial legal culture in the tenth-century empire, and offer a new analysis of Constantine VII's two military harangues. Spotlights on the empire's periphery include chapters on borderland trade with the Muslim world, a compelling new theory of the untimely deaths of the children of King Hugh of Italy, and the origins of medieval Croatia in relation to information gained from Constantine VII's De administrando imperio. The ?nal chapter offers intriguing insights into Constantine VII's legacy and reception, from later middle Byzantine historiography via the Renaissance editions of the emperor's treatises to Bavarian King Louis II's Constantinople-inspired building projects. The volume combines leading scholars and new voices and contains survey chapters with detailed case studies.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 603 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004258150

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Court Ceremonies and Rituals of Power in Byzantium and the Medieval Mediterranean by Anonim Pdf

Publicly performed rituals and ceremonies form an essential part of medieval political practice and court culture. This applies not only to western feudal societies, but also to the linguistically and culturally highly diversified environment of Byzantium and the Mediterranean basin. The continuity of Roman traditions and cross-fertilization between various influences originating from Constantinople, Armenia, the Arab-Muslim World, and western kingdoms and naval powers provide the framework for a distinct sphere of ritual expression and ceremonial performance. This collective volume, placing Byzantium into a comparative perspective between East and West, examines transformative processes from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages, succession procedures in different political contexts, phenomena of cross-cultural appropriation and exchange, and the representation of rituals in art and literature. Contributors are Maria Kantirea, Martin Hinterberger, Walter Pohl, Andrew Marsham, Björn Weiler, Eric J. Hanne, Antonia Giannouli, Jo Van Steenbergen, Stefan Burkhardt, Ioanna Rapti, Jonathan Shepard, Panagiotis Agapitos, Henry Maguire, Christine Angelidi and Margaret Mullett.

Author : Jaume Aurell,Jaume Aurell i Cardona
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108840248

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Medieval Self-Coronations by Jaume Aurell,Jaume Aurell i Cardona Pdf

The first systematic study of the practice of royal self-coronations from late antiquity to the present.

Author : Shaun Tougher
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 709 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429590467

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The Emperor in the Byzantine World by Shaun Tougher Pdf

The subject of the emperor in the Byzantine world may seem likely to be a well-studied topic but there is no book devoted to the emperor in general covering the span of the Byzantine empire. Of course there are studies on individual emperors, dynasties and aspects of the imperial office/role, but there remains no equivalent to Fergus Millar’s The Emperor in the Roman World (from which the proposed volume takes inspiration for its title and scope). The oddity of a lack of a general study of the Byzantine emperor is compounded by the fact that a series of books devoted to Byzantine empresses was published in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Thus it is appropriate to turn the spotlight on the emperor. Themes covered by the contributions include: questions of dynasty and imperial families; the imperial court and the emperor’s men; imperial duties and the emperor as ruler; imperial literature (the emperor as subject and author); and the material emperor, including imperial images and spaces. The volume fills a need in the field and the market, and also brings new and cutting-edge approaches to the study of the Byzantine emperor. Although the volume cannot hope to be a comprehensive treatment of the emperor in the Byzantine world it aims to cover a broad chronological and thematic span and to play a vital part in setting the agenda for future work. The subject of the Byzantine emperor has also an obvious relevance for historians working on rulership in other cultures and periods.

Author : Elena N. Boeck
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-09
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781107085817

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Imagining the Byzantine Past by Elena N. Boeck Pdf

The first comparative, cross-cultural study of medieval illustrated histories that engages in a direct, confrontational dialogue with Byzantine historical memory.

Author : Elena N. Boeck
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-29
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781107197275

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The Bronze Horseman of Justinian in Constantinople by Elena N. Boeck Pdf

Biography of the medieval Mediterranean's most cross-culturally significant sculptural monument, the tallest in the pre-modern world.

Author : Roland Betancourt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781108491396

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Performing the Gospels in Byzantium by Roland Betancourt Pdf

Tracing the Gospel text from script to illustration to recitation, explores the ritual and architectural context of illuminated manuscripts.

Author : Judith Herrin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691153216

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Unrivalled Influence by Judith Herrin Pdf

Explores the exceptional roles that women played in the vibrant cultural and political life of medieval Byzantium. Drawing on a diverse range of sources, this title focuses on the importance of marriage in imperial statecraft, the tense coexistence of empresses in the imperial court, and the critical relationships of mothers and daughters.

Author : Salvatore Gaspa,CŽcile Michel,Marie-Louise Nosch
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Mediterranean Region
ISBN : 9781609621124

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Textile Terminologies from the Orient to the Mediterranean and Europe, 1000 BC to 1000 AD by Salvatore Gaspa,CŽcile Michel,Marie-Louise Nosch Pdf

The papers in this volume derive from the conference on textile terminology held in June 2014 at the University of Copenhagen. Around 50 experts from the fields of Ancient History, Indo-European Studies, Semitic Philology, Assyriology, Classical Archaeology, and Terminology from twelve different countries came together at the Centre for Textile Research, to discuss textile terminology, semantic fields of clothing and technology, loan words, and developments of textile terms in Antiquity. They exchanged ideas, research results, and presented various views and methods. This volume contains 35 chapters, divided into five sections: - Textile terminologies across the ancient Near East and the Southern Levant - Textile terminologies in Europe and Egypt - Textile terminologies in metaphorical language and poetry - Textile terminologies: examples from China and Japan - Technical terms of textiles and textile tools and methodologies of classifications

Author : Henry Maguire
Publisher : Dumbarton Oaks
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0884023087

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Byzantine Court Culture from 829 to 1204 by Henry Maguire Pdf

The imperial court in Constantinople is central to the outsider's vision of Byzantium. However, in spite of its fame in literature and scholarship, there have been few attempts to analyze the court in its entirety as a phenomenon. These studies provide a unified composition by presenting Byzantine courtly life in all its interconnected facets.

Author : Arnold Toynbee
Publisher : London ; New York : Oxford University Press
Page : 804 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UVA:X000090700

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Constantine Porphyrogenitus and His World by Arnold Toynbee Pdf

Author : J. B. Bury
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108081504

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The Imperial Administrative System in the Ninth Century by J. B. Bury Pdf

This 1911 work is an edition of and commentary on a ninth-century guide to Byzantine precedence and court hierarchy.

Author : Cecily J. Hilsdale
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-02-20
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781107033306

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Byzantine Art and Diplomacy in an Age of Decline by Cecily J. Hilsdale Pdf

Questions how political decline refigures the visual culture of empire by examining the imperial image and the gift in later Byzantium (1261-1453). Provides a more nuanced account of medieval artistic cultural exchange that considers the temporal dimensions of power and the changing fates of empires.