Strangers To Themselves The Byzantine Outsider
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Strangers To Themselves The Byzantine Outsider
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Author : Dion C. Smythe
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-12-05
Strangers To Themselves The Byzantine Outsider written by Dion C. Smythe and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-05 with History categories.
March 1998 saw Byzantinists gathering together at the University of Sussex in Brighton, for the annual symposium held by the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies. Their aim was to consider the question of the 'Byzantine outsider'. Some categories of outsiders appear clear and simple: those marked out by class, race, sex, religion. But these categories are not universals. Today, historians of all periods are examining the ways in which we analyse the divisions in our societies, which can determine how we look at societies in the past. There is no consensus on who forms the 'outsider class' in modern society; it should come as no surprise that there was no consensus in Byzantium as to who the outsiders were, what they had done to deserve that status, and what the result of their attaining it should have been. The papers in this collection, drawn from the large number presented at the XXXII Spring Symposium, continue the debate about the idea of the 'Byzantine outsider'. The scholars within - theologians, historians, literary critics and art historians - present differing approaches to different aspects of the problem. The volume does not aim to have the 'last word', but rather to provoke debate and to open the field. Any examination of society that uses the concept of the outsider has implicitly within it a concept of the 'insider'. By looking at those on the margins it becomes easier to see who were - or at least thought they were - on the inside.
Byzantinum In The Year 1000
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Author : Paul Magdalino
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2003
Byzantinum In The Year 1000 written by Paul Magdalino and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with History categories.
One thousand years ago, the Byzantine Empire was reaching the height of its revival as a medieval state. The ten contributions to this volume by scholars from six European countries re-assess key aspects of the empire's politics and culture in the long reign of the emperor Basil II, whose name has come to symbolise the greatness of Byzantium in the age before the crusades. The first five chapters deal with international diplomacy, the emperor's power, and government in Asia Minor and the frontier provinces of the Balkans and southern Italy. The second half of the volume covers aspects of law, history-writing, poetry and hagiography, and concludes with a discussion of Byzantine attitudes to the Millennium.
Byzantium Its Neighbours And Its Cultures
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Author : Danijel Dzino
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2014-01-01
Byzantium Its Neighbours And Its Cultures written by Danijel Dzino and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-01 with History categories.
Byzantium was one of the longest-lasting empires in history. Throughout the millennium of its existence, the empire showed its capability to change and develop under very different historical circumstances. This remarkable resilience would have been impossible to achieve without the formation of a lasting imperial culture and a strong imperial ideological infrastructure. Imperial culture and ideology required, among other things, to sort out who was ʻinsiderʼ and who was ʻoutsiderʼ and develop ways to define and describe ones neighbours and interact with them. There is an indefinite number of possibilities for the exploration of relationships between Byzantium and its neighbours. The essays in this collection focus on several interconnected clusters of topics and shared research interests, such as the place of neighbours in the context of the empire and imperial ideology, the transfer of knowledge with neighbours, the Byzantine perception of their neighbours and the political relationship and/or the conflict with neighbours.
Byzantine Orthodoxies
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Author : Augustine Casiday
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-09-29
Byzantine Orthodoxies written by Augustine Casiday and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-29 with History categories.
The Byzantine Empire - the Christianized Roman Empire - very soon defined itself in terms of correct theological belief, 'orthodoxy'. The terms of this belief were hammered out, for the most part, by bishops, but doctrinal decisions were made in councils called by the Emperors, many of whom involved themselves directly in the definition of 'orthodoxy'. Iconoclasm was an example of such imperial involvement, as was the final overthrow of iconoclasm. That controversy ensured that questions of Christian art were also seen by Byzantines as implicated in the question of orthodoxy. The papers gathered in this volume derive from those presented at the 36th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Durham, March 2002. They discuss how orthodoxy was defined, and the different interests that it represented; how orthodoxy was expressed in art and the music of the liturgy; and how orthodoxy helped shape the Byzantine Empire's sense of its own identity, an identity defined against the 'other' - Jews, heretics and, especially from the turn of the first millennium, the Latin West. These considerations raise wider questions about the way in which societies and groups use world-views and issues of belief to express and articulate identity. At a time when, with the enlargement of the European Union, questions of identity within Europe are once again becoming pressing, there is much in these essays of topical relevance.
Jews In Byzantium
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Author : Robert Bonfil
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2011-10-14
Jews In Byzantium written by Robert Bonfil and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-14 with Religion categories.
Byzantine Jews: Dialectics of Minority and Majority Cultures is the collective product of a three year research group convened under the auspices of Scholion: Interdisciplinary Research Center in Jewish Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The volume provides both a survey and an analysis of the social and cultural history of Byzantine Jewry from its inception until the fifteenth century, within the wider context of the Byzantine world.
Reading In The Byzantine Empire And Beyond
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Author : Clare Teresa M. Shawcross
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2018-10-04
Reading In The Byzantine Empire And Beyond written by Clare Teresa M. Shawcross and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-04 with History categories.
The first comprehensive introduction in English to books, readers and reading in Byzantium and the wider medieval world surrounding it.
History As Literature In Byzantium
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Author : R. J. Macrides
language : en
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Release Date : 2010
History As Literature In Byzantium written by R. J. Macrides and has been published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with History categories.
Although perceived since the 16th century as the most impressive literary achievement of Byzantine culture, historical writing nevertheless remains little studied as literature. This book, devoted to literary interpretations of Byzantine historical writing and analyses of pictorial narratives, illustrates how analyses of texts and images from the 6th to the 14th century work hand in hand with an evaluation of the work as a document of historical value.
Mobility And Migration In Byzantium A Sourcebook
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Author : Claudia Rapp
language : en
Publisher: V&R unipress
Release Date : 2023-06-12
Mobility And Migration In Byzantium A Sourcebook written by Claudia Rapp and has been published by V&R unipress this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-06-12 with History categories.
Mobility and migration were not uncommon in Byzantium, as is true for all societies. Yet, scholarship is only beginning to pay attention to these phenomena. This book presents in English translation a wide array of relevant source texts from ca. 650 to ca. 1450 originally written in medieval Greek: from administrative records, saints’ lives and letters by churchmen to ego-documents by ambassadors and historical narratives by court historians. Each source text is accompanied by a detailed introduction, commentary and further bibliography, thus making the book accessible to both scholars and students and laying the groundwork for future research on the internal dynamics of Byzantine society.
The Late Byzantine Romance In Context
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Author : Ioannis Smarnakis
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2024-04-23
The Late Byzantine Romance In Context written by Ioannis Smarnakis and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-04-23 with History categories.
This book investigates issues of identity and narrativity in late Byzantine romances in a Mediterranean context, covering the chronological span from the capture of Constantinople by the Crusaders in 1204 to the 16th century. It includes chapters not only on romances that were written and read in the broader Byzantine world but also on literary texts from regions around the Mediterranean Sea. The volume offers new insights and covers a variety of interrelated subjects concerning the narrative representations of self-identities, gender, and communities, the perception of political and cultural otherness, and the interaction of space and time with identity formation. The chapters focus on texts from the Byzantine, western European, and Ottoman worlds, thus promoting a cross-cultural approach that highlights the role of the Mediterranean as a shared environment that facilitated communications, cultural interaction, and the trading and reconfiguration of identities. The volume will appeal to a wide audience of researchers and students alike, specializing in or simply interested in cultural studies, Byzantine, western medieval, and Ottoman history and literature.
The Power Game In Byzantium
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Author : James Allan Evans
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2011-12-22
The Power Game In Byzantium written by James Allan Evans and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-12-22 with History categories.
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