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Author : M. T. G. Humphreys
Publisher : Oxford Studies in Byzantium
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198701576
Revision of author's thesis (doctoral) -- Cambridge University, 2012.
Author : Mike Humphreys
Publisher : Brill's Companions to the Chri
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Art
ISBN : 9004339906
"For more than a millennium these ritual damnations of those who argue against the adoration of icons in Christian worship have been proclaimed by the Orthodox Church on the first Sunday of Lent, when the "Feast of Orthodoxy" is celebrated. They are only one part of a document called The Synodikon of Orthodoxy, whose reading is the centre piece of the feast"--
Author : Jesse W. Torgerson
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2022-07-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004516854
The ninth-century Chronographia of George the Synkellos and Theophanes is the most influential historical text ever written in medieval Constantinople. Yet modern historians have never explained its popularity and power. This interdisciplinary study draws on new manuscript evidence to finally animate the Chronographia’s promise to show attentive readers the present meaning of the past. Begun by one of the Roman emperor’s most trusted and powerful officials in order to justify a failed revolt, the project became a shockingly ambitious re-writing of time itself—a synthesis of contemporary history, philosophy, and religious practice into a politicized retelling of the human story. Even through radical upheavals of the Byzantine political landscape, the Chronographia’s unique historical vision again and again compelled new readers to chase after the elusive Ends of Time.
Author : Edward Cavanagh
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 633 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004431249
Together, the chapters in Empire and Legal Thought make the case for seeing the history of international legal thought and empires against the background of broad geopolitical, diplomatic, administrative, intellectual, religious, and commercial changes over thousands of years.
Author : Douglas Whalin
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030609061
This book asks how the inhabitants and neighbours of the Eastern Roman Empire understand their identity as Romans in the centuries following the emergence of Islam as a world-religion. Its answers lie in exploring the nature of change and continuity of social structures, self-representation, and boundaries as markers of belonging to the Roman group in the period from circa AD 650 to 850. Early medieval Romanness was integral to the Roman imperial project; its local utility as an identifier was shaped by a given community’s relationship with Constantinople, the capital of the Roman state. This volume argues that there was fundamental continuity of Roman identity from Late Antiquity through these centuries into later periods. Many transformations which are ascribed to the Romans of this era have been subjectively assigned by outsiders, separated by time or space, and are not born out by the sources. This finding dovetails with other recent historical works re-evaluating the early medieval Eastern Roman polity and its ideology.
Author : Natasha Hodgson,Amy Fuller,John McCallum,Nicholas Morton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429835995
This volume seeks to increase understanding of the origins, ideology, implementation, impact, and historiography of religion and conflict in the medieval and early modern periods. The chapters examine ideas about religion and conflict in the context of text and identity, church and state, civic environments, marriage, the parish, heresy, gender, dialogues, war and finance, and Holy War. The volume covers a wide chronological period, and the contributors investigate relationships between religion and conflict from the seventh to eighteenth centuries ranging from Byzantium to post-conquest Mexico. Religious expressions of conflict at a localised level are explored, including the use of language in legal and clerical contexts to influence social behaviours and the use of religion to legitimise the spiritual value of violence, rationalising the enforcement of social rules. The collection also examines spatial expressions of religious conflict both within urban environments and through travel and pilgrimage. With both written and visual sources being explored, this volume is the ideal resource for upper-level undergraduates, postgraduates, and researchers of religion and military, political, social, legal, cultural, or intellectual conflict in medieval and early modern worlds.
Author : Peter Linehan,Janet L. Nelson,Marios Costambeys
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 876 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351592284
Ranging from Connacht to Constantinople and from Tynemouth to Timbuktu, the forty-four contributors to The Medieval World seek to bring the Middle Ages to life, offering definitive appraisals of the distinctive features of the period. This second edition includes six additional chapters, covering the Byzantine empire, illuminated manuscripts, the 'ésprit laïque' of the late middle ages, saints and martyrs, the papal chancery and scholastic thought. Chapters are arranged thematically within four parts: 1. Identities, Selves and Others 2. Beliefs, Social Values and Symbolic Order 3. Power and Power Structures 4. Elites, Organisations and Groups The Medieval World presents the reader with an authoritative account of original scholarship across the medieval millennium and provides essential reading for all students of the subject.
Author : Claudia Rapp,Matthew Kinloch,Dirk Krausmüller,Ekaterini Mitsiou,Ilias Nesseris,Christodoulos Papavarnavas,Johannes Preiser-Kapeller,Giulia Rossetto,Rustam Shukurov,Grigori Simeonov
Publisher : V&R unipress
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9783737013413
Mobility and migration were not uncommon in Byzantium, as is true for all societies. Yet, scholarship is only beginning to pay attention to these phenomena. This book presents in English translation a wide array of relevant source texts from ca. 650 to ca. 1450 originally written in medieval Greek: from administrative records, saints’ lives and letters by churchmen to ego-documents by ambassadors and historical narratives by court historians. Each source text is accompanied by a detailed introduction, commentary and further bibliography, thus making the book accessible to both scholars and students and laying the groundwork for future research on the internal dynamics of Byzantine society.
