Manzikert to Lepanto
Author : Anthony Bryer
Publisher :
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 22,4 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Byzantine Empire
ISBN :
Author : Anthony Bryer
Publisher :
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 22,4 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Byzantine Empire
ISBN :
Author : Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies (19 : 1985 : Birmingham)
Publisher :
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 40,48 MB
Release : 1991
Category :
ISBN : 9789025606190
Author : Angeliki Lymberopoulou
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 591 pages
File Size : 27,71 MB
Release : 2018-03-29
Category : History
ISBN : 1351244930
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 significantly to the cultural development of modern Europe. The aim of this volume is to address, explore, re-examine and re-interpret one specific aspect of this cross-cultural interaction in the Mediterranean – that between the Byzantine East and the (mainly Italian) West. The investigation of this interaction has become increasingly popular in the past few decades, not least due to the relevance it has for cultural exchanges in our present-day society. The starting point is provided by the fall of Constantinople to the troops of the Fourth Crusade in 1204. In the aftermath of the fall, a number of Byzantine territories came under prolonged Latin occupation, an occupation that forced Greeks and Latins to adapt their life socially and religiously to the new status quo. Venetian Crete developed one of the most fertile ‘bi-cultural’ societies, which evolved over 458 years. Its fall to the Ottoman Turks in 1669 marked the end of an era and was hence chosen as the end point for the conference. By sampling case studies from the most representative areas where this interaction took place, the volume highlights the process as well as the significance of its cultural development.
Author : Dariusz Kolodziejczyk
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 1134 pages
File Size : 25,37 MB
Release : 2011-06-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9004215719
This is an extensive study, supplemented by an edition of relevant sources, of the diplomatic contacts between Poland-Lithuania and the Crimean Khanate between the early 15th and the late 18th century. It contains a chronology of mutual relations, a formal analysis of various types of documents, and a glimpse into the working of the Crimean chancery, where Genghisid and Islamic forms mixed with those borrowed from Christian Europe. The book provides a fascinating insight into the intercultural exchange between Catholic Poland (with Latin and then Polish as the main chancery language) and predominantly Orthodox Lithuania (with Ruthenian as the main chancery language) on the one hand, and the Muslim Crimean Khanate (with Khwarezmian Turkic and then Ottoman Turkish as the main chancery language) on the other. It depicts Eastern Europe as a zone of contact, where the relations between Slavs and Tatars were by no means always hostile.
Author : Panos Sophoulis
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 30,9 MB
Release : 2020-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 303055905X
This book explores the history of banditry in the medieval Balkans between the ninth and fifteenth centuries. While several scholars have recognized the problems which various outlaw groups caused in the region during the Middle Ages, few have given much attention to the bandits themselves, their origins, their reasons for taking up brigandage, and the steps taken by the central authorities to control their activity. Among other things, this book identifies three main sources of banditry: shepherds, soldiers and peasants. Far from being ʻlone wolvesʼ, these men operated within well-defined social networks. Poverty played a decisive role in driving them to a life of crime, but there is strong evidence to suggest that the growing economic prosperity in parts of the Balkans from the ninth century onwards may have also contributed to the rise of the phenomenon.
Author : Buket Kitapçı Bayrı
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 44,33 MB
Release : 2019-11-11
Category : History
ISBN : 900441584X
Warriors, Martyrs, and Dervishes: Moving Frontiers, Shifting Identities in the Land of Rome (13th-15th Centuries) focuses on the perceptions of geopolitical and cultural change on Byzantine territories between thirteenth and fifteenth centuries through intersecting stories on Turkish Muslim warriors, dervishes, and Byzantine martyrs.
Author : Julian Baker
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 1839 pages
File Size : 17,55 MB
Release : 2020-10-20
Category : History
ISBN : 900443464X
In Coinage and Money Julian Baker offers a complete monetary history of medieval Greece, encompassing numismatic and documentary sources, and contributing to the general historiography.
Author : Tsvetelin Stepanov
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 35,44 MB
Release : 2019-10-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9004409939
In Waiting for the End of the World: European Dimensions, 950–1200, Tsvetelin Stepanov offers a fresh, pan-European, look at a phenomenon that was typical not only for the Christians, but also for the other two monotheistic religions in Europe.
Author : Kallirroe Linardou
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 24,96 MB
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1351942077
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, ranging from its rhetorical uses - food as a metaphor for redemption; food as politics; eating as a vice, abstinence as a virtue - to more practical applications such as the preparation of food, processing it, preserving it, and selling it abroad. We learn how the Byzantines viewed their diet, and how others - including, surprisingly, the Chinese - viewed it. Some consider the protocols of eating in a monastery, of dining in the palace, or of roughing it on a picnic or military campaign; others examine what serving dishes and utensils were in use in the dining room and how this changed over time. Throughout, the terminology of eating - and especially some of the more problematic terms - is explored. The chapters expand on papers presented at the 37th Annual Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, held at the University of Birmingham under the auspices of the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies, in honour of Professor A.A.M. Bryer, a fitting tribute for the man who first told the world about Byzantine agricultural implements.
Author : Paul Moore
Publisher : PIMS
Page : 772 pages
File Size : 12,72 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780888443755