Piroska and the Pantokrator : Dynastic Memory, Healing and Salvation in Komnenian Constantinople /

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This book is about the Christ Pantokrator, an imposing monumental complex serving monastic, dynastic, medical and social purposes in Constantinople, founded by Emperor John II Komnenos and Empress Piroska-Eirene in 1118. Now called Zeyrek Mosque, the second largest Byzantine religious edifice after...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Sághy, Marianne, 1961- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Central European University Press, 2019.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Irene, > Empress, consort of John II Comnenus, Emperor of the East, > 1088-1134.
Pantokrator Monastery (Istanbul, Turkey)
Monasteries.
Empresses.
Emperors.
HISTORY / Medieval.
Empereurs > Empire byzantin > Biographies.
Imperatrices > Empire byzantin > Biographies.
Emperors > Byzantine Empire > Biography.
Empresses > Byzantine Empire > Biography.
Monasteries > Turkey > Istanbul > History.
Turkey > Istanbul.
Byzantine Empire.
Byzantine Empire > History > Alexius I Comnenus, 1081-1118.
Biographies.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • TABLE OF CONTENTS
  • List of Illustrations
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Greek Monasteries in Early Árpádian Hungary
  • What did Piroska see at Home? New Trends in Art and Architecture in the Kingdom of Hungary around 1100
  • Diplomatic Relations between Hungary and Byzantium in the Eleventh- Twelfth Centuries
  • Piroska-Eirene and the Komnenian Dynasty
  • Komnenian Empresses: From Powerful Mothers to Pious Wives
  • Piroska-Eirene, First Western Empress of Byzantium: Power and Perception
  • The Many Faces of Piroska-Eirene in Visual and Material Culture
  • Imperial Women and Religious Foundations in Constantinople
  • To Each According to their Need: Medical and Charitable Institutions in the Pantokrator Monastery
  • Piroska and the Pantokrator: Reassessing the Architectural Evidence
  • Piroska-Eirene and the Holy Theotokos
  • "A New Mixture of Two Powers:" Nicholas Kallikles and Theodore Prodromos on Empress Eirene
  • Ritual and Politics in the Pantokrator: A Lament in Two Acts for Eirene's Son
  • Concluding Remarks
  • Appendix 1 Synaxarion
  • Appendix 2 Theodoros Prodromos, "Epitaph of Empress Eirene"
  • Appendix 3 Nicholas Kallikles, "On the tomb of the Despina"
  • Index

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