Author : Mike Humphreys
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-27
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789004462007
Twelve scholars contextualize and critically examine the key debates about the controversy over icons and their veneration that would fundamentally shape Byzantium and Orthodox Christianity.
Author : John Haldon
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2005-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780750956734
Originally the eastern half of the mighty Roman Empire, Byzantium grew to be one of the longest-surviving empires in world history, spanning nine centuries and three continents. It was a land of contrasts – from the glittering centre at Constantinople, to the rural majority, to the heartland of the Orthodox Church – and one surrounded by enemies: Persians, Arabs and Ottoman Turks to the east, Slavs and Bulgars to the north, Saracens and Normans to the west. Written by one of the world's leading experts on Byzantine history, Byzantium: A History tells the chequered story of a historical enigma, from its birth out of the ashes of Rome in the third century to its era-defining fall at the hands of the Ottoman Turks in 1453.
Author : Benjamin Anderson,Mirela Ivanova
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2023-05-26
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780271095899
Is Byzantine Studies a colonialist discipline? Rather than provide a definitive answer to this question, this book defines the parameters of the debate and proposes ways of thinking about what it would mean to engage seriously with the field’s political and intellectual genealogies, hierarchies, and forms of exclusion. In this volume, scholars of art, history, and literature address the entanglements, past and present, among the academic discipline of Byzantine Studies and the practice and legacies of European colonialism. Starting with the premise that Byzantium and the field of Byzantine studies are simultaneously colonial and colonized, the chapters address topics ranging from the material basis of philological scholarship and its uses in modern politics to the colonial plunder of art and its consequences for curatorial practice in the present. The book concludes with a bibliography that serves as a foundation for a coherent and systematic critical historiography. Bringing together insights from scholars working in different disciplines, regions, and institutions, Is Byzantine Studies a Colonialist Discipline? urges practitioners to reckon with the discipline’s colonialist, imperialist, and white supremacist history. In addition to the editors, the contributors to this volume include Andrea Myers Achi, Nathanael Aschenbrenner, Bahattin Bayram, Averil Cameron, Stephanie R. Caruso, Şebnem Dönbekci, Hugh G. Jeffery, Anthony Kaldellis, Matthew Kinloch, Nicholas S. M. Matheou, Maria Mavroudi, Zeynep Olgun, Arietta Papaconstantinou, Jake Ransohoff, Alexandra Vukovich, Elizabeth Dospěl Williams, and Arielle Winnik.
Author : James Morton
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198861140
Byzantine Religious Law in Medieval Italy is a historical study of manuscripts containing Byzantine canon law produced after the Norman conquest of southern Italy, exploring how and why the Greek Christians of the region persisted in using them so long after the end of Byzantine rule.
Author : Walter Pohl,Rutger Kramer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190067946
"Empires are not an under-researched topic. Recently, there has been a veritable surge in comparative and conceptual studies, not least of pre-modern empires. The distant past can tell us much about the fates of empires that may still be relevant today, and contemporary historians as well as the general public are generally aware of that. Tracing the general development of an empire, we can discern a kind imperial dynamic which follows the momentum of expansion, relies on the structures and achievements of the formative period for a while, and tends to be caught in a downward spiral at some point. Yet single cases differ so much that a general model is hardly ever sufficient.There is in fact little consensus about what exactly constitutes an empire, and it has become standard in publications about empires to note the profusion of definitions.Some refer to size-for instance, 'greater than a million square kilometers', as Peter Turchin suggested. Apart from that, many scholars offer more or less extensive lists of qualitative criteria. Some of these criteria reflect the imperial dynamic, for instance, the imposition of some kind of unity through 'an imperial project', which allows moving broad populations 'from coercion through co-optation to cooperation and identification'"--
Author : Heikki Pihlajamäki,Markus D. Dubber,Mark Godfrey
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1264 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780191088377
European law, including both civil law and common law, has gone through several major phases of expansion in the world. European legal history thus also is a history of legal transplants and cultural borrowings, which national legal histories as products of nineteenth-century historicism have until recently largely left unconsidered. The Handbook of European Legal History supplies its readers with an overview of the different phases of European legal history in the light of today's state-of-the-art research, by offering cutting-edge views on research questions currently emerging in international discussions. The Handbook takes a broad approach to its subject matter both nationally and systemically. Unlike traditional European legal histories, which tend to concentrate on "heartlands" of Europe (notably Italy and Germany), the Europe of the Handbook is more versatile and nuanced, taking into consideration the legal developments in Europe's geographical "fringes" such as Scandinavia and Eastern Europe. The Handbook covers all major time periods, from the ancient Greek law to the twenty-first century. Contributors include acknowledged leaders in the field as well as rising talents, representing a wide range of legal systems, methodologies, areas of expertise and research agendas.
Author : Alan Strathern
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108477147
This ground-breaking study sets out a new understanding of transformations in the interaction between religion and political authority throughout history.