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Author : Gwynneth der Parthog
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780948853203
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (532 download)
Download or read book Byzantine and Medieval Cyprus written by Gwynneth der Parthog and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Chrysovalantis Kyriacou
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793621993
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)
Download or read book The Byzantine Warrior Hero written by Chrysovalantis Kyriacou and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-12-16 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chrysovalantis Kyriacou examines how memories of the pre-Christian past, Christian militarism, power struggles, and ethnoreligious encounters have left their long-term imprint on Cypriot culture. One of the most impressive examples of this phenomenon is the preservation and transformative adaptation of Byzantine heroic themes, motifs, and symbols in Cypriot folk songs. By combining a variety of written sources and archaeological material in his interdisciplinary examination, the author reconstructs the image of the Byzantine warrior hero in the songs, recovering the mentalities of overshadowed social protagonists and stressing the role of subaltern communities as active agents in the shaping of history.
Author : Luca Zavagno
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1351999125
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)
Download or read book Cyprus Between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (ca. 600–800) written by Luca Zavagno and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-05-18 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- 1. Mattia Pascal and the name of Cyprus -- Notes -- 2. Seeing the unseen: a brief overview of Cypriot historiography -- Notes -- 3. The mousetrap of methodology -- Act I: General problems of method -- Act II: Literary and material sources for early medieval Cyprus -- Notes -- 4. A history of Cyprus in the early Middle Ages -- Cyprus from the sixth to the ninth century -- The power of the Cypriot Church -- Notes -- 5. Urban versus rural: the many sides of the Cypriot coin -- Overcoming the caesurae -- Surveying the Cypriot countryside -- Salamis-Constantia and its sisters: Cypriot urbanism in transition -- Notes -- 6. An insular economy in transition -- The economy of early medieval Cyprus -- In a league of their own: ceramics in early medieval Cyprus -- Notes -- 7. Aftermath and conclusions -- Cyprus in the ninth and tenth centuries -- Concluding remarks -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Author : Gwynneth der Parthog
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Medieval Cyprus written by Gwynneth der Parthog and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Annemarie Weyl Carr
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Cyprus and the Devotional Arts of Byzantium in the Era of the Crusades written by Annemarie Weyl Carr and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Carr is concerned here with the devotional arts of the Byzantine world in the period from the twelfth to the sixteenth century. The first set of studies deals with groups of illuminated manuscripts of the twelfth century, mostly connected with the Eastern Mediterranean, while the second focuses directly on Cyprus and its rich Orthodox visual heritage in the later Middle Ages. As Byzantium's strongest bridgehead to the Crusades and its heir in the Levantine balance of power, the island of Cyprus retains an exceptionally rich legacy of Byzantine culture and artifacts. At the same time, as the seat of the most enduring Crusader state, it offers unparalleled testimony to the interplay of Greek and Latin cultural traditions as they accommodated and resisted one another under the pressure of Mamluk, Mongol, and Ottoman expansion.
Author : Andreas Stylianou
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789963560301
Total Pages : 527 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (63 download)
Download or read book The Painted Churches of Cyprus written by Andreas Stylianou and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 527 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter W. Edbury
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521458375
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (583 download)
Download or read book The Kingdom of Cyprus and the Crusades, 1191-1374 written by Peter W. Edbury and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A contribution to the history of the Crusades in the Levant, this text is a scholarly study of medieval Cyprus.
Author : Chris Entwistle
Publisher : Oxbow Books
ISBN 13 : 1785702734
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (857 download)
Download or read book Through a Glass Brightly written by Chris Entwistle and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2016-09-28 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twenty-five papers in this volume cover diverse aspects of the material culture of the late Roman, Byzantine and Medieval periods, with particular emphasis on the metalwork and enamel of these times. Individual papers include major reinterpretations of objects in the British Museum's Byzantine collections as well as essays devoted to the Museum's recent acquisitions in this field. The volume celebrates the retirement of David Buckton, for over twenty years the curator of the British Museum's Early Christian and Byzantine collections and the National Icon Collection.
