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Remarks on the Urban Development of Baalbek
  • Language: en

Remarks on the Urban Development of Baalbek

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2006
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Notes. Photos. Plans.

Byzantium, Pliska, and the Balkans
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 764

Byzantium, Pliska, and the Balkans

MILLENNIUM pursues an interdisciplinary approach transcending historical eras. The editorial board and the advisory board represent a wide range of disciplines - contributions from art and literary studies are just as welcome as historical, theological and philosophical contributions on both the Latin and Greek and the Oriental cultures. The STUDIES present relevant monographs or collections of papers from across the whole range of topics. The YEARBOOK contains authoritative articles. As the links between the various articles are sketched out in a comprehensive editorial, their diversity is intended to encourage dialogue between the disciplines and national research cultures. MILLENNIUM does not publish individual reviews, but does on occasions produce literature surveys. The languages of publication are principally English and German, but articles in French, Italian and Spanish can also be accommodated.

Post-Roman Towns, Trade and Settlement in Europe and Byzantium: Byzantium, Pliska, and the Balkans
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 765

Post-Roman Towns, Trade and Settlement in Europe and Byzantium: Byzantium, Pliska, and the Balkans

In this collection leading international authorities analyse the structures and economic functions of non-agrarian centres between ca. 500 and 1000 A.D. - their trade, their surrounding settlements, and the agricultural and cultural milieux. The thirty-one papers presented at an international conference held in Bad Homburg focus on recent archaeological discoveries in Central Europe (Vol. 1), as well as on those from southeastern Europe to Asia Minor (Vol. 2).

The Glory of Byzantium
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 604

The Glory of Byzantium

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

Pilgrims architecture and visual representation in a new perspective
  • Language: en

Pilgrims architecture and visual representation in a new perspective

Dieses Forschungsprojekt der Universitäten Bern und Cottbus präsentiert neue Ergebnisse zum Bauverlauf und zur Ausstattung der Kathedrale von Santiago de Compostela. Auf der Basis von Bauforschung, Baugeschichte und Quellenanalyse werden die Befunde mit aktuellen internationalen Forschungen im Themenbereich der Pilgerstraßenarchitektur und -skulptur konfrontiert.

Approaches to the Byzantine Family
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 511

Approaches to the Byzantine Family

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-04-08
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  • Publisher: Routledge

The study of the family is one of the major lacunas in Byzantine Studies. Angeliki Laiou remarked in 1989 that ’the study of the Byzantine family is still in its infancy’, and this assertion remains true today. The present volume addresses this lacuna. It comprises 19 chapters written by international experts in the field which take a variety of approaches to the study of the Byzantine family, and embrace a chronological span from the later Roman to the late Byzantine empire. The context is established by chapters focusing on the Roman roots of the Byzantine family, the Christianisation of the family, and the nature of the family in contemporaneous cultures (the late antique west and the...

The Attalids of Pergamon and Anatolia
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 465

The Attalids of Pergamon and Anatolia

Historians have long wondered at the improbable rise of the Attalids of Pergamon after 188 BCE. The Roman-brokered Settlement of Apameia offered a new map – a brittle framework for sovereignty in Anatolia and the eastern Aegean. What allowed the Attalids to make this map a reality? This uniquely comprehensive study of the political economy of the kingdom rethinks the impact of Attalid imperialism on the Greek polis and the multicultural character of the dynasty's notorious propaganda. By synthesizing new findings in epigraphy, archaeology, and numismatics, it shows the kingdom for the first time from the inside. The Pergamene way of ruling was a distinctively non-coercive and efficient means of taxing and winning loyalty. Royal tax collectors collaborated with city and village officials on budgets and minting, while the kings utterly transformed the civic space of the gymnasium. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Shaping Identities in a Holy Land
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 374

Shaping Identities in a Holy Land

In the 88 years between its establishment by the victorious armies of the First Crusade and its collapse following the disastrous defeat at Hattin, the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem was the site of vibrant artistic and architectural activity. As the crusaders rebuilt some of Christendom's most sacred churches, or embellished others with murals and mosaics, a unique and highly original art was created. Focusing on the sculptural, mosaic, and mural cycles adorning some of the most important shrines in the Kingdom (such as the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, The Basilica of the Annunciation, and the Church of the Nativity), this book offers a broad perspective of Crusader art and architecture. Among...

Santiago de Compostela - Pilgerarchitektur und bildliche Repräsentation in neuer Perspektive
  • Language: en

Santiago de Compostela - Pilgerarchitektur und bildliche Repräsentation in neuer Perspektive

Dieses Forschungsprojekt der Universitäten Bern und Cottbus präsentiert neue Ergebnisse zum Bauverlauf und zur Ausstattung der Kathedrale von Santiago de Compostela. Auf der Basis von Bauforschung, Baugeschichte und Quellenanalyse werden die Befunde mit aktuellen internationalen Forschungen im Themenbereich der Pilgerstraßenarchitektur und -skulptur konfrontiert.

Building the Classical World
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 313

Building the Classical World

"This multiauthor volume brings together thirteen chapters examining various aspects of structure and construction in the monuments of ancient Greece and Rome. Taken together they represent the international state of Bauforschung, the scientific, analytical, and often archaeological study of historic buildings. The chapters cover a variety of topics, such as construction processes, design principles, building traditions, and historical contexts. This range showcases the different technical and historical methodologies that are brought to bear on the Classical architecture of the ancient Mediterranean. At the same time, there is considerable overlap, which demonstrates that different approaches are bound together by the common aim to reconstruct historic built environments, the empirical nature of the undertaking, and the combination of visual and verbal argumentation. Bauforschung, Architectural history, Greece, Rome, Classical architecture, Historic buildings"--