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- Holy Fools in Byzantium and Beyond
- Holy Fools in Byzantium and Beyond, by Sergey A. Ivanov, translated by Simon Franklin. Oxford Studies in Byzantium. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2006. xi, 479 pp. $99.00 US cloth. Made famous by appearances in Pushkin's play Boris Godunov and Mussorgsky's opera of the same name, in Surikov's painting of...
- Research articles 2007-03-22
- Architecture of traces and ascriptions: interpreting the vanished Great Palace of the Byzantine Emperors in Constantinople
- Beneath history, memory and oblivion. Beneath memory and oblivion: life. But the writing of life is another history. Incompleteness. --Paul Ricoeur (1) This paper was prompted by the 2000 proposal to develop the site of the...
- Research articles 2006-06-01
- Byzantium: The Decline and Fall
- In the days before social history and statistical "cliometrics," the word "history" implied thick, multivolume chronological narratives of events, usually political and military in nature and almost invariably the consequences of the decisions and actions of kings, emperors, and other leading individuals. This type of history, of course, has not...
- Research articles 1996-05-03
- Lithuania Ascending: A Pagan Empire Within East-Central Europe, 1295-1345
- S.C. Rowell. Cambridge studies in medieval life and thought. Fourth series, 25. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1994. xxxiv, 375 pp. $69.95 U.S.The period from the late thirteenth to the early fourteenth century was, in Eastern Europe, a highly volatile and confused time, even for a cultural and geographical zone...
- Research articles 1995-04-01
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- Emperor and Priest: the Imperial Office in Byzantium
- Emperor and Priest: the Imperial Office in Byzantium. Gilbert Dagron. Jean Birrell, translator. Cambridge University Press. [pounds sterling]50.00 (US$75.00). xiii + 337 pages. ISBN 0-521-80123-0. This impressive study, part of the Past and Present Publications, was first published in France in 1996. It looks at the relations between the Eastern...
- Research articles 2004-05-01
- Byzantium: The Decline and Fall. (book reviews)
- J.J. Norwich says that he would like `to make some small amends for a centuries-old conspiracy of silence' concerning the Byzantine history (p. xxxvi). Is it really necessary, however, to lead Byzantium into the limelight? Byzantine studies have been flourishing for some considerable time; the scholarly...
- Research articles 1997-05-01
- Church and Society in Byzantium under the Comneni, 1081-1261
- Church and Society in Byzantium under the Comneni, 1081-1261. By Michael Angold. (New York: Cambridge University Press. 1995. Pp. svi, 604. $89.95.) This massive work of over 600 pages is an ambitious overview of the inner history and development of the Greek-speaking Orthodox Church during a crucial century and a...
- Research articles 1997-10-01
- Emperor and Priest: The Imperial Office in Byzantium
- Medieval Emperor and Priest: The Imperial Office in Byzantium. By Gilbert Dagron. Translated by Jean Birrell. [Past and Present Publications.] (New York: Cambridge University Press. 2004. Pp. xiii, 337. $75.00.)Teachers of Byzantine History will be grateful to Cambridge University Press for providing an English translation of Gilbert Dagron's Empereur et...
- Research articles 2005-04-01
- London gallery previews major Byzantine exhibition
- LONDON AFP — A major exhibition on the Byzantine Empire featuring icons, wall paintings and mosaics dating back to the fourth century AD was unveiled by a London gallery Friday. "Byzantium 330-1453" is going on show at the Royal Academy of Arts from October 25 to March 22 next...
- Research articles 2008-07-04
- Monks and Laymen in Byzantium: 843-1118. (book reviews)
- By Rosemary Morris. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. xxii, 330. $64.95.) The author sees her focus as the interaction between the laity and the monasteries. In this study Rosemary Morris concentrates on the areas of lay patronage of monasteries in the form...
- Research articles 1997-09-22
- Apologising for the sins of the past
- THE POPE has been going round the place apologising again. Last year, Jews received his message of contrition. Earlier this week, it was the Greek Orthodox church, spiritual inheritors of the religion of Byzantium. And, as I write this, John Paul II has just made the first ever visit by...
- Research articles 2001-05-09
- The Reluctant Emperor: A Biography of John Cantacuzene, Byzantine Emperor and Monk, c.1295-1383. (book reviews)
- J.J. Norwich says that he would like `to make some small amends for a centuries-old conspiracy of silence' concerning the Byzantine history (p. xxxvi). Is it really necessary, however, to lead Byzantium into the limelight? Byzantine studies have been flourishing for some considerable time; the scholarly...
- Research articles 1997-05-01
- Sava of Serbia
- Sava of Serbia Sabas of Serbia (1173–1236), first archbishop of the autocephalous Serbian church. Born in Tirnovo Bulgaria, the third son of prince Stephen Nemanya who achieved permanent independence from Byzantium for the Serbs, Sava became a monk...
- Research articles 2004-01-01
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