Author : Ellen C. Schwartz
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197572200
Total Pages : 665 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (975 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Art and Architecture written by Ellen C. Schwartz and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-19 with total page 665 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Byzantine art has been an underappreciated field, often treated as an adjunct to the arts of the medieval West, if considered at all. In illustrating the richness and diversity of art in the Byzantine world, this handbook will help establish the subject as a distinct field worthy of serious inquiry. Essays consider Byzantine art as art made in the eastern Mediterranean world, including the Balkans, Russia, the Near East and north Africa, between the years 330 and 1453. Much of this art was made for religious purposes, created to enhance and beautify the Orthodox liturgy and worship space, as well as to serve in a royal or domestic context. Discussions in this volume will consider both aspects of this artistic creation, across a wide swath of geography and a long span of time. The volume marries older, object-based considerations of themes and monuments which form the backbone of art history, to considerations drawing on many different methodologies-sociology, semiotics, anthropology, archaeology, reception theory, deconstruction theory, and so on-in an up-to-date synthesis of scholarship on Byzantine art and architecture. The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Art and Architecture is a comprehensive overview of a particularly rich field of study, offering a window into the world of this fascinating and beautiful period of art.
Author : Charles Anthony Stewart
Publisher : American Society of Overseas Research
ISBN 13 : 9780897570732
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (77 download)
Download or read book Cyprus and the Balance of Empires written by Charles Anthony Stewart and published by American Society of Overseas Research. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 491 and 1191 AD, Cyprus was influenced by various political and cultural centers that vied for dominance in the Eastern Mediterranean. This collection of essays primarily focuses on the island's archaeology when it was governed by the Byzantine capital of Constantinople. Greek and Orthodox Christian identity was cultivated during this period, which provided a sense of unity among the various provinces; and yet, the surviving historical and archaeological data concerning Cyprus is unique in that it expresses both local and regional characteristics. By investigating the various threads, whether textual, numismatic, architectural, or artistic, narrative has emerged that challenges our past assumptions. The themes covered in this volume developed from a conference held in Nicosia, organized by the Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute [CAARI] celebrating the 50th year anniversary of the Republic of Cyprus. An international group of experts explored several themes such as: the impact of recent archaeological discoveries; the shift from studying Late Antique urbanism to rural development; indicators of Cypriot identity; shifts in population settlement, production, and trade; cultural interaction between Islam and Christianity; the significance of ceramic and numismatic evidence; monumental figural arts and their iconographical interpretation. The resulting chapters provide new and previously unpublished data, and should be considered a major contribution to Late Antique and Medieval studies.
Author : Sean McLachlan
Publisher : Hippocrene Books
ISBN 13 : 9780781810333
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Byzantium written by Sean McLachlan and published by Hippocrene Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long after Rome fell to the Germanic tribes, its culture lived on in Constantinople, the glittering capital of the Byzantine Empire. For more than 1000 yeras (AD 330-1453) Byzantium was one of the most advanced and complex civilisations the world had ever seen. As the Mediterranean outlet for the silk route, its trade networks stretched from Scandinavia to Sri Lanka; its artists created sombre icons and brilliant gold mosaics; its scholarship served as a vital cultural bridge between the Muslim East and the Catholic West; and it fostered the Orthodox Christianity that is the faith of millions today. This book shows the innovative art that inspired French kings and Arab emirs. It includes a gazetteer of historic Byzantine sites and monuments that travellers can visit today in greece, Italty, Turkey and the Middle East. A chronology of Byzantine history and a list of emperors complete this ideal resource for the student, traveller or generally curious reader.
Author : Angel Nicolaou Konnari
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004147675
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Cyprus written by Angel Nicolaou Konnari and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2005 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only one-volume scholarly survey of the ethnic groups, economy, religion, literature, and art of the multicultural Lusignan Kingdom of Cyprus during the first centuries of Frankish rule following the conquest of the Byzantine island in the Third Crusade.
