Cultural encounters on Byzantium's northern forntier, C. AD 500-700

coins, artifacts and history

In the sixth century, Byzantine emperors secured the provinces of the Balkans by engineering a frontier system of unprecedented complexity. Drawing on literary, archaeological, anthropological, and numismatic sources, Andrei Gandila argues that cultural attraction was a crucial component of the political frontier of exclusion in ...

El viaje de Carlomagno a Jerusalén y Constantinopla

El viaje de Carlomagnoa Jerusalén y Constantinopla es un cantar de gesta sorprendente que no narra las grandes expediciones militares del emperador franco para ganar en largas batallas a los sarracenos y conquistar sus reinos para el cristianismo como en la Chanson de Roland. Sin ...

La gran compañía aragonesa de Roger de Bríndisi

fuentes griegas sobre su estancia y actividad en Bizancio

La Gran Compañía Aragonesa contiene la primera versión realizada directamente al español de los textos griegos que narran los sucesos acaecidos en el imperio bizantino –Asia Menor y Grecia continental– tras la llegada de una compañía militar comandada por un antiguo monje templario, convertido en ...

Carlomagno y sus horizontes hispanos

Esta obra recoge, dentro del proyecto del Itinerario Cultural ?Vía Carlomagno?, símbolo de la unidad europea, la idea y objetivo de visualizar en el espacio europeo cultural la importancia que la dinastía franco-carolingia tuvo como humus en la construcción de un primer proyecto unitario del ...

Heraclio: Bizancio entre la gloria y el desastre

(Revista Desperta Ferro. Antigua y Medieval, Nº 66, año 2021)

Tras ser horriblemente mutilado, el emperador Focas fue decapitado, posiblemente por la misma mano de su sucesor, Heraclio. Por entonces, el Imperio romano de Oriente –o bizantino– vivía uno de los momentos más bajos de la historia. Su archienemigo, el Imperio persa, acababa de arrebatarle ...

The Byzantine Sinbad

(Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library; 67)

The Byzantine Sinbad collects The Book of Syntipas the Philosopher and The Fables of Syntipas, both translated from Syriac in the late eleventh century by the scholar Michael Andreopoulos. Originally written in Persian and part of a multilingual and multicultural medieval storytelling tradition, The Book ...

Justinien

le rêve d'un empire chrétien universel

En 527, Justinien devient empereur romain d’Orient. Dès lors, le souverain de Constantinople poursuit un seul but : réformer, agrandir, unir son empire dans la même foi chrétienne et en faire la plus grande puissance du monde méditerranéen. Empereur « qui ne dort jamais », il unifie ...

Byzantine intersectionality

sexuality, gender and race in the Middle Ages

A fascinating history of marginalized identities in the medieval world While the term "intersectionality" was coined in 1989, the existence of marginalized identities extends back over millennia. Byzantine Intersectionality reveals the fascinating, little-examined conversations in medieval thought and visual culture around matters of sexual and ...

Rome, Ravenna and Venice

50-1000 Byzantine Heritage, Imperial Present, and the Construction of City Identity

The richest and most politically complex regions in Italy in the earliest middle ages were the Byzantine sections of the peninsula, thanks to their links with the most coherent early medieval state, the Byzantine empire. This comparative study of the histories of Rome, Ravenna, and ...

La Alexíada

Una historia del Imperio bizantino durante la Primera Cruzada

Un apasionante retrato del Imperio Bizantino de la mano de la primera gran historiadora. La Alexíada es una de las grandes joyas de la literatura universal escrita hacia 1148 por la primera gran mujer historiadora, Ana Comnena (1083-1153). La obra relata la épica carrera política ...

Byzantium Unbound

For a civilization that preserved its existence and integrity against overwhelming odds and contributed in captivating ways to the diversity of human culture, Byzantium is strangely one of the most maligned and misunderstood civilizations of the past. The way in which history has been carved ...

Empresses of Late Byzantium

foreign brides, mediators and pious women

With the exception of the wife of Andronikos III Palaiologos, Anna of Savoy, who acted as regent of Byzantium from 1341 to 1347, the lives of the late Byzantine empresses have so far received little scholarly attention. This study presents the biographies of all fifteen ...

Byzance

l'Empire romain d'Orient

L'Empire romain d'Orient a vu le jour sur les rives du Bosphore, lorsque Constantin, premier empereur chrétien, fonda la nouvelle Rome, Constantinople. Pendant un millénaire, dans la continuité avec les institutions romaines, une civilisation brillante s'y est développée, au carrefour de l ...

Byzantine matters

Why the marginalized story of Byzantium has much to teach us about Western history For many, Byzantium remains byzantine-obscure, marginal, difficult. Despite the efforts of some recent historians, prejudices still deform understanding of the Byzantine civilization, often reducing it to a poor relation of Rome ...

Bisanzio e l'Occidente medievale

La millenaria storia dell’impero di Bisanzio ha avuto continui punti di contatto con quella dell’Occidente, basti pensare alla presenza dei bizantini in Italia, dove restarono come dominatori dal VI all’XI secolo. I rapporti si fecero poi conflittuali fino a giungere nel 1204 ...

El culto a las Santas y los Santos en la Antigüedad tardía y la época bizantina

El presente volumen analiza las principales tipologías de santas y santos venerados a lo largo de todo el período bizantino (siglos V-XV). El estudio está basado en una revisión profunda de las fuentes escritas en griego, principalmente las vidas y los milagros de cada uno ...

Romanland

ethnicity and empire in Byzantium

A leading historian argues that in the empire we know as Byzantium, the Greek-speaking population was actually Roman, and scholars have deliberately mislabeled their ethnicity for the past two centuries for political reasons. Was there ever such a thing as Byzantium? Certainly no emperor ever ...

The poems of Christopher of Mytilene and John Mauropous

(Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library; 50)

The witty and self-assertive poetry of Christopher of Mytilene and John Mauropous provides unique snapshots of eleventh-century Constantinople at the height of its splendor and elegance. Their collections, aptly called "various verses," greatly range in length and style-including epigrams, polemics, encomia, and more-and their poems ...

I Bizantini in Italia

Cinque secoli di una storia che inizia nel 535, con lo sbarco in Sicilia delle truppe di Costantinopoli e l’avvio di una guerra che condusse alla conquista bizantina dell’intera penisola. Ma già con l’invasione dei Longobardi nel 568 quella presenza comincia a ...

Hagia Sophia

sound, apce, and spirit in Byzantium

Experiencing the resonant acoustics of the church of Hagia Sophia allowed the Byzantine participants in its liturgical rituals to be filled with the Spirit of God, and even to become his image on earth. Bissera Pentcheva's vibrant analysis examines how these sung rites combined ...