Sylvester Syropoulos On Politics And Culture In The Fifteenth Century Mediterranean

Author : Fotini Kondyli,Vera Andriopoulou,Eirini Panou,Mary B. Cunningham
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317047315

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Sylvester Syropoulos on Politics and Culture in the Fifteenth-Century Mediterranean by Fotini Kondyli,Vera Andriopoulou,Eirini Panou,Mary B. Cunningham Pdf

The Memoirs of Sylvester Syropoulos is a text written by a Βyzantine ecclesiastical official in the 15th century. Syropoulos participated in the Council for the union of the Greek and Latin Churches held in Ferrara and Florence, Italy, in 1438-1439. As a high-ranking official and an eye-witness of the union, he offers a unique perspective on this important political and religious event that would so decisively contribute to the political, military and religious development of Europe at the end of the Middle Ages. Experts in different fields - historians, philologists, art historians and archaeologists - have come together in this volume to explore the actions and motives of the various political and religious groups that participated in the council. With Syropoulos as their starting point, the contributors of this volume reconstruct the living conditions, cross-cultural interaction, artistic and commercial exchange in the 15th-century Mediterranean. At the same time, they discuss the text as an invaluable source for political and diplomatic affairs at that time, as a travel account, an eye-witness narrative and as a literary work. Emphasis is placed on Syropoulos’s Section IV where he describes the journey of the Byzantine delegation from Constantinople to Italy, their stay in Venice and in Ferrara, the diplomatic contacts with the doge and the pope, and finally the beginning of the council’s proceedings. An annotated English translation of the text is included as an appendix to the book. The papers bring out the richness of the information in Syropoulos’s writings about the people involved in the Council of Ferrara-Florence and especially the interaction among different social, religious and political groups throughout that event. His work is unique because it is a rare eye-witness account, deriving from personal experience, rather than an objective historical narrative.

Author : Fotini Kondyli,Vera Andriopoulou,Eirini Panou,Mary Cunningham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Byzantine Empire
ISBN : 1409474461

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Themes and Problems in Sylvester Syropoulos' Memoirs by Fotini Kondyli,Vera Andriopoulou,Eirini Panou,Mary Cunningham Pdf

Author : Leonora Neville
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107039988

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Guide to Byzantine Historical Writing by Leonora Neville Pdf

Makes the study of medieval Greek historical writing accessible by providing fundamental orientation and information.

Author : Pamela A. Patton and Maria Alessia Rossi
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780271095851

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Out of Bounds by Pamela A. Patton and Maria Alessia Rossi Pdf

Author : Angeliki Lymberopoulou
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 591 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351244930

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Cross-Cultural Interaction Between Byzantium and the West, 1204–1669 by Angeliki Lymberopoulou Pdf

The early modern Mediterranean was an area where many different rich cultural traditions came in contact with each other, and were often forced to co-exist, frequently learning to reap the benefits of co-operation. Orthodox, Roman Catholics, Muslims, Jews, and their interactions all contributed significantly to the cultural development of modern Europe. The aim of this volume is to address, explore, re-examine and re-interpret one specific aspect of this cross-cultural interaction in the Mediterranean – that between the Byzantine East and the (mainly Italian) West. The investigation of this interaction has become increasingly popular in the past few decades, not least due to the relevance it has for cultural exchanges in our present-day society. The starting point is provided by the fall of Constantinople to the troops of the Fourth Crusade in 1204. In the aftermath of the fall, a number of Byzantine territories came under prolonged Latin occupation, an occupation that forced Greeks and Latins to adapt their life socially and religiously to the new status quo. Venetian Crete developed one of the most fertile ‘bi-cultural’ societies, which evolved over 458 years. Its fall to the Ottoman Turks in 1669 marked the end of an era and was hence chosen as the end point for the conference. By sampling case studies from the most representative areas where this interaction took place, the volume highlights the process as well as the significance of its cultural development.

