Sylvester Syropoulos on Politics and Culture in the Fifteenth-Century Mediterranean (eBook, PDF)

Themes and Problems in the Memoirs, Section IV
Redaktion: Kondyli, Fotini; Cunningham, Mary B.; Panou, Eirini; Andriopoulou, Vera

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Produktbeschreibung

The contributors of this volume take the Memoirs of Sylvester Syropoulos, written by a Byzantine ecclesiastical official in the fifteenth century, as their starting point in reconstructing Mediterranean living conditions and artistic and commercial exchange in the late Middle Ages. Syropoulos's text, a rare eye-witness account of the Council of Ferrara-Florence for the union of the Greek and Latin Churches (1438-1439), is discussed as an invaluable source for political affairs at that time, as a travel account, and as a literary work. An annotated translation of the text is included.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. September 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317047322
• Artikelnr.: 49350798

Autorenporträt

Fotini Kondyli is a post-doctoral researcher in Byzantine Archaeology at the Joukowsky Insitute of Archaeology at Brown University, USA; Vera Andriopoulou currently works at the Aikaterini Laskaridis Foundation in Piraeus, Greece; Eirini Panou is at the Institute of Textual Scholarship and Electronic Editing at the University of Birmingham, UK; Mary B. Cunningham is Lecturer in Historical Theology in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Nottingham and an Honorary Fellow in the Institute of Archaeology and Antiquity at the University of Birmingham, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction; Sylvester Syropoulos: the author and his outlook, Mary B. Cunningham; The Ottomans, the Greek Orthodox Church and the perils of the papacy, Elizabeth A. Zachariadou; Precedence and papal primacy, Richard Price; The logistics of a union: diplomatic communication through the eyes of Sylvester Syropoulos, Vera Andriopoulou; City, marquis, pope, doge: Ferrara in 1438, Trevor Dean; Labelling images, venerating icons in Sylvester Syropoulos's world, Annemarie Weyl Carr; What did Syropoulos miss? Appreciating the art of the Lippomano chapel in Venetian Negroponte, Nikos D. Kontogiannis; The logistics of a union: the travelling arrangements and the journey to Venice, Fotini Kondyli; On Syropoulos's Dalmatian and Istrian route, Neven Budak; The colours Sylvester Syropoulos saw: the ideological function of colour in Byzantine historiography and chronicles (thirteenth-fifteenth centuries), Eirini Panou; Appendix; Index.

Rezensionen

"All in all, we could safely deduce that the present volume...sums up our knowledge on Sylvester Syropoulo's life and times, with insights regarding his personality, offering at the same time reflections and portrayals of his era in a vivid description of 15th-century Mediterranean politics and art, while another crucial denominator of the volume deals with the background contrast between Greeks and Latins in view of the Ottoman threat." - Photeine V. Perra, Johannesburg

"...scholars will benefit from the book's demonstration that polemical works, such as Sylvester's memoires, can provide details and information not found in less biased sources." - Hortulus