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BOTONAKIS ANTONIOS NIKOS MALIARAS CHRISTIAN TROELSGARD Sound of Byzantium Byzantine musical instruments Editors Antonios Botonakis Merve Ozkilic Istanbul Koc Universitesi Stavros Niarchos Vakfi 2022 4to xvi 111 p color ills Original cloth binding New ISBN 9786057685858 CATALOG Byzance KEYWORDS Byzantium Music Musical instruments
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In the Byzantine Empire Constantinople served not only as an administrative military and religious center but also as one of trade and commerce The city was selected as the new imperial capital due to its geographical advantages its vast hinterland its situation as an ideal vantage point for travel by land and sea and its safe natural harbors making it a perfect location for trade Considering that medieval Anatolia and especially Constantinople was located at the center of a broad trade network and was a center of both production and consumption trade is rightfully a continuing subject matter of Byzantine studies In addition since 2004 the Directorate of the Istanbul Archaeological Museums has carried out archaeological research in Uskudar Sirkeci and Yenikapi as part of the Marmaray and Metro projects The excavations have revealed spectacular artifacts and new knowledge on Byzantine trade shipbuilding technology and ships and their cargo In light of harbor excavation results and information accumulated from other ongoing research it was the right time to reevaluate trade in Byzantium New findings and knowledge arising from the Yenikapi excavations in particular gave reason to revisit issues of trade in Byzantium again
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The New Testament lay at the center of Byzantine Christian thought and practice But codices and rolls were neither the sole waynor most important waythe Byzantines understood the New Testament Lectionaries apportioned much of its contents over the course of the liturgical calendar its narratives structured the experience of liturgical time and shaped the nature of Christian preaching throughout Byzantine history A successor to The Old Testament in Byzantium 2010 this book asks What was the New Testament for Byzantine Christians What of it was known how when where and by whom How was this knowledge mediated through text image and rite What was the place of these sacred texts in Byzantine arts letters and thoughtAuthors draw upon the current state of textual scholarship and explore aspects of the New Testament particularly as it was read heard imaged and imagined in lectionaries hymns homilies saints lives and as it was illustrated in miniatures and monuments Framing theological inquiry ecclesiastical controversy and political thought the contributions here help develop our understanding of the New Testament and its varied reception over the long history of Byzantium
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Despite increased interest over the last fifty years in childhood in Byzantium the bibliography on this topic remains rather short and generalized Becoming Byzantine Children and Childhood in Byzantium presents detailed information about childrens lives and provides a basis for further study This collection of eight articles drawn from a May 2006 Dumbarton Oaks symposium covers matters relevant to daily life such as the definition of children in Byzantine law procreation death breastfeeding patterns and material culture Religious and political perspectives are also used to examine Byzantine views of the ideal child and the abuse of children in monasteries Many of these articles present the first comprehensive accounts of specific aspects of childhood in Byzantium
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Byzantine Empresses provides a series of biographical portraits of the most significant Byzantine women who ruled or shared the throne between 527 and 1204 It presents and analyses the available historical data in order to outline what these empresses did what the sources thought they did and what they wanted to do
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ByzantiumModernism features contributions by fourteen international scholars and brings together a diverse range of interdisciplinary essays on art architecture theatre film literature and philosophy which examine how and why Byzantine art and image theory can contribute to our understanding of modern and contemporary visual culture Particular attention is given to intercultural dialogues between the former dominions of the Byzantine Empire with a special focus on Greece Turkey and Russia and the artistic production of Western Europe and America Together these essays invite the reader to think critically and theoretically about the dialogic interchange between Byzantium and modernism and to consider this crosstemporal encounter as an ongoing and historically deep narrative rather than an ephemeral or localized trendContributors are Tulay Atak Charles Barber Elena Boeck Anthony Cutler Rico Franses Dimitra Kotoula MarieJosé Mondzain Myroslava M Mudrak Robert S Nelson Robert Ousterhout Stratis Papaioannou Glenn Peers Jane A Sharp and Devin Singh
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This volume contains selected papers from a December 2006 Dumbarton Oaks symposium that complemented an exhibition of early Bible manuscripts at the Freer Gallery and Sackler Gallery of Art titled In the Beginning Bibles before the Year 1000 Speakers were invited to examine the use of the Greek Old Testament as a text social practice and cultural experience in the Byzantine Empire Not only are reminiscences of the Old Testament ubiquitous in Byzantine literature and art but the Byzantine people also revered and identified with Old Testament role models The Old Testament connected Byzantium not only with its Christian neighbors but with Jewish and Muslim peoples as well This widespread phenomenon has never received systematic investigation The Old Testament in Byzantium considers the manifestations of the holy books in Byzantine manuscript illustration architecture and government as well as in Jewish Bible translations and the construction of Muhammads character
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This catalogue provides the comprehensive visual and textual documentation of the landmark exhibition The Glory of Byzantium
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Enshrined in sumptuous metal ivory or stone containers relics formed an important physical and spiritual bond between heaven and earth linking humankind to their saintly advocates in heaven As they were carried in liturgical processions used in imperial ceremonies and called upon in legal disputes and crises relicsand by extension their precious containers and built shrinesprovided a visible link between the living and the venerated dead Saints and Sacred Matter explores the embodied aspects of the divinephysical remains of holy men and women and objects associated with them Contributors explore how those remains or relics linked the past and present with an imagined future Many of the chapters focus on the Christian context both East and West where relics testified to Christs presence and ministry on earth and established a powerful connection between God and humans after his resurrection Other religious traditions from the ancient world such as Judaism and Islam are frequently thought to have had no relics but contributions to this volume show that Muslims and Jews too had a veneration for the corporeal that is comparable to that of their Christian counterparts
