Trends and Turning Points

Constructing the Late Antique and Byzantine World
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-39573-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 117, 326 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 658 g

Reihe: The Medieval Mediterranean

Trends and Turning Points presents sixteen articles, examining the discursive construction of the late antique and Byzantine world, focusing specifically on the utilisation of trends and turning points to make stuff from the past, whether texts, matter, or action, meaningful. Contributions are divided into four complementary strands, Scholarly Constructions, Literary Trends, Constructing Politics, and Turning Points in Religious Landscapes. Each strand cuts across traditional disciplinary boundaries and periodisation, placing historical, archaeological, literary, and architectural concerns in discourse, whilst drawing on examples from the full range of the medieval Roman past. While its individual articles offer numerous important insights, together the volume collectively rethinks fundamental assumptions about how late antique and Byzantine studies has and continues to be discursively constructed.

Contributors are: David Barritt, Laura Borghetti, Nikolas Churik, Elif Demirtiken, Alasdair C. Grant, Stephen Humphreys, Mirela Ivanova, Hugh Jeffery, Valeria Flavia Lovato, Francesco Lovino, Kosuke Nakada, Jonas Nilsson, Theresia Raum, Maria Rukavichnikova, and Milan Vukašinovic.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Kinloch, Matthew

MacFarlane, Alex

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Spätantike
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Byzantinische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

List of Illustrations

Notes on Contributors

Part 1: Scholarly Constructions

1 Constructing Late Antiquity and Byzantium: Introducing Trends and Turning Points

Matthew Kinloch

2 Constructing the Past through the Present: The Eurasian View of Byzantium in the Pages of Seminarium Kondakovianum

Francesco Lovino

Part 2: Literary Trends

3 The Power of the Cross: The Role of the Helper in Kassia’s Hymns’ Narratological Structure and Its Doctrinal Implications

Laura Borghetti

4 Tzetzes, Eustathius, and the ‘city-sacker’ Epeius: Trends and Turning Points in the 12th-century Reception of Homer

Valeria Flavia Lovato

5 Greek Explicating Greek: A Study of Metaphrase Language and Style

Nikolas Churik

6 Doing and Telling Administration and Diplomacy: Speech Acts in the 13th-Century Balkans

Milan Vukašinovic

7 Laughing up the Sleeve: The Image of the Emperor and Ironic Discourse in George Pachymeres’ Historia

Maria Rukavichnikova

Part 3: Constructing Politics

8 The Roman Revolution: Leo I, Theodosius II and the Contest for Power in the 5th Century

David Barritt

9 The Reinvention of the Soldier-Emperor under Heraclius

Theresia Raum

10 Omens of Expansionism? Revisiting the Caucasian Chapters of De Administrando Imperio

Kosuke Nakada

11 The Madara Horseman and Triumphal Inscriptions in Krum’s Early Medieval Bulgaria (c.803–14)

Mirela Ivanova

12 The Emperor is for Turning: Alexios Komnenos, John the Oxite and the Persecution of Heretics

Jonas Nilsson

Part 4: Turning Points in Religious Landscapes

13 Eight Hundred Years of the Cult of the Archangels at Aphrodisias/Stauropolis: Modern and Ancient Narratives

Hugh Jeffery

14 Crosses as Water Purification Devices in Byzantine Palestine

Stephen Humphreys

15 Byzantium’s Ashes and the Bones of St Nicholas: Two Translations as Turning Points, 1087–1100

Alasdair C. Grant

16 Changing Profiles of Monastic Founders in Constantinople, From the Komnenoi to the Palaiologoi: The Case of the Theotokos Pammakaristos Monastery in Context

Elif Demirtiken

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Matthew Kinloch holds a doctorate from the University of Oxford (2014-18), an MRes from the University of Birmingham (2013-14), and a BA from the University of Durham (2010-13). He is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna.

Alex MacFarlane is writing a D.Phil. titled Alexander Re-Mapped: Geography and Identity in the Alexander Romance in Armenia (University of Oxford). This follows an MSt in Classical Armenian Studies (University of Oxford) and an MA in Ancient History (KCL).