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Trends and Turning Points : Constructing the Late Antique and Byzantine World.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: The Medieval Mediterranean SeriesPublisher: Boston : BRILL, 2019Copyright date: ©2019Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (340 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789004395749
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Trends and Turning PointsDDC classification:
  • 949.5/02
LOC classification:
  • DF504.5 .T746 2019
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Trends and Turning Points: Constructing the Late Antique and Byzantine World -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Part 1: Scholarly Constructions -- 1 Constructing Late Antiquity and Byzantium: Introducing Trends and Turning Points -- 2 Constructing the Past through the Present: The Eurasian View of Byzantium in the Pages of Seminarium Kondakovianum -- Part 2: Literary Trends -- 3 The Power of the Cross: The Role of the Helper in Kassia's Hymns' Narratological Structure and its Doctrinal Implications -- 4 Tzetzes, Eustathius, and the 'City-Sacker' Epeius: Trends and Turning Points in the 12th-century Reception of Homer -- 5 Greek Explicating Greek: A Study of Metaphrase Language and Style -- 6 Doing and Telling Administration and Diplomacy: Speech Acts in the 13th-Century Balkans -- 7 Laughing up the Sleeve: The Image of the Emperor and Ironic Discourse in George Pachymeres' Historia -- Part 3: Constructing Politics -- 8 The Roman Revolution: Leo I, Theodosius II and the Contest for Power in the 5th Century -- 9 The Reinvention of the Soldier-Emperor under Heraclius -- 10 Omens of Expansionism? Revisiting the Caucasian Chapters of De Administrando Imperio -- 11 The Madara Horseman and Triumphal Inscriptions in Krum's Early Medieval Bulgaria (c.803-14) -- 12 The Emperor is for Turning: Alexios Komnenos, John the Oxite and the Persecution of Heretics -- Part 4: Turning Points in Religious Landscapes -- 13 Eight Hundred Years of the Cult of the Archangels at Aphrodisias/Stauropolis: Modern and Ancient Narratives -- 14 Crosses as Water Purification Devices in Byzantine Palestine -- 15 Byzantium's Ashes and the Bones of St Nicholas: Two Translations as Turning Points, 1087-1100.
16 Changing Profiles of Monastic Founders in Constantinople, From the Komnenoi to the Palaiologoi: The Case of the Theotokos Pammakaristos Monastery in Context -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: 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.
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Intro -- Trends and Turning Points: Constructing the Late Antique and Byzantine World -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Part 1: Scholarly Constructions -- 1 Constructing Late Antiquity and Byzantium: Introducing Trends and Turning Points -- 2 Constructing the Past through the Present: The Eurasian View of Byzantium in the Pages of Seminarium Kondakovianum -- Part 2: Literary Trends -- 3 The Power of the Cross: The Role of the Helper in Kassia's Hymns' Narratological Structure and its Doctrinal Implications -- 4 Tzetzes, Eustathius, and the 'City-Sacker' Epeius: Trends and Turning Points in the 12th-century Reception of Homer -- 5 Greek Explicating Greek: A Study of Metaphrase Language and Style -- 6 Doing and Telling Administration and Diplomacy: Speech Acts in the 13th-Century Balkans -- 7 Laughing up the Sleeve: The Image of the Emperor and Ironic Discourse in George Pachymeres' Historia -- Part 3: Constructing Politics -- 8 The Roman Revolution: Leo I, Theodosius II and the Contest for Power in the 5th Century -- 9 The Reinvention of the Soldier-Emperor under Heraclius -- 10 Omens of Expansionism? Revisiting the Caucasian Chapters of De Administrando Imperio -- 11 The Madara Horseman and Triumphal Inscriptions in Krum's Early Medieval Bulgaria (c.803-14) -- 12 The Emperor is for Turning: Alexios Komnenos, John the Oxite and the Persecution of Heretics -- Part 4: Turning Points in Religious Landscapes -- 13 Eight Hundred Years of the Cult of the Archangels at Aphrodisias/Stauropolis: Modern and Ancient Narratives -- 14 Crosses as Water Purification Devices in Byzantine Palestine -- 15 Byzantium's Ashes and the Bones of St Nicholas: Two Translations as Turning Points, 1087-1100.

16 Changing Profiles of Monastic Founders in Constantinople, From the Komnenoi to the Palaiologoi: The Case of the Theotokos Pammakaristos Monastery in Context -- Bibliography -- Index.

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.

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