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Byzantine Studies
2015
The Ashgate Research Companion
to Byzantine Hagiography
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ever produced in the field of Byzantine hagiography.
This first volume covers the authors and texts of the
four distinctive periods during which Greek Byzantine
hagiography developed, as well the hagiography produced
in Oriental and Slavic languages and in geographical
milieux around the periphery of the empire, from Italy
to Armenia. This volume is an essential resource for
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For an entire millennium, Byzantine hagiography, inspired by
the veneration of many saints, exhibited literary dynamism
and a capacity to vary its basic forms. The subgenres into
which it branched out after its remarkable start in the fourth
century underwent alternating phases of development and
decline that were intertwined with changes in the political,
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Byzantine Studies
Between Constantinople and Rome
Contact and Conflict in Frankish
Greece and the Aegean, 1204–1453
An Illuminated Byzantine Gospel Book (Paris gr. 54)
and the Union of Churches
Crusade, Religion and Trade between Latins, Greeks and Turks
Kathleen Maxwell, Santa Clara University, USA
‘With its detailed analyses, this monograph is a scholar’s
work. But it is also a coffee-table book with a well-told
narrative accompanied by thirty-three colour plates and forty-eight monochrome photographs.’
Times Literary Supplement
This is a study of the artistic and political context that led
to the production of Bibliothèque Nationale de France,
codex grec 54, one of the most ambitious and complex
manuscripts of the Byzantine era. Kathleen Maxwell’s
multi-disciplinary approach includes codicological and
paleographical evidence together with New Testament
textual criticism, artistic and historical analysis. Maxwell
concludes that Paris 54 was designed to eclipse its
contemporaries and to physically embody a new
relationship between Constantinople and the Latin West.
Includes 33 colour and 54 b&w illustrations
March 2014 Hardback 390 pages
978-1-4094-5744-2 £70.00
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Edited by Nikolaos G. Chrissis, University of Athens, Greece and Mike Carr, British School at Rome, Italy
CRUSADES – SUBSIDIA
The conquest of Constantinople by the Fourth Crusade
shattered irreversibly the political and cultural unity of
the Byzantine world in the Greek peninsula, the Aegean
and western Asia Minor. This volume brings together
western medievalists, Byzantinists and Ottomanists,
combining recent research in the relevant fields in order
to provide a holistic interpretation of this world of extreme
fragmentation. Although the impact of the crusades on
Byzantine history leading up to 1204 has been extensively
examined in the past, there has been little research on the
way crusading was implemented in Greece and the Aegean
after that point. Far from being limited to crusading per
se, however, the papers put it into its wider context and
examine other aspects of contact, such as trade, interfaith
relations, and geographical exploration.
Includes 3 maps
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February 2014 Hardback ebook PDF ebook ePUB Byzantine Images and their Afterlives
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Essays in Honor of Annemarie Weyl Carr
Edited by Lynn Jones, Florida State University, USA
The twelve papers written for this volume reflect the wide
scope of Annemarie Weyl Carr’s interests and the equally
wide impact of her career. They are linked by Carr’s
expansive body of work, which ties together issues of
patronage, production and influence across the medieval
Mediterranean. The volume examines influences in
manuscript production and reception, imperial patronage,
relics and reliquaries, form and style in Cypriot architecture
and icons, and the relationship between original and copy
in medieval art.
Includes 15 colour and 70 b&w illustrations
June 2014 Hardback 304 pages
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Byzantine Studies
SERIES
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BIRMINGHAM BYZANTINE AND OTTOMAN STUDIES
Series Editors: Leslie Brubaker, Emeritus Professor A.A.M Bryer and Rhoads Murphey, all at Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies, University of Birmingham, UK and John Haldon, Princeton University, USA
Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman Studies is devoted to the history, culture and archaeology of the Byzantine and
Ottoman worlds of the East Mediterranean region from the fifth to the twentieth century. It provides a forum for the
publication of research completed by scholars from the Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies at the University of Birmingham, and those with similar research interests.
