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Author : Joan Mervyn Hussey
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Total Pages : 40 pages
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Download or read book Ascetics and Humanists in Eleventh-century Byzantium written by Joan Mervyn Hussey and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Floris Bernard
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191008788
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Writing and Reading Byzantine Secular Poetry, 1025-1081 written by Floris Bernard and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2014-07-17 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the mid-eleventh century, secular Byzantine poetry attained a hitherto unseen degree of wit, vividness, and personal involvement, chiefly exemplified in the poetry of Christophoros Mitylenaios, Ioannes Mauropous, and Michael Psellos. This is the first volume to consider this poetic activity as a whole, critically reconsidering modern assumptions about Byzantine poetry, and focusing on Byzantine conceptions of the role of poetry in society. By providing a detailed account of the various media through which poetry was presented to its readers, and by tracing the initial circulation of poems, this volume takes an interest in the Byzantine reader and his/her reading habits and strategies, allowing aspects of performance and visual representation, rarely addressed, to come to the fore. It also examines the social interests that motivated the composition of poetry, establishing a connection with the extraordinary social mobility of the time. Self-representative strategies are analyzed against the background of an unstable elite struggling to find moral justification, which allows the study to raise the question of patronage, examine the discourse used by poets to secure material rewards, and explain the social dynamics of dedicatory epigrams. Finally, gift exchange is explored as a medium that underlines the value of poetry and confirms the exclusive nature of intellectual friendship.
Author : John Hutchins Rosser
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810875675
Total Pages : 643 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Byzantium written by John Hutchins Rosser and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 643 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Byzantine Empire dates back to Constantine the Great, the first Christian ruler of the Roman Empire, who, in 330 AD, moved the imperial capital from Rome to a port city in modern-day Turkey, which he then renamed Constantinople in his honor. From its founding, the Byzantine Empire was a major anchor of east-west trade, and culture, art, architecture, and the economy all prospered in the newly Christian empire. As Byzantium moved into the middle and late period, Greek became the official language of both church and state and the Empire's cultural and religious influence extended well beyond its boundaries. In the mid-15th century, the Ottoman Turks put an end to 1,100 years of Byzantine history by capturing Constantinople, but the Empire's legacy in art, culture, and religion endured long after its fall. In this revised and updated second edition of the Historical Dictionary of Byzantium, author John H. Rosser introduces both the general reader and the researcher to the history of the Byzantine Empire. This comprehensive dictionary includes detailed, alphabetical entries on key figures, ideas, places, and themes related to Byzantine art, history, and religion, and the second edition contains numerous additional entries on broad topics such as transportation and gender, which were less prominent in the previous edition. An expanded introduction introduces the reader to Byzantium and a guide to further sources and suggested readings can be found in the extensive bibliography that follows the entries. A basic chronology and various maps and illustrations are also included in the dictionary. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Byzantium.
Author : Turner
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004624791
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)
Download or read book St. Symeon written by Turner and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-11-13 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Besides his importance as a Christian mystic, St. Symeon - The New Theologian is a valuable source of information concerning the objectives of a spiritual father and his clients, the kinds of training given by a father to his disciples, and the difficulties encountered in the relationship. These and kindred matters are considered in some detail in this study, which comprises an examination of Symeon's background, his experience as a disciple and a spiritual father and of the teaching he gave in the latter capacity. The author has been able to make use of three letters written by Symeon the texts of which have not yet been published.
