Power And Representation In Byzantium

Author : Neil Churchill
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2024-01-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781003835585

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Throughout the history of Byzantium 65 emperors were dethroned and only 39 reigns ended peacefully. How might a usurper get away with murdering his predecessor? And how could a bloody act of regicide lead to one of the most glorious of all eras in Byzantium? These were questions that puzzled Michael Psellos as he looked back at Basil I’s assassination of Michael III and the origin of the Macedonian dynasty. Might the imperial art of Basil, his sons and grandson help to explain how the dynasty overcame its violent beginnings and secured the loyalty of its subjects? It has long been recognised that the early Macedonian emperors were active propagandists but royal art has usually been viewed thematically over the span of centuries. Official iconography has been understood to project imperial power in ways which were impersonal and unchanging. This book instead adopts a chronological approach and considers how Basil justified his seizure of power, and how his successors went on to articulate their own ideas about authority. It concludes that imperial art did at times reflect the personality of the emperor and the political demands of the moment, such as the need for an heir, the nature of court politics or the choice of successor. This innovative account of the forging of the Macedonian dynasty will appeal to those interested in how early medieval kings and emperors used art to create their own image, to differentiate themselves from rivals and to extend the boundaries of their personal power.

Author : Neil Churchill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Art, Byzantine
ISBN : 1032185945

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"Throughout the history of Byzantium 65 emperors were dethroned and only 39 reigns ended peacefully. How might a usurper get away with murdering his predecessor? And how could a bloody act of regicide lead to one of the most glorious of all eras in Byzantium? These were questions that puzzled Michael Psellos as he looked back at Basil I's assassination of Michael III and the origin of the Macedonian dynasty. Might the imperial art of Basil, his sons and grandson help to explain how the dynasty overcame its violent beginnings and secured the loyalty of its subjects? It has long been recognised that the early Macedonian emperors were active propagandists but royal art has usually been viewed thematically over the span of centuries. Official iconography has been understood to project imperial power in ways which were impersonal and unchanging. This book instead adopts a chronological approach and considers how Basil justified his seizure of power, and how his successors went on to articulate their own ideas about authority. It concludes that imperial art did at times reflect the personality of the emperor and the political demands of the moment, such as the need for an heir, the nature of court politics or the choice of successor. This innovative account of the forging of the Macedonian dynasty will appeal to those interested in how early medieval kings and emperors used art to create their own image, to differentiate themselves from rivals and to extend the boundaries of their personal power"--

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 603 pages
File Size : 45,9 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 : Anthony Kaldellis
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674967403

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The Byzantine Republic by Anthony Kaldellis Pdf

Scholars have long claimed that the Eastern Roman Empire, a Christian theocracy, bore little resemblance to ancient Rome. Here, Anthony Kaldellis reconnects Byzantium to its Roman roots, arguing that it was essentially a republic, with power exercised on behalf of, and sometimes by, Greek-speaking citizens who considered themselves fully Roman.

Author : Lynda Garland
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2002-01-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134756391

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Byzantine Empresses by Lynda Garland Pdf

Byzantine Empresses provides a series of biographical portraits of the most significant Byzantine women who ruled or shared the throne between 527 and 1204. It presents and analyses the available historical data in order to outline what these empresses did, what the sources thought they did, and what they wanted to do.

Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 13 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Art, Byzantine
ISBN : 9780300111415

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Byzantium, Faith, and Power (1261-1557) by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) Pdf

This volume publishes twelve papers that were delivered at an academic symposium held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, on April 16-18, 2004, in conjunction with the exhibition, "Byzantium: Faith and Power (1261-1557)" (held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art from March 23 to July 5, 2004).

Author : Aleksandr Petrovich Kazhdan,Giles Constable
Publisher : Dumbarton Oaks
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : History
ISBN : 0884021033

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People and Power in Byzantium by Aleksandr Petrovich Kazhdan,Giles Constable Pdf

Author : Aleksandr Petrovič Každan,Giles Constable
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Byzantine Empire
ISBN : OCLC:1014872229

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People and Power in Byzantium by Aleksandr Petrovič Každan,Giles Constable Pdf

Author : Michael Saxby,Dimiter Angelov
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317076933

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Power and Subversion in Byzantium by Michael Saxby,Dimiter Angelov Pdf

