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Inscribing Texts in Byzantium
Continuities and Transformations
Inbunden, 2020
2578 kr
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In spite of the striking abundance of extant primary material, Byzantine epigraphy remains uncharted territory. The volume of the Proceedings of the 49th SPBS Spring Symposium aims to promote the field of Byzantine epigraphy as a whole, and topics and subjects covered include: Byzantine attitudes …
Global Byzantium
Papers from the Fiftieth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies
Av Leslie Brubaker, Rebecca Darley m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
2818 kr
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Global Byzantium is, in part, a recasting and expansion of the old ‘Byzantium and its neighbours’ theme with, however, a methodological twist away from the resolutely political and toward the cultural and economic. A second thing that Global Byzantium – as a concept – explicitly endorses is …
Post-1204 Byzantine World: New Approaches and Novel Directions
Papers from the Fifty-First Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies
Av Niels Gaul, Mike Carr m. fl.
Inbunden, 2026
2468 kr
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This volume offers fresh perspectives on the Byzantine world in the aftermath of the Fourth Crusade and the conquest of Constantinople in 1204: a world of small-state complexities that upended centuries of empire focused on the imperial city.Across six parts, it pursues new directions in the study …
Cross-Cultural Interaction Between Byzantium and the West, 1204–1669
Whose Mediterranean Is It Anyway?
Häftad, 2020
725 kr
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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 …
Experiencing Byzantium
Papers from the 44th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Newcastle and Durham, April 2011
Av Claire Nesbitt, Mark Jackson
Häftad, 2020
704 kr
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From the reception of imperial ekphraseis in Hagia Sophia to the sounds and smells of the back streets of Constantinople, the sensory perception of Byzantium is an area that lends itself perfectly to an investigation into the experience of the Byzantine world. The theme of experience embraces all …
Power and Subversion in Byzantium
Papers from the 43rd Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Birmingham, March 2010
Av Michael Saxby, Dimiter Angelov
Häftad, 2020
809 kr
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This volume addresses a theme of special significance for Byzantine studies. Byzantium has traditionally been deemed a civilisation which deferred to authority and set special store by orthodoxy, canon and proper order. Since 1982 when the distinguished Russian Byzantinist Alexander Kazhdan wrote …
Wonderful Things: Byzantium through its Art
Papers from the 42nd Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, London, 20-22 March 2009
Häftad, 2020
725 kr
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The essays collected in this book were delivered at the XLII Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, held in London in 2009 to accompany the exhibition Byzantium 330-1453, at the Royal Academy. The exhibition was one of the most ambitious and complex exhibitions ever mounted at the Royal Academy, as …
Emperor in the Byzantine World
Papers from the Forty-Seventh Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies
Häftad, 2020
725 kr
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The subject of the emperor in the Byzantine world may seem likely to be a well-studied topic but there is no book devoted to the emperor in general covering the span of the Byzantine empire. Of course there are studies on individual emperors, dynasties and aspects of the imperial office/role, but …
Byzantium in the Eleventh Century
Being in Between
Av Marc D. Lauxtermann, Mark Whittow
Häftad, 2019
725 kr
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The eleventh century in Byzantium is all about being in between, whether this is between Basil II and Alexios Komnenos, between the forces of the Normans, the Pechenegs and the Turks, or between different social groupings, cultural identities and religious persuasions. It is a period of fundamental …
Eastern Approaches to Byzantium
Papers from the Thirty-Third Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, University of Warwick, Coventry, March 1999
Inbunden, 2001
2578 kr
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The eastern frontier of Byzantium and the interaction of the peoples that lived along it are the themes of this book. With a focus on the ninth to thirteenth centuries and dealing with both art history and history, the essays provide reconsiderations of Byzantine policy on its eastern borders, new …
Travel in the Byzantine World
Papers from the Thirty-Fourth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Birmingham, April 2000
Inbunden, 2002
2578 kr
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The contributions to this volume have been selected from the papers delivered at the 34th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies at Birmingham, in April 2000. Travellers to and in the Byzantine world have long been a subject of interest but travel and communications in the medieval period have more …
Rhetoric in Byzantium
Papers from the Thirty-fifth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Exeter College, University of Oxford, March 2001
Inbunden, 2003
2578 kr
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'Rhetoric in Byzantium' explores the ways in which rhetoric functioned in Byzantine society - as a tool for the effective communication of ideas and ideologies, but at times also a barrier that inhibited the expression of real feelings and everyday realities, and imposed a burden of decoding on …
Byzantine Orthodoxies
Papers from the Thirty-sixth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, University of Durham, 23–25 March 2002
Av Augustine Casiday, Andrew Louth
Inbunden, 2006
2504 kr
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The Byzantine Empire - the Christianized Roman Empire - very soon defined itself in terms of correct theological belief, 'orthodoxy'. The terms of this belief were hammered out, for the most part, by bishops, but doctrinal decisions were made in councils called by the Emperors, many of whom …
Eat, Drink, and Be Merry (Luke 12:19) – Food and Wine in Byzantium
Papers of the 37th Annual Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, In Honour of Professor A.A.M. Bryer
Av Kallirroe Linardou, Leslie Brubaker
Inbunden, 2007
2578 kr
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This volume brings together a group of scholars to consider the rituals of eating together in the Byzantine world, the material culture of Byzantine food and wine consumption, and the transport and exchange of agricultural products. The contributors present food in nearly every conceivable guise, …
Byzantine Trade, 4th-12th Centuries
The Archaeology of Local, Regional and International Exchange. Papers of the Thirty-eighth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, St John's College, University of Oxford, March 2004
Inbunden, 2009
3262 kr
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The 28 papers examine questions relating to the extent and nature of Byzantine trade from Late Antiquity into the Middle Ages. The Byzantine state was the only political entity of the Mediterranean to survive Antiquity and thus offers a theoretical standard against which to measure diachronic and …
Cross-Cultural Interaction Between Byzantium and the West, 1204–1669
Whose Mediterranean Is It Anyway?
