Global 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 Global Byzantium write by Leslie Brubaker. This book was released on 2022-07-29. Global Byzantium available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Global Byzantium is, in part, a recasting and expansion of the old ‘Byzantium and its neighbours’ theme with, however, a methodological twist away from the resolutely political and toward the cultural and economic. A second thing that Global Byzantium – as a concept – explicitly endorses is comparative methodology. Global Byzantium needs also to address three further issues: cultural capital, the importance of the local, and the empire’s strategic geographical location. Cultural capital: in past decades it was fashionable to define Byzantium as culturally superior to western Christian Europe, and Byzantine influence was a key concept, especially in art historical circles. This concept has been increasingly criticised, and what we now see emerging is a comparative methodology that relies on the concept of ‘competitive sharing’, not blind copying but rather competitive appropriation. The importance of the local is equally critical. We need to talk more about what the Byzantines saw when they ‘looked out’, and what others saw in Byzantium when they ‘looked in’ and to think about how that impacted on our, very post-modern, concepts of globalism. Finally, we need to think about the empire’s strategic geographical position: between the fourth and the thirteenth centuries, if anyone was travelling internationally, they had to travel across (or along the coasts of) the Byzantine Empire. Byzantium was thus a crucial intermediary, for good or for ill, between Europe, Africa, and Asia – effectively, the glue that held the Christian world together, and it was also a critical transit point between the various Islamic polities and the Christian world.
Sailing from Byzantium
Sailing from 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 Sailing from Byzantium write by Colin Wells. This book was released on 2008-12-10. Sailing from Byzantium available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The Social History of Byzantium
The Social History of 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 The Social History of Byzantium write by John Haldon. This book was released on 2016-07-29. The Social History of Byzantium available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. With original essays by leading scholars, this book explores the social history of the medieval eastern Roman Empire and offers illuminating new insights into our knowledge of Byzantine society. Provides interconnected essays of original scholarship relating to the social history of the Byzantine empire Offers groundbreaking theoretical and empirical research in the study of Byzantine society Includes helpful glossaries of sociological/theoretical terms and Byzantine/medieval terms
Transmitting and Circulating the Late Antique and Byzantine Worlds
Transmitting and Circulating the Late Antique and Byzantine Worlds - 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 Transmitting and Circulating the Late Antique and Byzantine Worlds write by . This book was released on 2019-10-29. Transmitting and Circulating the Late Antique and Byzantine Worlds available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Transmitting and Circulating the Late Antique and Byzantine Worlds seeks to be a crucial contribution to the history of medieval connectedness.
Encounters
Encounters - 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 Encounters write by Eurydice Georganteli. This book was released on 2006. Encounters available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Focuses on over 50 coins to explore the Byzantine empire's political and socio-economic development and cultural relations with its neighbours.
