Greece Reinvented
Greece Reinvented

Author: Han Lamers

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2015-11-16

Total Pages: 410

ISBN-13: 9004303790

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Greece Reinvented discusses the transformation of Byzantine Hellenism as the cultural elite of Byzantium, displaced to Italy, constructed it. It explores why and how Byzantine migrants such as Cardinal Bessarion, Ianus Lascaris, and Giovanni Gemisto adopted Greek personas to replace traditional Byzantine claims to the heirship of ancient Rome. In Greece Reinvented, Han Lamers shows that being Greek in the diaspora was both blessing and burden, and explores how these migrants’ newfound ‘Greekness’ enabled them to create distinctive positions for themselves while promoting group cohesion. These Greek personas reflected Latin understandings of who the Greeks ‘really’ were but sometimes also undermined Western paradigms. Greece Reinvented reveals some of the cultural tensions that bubble under the surface of the much-studied transmission of Greek learning from Byzantium to Italy.

Frames that Speak: Cartouches on Early Modern Maps
Frames that Speak: Cartouches on Early Modern Maps

Author: Chet Van Duzer

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2023-05-25

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 9004523839

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This lavishly illustrated book is the first systematic exploration of cartographic cartouches, the decorated frames that surround the title, or other text or imagery, on historic maps. It addresses the history of their development, the sources cartographers used in creating them, and the political, economic, historical, and philosophical messages their symbols convey. Cartouches are the most visually appealing parts of maps, and also spaces where the cartographer uses decoration to express his or her interests—so they are key to interpreting maps. The book discusses thirty-three cartouches in detail, which range from 1569 to 1821, and were chosen for the richness of their imagery. The book will open your eyes to a new way of looking at maps.

A Collection of Stories & Articles
A Collection of Stories & Articles

Author: Jason C Mavrovitis

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2017-08-07

Total Pages: 75

ISBN-13: 1387149946

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A collection of short biographical and family history stories, and articles about map and coin collecting, and history.

Pausanias
Pausanias

Author: Pausanias

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2003-10-09

Total Pages: 398

ISBN-13: 9780195346831

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Pausanias, the Greek historian and traveler, lived and wrote around the second century AD, during the period when Greece had fallen peacefully to the Roman Empire. While fragments from this period abound, Pausanias' Periegesis ("description") of Greece is the only fully preserved text of travel writing to have survived. This collection uses Pausanias as a multifaceted lens yielding indispensable information about the cultural world of Roman Greece.

Studies in the Archaeology of the Medieval Mediterranean
Studies in the Archaeology of the Medieval Mediterranean

Author: James Schryver

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2010-09-24

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 900418175X

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This volume draws examples of work from around the Mediterranean basin to demonstrate the variety of archaeological studies being carried out, and the benefits each of these studies has enjoyed through the use of an interdisciplinary approach.

Receptions of Hellenism in Early Modern Europe
Receptions of Hellenism in Early Modern Europe

Author: Natasha Constantinidou

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2019-10-21

Total Pages: 583

ISBN-13: 9004402462

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An investigation of modes of receiving and responding to Greek culture in diverse contexts throughout early modern Europe, in order to encourage a more over-arching understanding of the multifaceted phenomenon of early modern Hellenism and its multiple receptions.