Eastern Approaches to Byzantium

Papers from the Thirty-Third Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, University of Warwick, Coventry, March 1999
Herausgeber: Eastmond, Antony

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The eastern frontier of Byzantium and the interaction of the peoples that lived along it are the themes of this book. With a focus on the ninth to thirteenth centuries and dealing with both art history and history, the essays provide reconsiderations of Byzantine policy on its eastern borders, new interpretations and new materials on Byzantine relations with the Georgians, Armenians and Seljuqs, as well as studies on the writing of history among these peoples. Presenting research from Russia and Georgia as well as Europe and the USA, the contributors stress the interaction and interdependence of all the peoples along this frontier zone, and consider the different ways in which the political and cultural power of Byzantium was appropriated. They provide important comparative evidence for the relationship between local and Byzantine cultures, and open up new avenues for research into the history of eastern Anatolia and the Caucasus. The volume arises from the thirty-third Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies held at the University of Warwick in March 1999.

---

Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Februar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 488g
• ISBN-13: 9781138263437
• ISBN-10: 1138263435
• Artikelnr.: 48092287

Autorenporträt

Anthony Eastmond is Reader in the History of Byzantine Art at the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, UK

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction, Antony Eastmond; The decline of medieval Hellenism
in Asia Minor and the process of Islamization from the 11th through the
15th century: the book in the light of subsequent scholarship, 1971-98,
Speros Vryonis Jr; Byzantium's eastern frontier: Constantine VII, Caucasian
openings and the road to Aleppo, Jonathan Shepard; How the east was won? in
the reign of Basil II, Catherine Holmes; La conception militaire de la
frontière orientale (IXe-XIIIe siècle), Jean-Claude Cheynet; History
writing in the east: Some reflections on Seljuq historiography, Carole
Hillenbrand; The concept of history? in medieval Armenian historians,
Robert W. Thomson; From bumberazi to basileus: writing cultural synthesis
and dynastic change in medieval Georgia (K'art'li), Stephen H. Rapp Jr;
Byzantines: Bearing gifts from the east: imperial relic hunters abroad, Liz
James; Art chrétien en Anatolie turque: le témoignage de peintures inédites
à Tatlarin, Catherine Jolivet-Lévy; Georgians: Newly discovered early
paintings in the Gareja desert, Zaza Skhirtladze; Byzantium and its eastern
barbarians: the cult of saints in Svanet'i, Brigitta Schrade; Georgian
perceptions of Byzantium in the 11th and 12th centuries, Giorgi
Tcheishvili; Stalin and Georgian enamels, David Buckton; Armenians: The
visual expression of power and piety in medieval Armenia: the palace and
palace church at Aghtamar, Lynn Jones; Imperial aspirations: Armenian
Cilicia and Byzantium in the 13th century, Helen C. Evans; Seljuqs and
Turkomans: Turkoman and Byzantine self-identity. Some reflections on the
logic of title-making in 12th- and 13th-century Anatolia, Rustam Shukurov;
Seljuqs before the Seljuqs: nomads and frontiers inside Byzantium, Pamela
Armstrong; Index.