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Digenes Akrites
New Approaches to Byzantine Heroic Poetry
Av Roderick Beaton, David Ricks
Häftad, 2016
889 kr
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Called variously the ’Byzantine epic’, the ’epic of Modern Greece’, an ’epic-romance’ and ’romance’, the poem of Digenes Akrites has, since its rediscovery towards the end of the nineteenth century, exerted a tenacious hold on the imagination of scholars from a wide range of disciplines and from …
Greek Medical Literature and its Readers
From Hippocrates to Islam and Byzantium
Av Petros Bouras-Vallianatos, Sophia Xenophontos
Häftad, 2020
704 kr
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This volume focuses on the relationship between Greek medical texts and their audience(s), offering insights into how not only the backgrounds and skills of medical authors but also the contemporary environment affected issues of readership, methodology and mode of exposition. One of the volume’s …
Cyprus from Colonialism to the Present: Visions and Realities
Essays in Honour of Robert Holland
Av Anastasia Yiangou, Antigone Heraclidou
Häftad, 2020
829 kr
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This volume is published in honour of the acclaimed work of Robert Holland, historian of the British Empire and the Mediterranean, and it brings together essays based on the original research of his colleagues, former students and friends. The focal theme is modern Cyprus, on which much of Robert …
Camera Graeca: Photographs, Narratives, Materialities
Av Philip Carabott, Yannis Hamilakis m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
725 kr
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While written sources on the history of Greece have been studied extensively, no systematic attempt has been made to examine photography as an important cultural and material process. This is surprising, given that Modern Greece and photography are almost peers: both are cultural products of the …
John II Komnenos, Emperor of Byzantium
In the Shadow of Father and Son
Av Alessandra Bucossi, Alex Rodriguez Suarez
Häftad, 2019
725 kr
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The Emperor John II Komnenos (1118–1143) has been overshadowed by both his father Alexios I and his son Manuel I. Written sources have not left us much evidence regarding his reign, although authors agree that he was an excellent emperor. However, the period witnessed territorial expansion in Asia …
Byron: The Poetry of Politics and the Politics of Poetry
Av Roderick Beaton, Christine Kenyon Jones
Häftad, 2019
809 kr
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'It is no great matter, supposing that Italy could be liberated, who or what is sacrificed. It is a grand object - the very poetry of politics. Only think - a free Italy!!! Why, there has been nothing like it since the days of Augustus.' So wrote Lord Byron in his journal, in February 1821, only …
Alexandria, Real and Imagined
Av Anthony Hirst, Michael Silk
Inbunden, 2004
2578 kr
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Alexandria, Real and Imagined offers a complex portrait of an extraordinary city, from its foundation in the fourth century BC up to the present day: a city notable for its history of ethnic diversity, for the legacies of its past imperial grandeur - Ottoman and Arab, Byzantine, Roman and Greek - …
Socrates in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Inbunden, 2007
2578 kr
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Socrates, son of Sophroniscus, of Alopece is arguably the most richly and diversely commemorated - and appropriated - of all ancient thinkers. Already in Antiquity, vigorous controversy over his significance and value ensured a wide range of conflicting representations. He then became available to …
Socrates from Antiquity to the Enlightenment
Inbunden, 2007
2504 kr
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Socrates, son of Sophroniscus, of Alopece is arguably the most richly and diversely commemorated - and appropriated - of all ancient thinkers. Already in Antiquity, vigorous controversy over his significance and value ensured a wide range of conflicting representations. He then became available to …
Greek Civil War
Essays on a Conflict of Exceptionalism and Silences
Av Thanasis D. Sfikas, Philip Carabott
Inbunden, 2004
3262 kr
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Half a century after the civil war which tore apart Greek society in the 1940s, the essays in this volume look back to examine the crisis. They combine the approaches of political and international history with the latest research into the social, economic, religious, cultural, ideological and …
Personification in the Greek World
From Antiquity to Byzantium
Av Judith Herrin, Emma Stafford
Inbunden, 2005
2879 kr
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Personification, the anthropomorphic representation of any non-human thing, is a ubiquitous feature of ancient Greek literature and art. Natural phenomena (earth, sky, rivers), places (cities, countries), divisions of time (seasons, months, a lifetime), states of the body (health, sleep, death), …
Byzantine Women
Varieties of Experience 800-1200
Inbunden, 2006
2578 kr
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This volume brings together a group of international scholars, who explore many unusual aspects of the world of Byzantine women in the period 800-1200. The specific aim of this collection is to investigate the participation of women - non-imperial women in particular - in supposedly 'masculine' …
El Greco – The Cretan Years
Av Nikolaos M. Panagiotakes, translated by John C. Davis
Inbunden, 2009
2658 kr
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Exploring all the available sources, this study, which until now was only available in Greek, presents us with an account of El Greco's life up to the time he left Crete for Italy in 1567 at the age of twenty-six, already an accomplished professional painter. Nikolaos Panagiotakes provides a …
Digenes Akrites
New Approaches to Byzantine Heroic Poetry
Av Roderick Beaton, David Ricks
Inbunden, 1993
2879 kr
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Called variously the ’Byzantine epic’, the ’epic of Modern Greece’, an ’epic-romance’ and ’romance’, the poem of Digenes Akrites has, since its rediscovery towards the end of the nineteenth century, exerted a tenacious hold on the imagination of scholars from a wide range of disciplines and from …
Byzantium and the Modern Greek Identity
Av David Ricks, Paul Magdalino
Inbunden, 1998
3262 kr
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Perhaps because of the fact that modern Greece is, through the Orthodox Church, inextricably linked with the Byzantine heritage, the precise meaning of this heritage, in its various aspects, has hitherto been surprisingly little discussed by scholars. This collection of specially commissioned …
Music, Language and Identity in Greece
Defining a National Art Music in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Av Polina Tambakaki, Panos Vlagopoulos m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
