Byzantium and the Pechenegs
Byzantium and the Pechenegs

Author: Mykola Melnyk

Publisher: East Central and Eastern Europ

Published: 2022

Total Pages: 412

ISBN-13: 9789004280465

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"This book traces 150 years' worth of scholarly interpretations of relations between Byzantium and various North Pontic nomads, with particular attention to how colonialist or national aspirations often triggered, hampered, biased, or otherwise influenced these interpretations. Original in its interdisciplinary approach, Mykola Melnyk's book highlights an overlooked topic: the history of non-historic peoples. Going beyond the well-studied written sources for nomadic history, the author incorporates insights provided by archaeology, linguistics, and the natural sciences, bringing forth promising avenues of research into the subject of nomadic cultures in the medieval world"--

Performing the Gospels in Byzantium
Performing the Gospels in Byzantium

Author: Roland Betancourt

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2021-05-13

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 1108870872

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Tracing the Gospel text from script to illustration to recitation, this study looks at how illuminated manuscripts operated within ritual and architecture. Focusing on a group of richly illuminated lectionaries from the late eleventh century, the book articulates how the process of textual recitation produced marginalia and miniatures that reflected and subverted the manner in which the Gospel was read and simultaneously imagined by readers and listeners alike. This unique approach to manuscript illumination points to images that slowly unfolded in the mind of its listeners as they imagined the text being recited, as meaning carefully changed and built as the text proceeded. By examining this process within specific acoustic architectural spaces and the sonic conditions of medieval chant, the volume brings together the concerns of sound studies, liturgical studies, and art history to demonstrate how images, texts, and recitations played with the environment of the Middle Byzantine church.

Viewing the Morea
Viewing the Morea

Author: Sharon E. J. Gerstel

Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks Byzantine Symposia and Colloquia

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780884023906

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Viewing the Morea focuses on the late medieval Morea (Peloponnese), beginning with the bold attempt of Western knights to establish a kingdom on its soil. The authors explore how the groups of this contested region--Crusaders, Orthodox villagers, and Venetians--interacted, asserted identity, and recollected the ancient history of the Peloponnese.

Material Culture and Cultural Identity
Material Culture and Cultural Identity

Author: Rosa Maria Motta

Publisher: Archaeopress Archaeology

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781784910921

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Presents numismatics from the ancient harbor town of Dor/Dora in modern Israel with a history that spanned from the Bronze Age until the Late Roman Era.

Trade and Markets in Byzantium
Trade and Markets in Byzantium

Author: Cécile Morrisson

Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780884023777

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How are markets in antiquity to be characterized? As comparable to modern free markets? As controlled by the State? Or in completely different terms, as free but regulated? Here, scholars address these and related questions by reexamining and reinterpreting records from Byzantium and its hinterland for local, regional, and interregional trade.

Byzantium in the Iconoclast Era (ca 680–850): The Sources
Byzantium in the Iconoclast Era (ca 680–850): The Sources

Author: Leslie Brubaker

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-03-02

Total Pages: 405

ISBN-13: 1351953656

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Iconoclasm, the debate about the legitimacy of religious art that began in Byzantium around 730 and continued for nearly 120 years, has long held a firm grip on the historical imagination. Byzantium in the Iconoclast Era is the first book in English to survey the original sources crucial for a modern understanding of this most elusive and fascinating period in medieval history. It is also the first book in any language to cover both the written and the visual evidence from this period, a combination of particular importance to the iconoclasm debate. The authors, an art historian and a historian who both specialise in the period, have worked together to provide a comprehensive overview of the visual and the written materials that together help clarify the complex issues of iconoclasm in Byzantium.