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Byzantine Art and Diplomacy in an Age of Decline
Questions how political decline refigures the visual culture of empire by examining the imperial image and the gift in later Byzantium (1261-1453). Provides a more nuanced account of medieval artistic cultural exchange that considers the temporal dimensions of power and the changing fates of empires.
Blood Ties
The region that is today Macedonia was long the heart of the Ottoman Empire in Europe. It was home to a complex mix of peoples and faiths who had for hundreds of years lived together in relative peace. To be sure, these people were no strangers to coercive violence and various forms of depredations visited upon them by bandits and state agents. In the final decades of the nineteenth century and throughout the twentieth century, however, the region was periodically racked by a bitter conflict that was qualitatively different from previous outbreaks of violence. In Blood Ties, Ipek K. Yosmaoglu explains the origins of this shift from sporadic to systemic and pervasive violence through a social...
Monemvasia
A world authority on its history and architecture here brings her expertise and professional knowledge together to present a lavishly illustrated exploration of Monemvasia: its history, its climate, its politics and its change.
Byzantine Monemvasia
The foundation of Monemvasia in the southern Peloponnese has always been related to the raid of the Slavs, for which the sources are few but the literature is vast. This study seeks to analyse existing sources and evaluate and correlate them in the hope that some facts can be established to illuminate the evolution of the city. In his introduction, Sir Steven Runciman writes, `Dr Kalligas has brought to her task a close acquaintance both of the written sources and of the place itself, together with a broad outlook and a wise and careful judgement. All this gives her work great authority.'
Cavafy
"Selected poems by the Greek poet Constantine P. Cavafy (1863 - 1933) handwritten in English by Sidelinger and accompanied by his art. The poems are introduced by a five-page introduction written by Sidelinger"--Vamp & Tramp website.
