Byzantine Art in the Making
Author | : Ernst Kitzinger |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Ernst Kitzinger |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Ernst Kitzinger |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1977 |
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Author | : Robin Cormack |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0198778791 |
A beautifully illustrated, new edition of the best single-volume guide to Byzantine art, providing an introduction to the whole period and range of styles.
Author | : Michael J. Decker |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016-09 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781594162718 |
A Complete Overview of One of the Most Important Military Forces in the History of the World The Byzantine Art of War explores the military history of the thousand-year empire of the eastern Mediterranean, Byzantium. Throughout its history the empire faced a multitude of challenges from foreign invaders seeking to plunder its wealth and to occupy its lands, from the deadly Hunnic hordes of Attila, to the Arab armies of Islam, to the western Crusaders bent on carving out a place in the empire or its former lands. In order to survive the Byzantines relied on their army that was for centuries the only standing, professional force in Europe. Leadership provided another key to survival; Byzantine society produced a number of capable strategic thinkers and tacticians--and several brilliant ones. These officers maintained a level of professionalism and organization inherited and adapted from Roman models. The innovations of the Byzantine military reforms of the sixth century included the use of steppe nomad equipment and tactics, the most important of which was the refinement of the Roman mounted archer. Strategy and tactics evolved in the face of victory and defeat; the shock of the Arab conquests led to a sharp decline in the number and quality of imperial forces. By the eighth and ninth centuries Byzantine commanders mastered the art of the small war, waging guerrilla campaigns, raids, and flying column attacks that injured the enemy but avoided the decisive confrontation the empire was no longer capable of winning. A century later they began the most sustained, glorious military expansion of their history. This work further sketches the key campaigns, battles, and sieges that illustrate Byzantine military doctrine, vital changes from one era to another, the composition of forces and the major victories and defeats that defined the territory and material well-being of its citizens. Through a summary of their strategies, tactics, and innovations in the tools of war, the book closes with an analysis of the contributions of this remarkable empire to world military history.
Author | : Ellen C. Schwartz |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 665 |
Release | : 2021-11-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0197572200 |
Byzantine art has been an underappreciated field, often treated as an adjunct to the arts of the medieval West, if considered at all. In illustrating the richness and diversity of art in the Byzantine world, this handbook will help establish the subject as a distinct field worthy of serious inquiry. Essays consider Byzantine art as art made in the eastern Mediterranean world, including the Balkans, Russia, the Near East and north Africa, between the years 330 and 1453. Much of this art was made for religious purposes, created to enhance and beautify the Orthodox liturgy and worship space, as well as to serve in a royal or domestic context. Discussions in this volume will consider both aspects of this artistic creation, across a wide swath of geography and a long span of time. The volume marries older, object-based considerations of themes and monuments which form the backbone of art history, to considerations drawing on many different methodologies-sociology, semiotics, anthropology, archaeology, reception theory, deconstruction theory, and so on-in an up-to-date synthesis of scholarship on Byzantine art and architecture. The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Art and Architecture is a comprehensive overview of a particularly rich field of study, offering a window into the world of this fascinating and beautiful period of art.
Author | : Claudia Rapp |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0195389336 |
Among medieval Christian societies, Byzantium is unique in preserving an ecclesiastical ritual of adelphopoiesis, which pronounces two men, not related by birth, as brothers for life. It has its origin as a spiritual blessing in the monastic world of late antiquity, and it becomes a popular social networking strategy among lay people from the ninth century onwards, even finding application in recent times. Located at the intersection of religion and society, brother-making exemplifies how social practice can become ritualized and subsequently subjected to attempts of ecclesiastical and legal control. Controversially, adelphopoiesis was at the center of a modern debate about the existence of same-sex unions in medieval Europe. This book, the first ever comprehensive history of this unique feature of Byzantine life, argues persuasively that the ecclesiastical ritual to bless a relationship between two men bears no resemblance to marriage. Wide-ranging in its use of sources, from a complete census of the manuscripts containing the ritual of adelphopoiesis to the literature and archaeology of early monasticism, and from the works of hagiographers, historiographers, and legal experts in Byzantium to comparative material in the Latin West and the Slavic world, Brother-Making in Late Antiquity and Byzantium examines the fascinating religious and social features of the ritual, shedding light on little known aspects of Byzantine society.
Author | : John Lowden |
Publisher | : Phaidon Press |
Total Pages | : 458 |
Release | : 1997-04-24 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780714831688 |
An authoritative account of early Christian and Byzantine art.
Author | : Glenn Peers |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780271047485 |
Sacred Shock attempts to lay bare the inner workings of Byzantine art by looking closely at the marginal or subsidiary areas in works of art.
Author | : Foteini Spingou |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 1683 |
Release | : 2022-04-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108643906 |
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 150 medieval texts are translated from nine medieval languages into English, with commentaries from over seventy leading scholars. These include theories of art, discussions of patronage and understandings of iconography, practical recipes for artistic supplies, expressions of devotion, and descriptions of cities. The volume reveals the cultural plurality and the interconnectivity of medieval Europe and the Mediterranean from the late eleventh to the early fourteenth centuries. The first part uncovers salient aspects of Byzantine artistic production and its aesthetic reception, while the second puts a spotlight on particular ways of expressing admiration and of interpreting of the visual.
Author | : Cyril A. Mango |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1986-01-01 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780802066275 |
Originally published by Prentice-Hall, 1972.