This volume addresses a theme of special significance for Byzantine studies. Byzantium has traditionally been deemed a civilisation which deferred to authority and set special store by orthodoxy, canon and proper order. Since 1982 when the distinguished Russian Byzantinist Alexander Kazhdan wrote that 'the history of Byzantine intellectual opposition has yet to be written', scholars have increasingly highlighted cases of subversion of 'correct practice' and 'correct belief' in Byzantium. This innovative scholarly effort has produced important results, although it has been hampered by the lack of dialogue across the disciplines of Byzantine studies. The 43rd Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies in 2010 drew together historians, art historians, and scholars of literature, religion and philosophy, who discussed shared and discipline-specific approaches to the theme of subversion. The present volume presents a selection of the papers delivered at the symposium enriched with specially commissioned contributions. Most papers deal with the period after the eleventh century, although early Byzantium is not ignored. Theoretical questions about the nature, articulation and limits of subversion are addressed within the frameworks of individual disciplines and in a larger context. The volume comes at a timely junction in the development of Byzantine studies, as interest in subversion and nonconformity in general has been rising steadily in the field.

Author : Michael Saxby,Dimiter Angelov
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317076926

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Power and Subversion in Byzantium by Michael Saxby,Dimiter Angelov Pdf

This volume addresses a theme of special significance for Byzantine studies. Byzantium has traditionally been deemed a civilisation which deferred to authority and set special store by orthodoxy, canon and proper order. Since 1982 when the distinguished Russian Byzantinist Alexander Kazhdan wrote that 'the history of Byzantine intellectual opposition has yet to be written', scholars have increasingly highlighted cases of subversion of 'correct practice' and 'correct belief' in Byzantium. This innovative scholarly effort has produced important results, although it has been hampered by the lack of dialogue across the disciplines of Byzantine studies. The 43rd Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies in 2010 drew together historians, art historians, and scholars of literature, religion and philosophy, who discussed shared and discipline-specific approaches to the theme of subversion. The present volume presents a selection of the papers delivered at the symposium enriched with specially commissioned contributions. Most papers deal with the period after the eleventh century, although early Byzantium is not ignored. Theoretical questions about the nature, articulation and limits of subversion are addressed within the frameworks of individual disciplines and in a larger context. The volume comes at a timely junction in the development of Byzantine studies, as interest in subversion and nonconformity in general has been rising steadily in the field.

Author : Barbara Hill
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015043801995

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Imperial Women in Byzantium, 1025-1204 by Barbara Hill Pdf

Covering the role of imperial women in the period of the Crusades, this text explores why they were able to wield immense power during the 11th century and yet lost their position of influence a century later. It looks at various themes including kinship and the use of marriage alliances.

Author : Catherine Holmes,Jonathan Shepard,Jo van Steenbergen,Björn Weiler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1009011138

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Political Culture in the Latin West, Byzantium and the Islamic World, c.700-c.1500 by Catherine Holmes,Jonathan Shepard,Jo van Steenbergen,Björn Weiler Pdf

This comparative study explores three key cultural and political spheres - the Latin west, Byzantium and the Islamic world from Central Asia to the Atlantic - roughly from the emergence of Islam to the fall of Constantinople. These spheres drew on a shared pool of late antique Mediterranean culture, philosophy and science, and they had monotheism and historical antecedents in common. Yet where exactly political and spiritual power lay, and how it was exercised, differed. This book focuses on power dynamics and resource-allocation among ruling elites; the legitimisation of power and property with the aid of religion; and on rulers' interactions with local elites and societies. Offering the reader route-maps towards navigating each sphere and grasping the fundamentals of its political culture, this set of parallel studies offers a timely and much needed framework for comparing the societies surrounding the medieval Mediterranean.

Author : Glenn A. Peers
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501775048

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Byzantine Media Subjects by Glenn A. Peers Pdf

Byzantine Media Subjects invites readers into a world replete with images—icons, frescoes, and mosaics filling places of worship, politics, and community. Glenn Peers asks readers to think themselves into a world where representation reigned and humans followed, and indeed were formed. Interrogating the fundamental role of representation in the making of the Byzantine human, Peers argues that Byzantine culture was (already) posthuman. The Byzantine experience reveals the extent to which media like icons, manuscripts, music, animals, and mirrors fundamentally determine humans. In the Byzantine world, representation as such was deeply persuasive, even coercive; it had the power to affect human relationships, produce conflict, and form self-perception. Media studies has made its subject the modern world, but this book argues for media having made historical subjects. Here, it is shown that media long ago also made Byzantine humans, defining them, molding them, mediating their relationship to time, to nature, to God, and to themselves.

Author : Helen C. Evans
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Art, Byzantine
ISBN : 0300199570

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Byzantium by Helen C. Evans Pdf

Author : Sarah T. Brooks,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art New York
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Art, Byzantine
ISBN : 1588392082

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Byzantium, Faith, and Power (1261-1557) by Sarah T. Brooks,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) Pdf