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

Vlada Stankovic (Herausgeber)

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2016
248 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-1326-5 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

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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 centerConstantinopleand 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.

Autor

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

Inhalt

Introduction: In the Balkans “Without” Constantinople: Questions of Center and Periphery, Vlada StankovićPart I: In a World Without a Center: Remaining ByzantineChapter 1: Byzantium’s Retreating Balkan Frontiers during the Reign of the Angeloi (1185–1203): A Reconsideration, Alicia SimpsonChapter 2: Discontinuity and Continuity of Byzantine Literary Tradition After the Crusaders' Capture of Constantinople: The Case of "Original" Byzantine Novels, Dušan PopovićChapter 3: The Divided Empire: Byzantium on the Eve of 1204, Radivoj RadićChapter 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 KontopanagouChapter 6: Monastic Foundation Legends in Epirus, Christos StavrakosPart II: The Peripheries: In the Shadow of Constantinople and Its InfluenceChapter 7: Studenica and the Life Giving Tree, Jelena ErdeljanChapter 8: Rethinking the Position of Serbia within the Byzantine Oikoumene in the Thirteenth Century, Vlada StankovićChapter 9: The Synodicon of Orthodoxy in Manuscript BAR Sl. 307 and the Hagioriticon Gramma of the Year 1344, Ivan BiliarskyChapter 10: Mount Athos and the Byzantine-Slavic Tradition in Wallachia and Moldavia after the Fall of Constantinople, Radu Păun Chapter 11: The Center of the Periphery: The Land of Bosnia in the Heart of Bosnia, Jelena MrgićPart III: Aftermath: Between Two Empires, Between Two Eras Chapter 12: Before and After the Fall of the Serbian Despotate: The Differences in the Timar Organization in the Serbian Lands in the mid-15th Century, Ema MiljkovićChapter 13: Memories of Home in the Accounts of the Balkan Refugees from the Ottomans to the Apennine peninsula (15th–16th centuries), Nada Zečević

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.6.2016
• Reihe/Serie: Byzantium: A European Empire and Its Legacy
• Co-Autor: Ivan Biliarsky, Alicia Simpson, Vlada Stankovic, Christos Stavrakos, Nada Zecevic, Jelena Erdeljan, Katerina Kontopanagou, Nicholas Melvani, Ema Miljkovic, Jelena Mrgic, Radu G. Paun, Dusan Popovic, Radivoj Radic
• Zusatzinfo: 15 Illustrations including: - 9 Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photographs; - 2 Maps; - 4 Charts.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Mittelalter
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Schlagworte: Byzantium • Fall of Constantinople • Medieval History • Southeastern Europe
• ISBN-10: 1-4985-1326-3 / 1498513263
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-1326-5 / 9781498513265