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Isaac Komnenos Porphyrogennetos
Twelfth-century Byzantium is characterized by a striking artistic vitality and profound socio-political changes. The Constantinopolitan elites, led by the Komnenian dynasty initiated by Alexios I, were the driving force behind the renewed intellectual landscape and power dynamics of the century. Despite the wealth of studies devoted to the Komnenians, the sebastokrator Isaac (1093–after 1152) has received limited attention in modern scholarship. Yet, Isaac is a fascinating figure at the crossroads of different worlds. He was an intellectual, the author of the first running commentary on the Iliad ever written in Byzantium. He was a patron, sponsoring magnificent buildings and supporting ar...
Trends and Turning Points
Trends and Turning Points presents sixteen articles, examining the discursive construction of the late antique and Byzantine world, focusing specifically on the utilisation of trends and turning points to make stuff from the past, whether texts, matter, or action, meaningful. Contributions are divided into four complementary strands, Scholarly Constructions, Literary Trends, Constructing Politics, and Turning Points in Religious Landscapes. Each strand cuts across traditional disciplinary boundaries and periodisation, placing historical, archaeological, literary, and architectural concerns in discourse, whilst drawing on examples from the full range of the medieval Roman past. While its individual articles offer numerous important insights, together the volume collectively rethinks fundamental assumptions about how late antique and Byzantine studies has and continues to be discursively constructed. Contributors are: David Barritt, Laura Borghetti, Nikolas Churik, Elif Demirtiken, Alasdair C. Grant, Stephen Humphreys, Mirela Ivanova, Hugh Jeffery, Valeria Flavia Lovato, Francesco Lovino, Kosuke Nakada, Jonas Nilsson, Theresia Raum, Maria Rukavichnikova, and Milan Vukašinović.
From Constantinople to the Frontier: The City and the Cities
From Constantinople to the Frontier: The City and the Cities provides twenty-five articles addressing the concept of centres and peripheries in the late antique and Byzantine worlds, focusing specifically on urban aspects of this paradigm. Spanning from the fourth to thirteenth centuries, and ranging from the later Roman empires to the early Caliphate and medieval New Rome, the chapters reveal the range of factors involved in the dialectic between City, cities, and frontier. Including contributions on political, social, literary, and artistic history, and covering geographical areas throughout the central and eastern Mediterranean, this volume provides a kaleidoscopic view of how human actio...
Research on Psalter Catenae
This volume proceeds from a workshop at the XVIII International Conference on Patristic Studies (Oxford, 2019) and presents developments in recent and ongoing research on the complex tradition of Psalter catenae. The twelve contributions cover a wide range of topics, presenting methodological developments and challenges of catena research as well as fresh insights on specific subjects, such as new manuscript finds and the publication of illustrations and captions in catena manuscripts. The studies range from the first Palestinian stages of Psalter catenae to later Byzantine compositions, and beyond: the Oriental versions receive particular attention. The volume offers students and scholars who are less familiar with research on Psalter catenae a taste of its diversity. Those who have already dealt intensively with this tradition and related topics will find useful research tools and interesting new results. Most of the volume is written in English; two contributions are in French and two in German. The printed volume is accompanied by two databases that are made available online, which allow for more complex search queries.
Authorship, Worldview, and Identity in Medieval Europe
What did medieval authors know about their world? Were they parochial and focused on just their monastery, town, or kingdom? Or were they aware of the broader medieval Europe that modern historians write about? This collection brings the focus back to medieval authors to see how they described their world. While we see that each author certainly had their own biases, the vast majority of them did not view the world as constrained to their small piece of it. Instead, they talked about the wider world, and often they had informants or textual sources that informed them about the world, even if they did not visit it themselves. This volume shows that they also used similar ideas to create space and identity – whether talking about the desert, the holy land, or food practices in their texts. By examining medieval authors and their own perceptions of their world, this collection offers a framework for discussions of medieval Europe in the twenty-first century.
Occidente
L’Occidente, così racconta la vulgata, è stato costruito sulle idee e sui valori greco-romani, idee e valori assopiti in Europa durante i lunghi secoli medievali e poi riscoperti nel corso del Rinascimento. Josephine Quinn sostiene invece che la vera storia dell’Occidente sia molto più ampia e complessa di questo paradigma consolidato. Gran parte della nostra memoria comune è andata perduta, oscurata dalla teoria – sviluppata in epoca vittoriana – delle “civiltà separate”. Passando dall’Età del Bronzo all’epoca delle grandi esplorazioni, Occidente ripercorre millenni di incontri e scambi globali, rivelando come le società si siano, da sempre, confrontate e intrecciate....
La macchina del cosmo
Rinvenuto casualmente da pescatori di spugne nel 1901 al largo dell'isola greca di cui porta il nome, il meccanismo di Anticitera si presentava come un insieme di resti corrosi e malconci di un dispositivo a ingranaggi risalente all'antica Grecia. Dal giorno della scoperta a oggi, gli esperti sono riusciti a ricostruirne la struttura e il funzionamento, combinando osservazione diretta, strumenti radiografici sempre più potenti e surface imaging. Il meccanismo riproduceva di fatto l'universo così come lo concepivano i Greci, era una macchina dotata di una mezza dozzina di quadranti per illustrare le orbite nello spazio di Sole, Luna e pianeti, e i conseguenti cicli del tempo. Nella Macchina...
Autoritratto con Varrone
Un libro sulla passione di vivere nella cultura e nella bellezza, tra meravigliosi e progrediti progetti edilizi; un libro sulla capacità di rinascere dopo cruente distruzioni; un libro su come rispettare la natura e l'ambiente tramite uno sviluppo sostenibile ed un meditato riciclo. Così Varrone, sconosciuto ai più, diventa un faro per le angosce esistenziali della nostra epoca.
Paths of Knowledge
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The Armenians in Modern Turkey
After the Armenian genocide of 1915, in which over a million Armenians died, thousands of Armenians lived and worked in the Turkish state alongside those who had persecuted their communities. Living in the context of pervasive denial, how did Armenians remaining in Turkey record their own history? Here, Talin Suciyan explores the life experienced by these Armenian communities as Turkey's modernisation project of the twentieth century gathered pace. Suciyan achieves this through analysis of remarkable new primary material: Turkish state archives, minutes of the Armenian National Assembly, a kaleidoscopic series of personal diaries, memoirs and oral histories, various Armenian periodicals such as newspapers, yearbooks and magazines, as well as statutes and laws which led to the continuing persecution of Armenians. The first history of its kind, The Armenians in Modern Turkey is a fresh contribution to the history of modern Turkey and the Armenian experience there.