Approaches to the Byzantine Family
Edited by Leslie Brubaker, University of Birmingham, UK
and Shaun Tougher, Cardiff University, UK
Includes 44 b&w illustrations
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Pseudo-Kodinos and the
Constantinopolitan Court: Offices and Ceremonies
Ruth Macrides, J.A. Munitiz and Dimiter Angelov, all at University of Birmingham, UK
£70.00
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Includes 17 colour and 8 b&w illustrations and 1 map
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578 pages
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£85.00
$149.95
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The Cult of the Mother of God in Byzantium
Texts and Images
Edited by Leslie Brubaker, University of Birmingham, UK and Mary B. Cunningham, University of Nottingham, UK
‘This volume shows how good a volume of conference papers can be: studies produced by a diverse selection of scholars, each expert in
their own particular area, have been juxtaposed to form a coherent and
compelling picture. It would be nigh-impossible for a single author to
produce such a multi-faceted and absorbing volume.’
Journal of Ecclesiastical History
Includes 32 colour and 9 b&w illustrations
August 2011 Hardback 328 pages
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Byzantine Studies
The Emperor Theophilos and the East, 829–842
Sylvester Syropoulos on Politics
and Culture in the Fifteenth-Century
Mediterranean
Court and Frontier in Byzantium during the Last Phase of Iconoclasm
Juan Signes Codoñer, University of Valladolid, Spain
This book focuses on the impact of political relations with
the East, especially the Muslim caliphate, on the reign
of the last iconoclast emperor of Byzantium, Theophilos
(829–842), reinterpreting the major events of the period
and their chronology. Separate sections are devoted to
the influence of Armenians at the court, the enrolment of
Persian rebels against the caliphate in the Byzantine army,
the continuous warfare with the Arabs and the cultural
exchange with Baghdad, the Khazar problem, and the
attitude of the Christian Melkites towards the iconoclast
emperor. The final chapter reassesses the image of the
emperor as a good ruler, building on the conclusions of the previous sections.
Includes 7 b&w illustrations and 9 maps
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Themes and Problems in the Memoirs, Section IV
Edited by Fotini Kondyli, Brown University, USA, Vera Andriopoulou, Aikaterini Laskaridis Foundation,
Greece, Eirini Panou, University of Birmingham, UK and Mary B. Cunningham, University of Nottingham, UK
The contributors of this volume take the Memoirs of
Sylvester Syropoulos, written by a Byzantine ecclesiastical
official in the fifteenth century, as their starting point
in reconstructing Mediterranean living conditions and
artistic and commercial exchange in the late Middle Ages.
Syropoulos’s text, a rare eye-witness account of the Council
of Ferrara-Florence for the union of the Greek and Latin
Churches (1438–1439), is discussed as an invaluable source
for political affairs at that time, as a travel account, and
as a literary work. An annotated translation of the text is
included.
Includes 31 b&w illustrations and 2 maps
May 2014 Hardback 262 pages
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Conversion in Late Antiquity:
Christianity, Islam, and Beyond
Economic Thought and Economic Life in Byzantium
Papers from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar, University of Oxford, 2009–2010
Angeliki E. Laiou, formerly Harvard University, USA, edited by Cécile Morrisson and Rowan Dorin
Edited by Arietta Papaconstantinou, Reading University,
UK, with Neil McLynn, University of Oxford, UK and Daniel Schwartz, Texas A&M University, USA
VARIORUM COLLECTED STUDIES SERIES: CS1033
The papers in this volume investigate the two important
movements of conversion that frame late antiquity:
Christianity and Islam. Despite their historical significance,
those two movements of conversion have never been
systematically compared to each other, and this volume
attempts to do this by studying the various issues at stake
in conversion for both religions. Some perspectives from
the rise of Buddhism in East Asia at roughly the same
period have been included so as to avoid remaining within
purely Mediterranean and monotheistic models.
September 2015 Hardback ebook PDF ebook ePUB 396 pages
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Dreaming in Byzantium and Beyond
Edited by Christine Angelidi and George T. Calofonos, both at Institute of Historical Research / NHRF, Greece
This book – the first collection of studies on Byzantine
dreams to be published – aims to demonstrate the
importance of closely examining dreams in Byzantium
in their wider historical and cultural, as well as narrative,
context. The remarkable number of dream narratives
in Byzantine hagiography, historiography, rhetoric,
epistolography, and romance attests to the cardinal
function of dreams as vehicles of meaning in politics,
religion and literature. The essays provide a broad variety
of perspectives, exploring gender, eroticism, Greco-Roman
and Islamic influences, psychoanalysis and anthropology.
