Trends and Turning Points : Constructing the Late Antique and Byzantine World (Medieval Mediterranean)

Kinloch, Matthew (EDT)/ MacFarlane, Alex (EDT)

Brill（2019/05発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 326 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004395732
• DDC分類 949.502

Full Description

Trends and Turning Points presents sixteen articles, examining the discursive construction of the late antique and Byzantine world, focusing specifically on the utilisation of trends and turning points to make stuff from the past, whether texts, matter, or action, meaningful. Contributions are divided into four complementary strands, Scholarly Constructions, Literary Trends, Constructing Politics, and Turning Points in Religious Landscapes. Each strand cuts across traditional disciplinary boundaries and periodisation, placing historical, archaeological, literary, and architectural concerns in discourse, whilst drawing on examples from the full range of the medieval Roman past. While its individual articles offer numerous important insights, together the volume collectively rethinks fundamental assumptions about how late antique and Byzantine studies has and continues to be discursively constructed.

Contributors are: David Barritt, Laura Borghetti, Nikolas Churik, Elif Demirtiken, Alasdair C. Grant, Stephen Humphreys, Mirela Ivanova, Hugh Jeffery, Valeria Flavia Lovato, Francesco Lovino, Kosuke Nakada, Jonas Nilsson, Theresia Raum, Maria Rukavichnikova, and Milan Vukašinović.

Contents

Acknowledgements

List of Illustrations

Notes on Contributors

Part 1: Scholarly Constructions

1 Constructing Late Antiquity and Byzantium: Introducing Trends and Turning Points

 Matthew Kinloch

2 Constructing the Past through the Present: The Eurasian View of Byzantium in the Pages of Seminarium Kondakovianum

 Francesco Lovino

Part 2: Literary Trends

3 The Power of the Cross: The Role of the Helper in Kassia's Hymns' Narratological Structure and Its Doctrinal Implications

 Laura Borghetti

4 Tzetzes, Eustathius, and the 'city-sacker' Epeius: Trends and Turning Points in the 12th-century Reception of Homer

 Valeria Flavia Lovato

5 Greek Explicating Greek: A Study of Metaphrase Language and Style

 Nikolas Churik

6 Doing and Telling Administration and Diplomacy: Speech Acts in the 13th-Century Balkans

 Milan Vukašinović

7 Laughing up the Sleeve: The Image of the Emperor and Ironic Discourse in George Pachymeres' Historia

 Maria Rukavichnikova

Part 3: Constructing Politics

8 The Roman Revolution: Leo I, Theodosius II and the Contest for Power in the 5th Century

 David Barritt

9 The Reinvention of the Soldier-Emperor under Heraclius

 Theresia Raum

10 Omens of Expansionism? Revisiting the Caucasian Chapters of De Administrando Imperio

 Kosuke Nakada

11 The Madara Horseman and Triumphal Inscriptions in Krum's Early Medieval Bulgaria (c.803-14)

 Mirela Ivanova

12 The Emperor is for Turning: Alexios Komnenos, John the Oxite and the Persecution of Heretics

 Jonas Nilsson

Part 4: Turning Points in Religious Landscapes

13 Eight Hundred Years of the Cult of the Archangels at Aphrodisias/Stauropolis: Modern and Ancient Narratives

 Hugh Jeffery

14 Crosses as Water Purification Devices in Byzantine Palestine

 Stephen Humphreys

15 Byzantium's Ashes and the Bones of St Nicholas: Two Translations as Turning Points, 1087-1100

 Alasdair C. Grant

16 Changing Profiles of Monastic Founders in Constantinople, From the Komnenoi to the Palaiologoi: The Case of the Theotokos Pammakaristos Monastery in Context

 Elif Demirtiken

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Index