The Oxford Handbook Of Byzantine Studies
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Author |
: Elizabeth Jeffreys |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 1053 |
Release |
: 2008 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199252466 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0199252467 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (66 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Studies by : Elizabeth Jeffreys
The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Studies presents discussions by leading experts on all significant aspects of this diverse and fast-growing field. Byzantine Studies deals with the history and culture of the Byzantine Empire, the eastern half of the Late Roman Empire, from the fourth to the fourteenth century. Its centre was the city formerly known as Byzantium, refounded as Constantinople in 324 CE, the present-day Istanbul. Under its emperors, patriarchs, and all-pervasive bureaucracy Byzantium developed a distinctive society: Greek in language, Roman in legal system, and Christian in religion. Byzantium's impact in the European Middle Ages is hard to over-estimate, as a bulwark against invaders, as a meeting-point for trade from Asia and the Mediterranean, as a guardian of the classical literary and artistic heritage, and as a creator of its own magnificent artistic style.
Author |
: Stratis Papaioannou |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 785 |
Release |
: 2021 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199351763 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0199351767 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (63 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Literature by : Stratis Papaioannou
In twenty-five chapters by leading scholars, this volume propagates a nuanced understanding of Byzantine "literature", highlighting key problems, and presenting basic research tools for an audience of specialists and non-specialists.
Author |
: Ellen C. Schwartz |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 665 |
Release |
: 2021-11-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780197572207 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0197572200 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (07 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Art and Architecture by : Ellen C. Schwartz
Byzantine art has been an underappreciated field, often treated as an adjunct to the arts of the medieval West, if considered at all. In illustrating the richness and diversity of art in the Byzantine world, this handbook will help establish the subject as a distinct field worthy of serious inquiry. Essays consider Byzantine art as art made in the eastern Mediterranean world, including the Balkans, Russia, the Near East and north Africa, between the years 330 and 1453. Much of this art was made for religious purposes, created to enhance and beautify the Orthodox liturgy and worship space, as well as to serve in a royal or domestic context. Discussions in this volume will consider both aspects of this artistic creation, across a wide swath of geography and a long span of time. The volume marries older, object-based considerations of themes and monuments which form the backbone of art history, to considerations drawing on many different methodologies-sociology, semiotics, anthropology, archaeology, reception theory, deconstruction theory, and so on-in an up-to-date synthesis of scholarship on Byzantine art and architecture. The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Art and Architecture is a comprehensive overview of a particularly rich field of study, offering a window into the world of this fascinating and beautiful period of art.
Author |
: Cyril Mango |
Publisher |
: OUP Oxford |
Total Pages |
: 378 |
Release |
: 2002-10-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780191500824 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0191500828 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (24 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Oxford History of Byzantium by : Cyril Mango
The Oxford History of Byzantium is the only history to provide in concise form detailed coverage of Byzantium from its Roman beginnings to the fall of Constantinople and assimilation into the Turkish Empire. Lively essays and beautiful illustrations portray the emergence and development of a distinctive civilization, covering the period from the fourth century to the mid-fifteenth century. The authors - all working at the cutting edge of their particular fields - outline the political history of the Byzantine state and bring to life the evolution of a colourful culture. In AD 324, the Emperor Constantine the Great chose Byzantion, an ancient Greek colony at the mouth of the Thracian Bosphorous, as his imperial residence. He renamed the place 'Constaninopolis nova Roma', 'Constantinople, the new Rome' and the city (modern Istanbul) became the Eastern capital of the later Roman empire. The new Rome outlived the old and Constantine's successors continued to regard themselves as the legitimate emperors of Rome, just as their subjects called themselves Romaioi, or Romans long after they had forgotten the Latin language. In the sixteenth century, Western humanists gave this eastern Roman empire ruled from Constantinople the epithet 'Byzantine'. Against a backdrop of stories of emperors, intrigues, battles, and bishops, this Oxford History uncovers the hidden mechanisms - economic, social, and demographic - that underlay the history of events. The authors explore everyday life in cities and villages, manufacture and trade, machinery of government, the church as an instrument of state, minorities, education, literary activity, beliefs and superstitions, monasticism, iconoclasm, the rise of Islam, and the fusion with Western, or Latin, culture. Byzantium linked the ancient and modern worlds, shaping traditions and handing down to both Eastern and Western civilization a vibrant legacy.
Author |
: Susan Ashbrook Harvey |
Publisher |
: Oxford Handbooks Online |
Total Pages |
: 1049 |
Release |
: 2008-09-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199271566 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0199271569 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (66 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Studies by : Susan Ashbrook Harvey
Provides an introduction to the academic study of early Christianity (c. 100-600 AD) and examines the vast geographical area impacted by the early church, in Western and Eastern late antiquity. --from publisher description.
Author |
: J. W. Rogerson |
Publisher |
: OUP Oxford |
Total Pages |
: 915 |
Release |
: 2006-03-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780191568992 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0191568996 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (92 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Studies by : J. W. Rogerson
The Oxford Handbooks series is a major new initiative in academic publishing. Each volume offers an authoritative and up-to-date survey of original research in a particular subject area. Specially commissioned essays from leading figures in the discipline give critical examinations of the progress and direction of debates. Biblical studies is a highly technical and diverse field. Study of the Bible demands expertise in fields ranging from Archaeology, Egyptology, Assyriology, and Linguistics through textual, historical, and sociological studies to Literary Theory, Feminism, Philosophy, and Theology, to name only some. This authoritative and compelling guide to the discipline will, therefore, be an invaluable reference work for all students and academics who want to explore more fully essential topics in Biblical studies.
Author |
: Jonathan Harris |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 402 |
Release |
: 2012-11-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199641888 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0199641889 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (88 Downloads) |
Synopsis Byzantines, Latins, and Turks in the Eastern Mediterranean World After 1150 by : Jonathan Harris
A detailed introduction provides a broad geopolitical context to the contributions and discusses at length the broad themes which unite the articles and which transcend traditional interpretations of the eastern Mediterranean in the later medieval period.
Author |
: Benjamin Koen |
Publisher |
: OUP USA |
Total Pages |
: 570 |
Release |
: 2011-04-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199756261 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0199756260 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (61 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Medical Ethnomusicology by : Benjamin Koen
This volume establishes the discipline of medical ethnomusicology and expresses its broad potential. It also is an expression of a wider paradigm shift of innovative thinking and collaboration that fully embraces both the health sciences and the healing arts.
Author |
: Brian Davies |
Publisher |
: OUP USA |
Total Pages |
: 606 |
Release |
: 2012-01-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780195326093 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0195326091 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (93 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Aquinas by : Brian Davies
This volume presents an introduction to Aquinas and a guide to his thinking on almost all the major topics on which he wrote. The book begins with an account of Aquinas's life and the historical context of his thought. The subsequent sections address topics that Aquinas himself discussed. The final sections of the volume address the development of Aquinas's thought and its historical influence.
Author |
: Martin Goodman |
Publisher |
: Oxford Handbooks Online |
Total Pages |
: 1060 |
Release |
: 2002 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0199280320 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780199280322 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (20 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Studies by : Martin Goodman
The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Studies reflects the current state of scholarship in the field as analyzed by an international team of experts in the different and varied areas represented within contemporary Jewish Studies. Unlike recent attempts to encapsulate the current state of Jewish Studies, the Oxford Handbook is more than a mere compendium of agreed facts; rather, it is an exhaustive survey of current interests and directions in the field.