Wanted, Byzantium
Subtitle: the desire for a lost empire
By: edited by Ingela Nilsson and Paul Stephenson
Contributors: Crostini Lappin, Barbara, author; Kungl. Vitterhets, historie och antikvitets akademien; Crostini Lappin, Barbara, author; Nilsson, Ingela, editor, compiler; Stephenson, Paul, editor, compiler
Series: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. Studia Byzantina Upsaliensia -- 15; Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis -- 15.
Publisher: Uppsala Universitet
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Uppsala
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9789155489151
Subjects: Congresses; Civilization
Other titles: Wanted Byzantium; Byzantium, the desire for a lost empire
Notes: "The present volume goes back to a conference held at The Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History, and Antiquities in Stockholm, 26-28 October 2011, under the title 'Wanted: Byzantium.' The conference was organized by the Nordic Byzantine Network.... "--Unnumbered page v.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Inventing and re-inventing Byzantium : Nikephoros Phokas, Byzantine studies in Greece, and "New Rome' / John Burke; title: Was innovation unwanted in Byzantium? / Apostolos Spanos; title: What does it mean to be Greek in Rus'? On identity and cultural transfer / Fedir Androshchuk; title: When did Constantinople actually fall? / Olof Heilo; title: "I come from a cursed land and from the depths of darkness" : life after death in Greek laments about the fall of Constantinople / Adam J. Goldwyn; title: Surviving exile : Byzantine families and the Serenissima 1453-1600 / Ersie Burke; title: The three fathers of the Greek Orthodox Church : Greek paideia, Byzantine innovation and the formation of modern Greek identity / Helen Saradi; title: The mosaic in the apse : Friedenskirche and the construction of a desired past / Tonje Haugland Sørensen; title: Paul Moore and more Psellos : still 'Wanted' in Byzantium / Barbara Crostini; title: Night at the museum : on the category of the 'Byzantine' in today's Byzantine chant / Tore Tyvarnø Lind; title: "Into golden dusk" : orthodox icons as objects of late modern and postmodern desire / Helena Boudin; title: From Byzantium to the Andes / Eric Cullhed; title: Perne in gyre : the poetic representation of an ideal state in the Byzantine poems of W.B. Yeats / Thomas Sjösvärd; title: And the Oscar goes to ... the emperor! Byzantinium in the cinema / Przemysław Marciniak; title: Desiring and acquiring Byzantine artefacts in the USA : cultural property, restoration, and display / Paul Stephenson; title: - Exhibiting Byzantium : three case studies in the display and reception of Byzantine art, 1997-2008 / Isabel Kimmelfield.