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Total Pages : 461 pages
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Download or read book The Byzantine Aristocracy in the Thirteenth and Early Fourteenth Century written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Demetrios S. Kyritses
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Total Pages : 461 pages
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Download or read book The Byzantine Aristocracy in the Thirteenth and Early Fourteenth Centuries written by Demetrios S. Kyritses and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : M Angold
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ISBN 13 : 9780860542834
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (428 download)
Download or read book The Byzantine Aristocracy written by M Angold and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Florin Leonte
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 147444105X
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)
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.
Author : Stephanos Efthymiadis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351393278
Total Pages : 559 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (513 download)
Download or read book The Ashgate Research Companion to Byzantine Hagiography written by Stephanos Efthymiadis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 559 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For an entire millennium, Byzantine hagiography, inspired by the veneration of many saints, exhibited literary dynamism and a capacity to vary its basic forms. The subgenres into which it branched out after its remarkable start in the fourth century underwent alternating phases of development and decline that were intertwined with changes in the political, social and literary spheres. The selection of saintly heroes, an interest in depicting social landscapes, and the modulation of linguistic and stylistic registers captured the voice of homo byzantinus down to the end of the empire in the fifteenth century. The seventeen chapters in this companion form the sequel to those in volume I which dealt with the periods and regions of Byzantine hagiography, and complete the first comprehensive survey ever produced in this field. The book is the work of an international group of experts in the field and is addressed to both a broader public and the scholarly community of Byzantinists, medievalists, historians of religion and theorists of narrative. It highlights the literary dimension and the research potential of a representative number of texts, not only those appreciated by the Byzantines themselves but those which modern readers rank high due to their literary quality or historical relevance.
Author : Sarah Bassett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108498183
Total Pages : 435 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Constantinople written by Sarah Bassett and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-03-17 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The collected essays explore late antique and Byzantine Constantinople in matters sacred, political, cultural, and commercial.
Author : Andrea Mattiello
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351244817
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (512 download)
Download or read book Late Byzantium Reconsidered written by Andrea Mattiello and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-04 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Late Byzantium Reconsidered offers a unique collection of essays analysing the artistic achievements of Mediterranean centres linked to the Byzantine Empire between 1261, when the Palaiologan dynasty re-conquered Constantinople, and the decades after 1453, when the Ottomans took the city, marking the end of the Empire. These centuries were characterised by the rising of socio-political elites, in regions such as Crete, Italy, Laconia, Serbia, and Trebizond, that, while sharing cultural and artistic values influenced by the Byzantine Empire, were also developing innovative and original visual and cultural standards. The comparative and interdisciplinary framework offered by this volume aims to challenge established ideas concerning the late Byzantine period such as decline, renewal, and innovation. By examining specific case studies of cultural production from within and outside Byzantium, the chapters in this volume highlight the intrinsic innovative nature of the socio-cultural identities active in the late medieval and early modern Mediterranean vis-à-vis the rhetorical assumption of the cultural contraction of the Byzantine Empire.
Author : Jean-Claude Cheynet
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000939057
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)
Download or read book The Byzantine Aristocracy and its Military Function written by Jean-Claude Cheynet and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-05-31 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first four studies in this volume by Jean-Claude Cheynet, specially translated from French for publication here, present a broad-ranging analysis of the Byzantine aristocracy of the 8th-12th centuries. Along with the other articles in the first part, they examine the evolution of aristocratic families and the composition of this group, the relative importance of landholding and public office, the notion of 'civilian' and 'military' families, and patterns of inheritance. In the second part, the focus is on the Byzantine army, with studies looking both at the position of aristocrats within it, and more generally at the effectiveness of the army itself, notably in the campaigns in Asia Minor against the Arabs and the Turks.
Author : Dimiter Angelov
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521857031
Total Pages : 23 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)
Download or read book Imperial Ideology and Political Thought in Byzantium, 1204-1330 written by Dimiter Angelov and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-02-08 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study investigates Byzantine imperial ideology, court rhetoric and political thought after the Latin conquest of Constantinople in 1204.
Author : Clare Teresa M. Shawcross
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108418414
Total Pages : 745 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Reading in the Byzantine Empire and Beyond written by Clare Teresa M. Shawcross and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-04 with total page 745 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive introduction in English to books, readers and reading in Byzantium and the wider medieval world surrounding it.
Author : Vlada Stankovic
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498513263
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)
Download or read book The Balkans and the Byzantine World before and after the Captures of Constantinople, 1204 and 1453 written by Vlada Stankovic and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2016-06-15 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book represents the first attempt to analyze historical and cultural developments in late medieval and early modern southeastern Europe as a set of mutually intertwined regional histories, burdened by the strong dichotomy between the almighty center—Constantinople—and the periphery that is rarely visible in both contemporary sources and modern scholarship. This mosaic of original studies is devoted to various regions of the Byzantine Balkans and their historical, artistic, and ideological idiosyncrasies, mirroring the complex character and composite and fragmented structure of this vast region. The focal points of the book are the two captures of Constantinople in 1204 and 1453, and the contributors analyze the significance of these catastrophic events on the political destiny of medieval Balkan societies, the mechanisms of adapting to the new political order, and the ever-present interconnectedness of a lower, regional elite across southeastern Europe that had remained strong even after the Ottoman conquest.