Author : Colin Wells
Publisher : Delacorte Press
ISBN 13 : 055338273X
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (533 download)
Download or read book Sailing from Byzantium written by Colin Wells and published by Delacorte Press. This book was released on 2007-07-31 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gripping intellectual adventure story, Sailing from Byzantium sweeps you from the deserts of Arabia to the dark forests of northern Russia, from the colorful towns of Renaissance Italy to the final moments of a millennial city under siege…. Byzantium: the successor of Greece and Rome, this magnificent empire bridged the ancient and modern worlds for more than a thousand years. Without Byzantium, the works of Homer and Herodotus, Plato and Aristotle, Sophocles and Aeschylus, would never have survived. Yet very few of us have any idea of the enormous debt we owe them. The story of Byzantium is a real-life adventure of electrifying ideas, high drama, colorful characters, and inspiring feats of daring. In Sailing from Byzantium, Colin Wells tells of the missionaries, mystics, philosophers, and artists who against great odds and often at peril of their own lives spread Greek ideas to the Italians, the Arabs, and the Slavs. Their heroic efforts inspired the Renaissance, the golden age of Islamic learning, and Russian Orthodox Christianity, which came complete with a new alphabet, architecture, and one of the world’s greatest artistic traditions. The story’s central reference point is an arcane squabble called the Hesychast controversy that pitted humanist scholars led by the brilliant, acerbic intellectual Barlaam against the powerful monks of Mount Athos led by the stern Gregory Palamas, who denounced “pagan” rationalism in favor of Christian mysticism. Within a few decades, the light of Byzantium would be extinguished forever by the invading Turks, but not before the humanists found a safe haven for Greek literature. The controversy of rationalism versus faith would continue to be argued by some of history’s greatest minds. Fast-paced, compulsively readable, and filled with fascinating insights, Sailing from Byzantium is one of the great historical dramas–the gripping story of how the flame of civilization was saved and passed on.
Author : Sergei Mariev
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1501503596
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Byzantine Perspectives on Neoplatonism written by Sergei Mariev and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-03-20 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Byzantine intellectuals not only had direct access to Neoplatonic sources in the original language but also, at times, showed a particular interest in them. During the Early Byzantine period Platonism significantly contributed to the development of Christian doctrines and, paradoxically, remained a rival world view that was perceived by many Christian thinkers as a serious threat to their own intellectual identity. This problematic relationship was to become even more complex during the following centuries. Byzantine authors made numerous attempts to harmonize Neoplatonic doctrines with Christianity as well as to criticize, refute and even condemn them. The papers assembled in this volume discuss a number of specific questions and concerns that drew the interest of Byzantine scholars in different periods towards Neoplatonic sources in an attempt to identify and explore the central issues in the reception of Neoplatonic texts during the Byzantine era. This is the first volume of the sub-series "Byzantinisches Archiv - Series Philosophica", which will be dedicated to the rapidly growing field of research in Byzantine philosophical texts.
Author : Marc D. Lauxtermann
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351803964
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)
Download or read book Byzantium in the Eleventh Century written by Marc D. Lauxtermann and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-10-18 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 changes and transformations, both internal and external, but also a period rife with clichés and dominated by the towering presence of Michael Psellos whose usually self-contradictory accounts continue to loom large in the field of Byzantine studies. The essays collected here, which were delivered at the 45th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, explore new avenues of research and offer new perspectives on this transitional period. The book is divided into four thematic clusters: 'The age of Psellos' studies this crucial figure and seeks to situate him in his time; 'Social structures' is concerned with the ways in which the deep structures of Byzantine society and economy responded to change; 'State and Church' offers a set of studies of various political developments in eleventh-century Byzantium; and 'The age of spirituality' offers the voices of those for whom Psellos had little time and little use: monks, religious thinkers and pious laymen.
Author : Charles Barber
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047431618
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)
Download or read book Contesting the Logic of Painting written by Charles Barber and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007-10-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies of the icon in Byzantium have tended to focus on the iconoclastic era of the eighth- and ninth-centuries. This study shows that discussion of the icon was far from settled by this lengthy dispute. While the theory of the icon in Byzantium was governed by a logical understanding that had limited painting to the visible alone, the four authors addressed in this book struggled with this constraint. Symeon the New Theologian, driven by a desire for divine vision, chose, effectively, to disregard the icon. Michael Psellos used a profound neoplatonism to examine the relationship between an icon and miracles. Eustratios of Nicaea followed the logic of painting to the point at which he could clarify a distinction between painting from theology. Leo of Chalcedon attempted to describe a formal presence in the divine portrait of Christ. All told, these authors open perspectives on the icon that enrich and expand our own modernist understanding of this crucial medium.
Author : Rosamond McKitterick
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521414111
Total Pages : 988 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (141 download)
Download or read book The New Cambridge Medieval History: Volume 4, C.1024-c.1198, Part 2 written by Rosamond McKitterick and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 988 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fourth volume of The New Cambridge Medieval History covers the eleventh and twelfth centuries, which comprised perhaps the most dynamic period in the European middle ages. This is a history of Europe, but the continent is interpreted widely to include the Near East and North Africa. The volume is divided into two parts of which this, the second, deals with the course of events - ecclesiastical and secular - and major developments in an age marked by the transformation of the position of the papacy in a process fuelled by a radical reformation of the church, the decline of the western and eastern empires, the rise of western kingdoms and Italian elites, and the development of governmental structures, the beginnings of the recovery of Spain from the Moors and the establishment of western settlements in the eastern Mediterranean region in the wake of the crusades.
