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The Late Byzantine Romance in Context
This book investigates issues of identity and narrativity in late Byzantine romances in a Mediterranean context, covering the chronological span from the capture of Constantinople by the Crusaders in 1204 to the 16th century. It includes chapters not only on romances that were written and read in the broader Byzantine world but also on literary texts from regions around the Mediterranean Sea. The volume offers new insights and covers a variety of interrelated subjects concerning the narrative representations of self-identities, gender, and communities, the perception of political and cultural otherness, and the interaction of space and time with identity formation. The chapters focus on texts from the Byzantine, western European, and Ottoman worlds, thus promoting a cross-cultural approach that highlights the role of the Mediterranean as a shared environment that facilitated communications, cultural interaction, and the trading and reconfiguration of identities. The volume will appeal to a wide audience of researchers and students alike, specializing in or simply interested in cultural studies, Byzantine, western medieval, and Ottoman history and literature.
Guide to Byzantine Historical Writing
Makes the study of medieval Greek historical writing accessible by providing fundamental orientation and information.
For God and Country
Religion and nationalism are both powerful and important markers of individual identity, but the relationship between the two has been a source of considerable debate. Much, if not most, of the early work done in Nationalism Studies has been based, at least implicitly, on the idea that religion, as a genealogical carrier of identity, was displaced with the advent of secular modernity, which was caused by nationalism. Or, to put it another way, national identity, and its ideological manifestation nationalism, filled the void left in people’s self-identification as religion retreated in the face of modernity. Since at least the late 1990s, this view has been increasingly challenged by schola...
The Routledge Handbook on Identity in Byzantium
This volume is the first to focus solely on how specific individuals and groups in Byzantium and its borderlands were defined and distinguished from other individuals and groups from the mid-fourth to the close of the fifteenth century. It gathers chapters from both established and emerging scholars from a wide range of disciplines across history, art, archaeology, and religion to provide an accurate representation of the state of the field both now and in its immediate future. The handbook is divided into four subtopics that examine concepts of group and specific individual identity which have been chosen to provide methodologically sophisticated and multidisciplinary perspectives on specif...
Die Anfänge des letzten Zarentums
Im Laufe des 15. Jahrhunderts verwandelte sich das lose Konglomerat der russischen Teilfürstentümer schrittweise in eine christliche Autokratie mit dem Moskauer Großfürsten und späteren Zaren an der Spitze. Eine entscheidende Rolle in der Legitimation des entstehenden Zarentums spielten Endzeiterwartungen. Sie hingen mit dem Glauben an das Ende der Welt im Jahre 1492 zusammen. Das ausgebliebene Jüngste Gericht wurde dabei zum entscheidenden Impuls, Moskau erstmalig zum neuen Konstantinopel zu proklamieren. Im Fokus dieser komparativen Arbeit stehen die ersten russischen politisch-eschatologischen Herrschaftsvorstellungen, die an der Schwelle zur Neuzeit entworfen wurden. Es wird gezeig...
Die Zeit der letzten Dinge
Die Endlichkeit menschlicher Existenz ist anthropologisch konstant, doch sind die Formen ihrer Wahrnehmung historisch und kulturell höchst variabel. Dieser Band untersucht verschiedene Umgangsformen mit dem Tod in Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit. In der Konfrontation mit der eigenen Sterblichkeit werden in vielfältigen Bewältigungsstrategien wie Erzählungen, Bildern, Symbolen und Ritualen für das mittelalterliche Denken grundlegende Aspekte von Zeitlichkeit reflektiert, die sich als Phänomene von Heterochronie beschreiben lassen. Das Spektrum der Beiträge eröffnet so einen Zugang zu einem differenzierten historischen Verständnis der vielfältigen Austauschphänomene zwischen Diessei...
Proceedings of the 21st International Congress of Byzantine Studies
The theme of the 2006 International Congress of Byzantine Studies was display, assessing what strategies the people of Byzantium used to express their thoughts, ideals, fears and beliefs, and how these have been interpreted through various modern discourses. The first volume presents the texts of the 28 plenary papers delivered at the Congress; the second and third contain the abstracts of the many hundreds of papers written for the 64 separate panels and the sessions of communications.
The Travels of Cristoforo Buondelmonti and Ciriaco d’Ancona in the Aegean Sea
This book explores the travels of Cristoforo Buondelmonti and Ciriaco d’Ancona to the Greek lands in the early fifteenth-century eastern Mediterranean. Drawing on post-colonial studies' frameworks, such as travel writing and imaginative geographies, this volume offers an innovative examination of colonial discursive and cultural practices within the Latin dominions in the Greek lands. It sheds light on their contributions to the conceptualisation of both the "Italian metropolitan" space and the "Greek" identity of the colonised. This volume investigates how Cristoforo’s and Ciriaco’s travel narratives utilised conceptual tools and representation systems of early humanism to support Lat...
The Routledge Handbook on Identity in Byzantium
This volume is the first to focus solely on how specific individuals and groups in Byzantium and its borderlands were defined and distinguished from other individuals and groups from the mid-fourth to the close of the fifteenth century. It gathers chapters from both established and emerging scholars from a wide range of disciplines across history, art, archaeology, and religion to provide an accurate representation of the state of the field both now and in its immediate future. The handbook is divided into four subtopics that examine concepts of group and specific individual identity which have been chosen to provide methodologically sophisticated and multidisciplinary perspectives on specif...