July 2014 Hardback ebook PDF ebook ePUB 256 pages
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August 2013 Hardback 348 pages
978-1-4094-3205-0 £95.00 $170.00
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Experiencing Byzantium
Papers from the 44th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Newcastle and Durham, April 2011
Edited by Claire Nesbitt, Durham University, UK and Mark Jackson, Newcastle University, UK
PUBLICATIONS OF THE SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF BYZANTINE STUDIES: CS18
Includes 39 b&w illustrations
October 2013 Hardback ebook PDF ebook ePUB 406 pages
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£85.00 $154.95
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Hagia Sophia and the Byzantine Aesthetic Experience
Nadine Schibille, University of Sussex, UK
Paramount in the shaping of early Byzantine identity
was the construction of the church of Hagia Sophia
in Constantinople (532–537 CE). This book examines
the edifice from the perspective of aesthetics to define
the concept of beauty and the meaning of art in early
Byzantium. Byzantine aesthetic thought is re-evaluated
against late antique Neoplatonism and the writings of
Pseudo-Dionysius that offer fundamental paradigms for the late antique attitude towards art and beauty.
Includes 42 colour and 13 b&w illustrations
November 2014 Hardback ebook PDF ebook ePUB 320 pages
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Byzantine Studies
Iconoclasm from Antiquity to Modernity
Images of the Mother of God
Perceptions of the Theotokos in Byzantium
Edited by Kristine Kolrud, Stockholm University, Sweden and Marina Prusac, University of Oslo, Norway
Edited by Maria Vassilaki, University of Thessaly and Benaki Museum, Greece
‘Iconoclasm from Antiquity to Modernity is accessible
to a wide range of academic backgrounds and its broad
scope invites readers to make critical comparisons. The
publication complements existing literature and its focus on
pre-Reformation case studies offers a particularly valuable
contribution to the expanding historiography of iconoclasm.’
Journal of Art Historiography
‘… an outstanding collection of essays… The volume’s
strength is its overall chronological and geographical
breadth [...] as well as its keen attention to ritual, gender,
and geography. Careful scholarship pairs nicely with sheer
delight in enigmatic detail… Generously illustrated and
copiously documented, this important volume belongs in undergraduates and graduate libraries.’
Religious Studies Review
The phenomenon of iconoclasm, expressed through hostile
actions towards images, has occurred in many different
cultures throughout history. The destruction and mutilation
of images is often motivated by a blend of political and
religious ideas and beliefs, and the distinction between
various kinds of ‘iconoclasms’ is not absolute. In order to
explore further the long and varied history of iconoclasm
the contributors to this volume consider iconoclastic
reactions to various types of objects, both in the very recent
and distant past. Whilst the texts are addressed primarily to
those researching the Western world, the volume contains
material which will also be of interest to students of the
Middle East.
Includes 29 b&w illustrations
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Includes 28 colour and 168 b&w illustrations
March 2005 Hardback 416 pages
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Islam and Christianity in Medieval Anatolia
Edited by A.C.S. Peacock, Bruno De Nicola and Sara Nur Yildiz, all at the University of St. Andrews, UK
This volume offers a comparative approach to
understanding the spread of Muslim culture in medieval
Anatolia. It aims to reassess work in the field since the
1971 classic by Speros Vryonis, The Decline of Hellenism in
Asia Minor and the Process of Islamization, which treats the
process of transformation from a Byzantinist perspective.
Essays examine the Christian experience of living under
Muslim rule, consider encounters between Christianity and
Islam in art and intellectual life, and focus on the process
of Islamisation as understood from the Arabic, Persian and
Turkish textual evidence.
