Power and Subversion in Byzantium

Papers from the 43rd Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Birmingham, March 2010
Herausgeber: Saxby, Michael; Angelov, Dimiter

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume addresses a theme of special significance for Byzantine studies. Byzantium has traditionally been deemed a civilisation which deferred to authority and set special store by orthodoxy, canon and proper order. Since 1982 when the distinguished Russian Byzantinist Alexander Kazhdan wrote that 'the history of Byzantine intellectual opposition has yet to be written', scholars have increasingly highlighted cases of subversion of 'correct practice' and 'correct belief' in Byzantium. This innovative scholarly effort has produced important results, although it has been hampered by the lack of dialogue across the disciplines of Byzantine studies. The 43rd Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies in 2010 drew together historians, art historians, and scholars of literature, religion and philosophy, who discussed shared and discipline-specific approaches to the theme of subversion. The present volume presents a selection of the papers delivered at the symposium enriched with specially commissioned contributions. Most papers deal with the period after the eleventh century, although early Byzantium is not ignored. Theoretical questions about the nature, articulation and limits of subversion are addressed within the frameworks of individual disciplines and in a larger context. The volume comes at a timely junction in the development of Byzantine studies, as interest in subversion and nonconformity in general has been rising steadily in the field.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 646g
• ISBN-13: 9781472412287
• ISBN-10: 1472412281
• Artikelnr.: 41242021

Autorenporträt

Dimiter Angelov is Professor of Byzantine History at the University of Birmingham, UK and currently also Visiting Professor in Byzantine History at Harvard University, USA; Michael Saxby is a doctoral candidate at the University of Birmingham, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Power and subversion in Byzantium: approaches and frameworks,
Dimiter Angelov; Part I The Politics of Subversion: Usurpers and rebels in
Byzantium: image and message through coins, Vasiliki Penna and Cécile
Morrisson; How to usurp the throne in Byzantium: the role of public opinion
in sedition and rebellion, Anthony Kaldellis; The imperial council and the
tradition of consultative decision-making in Byzantium (11th to 14th
centuries), Demetrios Kyritses; Financial crisis and the limits of taxation
under Andronikos II Palaiologos (1282-1321), Kostis Smyrlis; The political
arts at the late Palaiologan court (1402-1453), Michael Angold. Part II Art
and Subversion: 'The world turned upside down': art and subversion in
Byzantium, Liz James; 'It began with a picture': imperial art, texts and
subversion between East and West in the 12th century, Anthony Eastmond.
Part III Philosophy: 'No prince of perfection': Byzantine
anti-Aristotelianism from the patristic period to Pletho, Börje Bydén;
Pletho as subversive and his reception in the Islamic world, Maria
Mavroudi. Part VI Literature and Subversion: Generic subversion? The
political ideology of urban myth and apocalyptic prophecy, Paul Magdalino;
Harmless satire, stinging critique: notes and suggestions for reading the
Timarion, Dimitris Krallis; How to criticize the laudandus, Margaret
Mullett; Subversion and duplicity in the Histories of John Kantakouzenos,
Athanasios Angelou; Afterword - literary subversion in Byzantium: a partial
and personal perspective, Margaret Alexiou; Index.