The Byzantine Achievement (Routledge Revivals), Byron, Robert

Автор: D Amato Raffaele
Название: Byzantine Imperial Guardsmen 925–1025
ISBN: 1849088500 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781849088503
Издательство: Osprey
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Описание: The hundred-year period ending in 1025, from the reign of the Emperor Constantine VII to that of Basil II `the Bulgar-Slayer`, encompassed the last great era of Byzantine aggression and dominance in the Near East and Balkans. This study sheds new light on the colourful regiments of the Byzantine Imperial Guard.

Автор: Cormack, Robin
Название: Byzantine Art
ISBN: 0198778791 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780198778790
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: A beautifully illustrated, new edition of the best single-volume guide to Byzantine art, providing an introduction to the whole period and range of styles.

Автор: Berger Albrecht
Название: The Statues of Constantinople
ISBN: 1108958370 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108958370
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: A presentation of the ancient statues once set up in Byzantine Constantinople, with a special focus on their popular reception. This Element examines how they came to the city, where they were set up and when they were lost, and analyses their allegorical and magical interpretation by the people.

Автор: Skylitzes
Название: John Skylitzes: A Synopsis of Byzantine History, 811–1057
ISBN: 1107404746 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107404748
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: This book was the first complete English translation of John Skylitzes` extraordinary Middle Byzantine chronicle, covering two centuries of Byzantine history, from the death of Nicephorus I in 811 to the deposition of Michael VI in 1057. This edition features introductions by Jean-Claude Cheynet and Bernard Flusin, along with extensive notes.

Автор: Elena N. Boeck
Название: Imagining the Byzantine Past: The Perception of History in the Illustrated Manuscripts of Skylitzes and Manasses
ISBN: 1107450012 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107450011
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: This is the first book to analyze the transformation of Byzantine history in visual narratives produced by outsiders. It not only explores a complex convergence of art, history, politics, and empire in Sicily and Bulgaria, but also challenges key assumptions about the value of history in the Middle Ages.

Автор: Kaldellis Anthony
Название: Streams of Gold, Rivers of Blood: The Rise and Fall of Byzantine, 955 A.D. to the First Crusade
ISBN: 0190053208 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780190053208
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: A long overdue and thrillingly paced narrative of one of the most dramatic periods in Medieval history, Streams of Gold, Rivers of Blood provides an engaging chronicle of the various imperial upheavals, from the conquests of Basil to the collapse of Constantinople, concluding with the First Crusade.

Автор: Rico Franses
Название: Donor Portraits in Byzantine Art: The Vicissitudes of Contact between Human and Divine
ISBN: 1108407587 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108407588
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: This book explores the range of images in Byzantine art known as donor portraits. It concentrates on the distinctive, supplicatory contact shown between ordinary, mortal figures and their holy, supernatural interlocutors. The topic is approached from a range of perspectives, including art history, theology, structuralist and post-structuralist anthropological theory, and contemporary symbol and metaphor theory. Rico Franses argues that the term 'donor portraits' is inappropriate for the category of images to which it conventionally refers and proposes an alternative title for the category, contact portraits. He contends that the most important feature of the scenes consists in the active role that they play within the belief systems of the supplicants. They are best conceived of not simply as passive expressions of stable, pre-existing ideas and concepts, but as dynamic proponents in a fraught, constantly shifting landscape. The book is important for all scholars and students of Byzantine art and religion.

Автор: Akyьrek Engin
Название: The Hippodrome of Constantinople
ISBN: 1108931987 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108931984
Издательство: Cambridge University Press
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Описание: The Hippodrome of Constantinople was constructed by the Roman Emperor Constantine I and became the ceremonial and recreational center of the city during the Byzantine and the Ottoman period. This Element describes the history, architecture and social role of the Hippodrome.

Автор: Kaegi
Название: Muslim Expansion and Byzantine Collapse in North Africa
ISBN: 1107636809 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107636804
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Описание: Who `lost` Christian North Africa? Who won and how? Walter Kaegi examines these perennial questions, with maps and on-site observations, in this exciting book. An impartial comparative framework helps to sort through identity politics, `Orientalism` charges and counter-charges, and institutional controversies.

Автор: Celik, Siren (harvard University, Massachusetts)
Название: Manuel ii palaiologos (1350-1425)
ISBN: 1108836593 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108836593
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Описание: Constructing a rich, in-depth portrait of Manuel II Palaiologos (1350-1425), this biography focuses not only on political events, but also on the personality, personal life and literary output of Manuel. Will appeal to medievalist scholars of various backgrounds as well as non-specialist readers.

Автор: Walter
Название: The Warrior Saints in Byzantine Art and Tradition
ISBN: 1138253855 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138253858
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Описание: Christopher Walter's study of the cult and iconography of Byzantine warrior saints - George, Demetrius, the two Theodores, and dozens more - is at once encyclopaedic and interpretative, and the first comprehensive study of the subject. The author delineates their origins and development as a distinctive category of saint, showing that in its definitive form this coincides with the apogee of the Byzantine empire in the 10th-11th centuries. He establishes a repertory, particularly of their commemorations in synaxaries and their representations in art, and describes their iconographical types and the functions ascribed to them once enrolled in the celestial army: support for the terrestrial army in its offensive campaigns, and a new protective role when the Byzantine Empire passed to the defensive.

The survey highlights the lack of historicity among the Byzantines in their approach to the lives of these saints and their terrestrial careers. An epilogue briefly treats the analogous traditions in the cultures of neighbouring peoples. Walter draws attention to the development of an echelon of military saints, notably in church decoration, which provides the surest basis for defining their specificity; also to the way in which they were depicted, generally young, handsome and robust, and frequently 'twinned' in pairs, so calling attention to the importance of camaraderie among soldiers.

At the same time, this work opens a new perspective on the military history of the Byzantine Empire. Its ideology of war consistently followed that of the Israelites; protected and favoured by divine intervention, there was no occasion to discuss the morality of a 'just war'. Consequently, when considering Byzantine methods of warfare, due attention should be given to the important role which they attributed to celestial help in their military campaigns.

Автор: Mary B. Cunningham, Thomas Arentzen
Название: The Reception of the Virgin in Byzantium: Marian Narratives in Texts and Images
ISBN: 1108700136 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108700139
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: This book explores how the Virgin Mary's life is told in hymns, sermons, icons, art, and other media in the Byzantine Empire before AD 1204. A group of international specialists examines material and textual evidence from both Byzantine and Muslim-ruled territories that was intended for a variety of settings and audiences and seeks to explain why Byzantine artisans and writers chose to tell stories about Mary, the Mother of God, in such different ways. Sometimes the variation reflected the theological or narrative purposes of story-tellers; sometimes it expressed their personal spiritual preoccupations. Above all, the variety of aspects that this holy figure assumed in Byzantium reveals her paradoxical theological position as meeting-place and mediator between the divine and created realms. Narrative, whether 'historical', theological, or purely literary, thus played a fundamental role in the development of the Marian cult from Late Antiquity onward.