Author : Youval Rotman
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674036116
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (361 download)
Download or read book Byzantine Slavery and the Mediterranean World written by Youval Rotman and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking at the Byzantine concept of slavery within the context of law, the labour market, medieval politics, and religion, the author illustrates how these contexts both reshaped and sustained the slave market.
Author : Angeliki E. Laiou
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139465759
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book The Byzantine Economy written by Angeliki E. Laiou and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-09-20 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a concise survey of the economy of the Byzantine Empire from the fourth century AD to the fall of Constantinople in 1453. Organised chronologically, the book addresses key themes such as demography, agriculture, manufacturing and the urban economy, trade, monetary developments, and the role of the state and ideology. It provides a comprehensive overview of the economy with an emphasis on the economic actions of the state and the productive role of the city and non-economic actors, such as landlords, artisans and money-changers. The final chapter compares the Byzantine economy with the economies of western Europe and concludes that the Byzantine economy was one of the most successful examples of a mixed economy in the pre-industrial world. This is the only concise general history of the Byzantine economy and will be essential reading for students of economic history, Byzantine history and medieval history more generally.
Author : Laura Salah Nasrallah
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783161568749
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (687 download)
Download or read book From Roman to Early Christian Cyprus written by Laura Salah Nasrallah and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cyprus was a crossroads in the ancient eastern Mediterranean, a key location between east and west, in which Judaism, Greco-Roman religions, and Christianity intersected, and where Christianity came to flourish. Bringing together scholars of religion and archaeology to study Cyprus in antiquity, this volume's contributions cover a myriad of topics, including the mosaics of Cyprus, its silver treasures, religious tensions between Christians and others, the role of Epiphanius, the story of St. Barnabas, the powerful position of Cyprus as autocephalous within emerging orthodoxy in antiquity, those who used so-called magical texts, those who worked in a harbor, those involved with the transport of building materials, and early representations of Cyprian saints. By drawing on literary, archaeological, and art historical evidence from the first century CE to the medieval period, the volume elucidates the diversity of Christianity in late antique Cyprus, while also discussing relations between Christians, Jews, and members of Greco-Roman religions.
Author : Anthony Kaldellis
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674967402
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)
Download or read book The Byzantine Republic written by Anthony Kaldellis and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2015-02-02 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Byzantium is known to history as the Eastern Roman Empire, scholars have long claimed that this Greek Christian theocracy bore little resemblance to Rome. Here, in a revolutionary model of Byzantine politics and society, Anthony Kaldellis reconnects Byzantium to its Roman roots, arguing that from the fifth to the twelfth centuries CE the Eastern Roman Empire was essentially a republic, with power exercised on behalf of the people and sometimes by them too. The Byzantine Republic recovers for the historical record a less autocratic, more populist Byzantium whose Greek-speaking citizens considered themselves as fully Roman as their Latin-speaking “ancestors.” Kaldellis shows that the idea of Byzantium as a rigid imperial theocracy is a misleading construct of Western historians since the Enlightenment. With court proclamations often draped in Christian rhetoric, the notion of divine kingship emerged as a way to disguise the inherent vulnerability of each regime. The legitimacy of the emperors was not predicated on an absolute right to the throne but on the popularity of individual emperors, whose grip on power was tenuous despite the stability of the imperial institution itself. Kaldellis examines the overlooked Byzantine concept of the polity, along with the complex relationship of emperors to the law and the ways they bolstered their popular acceptance and avoided challenges. The rebellions that periodically rocked the empire were not aberrations, he shows, but an essential part of the functioning of the republican monarchy.
Author : Petros Bouras-Vallianatos
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0198850689
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)
Download or read book Innovation in Byzantine Medicine written by Petros Bouras-Vallianatos and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Byzantine medicine is the biggest unknown quantity in both the study of medieval medicine and science and in Byzantine studies. This volume aims to redress this gap by presenting the first comprehensive examination of the medical corpus of John Zacharias Aktouarios, arguably the most important Late Byzantine physician.
