The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Studies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Studies write by Elizabeth Jeffreys. This book was released on 2008. The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Studies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Studies presents discussions by leading experts on all significant aspects of this diverse and fast-growing field. Byzantine Studies deals with the history and culture of the Byzantine Empire, the eastern half of the Late Roman Empire, from the fourth to the fourteenth century. Its centre was the city formerly known as Byzantium, refounded as Constantinople in 324 CE, the present-day Istanbul. Under its emperors, patriarchs, and all-pervasive bureaucracy Byzantium developed a distinctive society: Greek in language, Roman in legal system, and Christian in religion. Byzantium's impact in the European Middle Ages is hard to over-estimate, as a bulwark against invaders, as a meeting-point for trade from Asia and the Mediterranean, as a guardian of the classical literary and artistic heritage, and as a creator of its own magnificent artistic style.
People and Power in Byzantium
People and Power in Byzantium - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook People and Power in Byzantium write by Aleksandr Petrovich Kazhdan. This book was released on 1982. People and Power in Byzantium available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Experiencing Byzantium
Experiencing Byzantium - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Experiencing Byzantium write by Claire Nesbitt. This book was released on 2016-04-22. Experiencing Byzantium available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the reception of imperial ekphraseis in Hagia Sophia to the sounds and smells of the back streets of Constantinople, the sensory perception of Byzantium is an area that lends itself perfectly to an investigation into the experience of the Byzantine world. The theme of experience embraces all aspects of Byzantine studies and the Experiencing Byzantium symposium brought together archaeologists, architects, art historians, historians, musicians and theologians in a common quest to step across the line that divides how we understand and experience the Byzantine world and how the Byzantines themselves perceived the sensual aspects of their empire and also their faith, spirituality, identity and the nature of ’being’ in Byzantium. The papers in this volume derive from the 44th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, held for the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies by the University of Newcastle and University of Durham, at Newcastle upon Tyne in April 2011. They are written by a group of international scholars who have crossed disciplinary boundaries to approach an understanding of experience in the Byzantine world. Experiencing Byzantium is volume 18 in the series published by Ashgate on behalf of the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies.
Byzantines, Latins, and Turks in the Eastern Mediterranean World After 1150
Byzantines, Latins, and Turks in the Eastern Mediterranean World After 1150 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Byzantines, Latins, and Turks in the Eastern Mediterranean World After 1150 write by Jonathan Harris. This book was released on 2012-11-29. Byzantines, Latins, and Turks in the Eastern Mediterranean World After 1150 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A detailed introduction provides a broad geopolitical context to the contributions and discusses at length the broad themes which unite the articles and which transcend traditional interpretations of the eastern Mediterranean in the later medieval period.
Byzantine Orthodoxies
Byzantine Orthodoxies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Byzantine Orthodoxies write by Andrew Louth. This book was released on 2006. Byzantine Orthodoxies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 bel
