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Church and Society in Late Byzantium

Author : Dimiter Angelov
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781580441421
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (414 download)

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Download or read book Church and Society in Late Byzantium written by Dimiter Angelov and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has long been noted that the prestige and power of the church were steadily growing in the period of the late Byzantine empire, a tendency that was complex, multifaceted, and sometimes ambivalent. The essays in this collection seek to shed light on various aspects of the church's role in late Byzantine society, especially on the relationship between the church and the lay world and the response of individuals to the challenges faced by Orthodoxy. The volume is divided into three sections: (1) Politics, Society, and the Economy; (2) Intellectual Life and Ideology; and (3) The Church and the Turkish Conquests. By exploring these different areas, the essays in this volume contribute to scholarly understanding of how the church was embedded into the fabric of late Byzantine society and intellectual life.

Byzantium

Author : Deno John Geanakoplos
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226284613
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (846 download)

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Download or read book Byzantium written by Deno John Geanakoplos and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deno John Geanakoplos here offers a prodigious collection of source materials on the Byzantine church, society, and civilization (many translated for the first time into English), arranged chronologically and topically, and knit together with an analytical historical commentary. His selections from Byzantine writers as well as from more obscure documents and chronicles in Latin, Arabic, Slavic, Italian, Armenian, and French reflect all the diversity of Byzantine life--the military tactics of the long-invincible cataphract cavalry and the warships armed with Greek fire, the mysticism of Hesychast monks, the duties of imperial officers, the activities of daily life from the Hippodrome and Hagia Sophia to the marketplaces, baths, and brothels. Geanakoplos not only covers the traditional areas of political, ecclesiastical, socioeconomic, administrative, and military life, but also provides a vivid picture of Byzantine culture--education, philosophy, literature, theology, medicine, and science. Of particular interest are the insights into the empire's relations with the Latin West, the Slavs, the Arabs, the Turks, and other neighboring peoples. Byzantium is much more than a sourcebook. The running commentary reflects the most recent scholarly research in Byzantine studies and places each translated source in its precise historical context. Through the use of both primary sources and commentary, Geanakoplos has represented in all its richness and complexity one of the world's great civilizations. There is no comparable book on Byzantine history and civilization in any language.

Church and Society in Byzantium Under the Comneni, 1081-1261

Author : Michael Angold
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521264324
Total Pages : 622 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (212 download)

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Download or read book Church and Society in Byzantium Under the Comneni, 1081-1261 written by Michael Angold and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-07-06 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth study of church and society under Comneni rule before and after the fall of Constantinople in 1204.

Church and Society in Byzantium

Author : Donald M. Nicol
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521071673
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (716 download)

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Download or read book Church and Society in Byzantium written by Donald M. Nicol and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-08-14 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Byzantines lived in a theocratic society. They were less ready than their western contemporaries to draw the line between things spiritual and things temporal, between Church and state. This book explores some of the characteristics of that society in the age of its decline and fall between the thirteenth and the fifteenth centuries. Though irremediably shattered by the effects of the Fourth Crusade in 1204, the Byzantine Empire found the will to reassert itself and to endure for another 250 years. Material recovery was hardly possible, but there was a remarkable reawakening of scholarship and of the spiritual life. The world's debt to some of the late Byzantine scholars is known to classicists and to students of the Italian Renaissance. The contribution of the latter-day saints of Byzantium, the hesychasts and scholars of the spirit, has been less publicized.

Church and Society in Byzantium

Author : Donald M. Nicol
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521224383
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book Church and Society in Byzantium written by Donald M. Nicol and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1979-10-18 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Byzantines lived in a theocratic society. They were less ready than their western contemporaries to draw the line between things spiritual and things temporal, between Church and state. This book explores some of the characteristics of that society in the age of its decline and fall between the thirteenth and the fifteenth centuries. Though irremediably shattered by the effects of the Fourth Crusade in 1204, the Byzantine Empire found the will to reassert itself and to endure for another 250 years. Material recovery was hardly possible, but there was a remarkable reawakening of scholarship and of the spiritual life. The world's debt to some of the late Byzantine scholars is known to classicists and to students of the Italian Renaissance. The contribution of the latter-day saints of Byzantium, the hesychasts and scholars of the spirit, has been less publicized.

