The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Studies
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 23 October 2008
- ISBN 9780199252466
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages1056 pages
- Size 253x177x59 mm
- Weight 1933 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 133 in-text illustrations 0
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Short description:
The Handbook contains eighty-nine articles by leading experts on all significant aspects of the diverse and fast-growing field of Byzantine Studies, which deals with the history and culture of the Byzantine Empire, the eastern half of the Late Roman Empire, from the fourth to the fourteenth century.
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The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Studies presents discussions by leading experts on all significant aspects of this diverse and fast-growing field. Byzantine Studies deals with the history and culture of the Byzantine Empire, the eastern half of the Late Roman Empire, from the fourth to the fourteenth century. Its centre was the city formerly known as Byzantium, refounded as Constantinople in 324 CE, the present-day Istanbul. Under its emperors, patriarchs, and all-pervasive bureaucracy Byzantium developed a distinctive society: Greek in language, Roman in legal system, and Christian in religion. Byzantium's impact in the European Middle Ages is hard to over-estimate, as a bulwark against invaders, as a meeting-point for trade from Asia and the Mediterranean, as a guardian of the classical literary and artistic heritage, and as a creator of its own magnificent artistic style.
It is written in a style that provides a first port of call for any undergraduate or novice analysing the perios, while supplying enough detail to keep experienced scholars stimlated
Table of Contents:
I. The Discipline
Byzantine Studies as an academic discipline
Instrumenta: tools for the study of the discipline
Primary sources
Chronology and dating
Weights and measures
Archaeology
Critical approaches to art history
Iconography
Literary criticism
Textual criticism
Lexicography and electronic textual resources
Palaeography, codicology, diplomatic
Documents: imperial chrysobulls
Documents: Athos
Documents: Venetian Crete
Epigraphy
Sigillography
Numismatics
Prosopography
Dendrochronology
Brickstamps
Topography of Constantinople
II. The Physical World: Landscape, Land Use and the Environment
The political geography of the Byzantine world
Geographical survey
Political-historical survey
Communications (roads, bridges, etc.)
Population, demography and disease
Settlement
Towns and cities
Villages
Buildings and their decoration
Building materials
Churches and monasteries
Secular and military buildings
Wallpaintings and mosaics
Production, manufacture and technology
Agriculture and agricultural technology
Fabrics and clothing
Silk production
Ceramics
Metal work
Ivory, steatite, enamel, and glass
Book production
Military technology and warfare
Shipping and seafaring
Everyday technologies
III. Institutions and Relationships
Hierarchies
Emperor and court
Bureaucracy and aristocracies
Clergy, monks, and laity
The State
Structures and administration
Army
Revenues and expenditure
The Church
Structures and administration
Councils
The Two Churches
Liturgy
Monasticism and monasteries
Charitable institutions
The economy
Society
Role of women
Families and kinship
Patronage and retinues
Food, wine, and feasting
Entertainment, theatre and hippodrome
Hospitals and hygiene
Justice: legal literature
The spiritual world
Byzantine theology
Philosophies
The symbolic world
Art and text
Art and liturgy
Art and pilgrimage
Art and iconoclasm
Icons
Art and the periphery
Language, education and literacy
Language
Education
Literacy
Numeracy and science
Libraries
Literature
Rhetoric
Historiography
Theology
Hagiography
Homilies
Epistolography
Poetry and romances
Military texts
Music
IV. The World around Byzantium
Byzantium and its neighbours
Byzantium's role in world history
Lists of rulers, patriarchs, and popes
