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Modes, Functions, and Identities
Author and authorship have become increasingly important concepts in Byzantine literary studies. This volume provides the first comprehensive survey o...
In this book the beauty and meaning of Byzantine art and its aesthetics are for the first time made accessible through the original sources. More than...
This is the first book to deal with the writing of literary and philosophical dialogues in Greek from the Roman empire to the end of Byzantium and bey...
This book explores the nexus of art, personal piety, and self-representation in the last centuries of Byzantium. Spanning the period from around 1100 ...
Statues in Constantinople, 4th-13th Centuries CE
Up to its pillage by the Crusaders in 1204, Constantinople teemed with magnificent statues of emperors, pagan gods, and mythical beasts. Yet the signi...
A delightful look at the epic literary history of the short, poetic genre of the epigram From Nestor’s inscribed cup to tombstones, bathroom walls, ...
In the Shadow of Father and Son
The Emperor John II Komnenos (1118–1143) has been overshadowed by both his father Alexios I and his son Manuel I. Written sources have not left us m...
the King's Body Never Dies
Theologians, historians, and jurists interpreted the king and his kingdom as a corporal reality, the body politic. The idea of the monarch as the embo...
The late Byzantine period (thirteenth to fifteenth centuries) was marked by both cultural fecundity and political fragmentation, resulting in an aston...
Dynastic Memory, Healing and Salvation in Komnenian Constantinople
This book is about the Christ Pantokrator, an imposing monumental complex serving monastic, dynastic, medical and social purposes in Constantinople, f...
This book offers the first complete overview of Byzantine poetry from the 4th to the 15th century. By bringing together 22 scholars, it explores the d...
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"The period encompassed by this volume of translations opens with a major crisis over the status of the icon and its veneration. Charles Barber and Da...