Byzantium in Dialogue with the Mediterranean

Daniëlle Slootjes, Ph.D. (2004), Chapel Hill, is associate professor of Ancient History at the Institute of Historical, Literary, and Cultural Studies at Radboud University Nijmegen. She has published extensively on late antique Roman administration, geography, the history of early Christianity and crowd behavior in the period of Late Antiquity and the Byzantine Empire.Mariëtte Verhoeven, Ph.D. (2010), Radboud University Nijmegen, is postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Historical, Literary and Cultural Studies at Radboud University Nijmegen. Her research focuses on the cultural history of early Christian and Byzantine architecture. She has published on Ravenna, Jerusalem and Istanbul.

"De interdisciplinaire aanpak van deze prachtige publicatie garandeert de originaliteit en de hoge kwaliteit van het boek. [...] De kwaliteit van de bijdragen is overduidelijk; de artikelen bieden een mooi panorama, ook al behandelen ze uiteenlopende themata. [...] Het boek is erg verzorgd uitgegeven, met haast geen tikfouten. De kwaliteit van de illustraties, waarvan vele in kleur, is exemplarisch. [...] Het gaat hier kortom om een publicatie die de Nederlandse byzantinistiek alle eer aandoet." (Tr. ‘The interdisciplinary approach of this splendid publication guarantees its originality and high quality.. The quality of the contributions is clear; the articles offer a fine panorama, even though they cover different themes… The book has been published with great care… In short, this publication does great honour to Dutch Byzantine Studies.’) Peter van Deun, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis, Volume 133, Number 1, June 2020, pp. 128-30.

• List of FiguresNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: Byzantium in DialogueyDaniëlle Slootjes and Mariëtte VerhoevenIntroduction: Byzantinists and OthersAveril Cameron1 Rome and Constantinople in Confrontation: the Quarrel over the Validity of Photius’s OrdinationEvangelos Chrysos2 The Byzantine Emperor in Medieval Dalmatian ExultetsMarko Petrak3 Building Heavenly Jerusalem: Thoughts on Imperial and Aristocratic Construction in Constantinople in the 9th and 10th CenturiesMatthew Savage4 Politics and Diplomacy in the Mediterranean of the 10th Century: Al-Andalus and ByzantiumElsa Fernandes Cardoso5 Confrontation and Interchange between Byzantines and Normans in Southern Italy: the Cases of St Nicholas of Myra and St Nicholas the Pilgrim at the End of the 11th CenturyPenelope Mougoyianni6 Fantasy, Supremacy, Domes, and Dames: Charlemagne goes to ConstantinopleElena Boeck7 Similar Problems, Similar Solutions?: Byzantine Chrysobulls and Crusader Charters on Legal Issues Regarding the Italian Maritime RepublicsDaphne Penna8 The Sebastokrator Isaac Komnenos: Manuel I’s Latinophile Uncle?Alex Rodriguez Suarez9 Byzantine Nearness and Renaissance Distance: the Meaning of Byzantining Modes in 14th-Century Italian ArtHans Bloemsma10 Interpreter, Diplomat, Humanist: Nicholas Sagundinus as a Cultural Broker in the 15th-Century MediterraneanCristian Caselli11 Maurice Denis’s Mission: To Reveal the Continuity between Byzantinism and ModernismKaren Stock12 The Byzantine Heritage in Greek Cinema: the (Almost) Lone Case of Doxobus (1987)Konstantinos ChryssogelosIndex