Brother-making in Late Antiquity and Byzantium

Author : Claudia Rapp
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195389336
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Brother-making in Late Antiquity and Byzantium written by Claudia Rapp and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exhaustive treatment of ritual brotherhood in Byzantium, this book challenges the 'Boswell Thesis' and argues that the ecclesiastical ritual to bless a relationship between two men bears no resemblance to marriage, but has its origins in early monasticism.

Church and Society in Byzantium

Author : Donald M. Nicol
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521224381
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (212 download)

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Download or read book Church and Society in Byzantium written by Donald M. Nicol and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1979-10-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores some of the characteristics of Byzantine society in the age of its decline and fall.

Church and Society in Late Antique Italy and Beyond

Author : Claire Sotinel
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000951448
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Church and Society in Late Antique Italy and Beyond written by Claire Sotinel and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-05-31 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The papers presented here explore in various ways the interactions between clerics and the society in which Christian churches put down roots in Late Antiquity. Some of these complex processes, involved in the christianization of the Late Roman world, form the theme of the first three sections. Amongst other aspects, the essays in these sections examine the Three Chapters controversy and the participation of lay and clerical protagonists in it, the social standing of Italian bishops (including their use of lay personnel and their economic impact), and a comparison of pagan and Christian places of worship. The essays included in the last section deal with communication in Late Antiquity. They present the first results of a long-term project on the changing role of information during the last centuries of the Roman world. Eight papers in the volume are published in English for the first time.

Society and the Holy in Late Antiquity

Author : Peter Brown
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520068009
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Society and the Holy in Late Antiquity written by Peter Brown and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1989-10-25 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the blend of art and learning that is the hallmark of his work, Peter Brown here examines how the sacred impinged upon the profane during the first Christian millennium.

Imperial Visions of Late Byzantium

Author : Leonte Florin Leonte
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474441068
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Imperial Visions of Late Byzantium written by Leonte Florin Leonte and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-27 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores a Byzantine emperor's construction of authority with the help of his rhetorical texts Examines the changes in the Byzantine imperial idea by the end of the fourteenth century with a particular focus on the instrumentalization of the intellectual dimension of the imperial ruleIntegrates late Byzantine imperial visions into the bigger picture of Byzantine imperial ideology Provides a fresh understanding of key pieces of Byzantine public rhetoric and introduces analytical concepts from rhetorical, literary, and discursive theoriesOffers translations of key passages from late Byzantine rhetoricManuel II Palaiologos was not only a Byzantine emperor but also a remarkably prolific rhetorician and theologian. His oeuvre included letters, treatises, dialogues, short poems and orations. Florin Leonte deals with several of his texts shaped by a didactic intention to educate the emperor's son and successor, John VIII Palaiologos. He argues that the emperor constructed a rhetorical persona which he used in an attempt to compete with other contemporary power-brokers. While Manuel Palaiologos adhered to many rhetorical conventions of his day, he also reasserted the civic role of rhetoric. With a special focus on the first two decades of Manuel II Palaiologos' rule, 1391-1417, Leonte offers a new understanding of the imperial ethos in Byzantium by combining rhetorical analysis with investigation of social and political phenomena.

Church and People in Byzantium

Author : Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies (Great Britain)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Church and People in Byzantium written by Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Literature and Culture in Late Byzantine Thessalonica

Author : Eugenia Russell
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441161775
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Literature and Culture in Late Byzantine Thessalonica written by Eugenia Russell and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-05-23 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cultural history of one of the most important centres of the Hellenistic and Byzantine world.

Peasant Society in the Late Byzantine Empire

Author : Angeliki E. Laiou-Thomadakis
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691656878
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book Peasant Society in the Late Byzantine Empire written by Angeliki E. Laiou-Thomadakis and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-12 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book applies scientific demographic methods to the study of Byzantine peasantry in a period of feudalization. The author shows that the number of peasants declined in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries for reasons that had less to do with catastrophes than with internal social developments. Her book makes the first thorough analysis of this rural society, and one that draws on all available sources. It focuses on village structure and family or kinship groups as well as social and demographic trends. Angeliki Laiou-Thomadakis is Professor of History at Rutgers University and the author of Constantinople and the Latins (Harvard) Originally published in 1977. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Imperial Visions of Late Byzantium

