A companion to Byzantium
By: edited by Liz James
Series: Blackwell companions to the ancient world
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 482
ISBN-13: 9781405126540
Description: A COMPANION TO BYZANTIUM EDITED BY LIZ JAMES.

From the time Constantine the Great moved the imperial capital from Rome to Constantinople in 330 AD, until its fall to the Ottoman Turks eleven centuries later, Byzantium flourished as the most powerful empire in the world. The Eastern Roman Empire not only exerted profound influences on neighboring civilizations, but also reinterpreted Greek and Roman culture within its own distinctive Christian framework.

Recent scholarship has transformed the field of Byzantine studies and propelled it to the forefront of academia. Building on these recent developments, A Companion to Byzantitun presents some different angles on the empire. In 27 original essays, leading scholars from around the globe explore fascinating new approaches, areas of research, and methodologies on such topics as memory, the emotions, childhood, and beauty. A Companion to Byzantium sheds new light on the complexities of Byzantium and points to its legacy in contemporary culture. --Book Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Byzantium: a very, very short introduction / Liz James; title: Writing histories of Byzantium: the historiography of byzantine history / Fiona Haarer; title: Being Byzantine.; title: Economics and "Feudalism" / Peter Sarris; title: Byzantium = Constantinople / Paul Magdalino; title: Provinces and capital / Catherine Holmes; title: Insiders and outsiders / Dion Smythe; title: Young people in Byzantium / Cecily Hennessy; title: The good, the bad and the ugly / Myrto Hatzaki; title: The memory culture of Byzantium / Amy Papalexandrou; title: Emotions / Martin Hinterberger; title: Having fun in Byzantium / Shaun Tougher; title: God and the world.; title: Byzantine views of God and the universe / Mary Cunningham; title: Giving gifts to God: aspects of patronage in Byzantine art / Vassiliki Dimitropoulou; title: Orthodoxy and northern peoples: goods, gods and guidelines / Jonathan Shepard; title: Christology and heresy / Andrew Louth; title: Beyond Byzantium: the non-Chalcedonian churches / Niall Finneran; title: Reading Byzantine texts.; title: No drama, no poetry, no fiction, no readership, no literature / Margaret Mullett; title: Rhetorical questions / Mary Whitby; title: Text and context in Byzantine historiography / Roger Scott; title: Byzantine narrative: the form of story-telling in Byzantium / Emmanuel C. Bourbouhakis and Ingela Nilsson; title: Byzantine book culture / Judith Waring; title: Some questions in material culture.; title: Archaeology / James Crow; title: Makers and users / Anthony Cutler; title: Art beyond Byzantium / Antony Eastmond; title: Icons and iconomachy / Leslie Brubaker; title: The rise and fall of the Macedonian Renaissance / John Hanson; title: Late and post-Byzantine art under Venetian rule: frescoes versus icons and Crete in the middle / Angeliki Lymberopoulou.