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Author : Brooke Shilling,Paul Stephenson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107105997
This collection explores the ancient fountains of Byzantium, Constantinople and Istanbul, reviving the senses of past water cultures.
Author : Dylan Kelby Rogers
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004368972
This article seeks to define ‘water culture’ in Roman society by examining literary, epigraphic, and archaeological evidence, while understanding modern trends in scholarship related to the study of Roman water.
Author : Eirini Panou
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317036784
The Cult of St Anna in Byzantium is the first undertaking in Byzantine research to study the phenomenon of St Anna’s cult from the sixth to the fifteenth centuries. It was prompted by the need to enrich our knowledge of a female saint who had already been studied in the West but remained virtually unknown in Eastern Christendom. It focuses on a figure little-studied in scholarship and examines the formation, establishment and promotion of an apocryphal saint who made her way to the pantheon of Orthodox saints. Visual and material culture, relics and texts track the gradual social and ideological transformation of Byzantium from early Christianity until the fifteenth century. This book not only examines various aspects of early Christian and Byzantine civilisation, but also investigates how the cult of saints greatly influenced cultural changes in order to suit theological, social and political demands. The cult of St Anna influenced many diverse elements of Christian life in Constantinople, including the creation of sacred spaces and the location of haghiasmata (fountains of holy water) in the city; imperial patronage; the social reception of St Anna’s story; and relic narratives. This monograph breaks new ground in explaining how and why Byzantium and the Orthodox Church attributed scriptural authority to a minor figure known only from a non-canonical work.
Author : Roland Betancourt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781108491396
Tracing the Gospel text from script to illustration to recitation, explores the ritual and architectural context of illuminated manuscripts.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2024-03-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004689350
How did humans and the environment impact each other in the medieval Eastern Mediterranean? How did global climatic fluctuations affect the Byzantine Empire over the course of a millennium? And how did the transmission of pathogens across long distances affect humans and animals during this period? This book tackles these and other questions about the intersection of human and natural history in a systematic way. Bringing together analyses of historical, archaeological, and natural scientific evidence, specialists from across these fields have contributed to this volume to outline the new discipline of Byzantine environmental history. Contributors are: Johan Bakker, Henriette Baron, Chryssa Bourbou, James Crow, Michael J. Decker, Warren J. Eastwood, Dominik Fleitmann, John Haldon, Adam Izdebski, Eva Kaptijn, Jürg Luterbacher, Henry Maguire, Mischa Meier, Lee Mordechai, Jeroen Poblome, Johannes Preiser-Kapeller, Abigail Sargent, Peter Talloen, Costas Tsiamis, Ralf Vandam, Myrto Veikou, Sam White, and Elena Xoplaki
Author : Nikolas Bakirtzis,Luca Zavagno
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 719 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2024-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429515750
The Byzantine world contained many important cities throughout its empire. Although it was not ‘urban’ in the sense of the word today, its cities played a far more fundamental role than those of its European neighbors. This book, through a collection of twenty-four chapters, discusses aspects of, and different approaches to, Byzantine urbanism from the early to late Byzantine periods. It provides both a chronological and thematic perspective to the study of Byzantine cities, bringing together literary, documentary, and archival sources with archaeological results, material culture, art, and architecture, resulting in a rich synthesis of the variety of regional and sub-regional transformations of Byzantine urban landscapes. Organized into four sections, this book covers: Theory and Historiography, Geography and Economy, Architecture and the Built Environment, and Daily Life and Material Culture. It includes more specialized accounts that address the centripetal role of Constantinople and its broader influence across the empire. Such new perspectives help to challenge the historiographical balance between ‘margins and metropolis,’ and also to include geographical areas often regarded as peripheral, like the coastal urban centers of the Byzantine Mediterranean as well as cities on islands, such as Crete, Cyprus, and Sicily which have more recently yielded well-excavated and stratigraphically sound urban sites. The Routledge Handbook of the Byzantine City provides both an overview and detailed study of the Byzantine city to specialist scholars, students, and enthusiasts alike and, therefore, will appeal to all those interested in Byzantine urbanism and society, as well as those studying medieval society in general.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-06
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9789004392885
This book offers the first complete survey of the Byzantine poetic production (4th to 15th centuries). It examines the use of poetry in various sociocultural settings in Constantinople and various other centres of the Byzantine empire.