Author : Catherine Holmes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009021907
Total Pages : 706 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Political Culture in the Latin West, Byzantium and the Islamic World, c.700–c.1500 written by Catherine Holmes and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-26 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comparative study explores three key cultural and political spheres – the Latin west, Byzantium and the Islamic world from Central Asia to the Atlantic – roughly from the emergence of Islam to the fall of Constantinople. These spheres drew on a shared pool of late antique Mediterranean culture, philosophy and science, and they had monotheism and historical antecedents in common. Yet where exactly political and spiritual power lay, and how it was exercised, differed. This book focuses on power dynamics and resource-allocation among ruling elites; the legitimisation of power and property with the aid of religion; and on rulers' interactions with local elites and societies. Offering the reader route-maps towards navigating each sphere and grasping the fundamentals of its political culture, this set of parallel studies offers a timely and much needed framework for comparing the societies surrounding the medieval Mediterranean.
Author : Catia Galatariotou
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521521888
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)
Download or read book The Making of a Saint written by Catia Galatariotou and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-01-29 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of how a Byzantine holy man became a saint.
Author : Claudia Rapp
Publisher : V&R unipress
ISBN 13 : 3737014973
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (37 download)
Download or read book Microstructures and Mobility in the Byzantine World written by Claudia Rapp and published by V&R unipress. This book was released on 2024-01-22 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume – whose chapters originated at panels at the International Byzantine Congress in Belgrade and at the IMC in Leeds – seeks to offer an introduction into various aspects of social and geographical mobility, and the intrinsic relationship between the two, as well as into the microstructures of social action in the Byzantine world during the high and late Middle Ages. Based on a balanced approach to the role of personal agency and social structure, the authors of the individual chapters seek to clarify how and why various kinds of people mobilized to either change place and/or social position, or to form groups whose actions shaped social reality both at the imperial centre and the provincial periphery.
Author : Johann P. Arnason
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047414675
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)
Download or read book Eurasian Transformations, Tenth to Thirteenth Centuries written by Johann P. Arnason and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume which also appeared as a special issue of Medieval Encounters deals with transformations of the major Eurasian civilizations in the early second millennium CE, and with the question of contrasts, parallels and connections between the different trajectories that took shape during this period. An introductory section discusses the theoretical problems of comparative analysis, with particular reference to formative phases of cultural crystallization. The first main thematic section focuses on European developments. The emergence of Western Christendom as a distinctive civilization is analyzed in a broader Eurasian context. Other contributions examine the Europeanization of northern and eastern peripheries, as well as the different course of events in the Byzantine world. The last section covers socio-cultural changes in non-European regions - the Islamic world, India, China and Japan - and concludes with a discussion of the Eurasian empire created by the Mongols. With contributions by Thomas Lindkvist; Sverre Bagge; Paul Jakov Smith; Paul Stephenson; Mikael Adolphson; Dr. Michal Biran; Said A. Arjomand; Gábor Klaniczay; R. I. Moore; Sheldon Pollock.
Author : Edmund Fryde
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004474269
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book The Early Palaeologan Renaissance (1261 - c. 1360) written by Edmund Fryde and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-12-28 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Byzantine world underwent a remarkable recovery of intellectual energy in the period following the recovery of Constantinople in 1261. The reaction of the emperors and their entourage of well-educated high officials to their political disasters was a deliberate revival of the glories of ancient Greek culture. The main subject of this book is the preservation and dissemination by this learned elite of such ancient literature, philosophy and science as still survived then, the development of editorial techniques which resulted in more complete and less corrupt texts, and their improvement buy the addition of commentaries and other innovations.
Author : Ruth Macrides
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317073959
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Pseudo-Kodinos and the Constantinopolitan Court: Offices and Ceremonies written by Ruth Macrides and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-09-17 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The work known as Pseudo-Kodinos, the fourteenth-century text which is one of two surviving ceremonial books from the Byzantine empire, is presented here for the first time in English translation. With facing page Greek text and the first in-depth analysis in the form of commentary and individual studies on the hierarchy, the ceremonies, court attire, the Blachernai palace, lighting, music, gestures and postures, this volume makes an important new contribution to the study of the Byzantine court, and to the history and culture of Byzantium more broadly. The unique traits of this ceremony book include the combination of hierarchical lists of court officials with protocols of ceremonies; a detailed description of the clothing used at court, in particular, hats and staffs; an account of the functions of the court title holders, a description of the ceremonies of the year which take place both inside the palace and outside; the service of the megas domestikos in the army, protocols for the coronation of the emperor, the promotions of despot, sebastokrator and caesar, of the patriarch; a description of the mourning attire of the emperor; protocol for the reception of a foreign bride in Constantinople all these are analysed here. Developments in ceremonial since the tenth-century Book of Ceremonies are discussed, as is the space in which ceremonial was performed, along with a new interpretation of the ’other palace’, the Blachernai. The text reveals the anonymous authors’ interest in the past, in the origins of practices and items of clothing, but it is argued that Pseudo-Kodinos presents descriptions of actual practice at the Byzantine court, rather than prescriptions.
