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This volume offers a series of essays on the political and economical history, historical topography, palaeography, literature (historiography, epistolography) and philosophy of the late Byzantine period between 1204 and 1461.
Author : Albrecht Berger
Publisher : de Gruyter
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 27,39 MB
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110469530
This volume offers a series of essays on the political and economical history, historical topography, palaeography, literature (historiography, epistolography) and philosophy of the late Byzantine period between 1204 and 1461.
Author : Albrecht Berger
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 48,26 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Authors, Byzantine
ISBN : 9783110469868
"The late Byzantine age, from the conquest of Constantinople by the Crusaders in 1204 to the fall of the last independent Greek territories to the Ottomans in 1461, was not only a period of political decline, but also of intensive cultural activity. The essays assembled in this volume discuss the works and lives of various authors (Nikephoros and Theodoros Xanthopoulos, Theodoros Metochites, Nikephoros Gregoras and Manuel Philes), they investigate issues such as ancient Greek and contemporary Western influences on the literary production, and discuss themes of material culture and, with a clear focus on Constantinople, of social, administrative and economical history"--Publisher description.
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Publisher : BRILL
Page : 531 pages
File Size : 13,9 MB
Release : 2022-11-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9004527087
Focuses on the scholarly interests of the intellectual elites during the last two centuries of Byzantium and the cultural environment in which they flourished, as well as the interaction between secular and church circles in Constantinople, Thessaloniki, Athos and beyond.
Author : Leonora Neville
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 12,1 MB
Release : 2018-05-17
Category : History
ISBN : 1107039983
Makes the study of medieval Greek historical writing accessible by providing fundamental orientation and information.
Author : Jörg B. Quenzer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 1280 pages
File Size : 21,81 MB
Release : 2021-10-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3110753340
This collection, presented to Michael Friedrich in honour of his academic career at of the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures, traces key concepts that scholars associated with the Centre have developed and refined for the systematic study of manuscript cultures. At the same time, the contributions showcase the possibilities of expanding the traditional subject of ‘manuscripts’ to the larger perspective of ‘written artefacts’.
Author : Fotini Kondyli
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 50,93 MB
Release : 2021-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0429764987
The Byzantine Neighbourhood contributes to a new narrative regarding Byzantine cities through the adoption of a neighbourhood perspective. It offers a multi-disciplinary investigation of the spatial and social practices that produced Byzantine concepts of neighbourhood and afforded dynamic interactions between different actors, elite and non-elite. Authors further consider neighbourhoods as political entities, examining how varieties of collectivity formed in Byzantine neighbourhoods translated into political action. By both acknowledging the unique position of Constantinople, and giving serious attention to the varieties of provincial experience, the contributors consider regional factors (social, economic, and political) that formed the ties of local communities to the state and illuminate the mechanisms of empire. Beyond its Byzantine focus, this volume contributes to broader discussions of premodern urbanism by drawing attention to the spatial dimension of social life and highlighting the involvement of multiple agents in city-making.
Author : Alice-Mary Talbot
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 17,98 MB
Release : 2019-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0268105634
In this unprecedented introduction to Byzantine monasticism, based on the Conway Lectures she delivered at the University of Notre Dame in 2014, Alice-Mary Talbot surveys the various forms of monastic life in the Byzantine Empire between the ninth and fifteenth centuries. It includes chapters on male monastic communities (mostly cenobitic, but some idiorrhythmic in late Byzantium), nuns and nunneries, hermits and holy mountains, and a final chapter on alternative forms of monasticism, including recluses, stylites, wandering monks, holy fools, nuns disguised as monks, and unaffiliated monks and nuns. This original monograph does not attempt to be a history of Byzantine monasticism but rather emphasizes the multiplicity of ways in which Byzantine men and women could devote their lives to service to God, with an emphasis on the tension between the two basic modes of monastic life, cenobitic and eremitic. It stresses the individual character of each Byzantine monastic community in contrast to the monastic orders of the Western medieval world, and yet at the same time demonstrates that there were more connections between certain groups of monasteries than previously realized. The most original sections include an in-depth analysis of the challenges facing hermits in the wilderness, and special attention to enclosed monks (recluses) and urban monks and nuns who lived independently outside of monastic complexes. Throughout, Talbot highlights some of the distinctions between the monastic life of men and women, and makes comparisons of Byzantine monasticism with its Western medieval counterpart.
Author : Sarah Bassett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 25,35 MB
Release : 2022-03-17
Category : History
ISBN : 1108498183
The collected essays explore late antique and Byzantine Constantinople in matters sacred, political, cultural, and commercial.
Author : Dimiter Angelov
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 19,34 MB
Release : 2019-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1108480713
Tells the story of Theodore Laskaris, a thirteenth-century Byzantine emperor, imaginative philosopher, and ideologue of Hellenism.
Author : Sergei Mariev
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 39,73 MB
Release : 2020-12-07
Category : History
ISBN : 3110683032
The importance of Bessarion's contribution to the history of Byzantine and Renaissance philosophy and culture during the 15th century is beyond dispute. However, an adequate appreciation of his contribution still remains a desideratum of scholarly research. One serious impediment to scholarly progress is the fact that the critical edition of his main philosophical work "In Calumniatorem Platonis" is incomplete and that this work has not been translated in its entirety into any modern language yet. Same can be stated about several minor but equally important treatises on literary, theological and philosophical subjects. This makes editing, translating and interpreting his literary, religious and philosophical works a scholarly priority. Papers assembled in this volume highlight a number of philological, philosophical and historical aspects that are crucial to our understanding of Bessarion's role in the history of European civilization and to setting the directions of future research in this field.