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Showing 1 to 20 of 46 for “"Byzantium"”.
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The Relief Icon in Byzantium
… experience. It moves beyond the notion that Byzantium rejected sculpture due to fears of idolatry and associations with “pagan” statuary. Instead, this study demonstrates that the plastic form was not only accepted but actively central to Byzantine devotional life.
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Bloomsbury's Byzantium and the Writing of Modern Art
<p>“Bloomsbury’s Byzantium and the Writing of Modern Art” examines the role of Byzantine art in Bloomsbury art critics Roger Fry’s and Clive Bell’s narratives of aesthetic Modernism. Fry, in his pre-World War I and interwar writings and teachings on art, and Bell, in seminal texts such as …
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Italians and the New Byzantium: Lombard and Venetian Architects in Muscovy, 1472-1539
<p>This dissertation explores how early modern Russian identity was shaped by the built environment and, likewise, how the built environment was a result of an emerging Russian identity. I focus on the years 1472 to 1539 because they were crucial to the formation of this early modern Russian …
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Diplomatic communication between Byzantium and the West under the late Palaiologoi (1354-1453)
This dissertation studies the diplomatic communication between the Byzantine Empire and the West during the last century of the empire’s life from 1354 to 1453. The first chapter deals with ambassadorial travel to the West, studying land and sea routes, the season of travel, its speed and duration …
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Architecture and statehood in late Byzantium: a comparative study of Epiros and Trebizond
This study examines the architectural patronage of the Komnenodoukai in Epiros and the Grand Komnenoi in Trebizond during the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries. The main focus is on churches and monasteries constructed, rebuilt or renovated by the ruling families and aristocracy in the …
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A psychological reading of the history of Byzantium : the trilogy by John Julius Norwich
This study is based on the four books about Byzantium written by John Julius Norwich. More than being academic books, the trilogy and the short history of Byzantium have served to popularise the history, the writers and the story of the Byzantine Empire. These four books were read with a …
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Between Byzantium and Islam: Royal iconography and the Church of the Holy Cross at Aghtamar
This thesis examines the royal iconography of the palatine Church of the Holy Cross, built by Gagik Artsruni, first king of Vaspurakan, on the island of Alt'amar in the years 915-21. The church is decorated on the exterior with over three hundred sculpted figures, and two fresco cycles adorn the …
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The Life and Works of Manuel Chrysaphes the Lampadarios, and the Figure of Composer in Late Byzantium
… imperial choirs) under the final two emperors of Byzantium, residing in Mistra, Serbia, and Crete after the disintegration of the Empire in 1453. Aside from Edward Williams’ study dedicated to the fourteenth-century musical reforms of Ioannes Koukouzeles, there are virtually no complete studies on …
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Religious intellectual encounters between Byzantium and the Ottomans in the fourteenth century: The Case of Gregory Palamas
During the fourteenth century, the Ottoman military expansion in the Byzantine territories of Asia Minor marked a new era of broad interaction and cooperation between the two populations. Genuine efforts were made both by Ottomans and Byzantines in order to get to know each other politically, …
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Byzantium and beyond: the Medieval Roman Empire and its world through the letters of patriarch Nicholas I Mystikos, 901-925 CE
… mosaic of the Medieval Roman Empire (i.e., Byzantium) and its world in the early tenth century. From social relationships and the ways gifts sustained them, to efforts to reign in borderland lords in the tenuously held provinces of Southern Italy, to large-scale diplomatic and religious …
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Perennial Educational Tensions: Saint Gregory Palamas’s Approach to Byzantium’s Exothen and Kath’imas Educational Traditions & Its Consequences for Thinking with Byzantium in a Contemporary Context
… to studies on the Eastern Roman Empire of Byzantium. In particular, this study examines a crucial episode in the thousand-year tension between the exothen (pagan/secular) and kath’imas (Christian/spiritual) educational traditions within Byzantium. Gregory Palamas, the Orthodox Christian …
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Exonerating Manuel I Komnenos: Byzantine Foreign Policy (1143-1180)
<p>Manuel I of Byzantium (1143-80) has been unfairly judged as misguided, reckless, and, ultimately, as a failure. This work endeavors to refute the claims that Manuel's imperial policy lacked any coherent strategy, and that Byzantium simply reacted to external stimuli. The most ambitious aim of …
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Byzantium and the Question of Colonial Identity: An Examination of the Immediate Social Impacts of the Fourth Crusade on the Thirteenth Century Byzantine Roman World
… final chapter places the colonialism present in Byzantium within the larger global sphere, arguing that Western European colonization of Byzantine Roman territories was part of a much larger phenomenon occurring throughout the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.
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Mother of God, Cease Sorrow!: The Significance of Movement in a Late Byzantine Icon
… movement, emotion, and ritual communion in Byzantium have drawn the attention of art historians in recent years. While Henry Maguire has considered many facets of this subject, a monumental Late Byzantine icon, the Two-Sided Icon with the Virgin Pausolype, Feast Scenes, the Crucifixion and …
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Kasia the Melodist. And the Making of a Byzantine Hymnographer
… developments leading up to ninth-century Byzantium, and thus giving a more developed context in which to examine Kassia. This new approach will allow for a stronger and more multi-layered reconstruction of the only female hymnographer whose work has made it into the liturgical life of the …
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The Show Must Go On: Legacies of Ancient Theater in Middle Byzantine Visual Culture (ca. 843–1204)
… of theater and theatrical performance in Byzantium. My multi-medial and interdisciplinary approach is grounded in a novel theoretical and methodological framework rooted in theories of cultural memory and performance studies, combined with art historical and archaeological methods. I …
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Byzantine Enamel and the Aesthetics of Technological Power, Ninth to Twelfth Centuries
… enamel became infused with cultural meaning in Byzantium through the rarefied technical knowledge employed in its making.</p> <p>The medieval Greek vocabulary for enamel, χυμευτός/χειμευτός (chymeutos/cheimeutos) and ἔργα χυμευτά/χειμευτά (erga chymeuta/cheimeuta), derives from the verb χεώ …
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Donor Portraits in Late Medieval Venice c.1280-1413
… in Venice compare with those from Europe and Byzantium? The evidence examined here includes a catalogue of 83 examples dated approximately between 1280 and 1413. I have attempted to reconstruct the social, political, and physical environments for these examples, and for those images that have …
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