Balkans and the Byzantine World before and after the Captures of Constantinople, 1204 and 1453

Herausgeber: Stankovic, Vlada

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juni 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 562g
• ISBN-13: 9781498513258
• ISBN-10: 1498513255
• Artikelnr.: 43923427

Autorenporträt

Vlada Stankovic is professor of Byzantine studies and director of the Center for Cypriot Studies at the University of Belgrade.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: In the Balkans "Without" Constantinople: Questions of Center
and Periphery, Vlada Stankovic
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): A Reconsideration, Alicia Simpson
Chapter 2: Discontinuity and Continuity of Byzantine Literary Tradition
After the Crusaders' Capture of Constantinople: The Case of "Original"
Byzantine Novels, Dusan Popovic
Chapter 3: The Divided Empire: Byzantium on the Eve of 1204, Radivoj Radic
Chapter 4: The Fate of the Palaiologan Aristocracy of Thessalonike after
1423, Nicholas Melvani
Chapter 5: Paintings of Donor Portraits in the State of Epirus: Aesthetics,
Fashion and Trends in the Late Byzantine period, Katerina Kontopanagou
Chapter 6: Monastic Foundation Legends in Epirus, Christos Stavrakos
Part II: The Peripheries: In the Shadow of Constantinople and Its Influence
Chapter 7: Studenica and the Life Giving Tree, Jelena Erdeljan
Chapter 8: Reth