Author : Florin Leonte
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 147444105X
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Imperial Visions of Late Byzantium written by Florin Leonte and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-27 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores a Byzantine emperor's construction of authority with the help of his rhetorical texts Examines the changes in the Byzantine imperial idea by the end of the fourteenth century with a particular focus on the instrumentalization of the intellectual dimension of the imperial ruleIntegrates late Byzantine imperial visions into the bigger picture of Byzantine imperial ideology Provides a fresh understanding of key pieces of Byzantine public rhetoric and introduces analytical concepts from rhetorical, literary, and discursive theoriesOffers translations of key passages from late Byzantine rhetoricManuel II Palaiologos was not only a Byzantine emperor but also a remarkably prolific rhetorician and theologian. His oeuvre included letters, treatises, dialogues, short poems and orations. Florin Leonte deals with several of his texts shaped by a didactic intention to educate the emperor's son and successor, John VIII Palaiologos. He argues that the emperor constructed a rhetorical persona which he used in an attempt to compete with other contemporary power-brokers. While Manuel Palaiologos adhered to many rhetorical conventions of his day, he also reasserted the civic role of rhetoric. With a special focus on the first two decades of Manuel II Palaiologos' rule, 1391-1417, Leonte offers a new understanding of the imperial ethos in Byzantium by combining rhetorical analysis with investigation of social and political phenomena.

Questions of Gender in Byzantine Society

Author : Lynda Garland
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317072340
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Questions of Gender in Byzantine Society written by Lynda Garland and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-23 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gender was a key social indicator in Byzantine society, as in many others. While studies of gender in the western medieval period have appeared regularly in the past decade, similar studies of Byzantium have lagged behind. Masculine and feminine roles were not always as clearly defined as in the West, while eunuchs made up a 'third gender' in the imperial court. Social status indicators were also in a state of flux, as much linked to patronage networks as to wealth, as the Empire came under a series of external and internal pressures. This fluidity applied equally in ecclesiastical and secular spheres. The present collection of essays uncovers gender roles in the imperial family, in monastic institutions of both genders, in the Orthodox church, and in the nascent cult of Mary in the east. It puts the spotlight on flashpoints over a millennium of Byzantine rule, from Constantine the Great to Irene and the Palaiologoi, and covers a wide geographical range, from Byzantine Italy to Syria. The introduction frames the following nine chapters against recent scholarship and considers methodological issues in the study of gender and Byzantine society. Together these essays portray a surprising range of male and female experience in various Byzantine social institutions - whether religious, military, or imperial -- over the course of more than a millennium. The collection offers a provocative contrast to recent studies based on western medieval scholarship. Common themes that bind the collection into a coherent whole include specifically Byzantine expectations of gender among the social elite; the fluidity of social and sexual identities for Byzantine men and women within the church; and the specific challenges that strong individuals posed to the traditional limitations of gender within a hierarchical society dominated by Christian orthodoxy.

Society, Culture and Politics in Byzantium

Author : Nicolas Oikonomides
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000939332
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Society, Culture and Politics in Byzantium written by Nicolas Oikonomides and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-08-25 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Society, Culture and Politics in Byzantium is the fourth selection of papers by the late Nicolas Oikonomides to be published in the Variorum Collected Studies Series. Its focus is upon the Byzantine world after the Fourth Crusade and during the Palaeologan period, though several studies deal with a longer time span. The twenty-eight articles included look first at questions of language and literacy, and then at the relationships between art and politics. The final sections examine aspects of the history of the later empire, in the age of its decline, caught between the economic penetration of the Western European states and the expansion of the Ottoman Turks, and consider the development of Byzantine institutions, monasteries and the Church in this period.

The Twilight of Byzantium

Author : Slobodan Curcic
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691198047
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book The Twilight of Byzantium written by Slobodan Curcic and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-19 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The centuries-long economic and military decline of the Byznatine Empire, which culminated in its political disappearance as a state in 1459, was, paradoxically, accompanied by high levels of cultural achievement. Aimed at broadening our understanding of the final phase of the empire, this collection explores how Byzantine ideological, spiritual, and artistic traditions transcending the economic and political realities of the time. The papers, delivered at an interdisciplinary colloquium held in May 1989 at Princeton University, deal with hagiographic, monastic, literary, architectural, and artistic questions, as well as the general cultural and social issues, of this fascinating period. Along with the editors, the contributors are Smilkjka Gabelic, Thalia Gouma-Peterson, Angela Hero, Robert Ousterhout, Marcus Rautman, Steven Reinert, Alice Mary Talbot, SPeros Vryonis, and John J. Yiannias. Slobodan Curcic is Professor of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University. Doula Mouriki teaches at the Technical University of Athens. Publications of the Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University. Originally published in 1991. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.