The Balkans and the Byzantine World before and after the Captures of Constantinople, 1204 and 1453 (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Stankovic, Vlada

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book represents the first attempt to analyze historical and cultural developments in late medieval and early modern southeastern Europe as a set of mutually intertwined regional histories, burdened by the strong dichotomy between the almighty center-Constantinople-and the periphery that is rarely visible in both contemporary sources and modern scholarship. This mosaic of original studies is devoted to various regions of the Byzantine Balkans and their historical, artistic, and ideological idiosyncrasies, mirroring the complex character and composite and fragmented structure of this vast region. The focal points of the book are the two captures of Constantinople in 1204 and 1453, and the contributors analyze the significance of these catastrophic events on the political destiny of medieval Balkan societies, the mechanisms of adapting to the new political order, and the ever-present interconnectedness of a lower, regional elite across southeastern Europe that had remained strong even after the Ottoman conquest.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 1
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juni 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798881882273
• Artikelnr.: 74850828

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