Byzantium, its neighbours and its cultures /
Byzantium, its neighbours and its cultures /
Byzantium, its neighbors and its cultures
edited by Danijel Dzino and Ken Parry.
- 1 online resource (vi, 294 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps.
- Australian Association for Byzantine studies. Byzantina Australiensia ; 20 .
- Byzantina Australiensia 20. Byzantina Australiensia Online, ISBN: 9789004353220. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preliminary Material / Introduction: Byzantium, its neighbours and its cultures / Bunkers, open cities and boats in Byzantine diplomacy / Imperial ideology and commemorative culture in the Eastern Roman Empire, 284-450 CE / Church with incomplete biography: plans for the consolidation of Byzantine rule on the Adriatic at the beginning of the ninth century / Local knowledge and wider contexts: stories of the arrival of the Croats in De Administrando Imperio in the past and present / Female virtue, Euripides, and the Byzantine manuscript tradition in the fourteenth century / Exchange of palatine architectural motifs between Byzantium, Persia and the Caliphate / Rome and Persia: rhetoric and religion / Faith as a frontier: the Photian homilies on the invasion of the Rus / Egypt in the Byzantine imagination: cultural memory and historiography, fourth to ninth centuries / History of Wars: narratives of crises in power relations between Constantinople and Italy in the sixth century / The barbarians and the city: comparative study of the impact of the barbarian invasions in 376-378 and 442-447 on the urbanism of Philippopolis, Thrace / Between the old Rome and the new: imperial co-operation circa 400-500 CE / Sailors, merchants and the maritime cults that sailed into the ports (and streets) of early Byzantium / Index / Danijel Dzino and Ken Parry -- Danijel Dzino and Ken Parry -- Jonathan Shepard -- Caillan Davenport -- Mladen Ančić -- Danijel Dzino -- Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides -- Nigel Westbrook -- Tim Briscoe -- Dimitri Kepreotes -- Ken Parry -- Renato Viana Boy -- Ivo Topalilov -- Meaghan McEvoy -- Janet Wade -- Danijel Dzino and Ken Parry.
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Byzantium was one of the longest-lasting empires in history. Throughout the millennium of its existence, the empire showed its capability to change and develop under very different historical circumstances. This remarkable resilience would have been impossible to achieve without the formation of a lasting imperial culture and a strong imperial ideological infrastructure. Imperial culture and ideology required, among other things, to sort out who was ʻinsiderʼ and who was ʻoutsiderʼ and develop ways to define and describe ones neighbours and interact with them. There is an indefinite number of possibilities for the exploration of relationships between Byzantium and its neighbours. The essays in this collection focus on several interconnected clusters of topics and shared research interests, such as the place of neighbours in the context of the empire and imperial ideology, the transfer of knowledge with neighbours, the Byzantine perception of their neighbours and the political relationship and/or the conflict with neighbours.
9789004344914
10.1163/9789004344914 DOI
Diplomatic relations.
Byzantine Empire--Foreign relations--Europe.
Byzantine Empire.
Europe.
Middle East.
DF546 / .B985 2014
949.5013
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preliminary Material / Introduction: Byzantium, its neighbours and its cultures / Bunkers, open cities and boats in Byzantine diplomacy / Imperial ideology and commemorative culture in the Eastern Roman Empire, 284-450 CE / Church with incomplete biography: plans for the consolidation of Byzantine rule on the Adriatic at the beginning of the ninth century / Local knowledge and wider contexts: stories of the arrival of the Croats in De Administrando Imperio in the past and present / Female virtue, Euripides, and the Byzantine manuscript tradition in the fourteenth century / Exchange of palatine architectural motifs between Byzantium, Persia and the Caliphate / Rome and Persia: rhetoric and religion / Faith as a frontier: the Photian homilies on the invasion of the Rus / Egypt in the Byzantine imagination: cultural memory and historiography, fourth to ninth centuries / History of Wars: narratives of crises in power relations between Constantinople and Italy in the sixth century / The barbarians and the city: comparative study of the impact of the barbarian invasions in 376-378 and 442-447 on the urbanism of Philippopolis, Thrace / Between the old Rome and the new: imperial co-operation circa 400-500 CE / Sailors, merchants and the maritime cults that sailed into the ports (and streets) of early Byzantium / Index / Danijel Dzino and Ken Parry -- Danijel Dzino and Ken Parry -- Jonathan Shepard -- Caillan Davenport -- Mladen Ančić -- Danijel Dzino -- Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides -- Nigel Westbrook -- Tim Briscoe -- Dimitri Kepreotes -- Ken Parry -- Renato Viana Boy -- Ivo Topalilov -- Meaghan McEvoy -- Janet Wade -- Danijel Dzino and Ken Parry.
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
Byzantium was one of the longest-lasting empires in history. Throughout the millennium of its existence, the empire showed its capability to change and develop under very different historical circumstances. This remarkable resilience would have been impossible to achieve without the formation of a lasting imperial culture and a strong imperial ideological infrastructure. Imperial culture and ideology required, among other things, to sort out who was ʻinsiderʼ and who was ʻoutsiderʼ and develop ways to define and describe ones neighbours and interact with them. There is an indefinite number of possibilities for the exploration of relationships between Byzantium and its neighbours. The essays in this collection focus on several interconnected clusters of topics and shared research interests, such as the place of neighbours in the context of the empire and imperial ideology, the transfer of knowledge with neighbours, the Byzantine perception of their neighbours and the political relationship and/or the conflict with neighbours.
9789004344914
10.1163/9789004344914 DOI
Diplomatic relations.
Byzantine Empire--Foreign relations--Europe.
Byzantine Empire.
Europe.
Middle East.
DF546 / .B985 2014
949.5013