The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Studies
Title | The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Studies PDF eBook |
Author | Elizabeth Jeffreys |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1053 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0199252467 |
The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Studies presents discussions by leading experts on all significant aspects of this diverse and fast-growing field. Byzantine Studies deals with the history and culture of the Byzantine Empire, the eastern half of the Late Roman Empire, from the fourth to the fourteenth century. Its centre was the city formerly known as Byzantium, refounded as Constantinople in 324 CE, the present-day Istanbul. Under its emperors, patriarchs, and all-pervasive bureaucracy Byzantium developed a distinctive society: Greek in language, Roman in legal system, and Christian in religion. Byzantium's impact in the European Middle Ages is hard to over-estimate, as a bulwark against invaders, as a meeting-point for trade from Asia and the Mediterranean, as a guardian of the classical literary and artistic heritage, and as a creator of its own magnificent artistic style.
The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Studies
Title | The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Studies PDF eBook |
Author | Robin Cormack |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2012 |
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The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Literature
Title | The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Stratis Papaioannou |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 785 |
Release | 2021 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0199351767 |
In twenty-five chapters by leading scholars, this volume propagates a nuanced understanding of Byzantine "literature", highlighting key problems, and presenting basic research tools for an audience of specialists and non-specialists.
The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Art and Architecture
Title | The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Art and Architecture PDF eBook |
Author | Ellen C. Schwartz |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 665 |
Release | 2021-11-19 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0197572200 |
Byzantine art has been an underappreciated field, often treated as an adjunct to the arts of the medieval West, if considered at all. In illustrating the richness and diversity of art in the Byzantine world, this handbook will help establish the subject as a distinct field worthy of serious inquiry. Essays consider Byzantine art as art made in the eastern Mediterranean world, including the Balkans, Russia, the Near East and north Africa, between the years 330 and 1453. Much of this art was made for religious purposes, created to enhance and beautify the Orthodox liturgy and worship space, as well as to serve in a royal or domestic context. Discussions in this volume will consider both aspects of this artistic creation, across a wide swath of geography and a long span of time. The volume marries older, object-based considerations of themes and monuments which form the backbone of art history, to considerations drawing on many different methodologies-sociology, semiotics, anthropology, archaeology, reception theory, deconstruction theory, and so on-in an up-to-date synthesis of scholarship on Byzantine art and architecture. The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Art and Architecture is a comprehensive overview of a particularly rich field of study, offering a window into the world of this fascinating and beautiful period of art.
The Oxford History of Byzantium
Title | The Oxford History of Byzantium PDF eBook |
Author | Cyril Mango |
Publisher | OUP Oxford |
Pages | 378 |
Release | 2002-10-24 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0191500828 |
The Oxford History of Byzantium is the only history to provide in concise form detailed coverage of Byzantium from its Roman beginnings to the fall of Constantinople and assimilation into the Turkish Empire. Lively essays and beautiful illustrations portray the emergence and development of a distinctive civilization, covering the period from the fourth century to the mid-fifteenth century. The authors - all working at the cutting edge of their particular fields - outline the political history of the Byzantine state and bring to life the evolution of a colourful culture. In AD 324, the Emperor Constantine the Great chose Byzantion, an ancient Greek colony at the mouth of the Thracian Bosphorous, as his imperial residence. He renamed the place 'Constaninopolis nova Roma', 'Constantinople, the new Rome' and the city (modern Istanbul) became the Eastern capital of the later Roman empire. The new Rome outlived the old and Constantine's successors continued to regard themselves as the legitimate emperors of Rome, just as their subjects called themselves Romaioi, or Romans long after they had forgotten the Latin language. In the sixteenth century, Western humanists gave this eastern Roman empire ruled from Constantinople the epithet 'Byzantine'. Against a backdrop of stories of emperors, intrigues, battles, and bishops, this Oxford History uncovers the hidden mechanisms - economic, social, and demographic - that underlay the history of events. The authors explore everyday life in cities and villages, manufacture and trade, machinery of government, the church as an instrument of state, minorities, education, literary activity, beliefs and superstitions, monasticism, iconoclasm, the rise of Islam, and the fusion with Western, or Latin, culture. Byzantium linked the ancient and modern worlds, shaping traditions and handing down to both Eastern and Western civilization a vibrant legacy.
The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Studies
Title | The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Studies PDF eBook |
Author | Susan Ashbrook Harvey |
Publisher | Oxford Handbooks Online |
Pages | 1049 |
Release | 2008-09-04 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0199271569 |
Provides an introduction to the academic study of early Christianity (c. 100-600 AD) and examines the vast geographical area impacted by the early church, in Western and Eastern late antiquity. --from publisher description.
The Oxford Handbook of Roman Studies
Title | The Oxford Handbook of Roman Studies PDF eBook |
Author | Alessandro Barchiesi |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 976 |
Release | 2020-01-02 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780198856009 |
The Oxford Handbook of Roman Studies is an indispensable guide to the latest scholarship in this area. Over fifty distinguished scholars elucidate the contribution of material as well as literary culture to our understanding of the Roman world. The emphasis is particularly upon the new and exciting links between the various sub-disciplines that make up Roman Studies--for example, between literature and epigraphy, art and philosophy, papyrology and economic history. The Handbook, in fact, aims to establish a field and scholarly practice as much as to describe the current state of play. Connections with disciplines outside classics are also explored, including anthropology, psychoanalysis, gender and reception studies, and the use of new media.