727 kr
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The national element in music has been the subject of important studies, yet the scholarly framework has remained restricted almost exclusively to the field of music studies. This volume brings together experts from different fields (musicology, literary theory and modern Greek studies), who investi- …
Greek Eyes on Europe
The Travels of Nikandros Noukios of Corfu
Av John Muir
Inbunden, 2022
2888 kr
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This is the first complete English translation of a lively travelogue written by Andronikos aka Nikandros Noukios, a Greek from Corfu, who accompanied a diplomatic mission from Venice to England in the middle of the sixteenth century. He describes some of the great northern Italian cities, gives …
Greek Eyes on Europe
The Travels of Nikandros Noukios of Corfu
Av John Muir
Häftad, 2023
667 kr
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This is the first complete English translation of a lively travelogue written by Andronikos aka Nikandros Noukios, a Greek from Corfu, who accompanied a diplomatic mission from Venice to England in the middle of the sixteenth century. He describes some of the great northern Italian cities, gives …
Battle for Bodies, Hearts and Minds in Postwar Greece
Social Worker Charles Schermerhorn in Thessaloniki, 1946–1951
Inbunden, 2023
2658 kr
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The previously unpublished memoir of social worker Charles Schermerhorn offers new and eye-opening source material pertaining to the epicenter of the early Cold War: northern Greece. This book brings this memoir to light to enrich the discussion about the Greek Civil War and the late 1940s, through …
Battle for Bodies, Hearts and Minds in Postwar Greece
Social Worker Charles Schermerhorn in Thessaloniki, 1946–1951
Häftad, 2025
747 kr
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The previously unpublished memoir of social worker Charles Schermerhorn offers new and eye-opening source material pertaining to the epicenter of the early Cold War: northern Greece. This book brings this memoir to light to enrich the discussion about the Greek Civil War and the late 1940s, through …
Poetry and Poetics, Greek and Beyond: Essays in Honour of M.S. Silk
Av Fiona Macintosh, David Ricks
Inbunden, 2025
2879 kr
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The publication of Interaction in Poetic Imagery: With Special Reference to Early Greek Poetry in 1974 inaugurated Michael Silk (1941–) as a Hellenist of exceptional learning and critical acumen, as a strenuous and ambitious theorist of literature, and as a comparatist of wide reach within the …
When Greeks and Turks Meet
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Relationship Since 1923
Av Vally Lytra
Häftad, 2024
665 kr
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The relationship between the history, culture and peoples of Greece, Turkey and Cyprus is often reduced to an equation which defines one side in opposition to the other.The reality is much more complex and while there have been and remain significant divisions there are many, and arguably more, …
Greece at the Turning Point
Remembrances of US Foreign Service Families Living and Working in Postwar Greece
Av Harrison Blackman, Gonda Van Steen
Inbunden, 2026
2658 kr
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Greece at the Turning Point: Remembrances of US Foreign Service Families Living and Working in Postwar Greece is a collection of previously unpublished personal memoirs and extracts from private letters, which provides astonishing insight into the experiences of American experts tasked with …
Byzantine Women
Varieties of Experience 800-1200
Häftad, 2016
949 kr
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This volume brings together a group of international scholars, who explore many unusual aspects of the world of Byzantine women in the period 800-1200. The specific aim of this collection is to investigate the participation of women - non-imperial women in particular - in supposedly 'masculine' …
Music, Language and Identity in Greece
Defining a National Art Music in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Av Polina Tambakaki, Panos Vlagopoulos m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
2578 kr
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The national element in music has been the subject of important studies, yet the scholarly framework has remained restricted almost exclusively to the field of music studies. This volume brings together experts from different fields (musicology, literary theory and modern Greek studies), who investi- …
Cyprus from Colonialism to the Present: Visions and Realities
Essays in Honour of Robert Holland
Av Anastasia Yiangou, Antigone Heraclidou
Inbunden, 2017
2818 kr
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This volume is published in honour of the acclaimed work of Robert Holland, historian of the British Empire and the Mediterranean, and it brings together essays based on the original research of his colleagues, former students and friends. The focal theme is modern Cyprus, on which much of Robert …
Authority in Byzantium
Inbunden, 2013
2578 kr
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Authority is an important concept in Byzantine culture whose myriad modes of implementation helped maintain the existence of the Byzantine state across so many centuries, binding together people from different ethnic groups, in different spheres of life and activities. Even though its significance …
When Greeks and Turks Meet
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Relationship Since 1923
Av Vally Lytra
Inbunden, 2014
2578 kr
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The relationship between the history, culture and peoples of Greece, Turkey and Cyprus is often reduced to an equation which defines one side in opposition to the other.The reality is much more complex and while there have been and remain significant divisions there are many, and arguably more, …
Camera Graeca: Photographs, Narratives, Materialities
Av Philip Carabott, Yannis Hamilakis m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
2578 kr
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While written sources on the history of Greece have been studied extensively, no systematic attempt has been made to examine photography as an important cultural and material process. This is surprising, given that Modern Greece and photography are almost peers: both are cultural products of the …
Byron: The Poetry of Politics and the Politics of Poetry
Av Roderick Beaton, Christine Kenyon Jones
Inbunden, 2016
2879 kr
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'It is no great matter, supposing that Italy could be liberated, who or what is sacrificed. It is a grand object - the very poetry of politics. Only think - a free Italy!!! Why, there has been nothing like it since the days of Augustus.' So wrote Lord Byron in his journal, in February 1821, only …