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This volume contains selected papers from a December 2006 Dumbarton Oaks symposium that complemented an exhibition of early Bible manuscripts at the Freer Gallery and Sackler Gallery of Art titled In the Beginning Bibles before the Year 1000 Speakers were invited to examine the use of the Greek Old Testament as a text social practice and cultural experience in the Byzantine Empire Not only are reminiscences of the Old Testament ubiquitous in Byzantine literature and art but the Byzantine people also revered and identified with Old Testament role models The Old Testament connected Byzantium not only with its Christian neighbors but with Jewish and Muslim peoples as well This widespread phenomenon has never received systematic investigation The Old Testament in Byzantium considers the manifestations of the holy books in Byzantine manuscript illustration architecture and government as well as in Jewish Bible translations and the construction of Muhammads character
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Serves as both visual and textual record of the exhibition of the same name surveying the art of the Middle Byzantine period from the restoration of the use of icons by the Orthodox Church in 843 to the occupation of Constantinople by the Crusader forces from the West from 1204 to 1261 Conceived as a sequel to the 1976 exhibition Age of Spirituality which focused on the first centuries of Byzantium Preceding the catalogue 17 essays treat the historical context religious sphere and secular courtly realm of the empire and the interactions between Byzantium and other medieval cultures Abundantly illustrated Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc Portland OR
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The New Testament lay at the center of Byzantine Christian thought and practice But codices and rolls were neither the sole waynor most important waythe Byzantines understood the New Testament Lectionaries apportioned much of its contents over the course of the liturgical calendar its narratives structured the experience of liturgical time and shaped the nature of Christian preaching throughout Byzantine history A successor to The Old Testament in Byzantium 2010 this book asks What was the New Testament for Byzantine Christians What of it was known how when where and by whom How was this knowledge mediated through text image and rite What was the place of these sacred texts in Byzantine arts letters and thoughtAuthors draw upon the current state of textual scholarship and explore aspects of the New Testament particularly as it was read heard imaged and imagined in lectionaries hymns homilies saints lives and as it was illustrated in miniatures and monuments Framing theological inquiry ecclesiastical controversy and political thought the contributions here help develop our understanding of the New Testament and its varied reception over the long history of Byzantium
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O City of Byzantium is the first English translation of a history which chronicles the period of Byzantine history from 1118 to 1207 The historian Niketas Choniates provides an eyewitness account of the inexorable events that led to the destruction of the longest lived Christian empire in history and to the ultimate catastrophe of the fall of Constantinople in 1204 to the Fourth Crusade For the student of the Middles Ages who cannot read Greek and for the historians and the general public this volume contains one of the most important historical accounts of the Middle Ages Recorded in detail are the political economic social and religious causes of alienation between the Latin West and the Greek East that separated the two halves of the Christian world and broke apart the great bulwark of European civilization
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Byzantine Empresses provides a series of biographical portraits of the most significant Byzantine women who ruled or shared the throne between 527 and 1204 It presents and analyses the available historical data in order to outline what these empresses did what the sources thought they did and what they wanted to do
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The vibrant culture of Byzantium influenced the artistic traditions of neighboring cultures in Western Europe and the Islamic East well into the modern eranbsp The Metropolitan Museum of Arts 2004 exhibition catalogue Byzantium Faith and Power 12611557 was among the first to focus on the art of the empires final two centuries and its exceptional heritage This collection of essays by international scholars continues to expand on this area of study exploring critical issues of politics trade religion and culture that helped shape the last centuries of the empire as well as the rise of the early modern age By taking different and innovative approaches to the period the authors arrive at a more complete portrait of Byzantium and its artistic legacynbsp Included are essays by Hans Belting Professor Emeritus of Art History and Media Studies Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe and Honorary Professor University of Heidelberg and Thomas F Mathews Institute of Fine Arts New York University
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1993 hardcover Cloth dj Quarto xxxii 243 pp Illustrated Mild shelf wear to dust jacket with minor dampstains to front dj Altogether a copy in Very Good condition Very Good
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This splendid book is dedicated to the art of the Middle Byzantine period 8431261 demonstrating its wide influence through a celebration of its most beautiful and meaningful works of art The Glory of Byzantium accompanies a major exhibition on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York in the spring of 1997The magnificent religious and secular objects created in Byzantium had a profound impact on neighboring Christian and Islamic states and on the Latin West In this volume more than 50 contributing scholars explore not only works from Byzantium proper but also those from beyond its borders providing new insights into the cultures of Eastern EuropeThe 17 essays are accompanied by descriptions and fullcolor reproductions of more than 400 objects as well as photographs of architectural sites and comparative illustrations
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This book tells the extraordinary story of Theodore II Laskaris an emperor who ruled over the Byzantine state of Nicaea established in Asia Minor after the fall of Constantinople to the crusaders in 1204 Theodore Laskaris was a man of literary talent and keen intellect His actionfilled life youthful mentality anxiety about communal identity Anatolian Roman and Hellenic ambitious reforms cut short by an early death and thoughts and feelings are all reconstructed on the basis of his rich and varied writings His original philosophy also explored here led him to a critique of scholasticism in the West a mathematically inspired theology and a political vision of Hellenism A personal biography a rulers biography and an intellectual biography this highly illustrated book opens a vista onto the eastern Mediterranean Anatolia and the Balkans in the thirteenth century as seen from the vantage point of a key political actor and commentator
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