Author : Paul Stephenson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780190209063
Paul Stephenson twists together multiple strands to relate the cultural biography of a unique monument, the Serpent Column, which stands today in Istanbul 2500 years after it was raised at Delphi
Author : Lara Frentrop
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000997255
Thousands of intact ceramic bowls and plates as well as fragments made in the medieval Byzantine empire survive to this day. Decorated with figural and non-figural imagery applied in a variety of techniques and adorned with colourful paints and glazes, the vessels can tell us much about those who owned them and those who looked at them. In addition to innumerable ceramic vessels, a handful of precious metal bowls and plates survive from the period. Together, these objects make up the art of dining in medieval Byzantium. This art of dining was effervescent, at turns irreverent and deadly serious, visually stunning and fun. It is suggestive of ways in which those viewing the objects used a quotidian and biologically necessary (f)act – that of eating – to reflect on their lives and deaths, their aspirations and their realities. This book examines the ceramic and metal vessels in terms of the information offered on the foods eaten, the foods desired and their status; the spectacle of the banquet; the relationship between word and image in medieval Byzantium; the dangers of taste; the emergence of new moral and social ideals; and the use of dining as a tool in constructing and enforcing hierarchy. This book is of appeal to scholarly and non-scholarly audiences interested in the art and material culture of the medieval period and in the social history of food and eating.
Author : Paul Stephenson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2003-08-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521815304
The reign of Basil II (976-1025), the longest of any Byzantine emperor, has long been considered as a 'golden age', in which his greatest achievement was the annexation of Bulgaria. This, we have been told, was achieved through a long and bloody war of attrition which won Basil the grisly epithet Voulgartoktonos, 'the Bulgar-slayer'. In this new study Paul Stephenson argues that neither of these beliefs is true. Instead, Basil fought far more sporadically in the Balkans and his reputation as 'Bulgar-slayer' was created only a century and a half later. Thereafter the 'Bulgar-slayer' was periodically to play a galvanizing role for the Byzantines, returning to centre-stage as Greeks struggled to establish a modern nation state. As Byzantium was embraced as the Greek past by scholars and politicians, the 'Bulgar-slayer' became an icon in the struggle for Macedonia (1904-8) and the Balkan Wars (1912-13).
Author : Michael McCormick
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1990-06-29
Category : History
ISBN : 0521386594
The Roman triumph's resurgence is documented from the Tetrarchy through the end of the Macedonian dynasty in Byzantium and to Charlemagne's successors in the early medieval West.
Author : Leslie Brubaker,John Haldon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 943 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01-06
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780521430937
A major revisionist survey of this most elusive and fascinating period in medieval history.
Author : Hendrik W. Dey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-17
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781107069183
This book offers a new perspective on the evolution of cities across the Roman Empire in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages.
Author : Antony Robert Littlewood,Henry Maguire,Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn
Publisher : Dumbarton Oaks
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0884022803
Individual essays discuss Byzantine conceptions of paradise, the textual evidence for monastic horticulture, animal and game parks, herbs in medicinal pharmacy, and the famous illustrated copy of Dioskorides's herbal manual in Vienna. An opening chapter explores questions and observations from the point of view of a non-Byzantine garden historian, and the closing chapter suggests possible directions for future scholarship in the field.
Author : Elina Gertsman,Barbara H. Rosenwein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-31
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781107150386
The holy and the faithful -- The sinful and the spectral -- Daily life and its fictions -- Death and its aftermath
