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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2020-12-15
Total Pages: 397
ISBN-13: 9004442561
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume explores various forms, functions and meanings of satirical texts written in the Middle Byzantine period.
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2019-05-06
Total Pages: 590
ISBN-13: 9004392882
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book offers the first complete survey of the Byzantine poetic production (4th to 15th centuries). It examines the use of poetry in various sociocultural settings in Constantinople and various other centres of the Byzantine empire.
Author: Barry Baldwin
Publisher: Detroit : Wayne State University Press
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 184
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Jonathan Shepard
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-06-30
Total Pages: 1228
ISBN-13: 9781107685871
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Byzantium lasted a thousand years, ruled to the end by self-styled 'emperors of the Romans'. It underwent kaleidoscopic territorial and structural changes, yet recovered repeatedly from disaster: even after the near-impregnable Constantinople fell in 1204, variant forms of the empire reconstituted themselves. The Cambridge History of the Byzantine Empire c.500-1492 tells the story, tracing political and military events, religious controversies and economic change. It offers clear, authoritative chapters on the main events and periods, with more detailed chapters on outlying regions and neighbouring societies and powers of Byzantium. With aids such as maps, a glossary, an alternative place-name table and references to English translations of sources, it will be valuable as an introduction. However, it also offers stimulating new approaches and important findings, making it essential reading for postgraduates and for specialists. The revised paperback edition contains a new preface by the editor and will offer an invaluable companion to survey courses in Byzantine history.
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2020-06-22
Total Pages: 543
ISBN-13: 900442461X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A Companion to Byzantine Epistolography offers the first comprehensive introduction and scholarly guide to the cultural practice and literary genre of letter-writing in the Byzantine Empire.
Author: Marc Diederik Lauxtermann
Publisher: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 396
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The two-volume study Byzantine Poetry from Pisides to Geometres. Texts and Contexts, constitutes a survey of Byzantine poems written between ca. 600 and 1000, with particular emphasis on the historical contexts that generated these texts. It is a study of literary genres set against the background of historical developments that changed Byzantine culture fundamentally. In this first volume the author deals with contextual and textual problems of Byzantine poetry (chapters 1-3) and treats various kinds of the Byzantine epigram (chapters 4-9). The book concludes with 10 appendices that present the material evidence: manuscripts and verse inscriptions. \nThe book is of interest to historians, art historians and philologists; as all the texts are translated, it can also be read by scholars with little or no knowledge of Byzantine Greek.
Author: Eric McGeer
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2019-12-30
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9004419403
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Continuation of the Chronicle of John Skylitzes provides a contemporary narrative of the events and people that shaped the course of Byzantine history in a time military and political crisis.
Author: Dr Dion C. Smythe
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2016-01-28
Total Pages: 238
ISBN-13: 1472448626
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Studies on the reception of the classical tradition are an indispensable part of classical studies. Understanding the importance of ancient civilization means also studying how it was used subsequently. This kind of approach is still relatively rare in the field of Byzantine Studies. This volume, which is the result of the range of interests in (mostly) non-English-speaking research communities, takes an important step to filling this gap by investigating the place and dimensions of ‘Byzantium after Byzantium’. This collection of essays uses the idea of ‘reception-theory’ and expands it to show how European societies after Byzantium have responded to both the reality, and the idea of Byzantine Civilisation. The authors discuss various forms of Byzantine influence in the post-Byzantine world from architecture to literature to music to the place of Byzantium in modern political debates (e.g. in Russia). The intentional focus of the present volume is on those aspects of Byzantine reception less well-known to English-reading audiences, which accounts for the inclusion of Bulgarian, Czech, Polish and Russian perspectives. As a result this book shows that although so-called 'Byzantinism' is a pan-European phenomenon, it is made manifest in local/national versions. The volume brings together specialists from various countries, mainly Byzantinists, whose works focus not only on Byzantine Studies (that is history, literature and culture of the Byzantine Empire), but also on the influence of Byzantine culture on the world after the Fall of Constantinople.
Author: Martha Bayless
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 440
ISBN-13: 9780472106493
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Surveys and describes the lively tradition of medieval parody, and destroys the myth of medieval solemnity.
Author: Samuel Pablo Müller
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2021-12-13
Total Pages: 566
ISBN-13: 9004499709
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Samuel P. Müller offers here the first book-length study of the image of Latins in Byzantine historiography of the long twelfth century, arguing that this image is more complex and ambivalent than often claimed.
