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Trends and turning points : constructing the late antique and Byzantine world /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Kinloch, Matthew (Editor ), MacFarlane, Alex Dally (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boston : BRILL, [2019]
Colección:Medieval Mediterranean Ser.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro; Trends and Turning Points: Constructing the Late Antique and Byzantine World; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; Notes on Contributors; Part 1: Scholarly Constructions; 1 Constructing Late Antiquity and Byzantium: Introducing Trends and Turning Points; 2 Constructing the Past through the Present: The Eurasian View of Byzantium in the Pages of Seminarium Kondakovianum; Part 2: Literary Trends; 3 The Power of the Cross: The Role of the Helper in Kassia's Hymns' Narratological Structure and its Doctrinal Implications
  • 4 Tzetzes, Eustathius, and the 'City-Sacker' Epeius: Trends and Turning Points in the 12th-century Reception of Homer5 Greek Explicating Greek: A Study of Metaphrase Language and Style; 6 Doing and Telling Administration and Diplomacy: Speech Acts in the 13th-Century Balkans; 7 Laughing up the Sleeve: The Image of the Emperor and Ironic Discourse in George Pachymeres' Historia; Part 3: Constructing Politics; 8 The Roman Revolution: Leo I, Theodosius II and the Contest for Power in the 5th Century; 9 The Reinvention of the Soldier-Emperor under Heraclius
  • 10 Omens of Expansionism? Revisiting the Caucasian Chapters of De Administrando Imperio11 The Madara Horseman and Triumphal Inscriptions in Krum's Early Medieval Bulgaria (c.803-14); 12 The Emperor is for Turning: Alexios Komnenos, John the Oxite and the Persecution of Heretics; Part 4: Turning Points in Religious Landscapes; 13 Eight Hundred Years of the Cult of the Archangels at Aphrodisias/Stauropolis: Modern and Ancient Narratives; 14 Crosses as Water Purification Devices in Byzantine Palestine
  • 15 Byzantium's Ashes and the Bones of St Nicholas: Two Translations as Turning Points, 1087-110016 Changing Profiles of Monastic Founders in Constantinople, From the Komnenoi to the Palaiologoi: The Case of the Theotokos Pammakaristos Monastery in Context; Bibliography; Index