Beauty and the male body in Byzantium

perceptions and representations in art and text

Beauty and the Male Body in Byzantium looks into a subject previously ignored in discussions of the Byzantine world: it explores physical beauty as an attribute of the human and, in particular, of the male body through the evidence of imagery and writing from the ...

The christian parthenon

classicism and pilgrimage in Byzantine Athens

Byzantine Athens was not a city without a history, as is commonly believed, but an important center about which much can now be said. Providing a wealth of new evidence, Professor Kaldellis argues that the Parthenon became a major site of Christian pilgrimage after its ...

Costantinopoli

metropoli dai mille volti

Traduzione di Benedetta Heinemann Campana; Presentazione di Silvia Ronchey. La città che fu il centro dell#Impero d#Oriente per oltre mille anni: un quadro preciso e stimolante delle sue principali trasformazioni urbane sullo sfondo della storia politica, religiosa, culturale ed economica. Scelta come centro ...

Monemvasia

a byzantien city state

This lavishly illustrated book stands out in its field as the only book currently available on the best-preserved Byzantine city in the Peloponnese - Monemvasia. Haris A. Kalligas, a world authority on Monemvasia's history and architecture, here explores the city's foundation, its status as ...

The Byzantines

This book introduces the reader to the complex history, ethnicity, and identity of the Byzantines. This volume brings Byzantium # often misconstrued as a vanished successor to the classical world # to the forefront of European history Deconstructs stereotypes surrounding Byzantium Beautifully illustrated with photographs and maps.

Continuité des élites à Byzance durant les siècles obscurs

les princes caucasiens et l'empire du VIe aux IXe siècle

Images of children in Byzantium

This book covers a subject that has never previously been addressed, and yet it is both a fascinating and a provocative one: the representation of children in Byzantium. The visual material is extensive, intriguing and striking, and the historical context is crucially important to our ...

Piety and plage from Byzantium to the Baroque

Plague was one of the enduring facts of everyday life on the European continent, from earliest antiquity through the first decades of the eighteenth century. It represents one of the most important influences on the development of Europe's society and culture. In order to ...

Memoria e invención de Bizancio

Bizancio y la sublime puerta no fueron un mundo cerrado. No dejaron de ser visitados por hombres y mujeres que atravesaron sus fronteras camino de Constantinopla/Estabul; y desde allí se desplazaron a Edirne, al Danubio y a otras tierras aún más lejanas. Al amparo ...

Dreambooks in Byzantium

six oneirocritica in translation with commentary and introduction

"Dreambooks in Byzantium" offers for the first time in English translation and with commentary six of the seven extant Byzantine oneirocritica, or manuals on the interpretation of dreams. (The seventh, "The Oneirocriticon of Achmet ibn Sereim" was published previously by the author.)Dreams permeated all ...

From Byzantium to modern Greece

medieval texts and their modern reception

The twelfth century was a time of cultural renewal and innovation in Byzantium, just as it was in the west. In literature, the long disused genres of epic, satire and the novel (or 'romance') took new forms during that century; at the same time, in ...

Enamels, crowns, relics and icons

studies on luxury arts in Byzantium

This volume gathers together 17 articles published over the last 30 years, together with one appearing here for the first time. Their focus is primarily on enamel, the brilliant and colourful art form for which the Byzantines were famous throughout the medieval world, but sculpture ...

The Cambridge history of the Byzantine Empire

c.500-1492

Ed., Jonathan Shepard. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Byzantium lasted a thousand years, ruled to the end by self-styled #emperors of the Romans#. It underwent kaleidoscopic territorial and structural changes, yet recovered repeatedly from disaster: even after the near-impregnable Constantinople fell in 1204, variant forms of the empire reconstituted themselves ...

The Oxford handbook of byzantine studies

Eds., Elizabeth Jeffreys, John Haldon and Robin Cormack. The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Studies presents discussions by leading experts on all significant aspects of this diverse and fast-growing field. The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Studies deals with the history and culture of the Byzantine Empire ...

Teología política bizantina

PARTE PRIMA: LA BASILEIA 1. Ai åniov Auºgoustov. L Eternità dell impero nella nuova Roma 2 L impero universale dal punto di vista costantinopolitano 3 Roma fondamento di legittimità politica e religiosa da Roma alla Terza Roma 4 La guerra santa nella Romània (impero romano ...

Emperador y sacerdote

estudio sobre el "cesaropapismo" bizantino

Hoy ya nadie se arriesgaría a hablar de la Iglesia y del Estado como de dos instituciones, o conceptos, que el sentido común o el movimiento de la historia nos hubiesen definitivamente enseñado a distinguir. En este final de siglo XX, estamos mejor preparados que ...

Caminos de Bizancio

Bizancio nunca fue un mundo cerrado, no dejó de ser recorrido por hombres y mujeres que atravesaron sus fronteras: del desierto a la Gran Ciudad, del Occidente europeo a Constantinopla y desde allí hacía el Mar Negro y a las tierras del Islam; monjes anacoretas ...

Constantinople

capital of Byzantium

During the early Middle Ages, travellers to the East returned with stories of a place called Miklagarth, a city so vast that its churches, palaces and monasteries covered the land and so rich that its ruler could scatter bagfuls of gold among his astonished guests ...

La caída de Constantinopla 1453

Libro de culto, desaparecido del mercado español, desde hace años. Narra la pérdida del imperio bizantino por parte de los cristianos, tras una resistencia realmente heroica, y la conquista, ya para siempre hasta hoy, de la ciudad (hoy Estambul) por parte de los turcos. Fue ...

Silencio y quietud

místicos bizantinos entre los siglos XIII y XV

Durante los siglos XIII-XV, al amparo de los emperadores de Bizancio, el monaquismo de la iglesia de Oriente alcanzó uno de los momentos más creativos y controvertidos de la espiritualidad cristiana. El tema central de los tratados escritos por autores como Gregorio Palamás o Gregorio ...