Author : Stephanie Rumpza
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2023-03-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781009317894

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Phenomenology of the Icon by Stephanie Rumpza Pdf

How can something finite mediate an infinite God? Weaving patristics, theology, art history, aesthetics, and religious practice with the hermeneutic phenomenology of Hans-George Gadamer and Jean-Luc Marion, Stephanie Rumpza proposes a new answer to this paradox by offering a fresh and original approach to the Byzantine icon. She demonstrates the power and relevance of the phenomenological method to integrate hermeneutic aesthetics and divine transcendence, notably how the material and visual dimensions of the icon are illuminated by traditional practices of prayer. Rumpza's study targets a problem that is a major fault line in the continental philosophy of religion – the integrity of finite beings I relation to a God that transcends them. For philosophers, her book demonstrates the relevance of a cherished religious practice of Eastern Christianity. For art historians, she proposes a novel philosophical paradigm for understanding the icon as it is approached in practice.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-20
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9789004679801

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Biography of a Landmark, The Chora Monastery and Kariye Camii in Constantinople/Istanbul from Late Antiquity to the 21st Century by Anonim Pdf

With its reconversion to a mosque in August 2020, the former monastic church of Saint Saviour in Chora entered yet another phase of its long history. The present book examines the Chora/Kariye Camii site from a transcultural perspective, tracing its continuous transformations in form and function from Late Antiquity to the present day. Whereas previous literature has almost exclusively placed emphasis on the Byzantine phase of the building’s history, including the status of its mosaics and paintings as major works of Palaiologan culture, this study is the first to investigate the shifting meanings with which the Chora/Kariye Camii site has been invested over time and across uninterrupted alterations, interventions, and transformations. Bringing together contributions from archaeologists, art historians, philologists, anthroplogists and historians, the volume provides a new framework for understanding not only this building but, more generally, edifices that have undergone interventions and transformations within multicultural societies. The open access publication of this book has been published with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation.

Author : Asli Niyazioglu
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317148128

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Dreams and Lives in Ottoman Istanbul by Asli Niyazioglu Pdf

Dreams and Lives in Ottoman Istanbul explores biography writing and dream narratives in seventeenth-century Istanbul. It focuses on the prominent biographer ‘Aṭā’ī (d. 1637) and with his help shows how learned circles narrated dreams to assess their position in the Ottoman enterprise. This book demonstrates that dreams provided biographers not only with a means to form learned communities in a politically fragile landscape but also with a medium to debate the correct career paths and social networks in late sixteenth and early seventeenth-century Istanbul. By adopting a comparative approach, this book engages with current scholarly dialogues about life-writing, dreams, and practices of remembrance in Habsburg Spain, Safavid Iran, Mughal India and Ming China. Recent studies have shown the shared rhythms between these contemporaneous dynasties and the Ottomans, and there is now a strong interest in comparative approaches to examining cultural life. This first English-language monograph on Ottoman dreamscapes addresses this interest and introduces a world where dreams changed lives, the dead appeared in broad daylight, and biographers invited their readers to the gardens of remembrance.

Author : Marios Philippides,Walter K. Hanak
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351214889

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Cardinal Isidore (c.1390–1462) by Marios Philippides,Walter K. Hanak Pdf

A member of the imperial Palaiologan family, albeit most probably illegitimate, Isidore became a scholar at a young age and began his rise in the Byzantine ecclesiastical ranks. He was an active advocate of the union of the Orthodox and Catholic Churches in Constantinople. His military exploits, including his participation in the defence of Constantinople in 1453, provide us with eyewitness accounts. Without doubt he travelled widely, perhaps more so than any other individual in the annals of Byzantine history: Greece, Asia Minor, Sicily, Russia, Poland, Lithuania, and Italy. His roles included diplomat, high ecclesiastic in both the Orthodox and Catholic churches, theologian, soldier, papal emissary to the Constantinopolitan court, delegate to the Council of Florence, advisor to the last Byzantine emperors, metropolitan of Kiev and all Russia, and member of the Vatican curia. This is an original work based on new archival research and the first monograph to study Cardinal Isidore in his many diverse roles. His contributions to the events of the first six decades of the quattrocento are important for the study of major Church councils and the fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks. Isidore played a crucial role in each of these events.

