What is the contemporary cultural legacy of Byzantium or The Eastern Roman Empire? This book explores the varied reception history of the Byzantine Empire across a range of cultural production. Split into four sections: the origins of 'Byzantomania' in France, modern media, literature, and politics, it provides case studies which show the numerous ways in which the empire's legacy can be felt today. Covering television, video games and contemporary political discourse, contributors also consider a wide range of national and geographical perspectives including Russian, Turkish, Polish, Greek…mehr
What is the contemporary cultural legacy of Byzantium or The Eastern Roman Empire? This book explores the varied reception history of the Byzantine Empire across a range of cultural production. Split into four sections: the origins of 'Byzantomania' in France, modern media, literature, and politics, it provides case studies which show the numerous ways in which the empire's legacy can be felt today. Covering television, video games and contemporary political discourse, contributors also consider a wide range of national and geographical perspectives including Russian, Turkish, Polish, Greek and Hungarian. It will be essential reading for scholars and students of the reception and cultural history of the Byzantine Empire.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Markéta Kulhánková is Associate Professor at the Institute of Classics, Masaryk University, Czech Republic. Przemyslaw Marciniak is Professor of Byzantine Literature and Head of Center for Studies on Literature and the Reception of Byzantium, at the University of Silesia, Poland. He is the author of Greek Drama in Byzantine Times (2004), a Polish translation of the satire Timarion, and is the co-editor of The Reception of Byzantium in European Culture since 1500 (2016).
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List of Figures List of Contributors The Many Faces of the Reception of Byzantium (Markéta Kulhánková Masaryk University Czech Republic & Przemyslaw Marciniak University of Silesia Poland) Part One: Byzantium on Display. Scholarly Debates Political Uses Modern Reconstructionism Chapter 1: Popularizing Byzantine Architecture -the 1900 Paris World Exhibition Balkan Nationalisms and the Byzantine Revival (Fani Gargova University of Vienna Austria) Chapter 2: East or West? Byzantine Architecture and the Origins of French Medieval Architecture in the Scholarly Debate 19th C. (Francesco Lovino American Academy in Rome Italy) Chapter 3: Byzantium as a Political Tool (1657-1952). Nations Colonialism and Globalism (Ivan Foletti Masaryk University Czech Republic and Adrien Palladino Masaryk University Czech Republic) Chapter 4: The Prince and The Greeks. The Byzantine Baptizers of Prince Vladimir in Modern Russian Sculpture Mosaic and Church Architecture (Roman Shliakhtin Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz Germany) Chapter 5: Museum Interpretations of Byzantium (Sofia Mali University of The Arts London UK) Part Two: Byzantium & Modern Media Chapter 6: Byzantium in Comics (Lilia Diamantopoulou Ludwig-Maximilians-University Germany) Chapter 7: Games of Byzantium. The Image of the Empire in Three Strategy Videogames (Marco Fasolio University of Eastern Piedmont Italy) Chapter 8: From History to Propaganda and Back: Byzantium in the Romanian Historical Cinema (Florin Leonte Palacký University of Olomouc Czech Republic) Chapter 9: Imagination of Byzantium and the Byzantines in Modern Turkish Popular Literature and Cinema (Buket Kitapçi Bayri independent) Chapter 10: Byzantium in Greek Cinema (Konstantinos Chryssogelos University of Patras Greece) Part Three: Byzantium & Literature Chapter 11: "Beware of Greeks Bearing Gifts": Byzantium in Czech Historical Fiction (Markéta Kulhánková Masaryk University Czech Republic) Chapter 12: Imagining Action: Explanation in Twentieth-Century Historiographical and Fictional Rewritings of the Chronicle of Morea (Matthew Kinloch University of Oslo Norway) Chapter 13: The Barbarians Will Always Stay: Rose Macaulay and the Futility of Empire (Olof Heilo Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul Turkey) Chapter 14: M. Karagatsis's Byzantinism in his Sergios and Bacchos (1959) (Katerina Liasi Independent) Chapter 15: Fantastic(al) Byzantium: The Imagery of Byzantium in Speculative Fiction (Przemyslaw Marciniak University of Silesia Poland) No Longer a Forgotten Empire? (Przemyslaw Marciniak University of Silesia Poland) Afterword: Forging Textual Realities or How to Write a 'Byzantine Mystery Story' (Panagiotis Agapitos Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz Germany) INDEX
List of Figures List of Contributors The Many Faces of the Reception of Byzantium (Markéta Kulhánková Masaryk University Czech Republic & Przemyslaw Marciniak University of Silesia Poland) Part One: Byzantium on Display. Scholarly Debates Political Uses Modern Reconstructionism Chapter 1: Popularizing Byzantine Architecture -the 1900 Paris World Exhibition Balkan Nationalisms and the Byzantine Revival (Fani Gargova University of Vienna Austria) Chapter 2: East or West? Byzantine Architecture and the Origins of French Medieval Architecture in the Scholarly Debate 19th C. (Francesco Lovino American Academy in Rome Italy) Chapter 3: Byzantium as a Political Tool (1657-1952). Nations Colonialism and Globalism (Ivan Foletti Masaryk University Czech Republic and Adrien Palladino Masaryk University Czech Republic) Chapter 4: The Prince and The Greeks. The Byzantine Baptizers of Prince Vladimir in Modern Russian Sculpture Mosaic and Church Architecture (Roman Shliakhtin Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz Germany) Chapter 5: Museum Interpretations of Byzantium (Sofia Mali University of The Arts London UK) Part Two: Byzantium & Modern Media Chapter 6: Byzantium in Comics (Lilia Diamantopoulou Ludwig-Maximilians-University Germany) Chapter 7: Games of Byzantium. The Image of the Empire in Three Strategy Videogames (Marco Fasolio University of Eastern Piedmont Italy) Chapter 8: From History to Propaganda and Back: Byzantium in the Romanian Historical Cinema (Florin Leonte Palacký University of Olomouc Czech Republic) Chapter 9: Imagination of Byzantium and the Byzantines in Modern Turkish Popular Literature and Cinema (Buket Kitapçi Bayri independent) Chapter 10: Byzantium in Greek Cinema (Konstantinos Chryssogelos University of Patras Greece) Part Three: Byzantium & Literature Chapter 11: "Beware of Greeks Bearing Gifts": Byzantium in Czech Historical Fiction (Markéta Kulhánková Masaryk University Czech Republic) Chapter 12: Imagining Action: Explanation in Twentieth-Century Historiographical and Fictional Rewritings of the Chronicle of Morea (Matthew Kinloch University of Oslo Norway) Chapter 13: The Barbarians Will Always Stay: Rose Macaulay and the Futility of Empire (Olof Heilo Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul Turkey) Chapter 14: M. Karagatsis's Byzantinism in his Sergios and Bacchos (1959) (Katerina Liasi Independent) Chapter 15: Fantastic(al) Byzantium: The Imagery of Byzantium in Speculative Fiction (Przemyslaw Marciniak University of Silesia Poland) No Longer a Forgotten Empire? (Przemyslaw Marciniak University of Silesia Poland) Afterword: Forging Textual Realities or How to Write a 'Byzantine Mystery Story' (Panagiotis Agapitos Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz Germany) INDEX
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