Princeton University Press, 2002. — 208 p. Figure and Likeness presents a thought-provoking new account of Byzantine iconoclasm - the fundamental crisis in Christian visual representation during the eighth and ninth centuries that defined the terms of Christianity's relationship to the painted image. Charles Barber rejects the conventional means of analyzing this crisis, which...
University of Notre Dame Press, 2017. — 446 p. Michael Psellos has long been known as a key figure in the history of Byzantine literary and intellectual culture, but his theoretical and critical reflections on literature and art are little known outside of a small circle of specialists. Most famous for his Chronographia , a history of eleventh-century Byzantine emperors and...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2009. — 228 p. Given the enduring importance of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics , it is remarkable to find that there is no extensive surviving commentary on this text from the period between the second century and the twelfth century. This volume is focused on the first of the medieval commentaries, that produced in the early twelfth century by...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2006. — 272 p. The papers of this volume originated in a workshop held at the University of Notre Dame in February 2004 to discuss the variety of ways one might read Michael Psellos (1018-after 1081?). One of most original figures of Byzantine intellectual history, Psellos was a polymath whose range extended from rhetoric and philosophy to law and...
Perceptions and Representations in Art and Text. — Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. — 196 + x p. 1 The Byzantine Ideal of Beauty: Defi nitions and Perceptions A Byzantine ideal of beauty The real and the ideal: Beauty between fact and fiction Gender, the image and the mask of beauty On the beauty of men 2 Only Skin-Deep: Beauty and Ugliness between Good and Evil The varied face of...
New York, 2010. - 268 p. An Introduction to Byzantium. Tastes and Smells of the City. Foods and Markets of Constantinople. Water and Wine, Monks and Travellers. Rulers of the World. The Texts. The Eight Flavours. Categories of Foods. Humoral and Dietary Qualities of Foods. A Dietary Calendar. Instructions and Recipes. A Phrase-Book of Byzantine Foods and Aromas.
Boston, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2013. — 249 p. The general scope of the present volume is to present a variety of approaches and topics within the growing field of research on Byzantine aesthetics. Theurgy in Neoplatonic and Christian contexts is represented by the contributions of W.-M. Stock and L. Bergemann; theories of beauty are at the centre of interest of the papers by S....
Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. — 318 p. — (New Approaches to Byzantine History and Culture). — ISBN10: 3319960377, 13 978-3319960371. This book examines the gendered dimensions of emotions and the emotional aspects of gender within Byzantine culture and suggests possible readings of such instances. In so doing, the volume celebrates the current breadth of Byzantine gender studies...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. — 339 p. — (New Approaches to Byzantine History and Culture). — ISBN10: 3319960377, 13 978-3319960371. This book examines the gendered dimensions of emotions and the emotional aspects of gender within Byzantine culture and suggests possible readings of such instances. In so doing, the volume celebrates the current breadth of Byzantine gender studies...
Routledge, 2004. — 264 p. The church of Hagia Sophia in Trebizond, built by the emperor Manuel I Grand Komnenos (1238-63) in the aftermath of the fall of Constantinople to the Fourth Crusade, is the finest surviving Byzantine imperial monument of its period. Art and Identity in Thirteenth-Century Byzantium is the first investigation of the church in more than thirty years, and...
Cambridge University Press, 2017. — 798 p. This volume brings into being the field of Byzantine intellectual history. Shifting focus from the cultural, social, and economic study of Byzantium to the life and evolution of ideas in their context, it provides an authoritative history of intellectual endeavors from Late Antiquity to the fifteenth century. At its heart lie the...
Routledge, 1993. — 208 p. Called variously the "Byzantine epic", the "epic of Modern Greece", an "epic-romance" and "romance", the poem of Digenes Akrites has, since its rediscovery towards the end of the nineteenth century, exerted a tenacious hold on the imagination of scholars from a wide range of disciplines and from many countries of the world, as well as of writers and...
Cambridge University Press, 1997. — 524 p. — ISBN: 0521264928; 052131917X. This book presents the first analytical account in English of major developments within Byzantine culture, society and the state in the crucial formative period from c.610-717. The seventh century saw the final collapse of ancient urban civilization and municipal culture, the rise of Islam, the evolution...
Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1995. — 238 p. In recent years considerable attention has been given to magic in the societies of ancient Greece and Rome, of late antiquity, and of the medieval West. Much less attention, however, has been given to the phenomenon of magic in eastern Christendom during the middle ages. The papers in this volume, written by...
Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2002. — 280 p. Only in the last decade has much serious attention been paid to the Byzantine garden, so indirect is the mass of information, both in literature and the visual arts, that is available for scholars. Byzantine Garden Culture, based on papers delivered at a colloquium at Dumbarton Oaks, is the first book devoted to the...
University of California Press, 2001. — 253 p. — (Transformation of the Classical Heritage). Throughout the course of Byzantine history, Christian doctrine taught that angels have a powerful place in cosmology. It also taught that angels were immaterial, bodiless, invisible beings. But if that were the case, how could they be visualized and depicted in icons and other works of...
Paris: Éditions Albin Michel. 1946. - 596 p. Lorsque, à la fin de sa vie, Louis Bréhier (1868-1951) fit entrer Byzance dans la prestigieuse collection de L'Évolution de l'Humanité en publiant Le Monde byzantin en trois volumes, Vie et mort de Byzance, Les Institutions du monde byzantin, La Civilisation byzantine, il achevait par une ample synthèse une oeuvre d'historien que...
Cambridge – New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. – 482 p. – (Greek Culture in the Roman World). ISBN-13 978-0-511-37681-8 eBook (EBL) ISBN-13 978-0-521-87688-9 hardback This is the first systematic study of what it meant to be «Greek» in late antiquity and Byzantium, an identity that could alternately become national, religious, philosophical, or cultural. Through close...
Editions La Pomme d'or S.A., Geneva, 2006, 468 p. Language: English. This volume represents the first attempt to examine occult sciences as a distinct category of Byzantine intellectual culture. It is concerned with both the reality and the image of the occult sciences in Byzantium, and seeks, above all, to represent them in their social and cultural context as a historical...