Byzantium and the Slavs: Collected Studies
Author | : Dimitri Obolensky |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Byzantine Empire |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Dimitri Obolensky |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Byzantine Empire |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Ihor Ševčenko |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 760 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
These reprints of articles, reviews, and other short pieces by the well-known Byzantinist, Ihor Sevčenko, are gathered together in one volume for the first time. The collection reflects the author's wide-ranging interests and his significant contributions to the study of the relationship between Byzantine and East Slavic culture. A number of the original articles have been provided with addenda by the author. Among the articles are the author's now famous study, "Fragments of the Toparcha Gothicus," in which he demonstrates their nineteenth-century provenance at the hands of their "discoverer" Karl Benedikt Hase; the analysis of the impact on Muscovite political ideology of the writings of Deacon Agapetus; the discovery of the Greek prose original of the putative poem contained in the Life of the Slavic Apostle Cyril; and the find, made at St. Catherine's Monastery, of Constantine Tischendorf's letters regarding the transfer of the Codex Sinaiticus to St. Petersburg. Other articles include the author's studies on the impact of Byzantine elements in early Ukrainian culture and in some Kievan texts; and his observations on Byzantine social history at the time of the Slavic Apostles. Sevčenko offers these studies up as a challenge to the younger generation of scholars engaged in new approaches within these fields. Of further interest to Byzantinists and Slavists alike are the author's reviews and retrospectives, including retrospectives of George Christos Soulis, George Ostrogorsky, Francis Dvornik, and Michael Cherniavsky. Taken as a whole, the volume is a lively guide along a varied journey through the world of Byzantium and the Slays and reconstructs the relationship between the two in the light of texts, both literary and scientific. It also reflects the history of Slavic and Byzantine studies in the United States and Europe.
Author | : Francis Dvornik |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 526 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
With the help of the reader, two detectives search for the letters of the alphabet.
Author | : Francis Dvornik |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 572 |
Release | : 1959 |
Genre | : Slavs |
ISBN | : |
Author | : John Meyendorff |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : 2010-06-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521135337 |
This book describes the role of Byzantine diplomacy in the emergence of Moscow in the fourteenth century.
Author | : Zofia Aleksandra Brzozowska |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9788382203417 |
Author | : Georgios Kardaras |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 275 |
Release | : 2018-10-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004382267 |
In this book Georgios Kardaras offers a global view of the political and cultural contact between the Byzantine Empire and the Avar Khaganate, emphasizing in their reconstruction after 626 and the definition of the possible channels of communication.
Author | : Dimitris Stamatopoulos |
Publisher | : Central European University Press |
Total Pages | : 411 |
Release | : 2022-11-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9633863082 |
Dimitris Stamatopoulos undertakes the first systematic comparison of the dominant ethnic historiographic models and divergences elaborated by Greek, Bulgarian, Serbian, Albanian, Romanian, Turkish, and Russian intellectuals with reference to the ambiguous inheritance of Byzantium. The title alludes to the seminal work of Nicolae Iorga in the 1930s, Byzantium after Byzantium, that argued for the continuity between the Byzantine and the Ottoman empires. The idea of the continuity of empires became a kind of touchstone for national historiographies. Rival Balkan nationalisms engaged in a "war of interpretation" as to the nature of Byzantium, assuming different positions of adoption or rejection of its imperial model and leading to various schemes of continuity in each national historiographic canon. Stamatopoulos discusses what Byzantium represented for nineteenth- and twentieth-century scholars and how their perceptions related to their treatment of the imperial model: whether a different perception of the medieval Byzantine period prevailed in the Greek national center as opposed to Constantinople; how nineteenth-century Balkan nationalists and Russian scholars used Byzantium to invent their own medieval period (and, by extension, their own antiquity); and finally, whether there exist continuities or discontinuities in these modes of making ideological use of the past.
Author | : Colin Wells |
Publisher | : Bantam |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 2008-12-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0553901710 |
A gripping intellectual adventure story, Sailing from Byzantium sweeps you from the deserts of Arabia to the dark forests of northern Russia, from the colorful towns of Renaissance Italy to the final moments of a millennial city under siege…. Byzantium: the successor of Greece and Rome, this magnificent empire bridged the ancient and modern worlds for more than a thousand years. Without Byzantium, the works of Homer and Herodotus, Plato and Aristotle, Sophocles and Aeschylus, would never have survived. Yet very few of us have any idea of the enormous debt we owe them. The story of Byzantium is a real-life adventure of electrifying ideas, high drama, colorful characters, and inspiring feats of daring. In Sailing from Byzantium, Colin Wells tells of the missionaries, mystics, philosophers, and artists who against great odds and often at peril of their own lives spread Greek ideas to the Italians, the Arabs, and the Slavs. Their heroic efforts inspired the Renaissance, the golden age of Islamic learning, and Russian Orthodox Christianity, which came complete with a new alphabet, architecture, and one of the world’s greatest artistic traditions. The story’s central reference point is an arcane squabble called the Hesychast controversy that pitted humanist scholars led by the brilliant, acerbic intellectual Barlaam against the powerful monks of Mount Athos led by the stern Gregory Palamas, who denounced “pagan” rationalism in favor of Christian mysticism. Within a few decades, the light of Byzantium would be extinguished forever by the invading Turks, but not before the humanists found a safe haven for Greek literature. The controversy of rationalism versus faith would continue to be argued by some of history’s greatest minds. Fast-paced, compulsively readable, and filled with fascinating insights, Sailing from Byzantium is one of the great historical dramas–the gripping story of how the flame of civilization was saved and passed on.
Author | : Sean Griffin |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 287 |
Release | : 2019-08-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107156769 |
The first major study of the relationship between liturgy and historiography in early medieval Rus.