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Averoff
Portrait of the Politician as a Young Man
Häftad, 2018
882 kr
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This book chronicles Greece’s turbulent history during the first half of the twentieth century as it both shaped and was shaped by one of its most distinguished political figures, Evangelos Averoff-Tossizza. Written by his daughter, the book is part historical biography, part coming-of-age novel, …
St Demetrius of Thessalonica
Cult and Devotion in the Middle Ages
Häftad, 2010
603 kr
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The cult of St Demetrius is of considerable age but it peaked with the emergence of his city, Thessalonica, as a prominent political and cultural centre in late Byzantium. This book examines the intensification of his popularity and veneration in the late Middle Ages and his impact on contemporary …
Church of Constantinople in the Nineteenth Century
An Essay in Historical Research
Av I.I. Sokolov
Inbunden, 2013
2887 kr
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Ivan Sokolov’s work, first published in 1904, begins with a balanced overview of the situation of the Orthodox Church under Ottoman rule from the fall of Constantinople (1453) to the beginning of the nineteenth century. The author then gives a detailed description of the external situation of the …
Early Byzantine Christian Church
An Archaeological Re-assessment of Forty-Seven Early Byzantine Basilical Church Excavations Primarily in Israel and Jordan, and their Historical and Liturgical Context
Häftad, 2014
807 kr
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The observation that domestic artefacts are often recovered during church excavations led to an archaeological re-assessment of forty-seven Early Byzantine basilical church excavations and their historical, gender and liturgical context. The excavations were restricted to the three most common …
From «Pax Ottomanica» to «Pax Europaea»
The growth and decline of a Greek village’s micro-economy
Häftad, 2014
1025 kr
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The macroeconomic development of south-eastern Europe has been profoundly affected not only by the region’s major historical events – for example, liberation from the Ottoman Empire, the outbreak of civil wars, and the birth of new nations – but also by global events, such as the world-wide …
Landscapes of Power
Selected Papers from the XV Oxford University Byzantine Society International Graduate Conference
Av Maximilian Lau, Caterina Franchi m. fl.
Häftad, 2014
1045 kr
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This volume contains selected papers from the XV International Graduate Conference, highlighting the latest scholarship from a new generation of Late Antique and Byzantine scholars from around the world. The theme of the conference explored the interaction between power and the natural and human …
From Samos to Soho
The Unorthodox Life of Joseph Georgirenes, a Greek Archbishop
Häftad, 2016
962 kr
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Born on the small Greek island of Melos, Joseph Georgirenes became a monk on Mount Athos and was consecrated as Archbishop of Samos in 1666. Five years later he left his diocese and travelled to Europe, visiting Rome, Paris, London and Oxford. Scholars such as Antoine Galland in Paris and Thomas …
British Information and Cultural Policy in Greece, 1943–1950
Exercising Public Diplomacy in the Formative Early Cold War Years
Av Gioula Koutsopanagou, Andrew Louth m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
870 kr
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This book sheds new and revealing light on British cultural and information policies in Greece by unearthing previously unexamined or insufficiently examined primary sources. These sources draw an intricate picture of a complex moment when, in the ruins of post-war southern Europe, British …
Cross-Cultural Exchange in the Byzantine World, c.300–1500 AD
Selected Papers from the XVII International Graduate Conference of the Oxford University Byzantine Society
Av Kirsty Stewart, James Moreton Wakeley
Inbunden, 2016
1097 kr
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Profound cultural change defined the Byzantine world. For centuries after its embrace of Christianity, exchanges of ideas, objects, peoples and identities continued to flow across an empire that found itself located at the crossroads of so many other worlds. This book brings together a selection of …
God and the Poetic Ego
The Appropriation of Biblical and Liturgical Language in the Poetry of Palamas, Sikelianos and Elytis
Av Anthony Hirst, Andrew Louth m. fl.
Häftad, 2004
1243 kr
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The Greek Bible and the services of the Orthodox Church have proved a rich source of language for many poets of modern Greece, and perhaps for none more than for Kostis Palamas, Angelos Sikelianos and Odysseas Elytis, whose overlapping careers span the period 1876-1996. A blurring of the boundaries …
Manna from Athos
The Issue of Frequent Communion on the Holy Mountain in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries
Av Hieromonk Patapios, Archbishop Chrysostomos
Häftad, 2006
796 kr
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This book contains the first complete English translation, fully annotated, of the treatise Concerning Frequent Communion, commonly attributed to Sts. Makarios of Corinth and Nikodemos the Hagiorite, the compilers of the Philokalia. This pivotal treatise, by two central figures in the Kollyvades …
Power of Pygmalion
Ancient Greek Sculpture in Modern Greek Poetry, 1860-1960
Häftad, 2007
1163 kr
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This book explores the relationship between ancient Greek sculpture and modern Greek poetry between 1860 and 1960. It examines in some detail poems by Vasileiadis, Rangavis, Palamas, Cavafy, Sikelianos and Seferis, and shows how these poets appropriate the art of sculpture and in what ways this …
Seferis and Elytis as Translators
Häftad, 2010
1096 kr
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George Seferis and Odysseus Elytis gave the Modern Greek language a substantial corpus of translations from poets working in French, Italian, Spanish, Russian, English and Ancient Greek. However, the translation practices of these two Nobel Prize-winning poets have long been inadequately observed. …