Author : Rhoads Murphey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317118459

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Imperial Lineages and Legacies in the Eastern Mediterranean by Rhoads Murphey Pdf

The comparative study of empires has traditionally been addressed in the widest possible global historical perspective with comparison of New World empires such as the Aztecs and Incas side by side with the history of imperial Rome and the empires of China and Russia in the medieval and modern periods. Surprisingly little work has been carried out focusing on the evolution of state control and imperial administration in the same territory; approached in a rigorous and historically grounded fashion over a wide extent of historical time from late antiquity to the twentieth century. The empires of Rome, Byzantium, the Ottomans and the latter-day imperialists in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, all inherited or seized and sought to develop overlapping parts of a common territorial base in the Eastern Mediterranean and all struggled to contain, control or otherwise alter the political, cultural and spiritual allegiances of the same indigenous population groups that were brought under their rule and administration. The task undertaken in Imperial Lineages and Legacies in the Eastern Mediterranean is to investigate the balance between continuity and change adopted at various historical conjunctures when new imperial regimes were established and to expose common features and shared approaches to the challenge of imperial rule that united otherwise divergent societies and imperial administrations. The work incorporates the contributions by twelve scholars, each leading practitioners in their respective fields and each contributing their particular insights on the shared theme of imperial identity and legacy in the Mediterranean World of the pagan, Christian and Muslim eras.

Author : Fotini Kondyli,Benjamin Anderson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429764981

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The Byzantine Neighbourhood by Fotini Kondyli,Benjamin Anderson Pdf

The Byzantine Neighbourhood contributes to a new narrative regarding Byzantine cities through the adoption of a neighbourhood perspective. It offers a multi-disciplinary investigation of the spatial and social practices that produced Byzantine concepts of neighbourhood and afforded dynamic interactions between different actors, elite and non-elite. Authors further consider neighbourhoods as political entities, examining how varieties of collectivity formed in Byzantine neighbourhoods translated into political action. By both acknowledging the unique position of Constantinople, and giving serious attention to the varieties of provincial experience, the contributors consider regional factors (social, economic, and political) that formed the ties of local communities to the state and illuminate the mechanisms of empire. Beyond its Byzantine focus, this volume contributes to broader discussions of premodern urbanism by drawing attention to the spatial dimension of social life and highlighting the involvement of multiple agents in city-making.

Author : Dr Nikolaos G. Chrissis,Professor Benjamin Z Kedar,Professor Jonathan Phillips
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472468413

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Crusades by Dr Nikolaos G. Chrissis,Professor Benjamin Z Kedar,Professor Jonathan Phillips Pdf

Crusades covers seven hundred years from the First Crusade (1095-1102) to the fall of Malta (1798) drawing together scholars working on war, theology, law, literature, art, numismatics and economic, social, political and military history. It publishes both historical sources of the Crusades - narrative, homiletic and documentary - in European and oriental languages, and interpretative studies. Ashgate publishes this journal for The Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East in both print and online editions, and the subscription price covers both. The print edition also incorporates the Society's Bulletin. The journal is available on-line via IngentaConnect: www.IngentaConnect.com/Crusades. The on-line edition does not include the Society’s Bulletin.

Author : Ivan Drpić
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 515 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-21
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781107151512

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Epigram, Art, and Devotion in Later Byzantium by Ivan Drpić Pdf

Using epigrammatic poetry as a framework, investigates the interplay between art and religious devotion in the later Byzantine period.

Author : Pamela A. Patton,Maria Alessia Rossi
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Art, Medieval
ISBN : 9780271095868

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Out of Bounds by Pamela A. Patton,Maria Alessia Rossi Pdf

Author : Panagiotis Athanasopoulos
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110677089

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Translation Activity in Late Byzantine World by Panagiotis Athanasopoulos Pdf

During the late Byzantine period (1261-1453), a significant number of texts were translated from Latin, but also from Arabic and other languages, into Greek. Most of them are still unedited or available in editions that do not meet the modern academic criteria. Nowadays, these translations are attracting scholarly attention, as it is widely recognized that, besides their philological importance per se, they can shed light on the cultural interactions between late Byzantines and their neighbours or predecessors. To address this desideratum, this volume focuses on the cultural context, the translators and the texts produced during the Palaeologan era, extending as well till the end of 15th c. in ex-Byzantine territories. By shedding light on the translation activity of late Byzantine scholars, this volume aims at revealing the cultural aspect of late Byzantine openness to its neighbours.