Change in Byzantine Culture in the Eleventh & Twelfth Centuries (Paper)

1. Auflage 1992
ISBN: 978-0-520-06962-6
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 7, 312 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 539 g

Reihe: Transformation of the Classical Heritage

Byzantium, that dark sphere on the periphery of medieval Europe, is commonly regarded as the immutable residue of Rome's decline. In this highly original and provocative work, Alexander Kazhdan and Ann Wharton Epstein revise this traditional image by documenting the dynamic social changes that occurred during the eleventh and twelfth centuries.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kazhdan, Alexander P.

Kazhdan, A. P.

Epstein, Ann Wharton

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Byzantinische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Abbreviations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

I. BACKGROUND: FROM LATE ANTIQUITY TO THE MIDDLE AGES

Restructuring the Empire: The Seventh Century

Reconsolidation: The Ninth and Tenth Centuries

II. DECENTRALIZATION AND "FEUDALIZATION" OF THE BYZANTINE STATE

Decentralization

Urban Evolution in the Provinces: Archaeological and Literary Evidence

Urban Evolution in the Provinces: Arts and Crafts

Urban Economy and Institutions

"Feudalization" of the Byzantine Social Structure

The Nature of the Byzantine Estate

The Nature of the Byzantine Nobility

Changes in the Social Character of the Byzantine Aristocracy

Changes in the Bureaucracy

III. POPULAR AND ARISTOCRATIC CULTURAL TRENDS

Popular Tendencies in Byzantine Society

Changes in the Daily Regime: Dress, Diet, and Diversion

Popular Elements in Literature

Popular Features in Religious Life

The "Aristocratization" of Culture

The Byzantine Family

Search for Legitimacy: The Importance of Lineage

The Creation of an Aristocratic Ideal

Image of the Ideal Ruler

Epitome of Aristocracy: Digenis Akritas

IV. THE PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE

The Educational System

Academic Institutions

Academic Politics

Intellectuals in Society

The Assimilation of the Classical Tradition

Byzantium and the Authors of Antiquity

The Byzantine Reading of Classical Literature

Art and Antiquity

Law

Byzantine Science

Intimations of Rationalism: Theology and Ideology

Rationalism and the Imperial Ideal

v. BYZANTIUM AND ALIEN CULTURES

Traditional Attitudes Toward "Barbarians"

Contact with Alien Cultures: The Frontier Zone

Contact with Alien Cultures: The Center

Breakdown of Some of the Traditional Barriers

Effects of Foreign Influence

Unbreachable Barriers

VI. MAN IN LITERATURE AND ART

Artist, Audience, and Object

From the Ideal to the Ordinary

Abstraction to Naturalism

Impersonal to Personal

Conclusion

Appendix: Texts

Index

Über Autor(innen)

A. P. Kazhdan, the distinguished Russian Byzantinist, is Senior Research Associate at Dumbarton Oaks Center for Byzantine Studies. Ann Wharton Epstein, past President of the Byzantine Studies Conference, is Associate Professor of Art History at Duke University.