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L James - Companion to Byzantium, Övrigt

Övrigt, Engelska, 2008

Companion to Byzantium

Av L James

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Byzantium's cultural legacy has few equals. From the time Constantine the Great moved the imperial capital from Rome to the city that would bear his name in 330 A.D. to the fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks, Byzantium flourished as the most powerful empire in the world. For more than a thousand years the Eastern Roman Empire exerted powerful and profound influences on neighboring civilizations. At the same time Byzantium helped preserve the works and thoughts of the ancient Greeks and produced transcendent works of religious art. Exciting recent scholarship and renewed interest in this fascinating lost empire have propelled Byzantium studies the forefront of academia. Reflecting this long overdue trend, A Companion to Byzantium offers a comprehensive overview of Byzantium history along with illuminating insights into the unique new scholarship that is transforming the field. Accessible and enlightening, this original work emphasizes the social and cultural history of Byzantium from its ascension with Constantine to its demise in 1453, when time finally ran out on the great empire.A Companion to Byzantium will shed important new light on the profound influences of Byzantium in contemporary art and culture.
Produktinformation
  • Märke: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2008-02-26
  • Höjd: 182 x 252 x 46 mm
  • Vikt: 1 046 g
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Förlag: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
  • EAN: 9781405185097
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Liz James is Professor of Art History at the University of Sussex. Her books include Light and Colour in Byzantine Art (1996) and Empresses and Power in Early Byzantium (2001).

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"The bibliography is impressive. The list of primary sources, with editions, is particularly useful. The secondary sources include items published as recently as 2010. Summing up: Highly recommended. All research collections." (CHOICE, January 2011) "The collection ends with a 71-page bibliography. I note that this and other front and end matter (including a full list of contents, and a handy list of Byzantine rulers and key dates) is available currently as 'free content' at 'Wiley Online Library'. A subscription to this service appears to provide access to all chapters as PDF files, which would be of great benefit to those wishing to use the collection in teaching." (International History Review, January 2011) "Written by an impressive group of scholars, the 27 chapters of this companion offer their musings on the state of research in the fields considered, divided into sections on "being Byzantine," God and the world, texts, and material culture. The purpose of the chapters is not to describe the subject, but to describe its study and the current understanding and questions being brought by scholars. The result is a fascinating introduction to the topics and questions of interest in a broad field that will be of interest to the specialized reader as well as the student. Individual chapter topics include the relationship of the provinces to Constantinople, young people, the non-Chalcedonian churches, rhetoric, book culture, archaeology, and the Macedonian renaissance." (Book News Inc, November 2010)

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