Inbunden, 2018
2578 kr
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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 …
Constantinople and its Hinterland
Papers from the Twenty-Seventh Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Oxford, April 1993
Av Cyril Mango, Gilbert Dagron
Inbunden, 1995
3262 kr
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From its foundation, the city of Constantinople dominated the Byzantine world. It was the seat of the emperor, the centre of government and church, the focus of commerce and culture, by far the greatest urban centre; its needs in terms of supplies and defense imposed their own logic on the …
Mount Athos and Byzantine Monasticism
Papers from the Twenty-Eighth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, University of Birmingham, March 1994
Av Anthony Bryer, Mary Cunningham
Inbunden, 1996
3168 kr
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The papers in this volume derive from the 28th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, held for the Society for the promotion of Byzantine Studies at the Univesity of Birmingham in March 1994. Virtually from the time of their first foundation, the monastic communities of Mt Athos assumed a central …
Through the Looking Glass: Byzantium through British Eyes
Papers from the Twenty-Ninth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, King’s College, London, March 1995
Av Robin Cormack, Elizabeth Jeffreys
Inbunden, 2000
3262 kr
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The papers in this volume derive from the 29th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies. This was held for the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies in the University of London in March 1995, in order to complement the British Museum exhibition 'Byzantium. Treasures of Byzantine Art and …
Byzantium in the Ninth Century: Dead or Alive?
Papers from the Thirtieth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Birmingham, March 1996
Inbunden, 1998
2578 kr
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9th-century Byzantium has always been viewed as a mid-point between Iconoclasm and the so-called Macedonian revival; in scholarly terms it is often treated as a ’dead’ century. The object of these papers is to question such an assumption. They present a picture of political and military …
Desire and Denial in Byzantium
Papers from the 31st Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Brighton, March 1997
Av Liz James
Inbunden, 1999
2578 kr
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The papers in this volume derive from the 31st Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies held for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies at the University of Sussex, Brighton, in March 1997. Desire, sex, love and the erotic are not terms usually associated with Byzantium and Byzantine Studies, unlike …
Strangers to Themselves: The Byzantine Outsider
Papers from the Thirty-Second Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton, March 1998
Inbunden, 2000
3262 kr
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March 1998 saw Byzantinists gathering together at the University of Sussex in Brighton, for the annual symposium held by the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies. Their aim was to consider the question of the 'Byzantine outsider'. Some categories of outsiders appear clear and simple: …
Inscribing Texts in Byzantium
Continuities and Transformations
Häftad, 2021
727 kr
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In spite of the striking abundance of extant primary material, Byzantine epigraphy remains uncharted territory. The volume of the Proceedings of the 49th SPBS Spring Symposium aims to promote the field of Byzantine epigraphy as a whole, and topics and subjects covered include: Byzantine attitudes …
Global Byzantium
Papers from the Fiftieth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies
Av Leslie Brubaker, Rebecca Darley m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
665 kr
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Global Byzantium is, in part, a recasting and expansion of the old ‘Byzantium and its neighbours’ theme with, however, a methodological twist away from the resolutely political and toward the cultural and economic. A second thing that Global Byzantium – as a concept – explicitly endorses is …
Byzantine Greece: Microcosm of Empire?
Papers from the Forty-sixth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies
Inbunden, 2023
2578 kr
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This volume offers a structured presentation of the progress of research into the internal history of a part of the Byzantine world – Greece – in the centuries before the multiple changes induced or accelerated by the Fourth Crusade. Greece is a large area (several Early andMiddle Byzantine …
Byzantine Greece: Microcosm of Empire?
Papers from the Forty-sixth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies
Häftad, 2025
725 kr
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This volume offers a structured presentation of the progress of research into the internal history of a part of the Byzantine world – Greece – in the centuries before the multiple changes induced or accelerated by the Fourth Crusade. Greece is a large area (several Early andMiddle Byzantine …
Material Religion in Byzantium and Beyond
Papers from the 54th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies
Av Ine Jacobs, Jaś Elsner m. fl.
Inbunden, 2025
2126 kr
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The theoretical framework known as Material Religion has emerged as a vibrant and profoundly influential approach within religious studies over the past two decades. Originating in the first decade of the 21st century from currents within cultural anthropology, Material Religion challenges a …
Emperor in the Byzantine World
Papers from the Forty-Seventh Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies
Inbunden, 2019
2578 kr
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The subject of the emperor in the Byzantine world may seem likely to be a well-studied topic but there is no book devoted to the emperor in general covering the span of the Byzantine empire. Of course there are studies on individual emperors, dynasties and aspects of the imperial office/role, but …
Byzantium in the Eleventh Century
Being in Between
Av Marc D. Lauxtermann, Mark Whittow
Inbunden, 2017
2818 kr
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The eleventh century in Byzantium is all about being in between, whether this is between Basil II and Alexios Komnenos, between the forces of the Normans, the Pechenegs and the Turks, or between different social groupings, cultural identities and religious persuasions. It is a period of fundamental …
History as Literature in Byzantium
Papers from the Fortieth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, University of Birmingham, April 2007
Häftad, 2016
993 kr
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Although perceived since the sixteenth century as the most impressive literary achievement of Byzantine culture, historical writing nevertheless remains little studied as literature. Historical texts are still read first and foremost for nuggets of information, as main sources for the …
