Télécharger le livre :  Witness Literature in Byzantium
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This book analyzes Byzantine examples of witness literature, a genre that focuses on eyewitness accounts written by slaves, prisoners, refugees, and other victims of historical atrocity. It focuses on such episodes in three nonfictional texts – John Kaminiates’...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2021-08-06
Collection : New Approaches to Byzantine History and Culture
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Télécharger le livre :  Byzantine Tree Life
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This book examines the many ways Byzantines lived with their trees. It takes seriously theological and hagiographic tree engagement as expressions of that culture’s deep involvement—and even fascination—with the arboreal. These pages tap into the current attention paid...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2021-07-11
Collection : New Approaches to Byzantine History and Culture
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Télécharger le livre :  Banditry in the Medieval Balkans, 800-1500
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This book explores the history of banditry in the medieval Balkans between the ninth and fifteenth centuries. While several scholars have recognized the problems which various outlaw groups caused in the region during the Middle Ages, few have given much attention to...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2020-10-28
Collection : New Approaches to Byzantine History and Culture
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Télécharger le livre :  Pseudo-Dionysius and Christian Visual Culture, c.500–900
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This book uses Pseudo-Dionysius and his mystic theology to explore attitudes and beliefs about images in the early medieval West and Byzantium. Composed in the early sixth century, the Corpus Dionysiacum, the collection of texts transmitted under the name of Dionysius...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2019-11-20
Collection : New Approaches to Byzantine History and Culture
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Télécharger le livre :  Emotions and Gender in Byzantine Culture
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This book examines the gendered dimensions of emotions and the emotional aspects of gender within Byzantine culture and suggests possible readings of such instances. In so doing, the volume celebrates the current breadth of Byzantine gender studies while at the same...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-09-17
Collection : New Approaches to Byzantine History and Culture
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