Images of Children 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 Images of Children in Byzantium write by Cecily Hennessy. This book was released on 2017-03-02. Images of Children in Byzantium available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book covers a subject that has never previously been addressed, and yet it is both a fascinating and a provocative one: the representation of children in Byzantium. The visual material is extensive, intriguing and striking, and the historical context is crucially important to our understanding of Byzantine culture, social history and artistic output. The imagery explored is drawn from the fourth to the fifteenth centuries and encompasses media from manuscripts to mosaics and enamel. Part of the allure of this subject is that people do not associate childhood with Byzantium. Ernst Gombrich commented, 'who could find it easy, after a visit to Ravenna and its solemn mosaics, to think of noisy children in Byzantium?'. However, in Byzantium, patrons of art were often young, such as emperors who acceded to the throne as teenagers, and makers of art, sculptors, mosaicists, painters often began their training at an early age. How did this affect the creation, promotion and production of art? The study questions the definitions and perceptions of childhood, focusing on topics such as the family, saintly children and those associated with imperial power. Cecily Hennessy demonstrates that children are featured often in visual imagery and in key locations, indicating that they played a central role in Byzantine life, something which has previously been overlooked or ignored. In tackling this new subject she reveals important aspects of childhood, youth, and by extension adulthood in Byzantine society and raises issues that are also applicable to the present and to other historical contexts.
Becoming Byzantine
Becoming Byzantine - 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 Becoming Byzantine write by Αριέττα Παπακωνσταντίνου. This book was released on 2009. Becoming Byzantine available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Becoming Byzantine: Children and Childhood in Byzantium presents detailed information about children's lives, and provides a basis for further study. This collection of eight articles covers matters relevant to daily life such as the definition of children in Byzantine law, procreation, death, breastfeeding patterns, and material culture.
Images of Woman and Child from the Bronze Age
Images of Woman and Child from the Bronze Age - 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 Images of Woman and Child from the Bronze Age write by Stephanie Lynn Budin. This book was released on 2011-04-11. Images of Woman and Child from the Bronze Age available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "This book is a study of the woman-and-child motif as it appeared in the Bronze Age eastern Mediterranean, focusing on Egypt, the Levant, Anatolia, Mesopotamia, Iran, Cyprus, and the Aegean. Rather than being a universal symbol of maternity, or a depiction of a mother goddess, the woman-and-child motif, called by the technical name kourotrophos, was relatively rare in comparison with other images of women in antiquity, and served a number of different symbolic functions, ranging from honoring the king of Egypt to giving extra oomph to magical spells"--Provided by publisher.
Images of the Mother of God
Images of the Mother of God - 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 Images of the Mother of God write by Maria Vassilaki. This book was released on 2017-03-02. Images of the Mother of God available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Fully illustrated in colour and black and white, Images of the Mother of God complements the successful exhibition catalogue of the 'Mother of God' exhibition at the Benaki Museum in Athens. It brings together the work of leading international authorities and younger scholars to provide a wide-ranging survey of how the Theotokos was perceived in the Byzantine world. It embraces the disciplines of art historians, archaeologists, traditional and feminist historians, as well as theologians, philologists and social anthropologists. Images of the Mother of God will appeal not just to those interested in Byzantine art and culture, but also to scholars of Western Europe in the Middle Ages who are looking for comparative materials in their own work.
Byzantine Childhood
Byzantine Childhood - 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 Childhood write by Oana-Maria Cojocaru. This book was released on 2021-08-26. Byzantine Childhood available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Byzantine Childhood examines the intricacies of growing up in medieval Byzantium, children’s everyday experiences, and their agency. By piecing together a wide range of sources and utilising several methodological approaches inspired by intersectionality, history from below and microhistory, it analyses the life course of Byzantine boys and girls and how medieval Byzantine society perceived and treated them according to societal and cultural expectations surrounding age, gender, and status. Ultimately, it seeks to reconstruct a more plausible picture of the everyday life of children, one of the most vulnerable social groups throughout history and often a neglected subject in scholarship. Written in a lively and engaging manner, this book is necessary reading for scholars and students of Byzantine history, as well as those interested in the history of childhood and the family.
