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The Balkans and the Byzantine World Before and after the Captures of Constantinople, 1204 And 1453.

Stankovic, Vlada.

The Balkans and the Byzantine World Before and after the Captures of Constantinople, 1204 And 1453. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (249 pages) - Byzantium: a European Empire and Its Legacy Series . - Byzantium: a European Empire and Its Legacy Series .

Intro -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I IN A WORLD WITHOUT A CENTER: REMAINING BYZANTINE -- CHAPTER 1 BYZANTIUM'S RETREATING BALKAN FRONTIERS DURING THE REIGN OF THE ANGELOI (1185-1203) -- CHAPTER 2 DISCONTINUITY AND CONTINUITY OF BYZANTINE LITERARY TRADITION AFTER THE CRUSADERS' CAPTURE OF CONSTANTINOPLE -- CHAPTER 3 THE DIVIDED EMPIRE -- CHAPTER 4 THE FATE OF THE PALAIOLOGAN ARISTOCRACY OF THESSALONIKE AFTER 1423 -- CHAPTER 5 DONOR PORTRAITS IN THE STATE OF EPIRUS -- CHAPTER 6 MONASTIC FOUNDATION LEGENDS IN EPIRUS -- PART II THE PERIPHERIES: IN THE SHADOW OF CONSTANTINOPLE AND ITS INFLUENCE -- CHAPTER 7 STUDENICA AND THE LIFE GIVING TREE -- CHAPTER 8 RETHINKING THE POSITION OF SERBIA WITHIN BYZANTINE OIKOUMENE IN THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY -- CHAPTER 9 THE SYNODICON OF ORTHODOXY IN BAR MS. S1. 307 AND THE HAGIORITICON GRAMMA OF THE YEAR 1344 -- CHAPTER 10 MOUNT ATHOS AND THE BYZANTINE-SLAVIC TRADITION IN WALLACHIA AND MOLDAVIA AFTER THE FALL OF CONSTANTINOPLE -- CHAPTER 11 THE CENTER OF THE PERIPHERY -- PART III AFTERMATH: BETWEEN TWO EMPIRES, BETWEEN TWO ERAS -- CHAPTER 12 BEFORE AND AFTER THE FALL OF THE SERBIAN DESPOTATE -- CHAPTER 13 MEMORIES OF HOME IN THE ACCOUNTS OF THE BALKAN REFUGEES FROM THE OTTOMANS TO THE APENNINE PENINSULA (FIFTEENTH TO SIXTEENTH CENTURIES) -- INDEX -- ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS.

This volume offers new perspectives on the history of the Byzantine Balkans and beyond--regions that lived for centuries under the long shadow of Constantinople--as well as unique insights into the complex world of late medieval and early modern southeastern Europe during a period of catastrophe.

9781498513265


Regionalism - Balkan Peninsula - History - To 1500.


Electronic books.

DR38.3.B97

949.602

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