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Poetry in Late Byzantium
The late Byzantine period (thirteenth to fifteenth centuries) was marked by both cultural fecundity and political fragmentation, resulting in an astonishingly multifaceted literary output. This book addresses the poetry of the empire’s final quarter-millennium from a broad perspective, bringing together studies on texts originating in places from Crete to Constantinople and from court to school, treating topics from humanist antiquarianism to pious self-help, and written in styles from the vernacular to Homeric language. It thus offers a reference work to a much-neglected but rich textual material that is as varied as it was potent in the sociocultural contexts of its times. Contributors are Theodora Antonopoulou, Marina Bazzani, Julián Bértola, Martin Hinterberger, Krystina Kubina, Marc D. Lauxtermann, Florin Leonte, Ugo Mondini, Brendan Osswald, Giulia M. Paoletti, Cosimo Paravano, Daniil Pleshak, Alberto Ravani, and Federica Scognamiglio.
Expecting the End of the World in Medieval Europe
Expecting the End of the World in Medieval Europe: An Interdisciplinary Study examines the phenomenon of medieval eschatology from a global perspective, both geographically and intellectually. The collected contributions analyze texts, authors, social movements, and cultural representations covering a wide period, from the 6th to the 16th century, in geographically liminal spaces where Catholic, Byzantine, Islamic, and Jewish cultures converged. The book is organized in eleven chapters which reflect and explore the following arguments: the study of specific eschatological episodes in medieval Europe and their interpretations; the analysis of apocalyptic visionaries, apocalyptic authors, and ...
Dreams, Memory and Imagination in Byzantium
This collection of studies on Dreams, Memory and Imagination in Byzantium covers four main themes: the place of dreams, imagination and memory in the Byzantine philosophical tradition; the political uses of prophetic dreams and visions in imperial contexts; the appearance and manipulation of dreams and memory in Byzantine poetry and histories, and changing commemorations of the saints over time in art, epigraphy and literature. These studies reveal the distinctive and important roles of memory, imagination and dreams in the Byzantine court, the proto-Orthodox church and broader society from Constantinople to Syria and beyond. This volume of Byzantina Australiensia brings together the work of senior and early career scholars from Australia, Greece, Israel, Italy, Japan, New Zealand and the United States.
Hypatia
This study reconstructs Hypatia’s existential and intellectual life and her modern Nachleben through a reception-oriented and interdisciplinary approach. Unlike previous publications on the subject, Hypatia explores all available ancient and medieval sources as well as the history of the reception of the figure of Hypatia in later history, literature, and arts in order to illuminate the ideological transformations/deformations of her story throughout the centuries and recover “the true story”. The intentionally provocative title relates to the contemporary historiographical notion of “false” or “fake history”, as does the overall conceptual and methodological treatment. Through this reception-oriented approach, this study suggests a new reading of the ancient sources that demonstrates the intrinsically political nature of the murder of Hypatia, caused by the phtonos (violent envy) of the Christian bishop Cyril of Alexandria. This is the first comprehensive treatment of the figure of Hypatia addressed to both academic readers – in Classics, Religious Studies, and Reception Studies – and a learned, non-specialist readership. Revised edition in paperback.
Byzantine Ideas of Persia, 650–1461
This book offers a comprehensive study into the perceptions of ancient and medieval Iran in the Byzantine empire, exploring the effects of Persian culture upon Byzantine intellectualism, society and culture. Byzantine Ideas of Persia, 650-1461 focusses on the enduring position of ancient Persia in Byzantine cultural memory, encompassing both in the 'religious' and the 'secular' significance. By analysing a wide range of historical sources – from church literature to belles-lettres – this book examines the intricate relationship between ancient Persia and Byzantine cultural memory, as well as the integration and function of Persian motifs in the Byzantine mentality. Additionally, the auth...
191 | Aby Warburg: His Aims and Methods
In this issue of Engramma: Giulia Zanon’s Zooming Mnemosyne deals with the use of details in Warburg’s Bilderatlas, Monica Centanni’s Collateral effects of the “visibile parlare” (Dante, Pg. X, v. 95) reconstructs the hypothesis of a visual model for the legend of Trajan’s Justice, according to Warburg intuition about it; this contribution is connected of the paper by Filippo Perfetti’s Dante, Botticelli, and Trajan. An Open Note where the author investigates how Botticelli could have come to know that the bas-relief of the Arch of Constantine liberatori urbis was related to an episode in Trajan's life”. The focus of this issue is then extended to Warburg's cultural environme...
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e170 | Frammenti dall’antico: pietre, immagini, testi
Editoriale, a cura di Maddalena Bassani, Olivia Sara Carli Alessandra Magni, Per una storia della glittica “di propaganda”: alcune riflessioni. L’antico. Gemme inedite a Verona Gabriella Tassinari, Per una storia della glittica “di propaganda”: alcune riflessioni. Il post-antico Alessandro Grilli, Il trionfo della non-ragione. La comprensione del male nelle Troiane di Euripide (Teatro greco di Siracusa, 2019) Francesco Monticini, Azione come praxis. Riflessioni su scienza e conoscenza in Manuele Gabalas Barbara Biscotti, Gli antichi a processo. I volumi della collana del Corriere della Sera Maria Bergamo, Un sublime e tormentoso Tardoantico. Recensione a Franco Cardini, Contro Ambr...
e174 | Navi della libertà
Le navi della libertà. Editoriale a cura di Danae Antonakou, Monica Centanni e Francesco MonticiniSilvia Burini, Alexander Ponomarev, SubTiziano. L’anti-camouflagecome atto di libertà.Alessandra Pedersoli e Christian Toson, Onde libere e rock ‘n’ roll. La rivoluzionedelle emittenti offshore.Danae Antonakou, La nave Mataroa (Atene-Parigi 1945).Un mito greco contemporaneo.Misha Davidoff, Where Europe comes on an end. The travelof Capitaine Paul-Lemerle (Marseille 1941).Giacomo Calandra di Roccolino, La nave come metafora. Nota sul piroscafo Patris IIe sul film Architects’ Congress di László Moholy-Nagy,a proposito del IV CIAM di Atene (1933).Francesco Monticini, L’ultima nave biz...