Author : Constantinos Athanasopoulos
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527558800
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)
Download or read book Orthodox Mysticism and Asceticism written by Constantinos Athanasopoulos and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-08-27 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The scholarly contributions gathered together in this volume discuss themes related to the cultural, social and ethical dimension of St Gregory Palamas’ works. They relate his mystical philosophy and theology to contemporary debates in metaphysics, philosophy of language, ethics, philosophy of culture, political philosophy, epistemology, and philosophy of religion and theology, among others. The book considers a variety of topics of special interest to Christian theologians, philosophers and art historians including church and state relations, similarities and differences between Palamas, contemporary phenomenologists and philosophers of language, and hesychast influences on late Byzantine iconography.
Author : Cuming
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004623019
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)
Download or read book The Church and Academic Learning written by Cuming and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-11-27 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hugh Christopher Barbour
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Byzantine Thomism of Gennadios Scholarios and His Translation of the Commentary of Armandus de Bellovisu on the De Ente Et Essentia of Thomas Aquinas written by Hugh Christopher Barbour and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : C.A. Tsakiridou
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317119169
Total Pages : 471 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)
Download or read book Icons in Time, Persons in Eternity written by C.A. Tsakiridou and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-13 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Icons in Time, Persons in Eternity presents a critical, interdisciplinary examination of contemporary theological and philosophical studies of the Christian image and redefines this within the Orthodox tradition by exploring the ontological and aesthetic implications of Orthodox ascetic and mystical theology. It finds Modernist interest in the aesthetic peculiarity of icons significant, and essential for re-evaluating their relationship to non-representational art. Drawing on classical Greek art criticism, Byzantine ekphraseis and hymnography, and the theologies of St. Maximus the Confessor, St. Symeon the New Theologian and St. Gregory Palamas, the author argues that the ancient Greek concept of enargeia best conveys the expression of theophany and theosis in art. The qualities that define enargeia - inherent liveliness, expressive autonomy and self-subsisting form - are identified in exemplary Greek and Russian icons and considered in the context of the hesychastic theology that lies at the heart of Orthodox Christianity. An Orthodox aesthetics is thus outlined that recognizes the transcendent being of art and is open to dialogue with diverse pictorial and iconographic traditions. An examination of Ch’an (Zen) art theory and a comparison of icons with paintings by Wassily Kandinsky, Pablo Picasso, Mark Rothko and Marc Chagall, and by Japanese artists influenced by Zen Buddhism, reveal intriguing points of convergence and difference. The reader will find in these pages reasons to reconcile Modernism with the Christian image and Orthodox tradition with creative form in art.
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Publisher : Brill Archive
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Studies in Church History Volume V written by and published by Brill Archive. This book was released on with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Donald MacGillivray Nicol
Publisher : Variorum Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Byzantium: Its Ecclesiastical History and Relations with the Western World written by Donald MacGillivray Nicol and published by Variorum Publishing. This book was released on 1972 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Christopher Dawson
Publisher : CUA Press
ISBN 13 : 0813218187
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (132 download)
Download or read book Medieval Essays (The Works of Christopher Dawson) written by Christopher Dawson and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2012-08-09 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medieval Essays is the mature reflection of one of the most gifted cultural historians of the twentieth century.
Author : M. Loos
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9789024716739
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (167 download)
Download or read book Dualist Heresy in the Middle Ages written by M. Loos and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1974-06-30 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spis se v podstatě zabývá dualistickou heretikou středověku a vychází ze základních medievalních doktrín. Věnuje pozornost paulikiánskému hnutí, které vzniklo v sedmém století v Západní Arménii. Studuje toto hnutí a v něm se projevující protifeudální boj mas, hlavně rolnictva a jeho vliv na bogomilství. Probírá z historického hlediska heretický a dualistický charakter bogomilství, které vzniklo v Bulharsku v 10. století, stavělo se proti církvi a jejím obřadům i proti soukromému vlastnictví. Kniha sleduje další jeho pronikání do Bosny a na Západ.
