James A Companion to Byzantium

1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-1-4443-2002-2
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 488 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World

Using new methodological and theoretical approaches, A Companionto Byzantium presents an overview of the Byzantine world fromits inception in 330 A.D. to its fall to the Ottoman Turks in 1453.
* Provides an accessible overview of eleven centuries ofByzantine society
* Introduces the most recent scholarship that is transforming thefield of Byzantine studies
* Emphasizes Byzantium's social and cultural history, as well asits material culture
* Explores traditional topics and themes through freshperspectives

Autoren/Hrsg.

James, Liz

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures ix
List of Maps xiii
Notes on Contributors xv
Acknowledgments xix
Some Relevant Dates xxi
List of Byzantine Rulers xxv
List of Abbreviations xxix
1. Byzantium: a Very, Very Short Introduction 1
Liz James
2. Writing Histories of Byzantium: the Historiography ofByzantine History 9
F. K. Haarer
Part I Being Byzantine 23
3. Economics, Trade, and "Feudalism" 25
Peter Sarris
4. Byzantium ?-?nConstantinople 43
Paul Magdalino
5. Provinces and Capital 55
Catherine Holmes
6. Insiders and Outsiders 67
Dion C. Smythe
7. Young People in Byzantium 81
Cecily Hennessy
8. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly 93
Myrto Hatzaki
9. The Memory Culture of Byzantium 108
Amy Papalexandrou
10. Emotions in Byzantium 123
Martin Hinterberger
11. Having Fun in Byzantium 135
Shaun Tougher
Part II God and the World 147
12. Byzantine Views of God and the Universe 149
Mary Cunningham
13. Giving Gifts to God: Aspects of Patronage in Byzantine Art161
Vassiliki Dimitropoulou
14. Orthodoxy and Northern Peoples: Goods, Gods and Guidelines171
Jonathan Shepard
15. Christology and Heresy 187
Andrew Louth
16. Beyond Byzantium: the Non-Chalcedonian Churches 199
Niall Finneran
Part III Reading Byzantine Texts 225
17. No Drama, No Poetry, No Fiction, No Readership, NoLiterature 227
Margaret Mullett
18. Rhetorical Questions 239
Mary Whitby
19. Text and Context in Byzantine Historiography 251
Roger Scott
20. Byzantine Narrative: the Form of Storytelling in Byzantium263
Emmanuel C. Bourbouhakis and Ingela Nilsson
21. Byzantine Book Culture 275
Judith Waring
Part IV Some Questions in Material Culture 289
22. Archaeology 291
James Crow
23. Makers and Users 301
Anthony Cutler
24. The Limits of Byzantine Art 313
Antony Eastmond
25. Icons and Iconomachy 323
Leslie Brubaker
26. The Rise and Fall of the Macedonian Renaissance 338
John Hanson
27. Late and Post-Byzantine Art under Venetian Rule: Frescoesversus Icons, and Crete in the Middle 351
Angeliki Lymberopoulou
Bibliography--Primary Sources 371
Bibliography 384
Index 443

Über Autor(innen)

Liz James is Professor of Art History at the University of Sussex. Her books include Light and Colour in Byzantine Art (1996) and Empresses and Power in Early Byzantium (2001).