Includes 5 colour and 39 b&w illustrations, and 5 maps
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John Moschos’ Spiritual Meadow
John of Damascus
Authority and Autonomy at the End of the Antique World
New Studies on his Life and Works
Vassa Kontouma, Ecole pratique des hautes études, France
Brenda Llewellyn Ihssen, Pacific Lutheran University,
Washington, USA
‘Wandering with John Moschos and Sophronios through
the cultural and religious landscapes of Eastern Christian
monasticism at the end of antiquity, Llewellyn Ihssen
uncovers a monastic author who both documents and
comments on his world. Ascetic discipline provides not only
knowledge of the self but a vantage point from which to
observe and to critique inequality and poverty, illness and
health care, and to interpret the mortality that defines the
human condition. Moschos emerges as much a social critic
as a hagiographer.’
Derek Krueger, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA
John Moschos’ Spiritual Meadow is one of the most
important sources for late sixth-early seventh century
Palestinian, Syrian and Egyptian monasticism. Introducing
appropriate historical and theological background to the
tales, Llewellyn Ihssen demonstrates how Moschos’ tales
address issues of the autonomy of individual ascetics and
lay persons in relationship with authority figures. Whilst
teaching us about the complicated relationships between
personal agency and divine intercession, Moschos’ tales
can also be seen to reveal liminal boundaries we know
existed between the secular and the religious.
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VARIORUM COLLECTED STUDIES SERIES: CS1053
For more than five hundred years John of Damascus (c. 655–c.745) has been the subject of an extensive
literature, both scholarly and popular. Through the studies
included here (of which 6 have been translated into English
for this volume), Vassa Kontouma provides a critical
review of this literature and opens new vistas for research
along four main lines: the life of John of Damascus and its
sources, Neochalcedonian philosophy, systematic theology
in Byzantium, and Christian practices under the Umayyads.
May 2015 Hardback 266 pages
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Late Byzantine and Early Ottoman Studies
Stephen W. Reinert, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA
VARIORUM COLLECTED STUDIES SERIES: CS902
This volume brings together studies on the political,
religious and socioeconomic interaction between the rising
Ottoman Empire and declining Byzantine state at the end of
the fourteenth century. They focus on key episodes of that
encounter, particularly in connection with Murad I, Bayezid I,
and Manuel II Palaiologos. Included is an assessment
of Manuel II’s Dialogue With A Persian, recently brought
to global prominence by Pope Benedict XVI in his 2006
Regensburg lecture, and a previously unpublished analysis
of Manuel’s Epistolary Discourse to Kabasilas.
August 2014 Hardback 304 pages
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Byzantine Studies
Mutations of Hellenism in Late Antiquity
Power and Subversion in Byzantium
Polymnia Athanassiadi, University of Athens, Greece
VARIORUM COLLECTED STUDIES SERIES: CS1052
The studies in this volume, which deal with social and
intellectual history, religion and historical methodology,
explore the mutation of an anthropocentric culture into a
theocentric one between the second and the fifth centuries
A.D. Athanassiadi focuses on the processes of osmosis,
interaction and acculturation, which shaped the change in priorities among the newly created textual communities
that were spreading across the entire breadth of the late
antique oecumene.
Includes 7 b&w illustrations
April 2015 Hardback 390 pages
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The Philosophy of Gemistos Plethon
Platonism in Late Byzantium, between Hellenism and Orthodoxy
Vojtech Hladký, Charles University, Czech Republic
George Gemistos Plethon (c. 1360–1454) was a remarkable
and influential thinker, active at the time of transition
between the Byzantine Middle Ages and the Italian
Renaissance. His works cover literary, historical, scientific,
but most notably philosophical issues. Plethon is arguably
the most important of the Byzantine Platonists and the
earliest representative of Platonism in the Renaissance.
This book provides a new study of Gemistos’ philosophy.
The first part is dedicated to the discussion of his ‘public
philosophy’. in the second, most extensive, part of the book
the Platonism of Plethon is presented in a systematic way
and in the third part the notorious question of the paganism
of Gemistos is reconsidered.
Includes 1 b&w illustration
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Papers from the 43rd Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Birmingham, March 2010
Edited by Dimiter Angelov and Michael Saxby, University of Birmingham, UK
PUBLICATIONS OF THE SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF BYZANTINE STUDIES: CS17
Includes 29 b&w illustrations
October 2013 Hardback ebook PDF ebook ePUB 316 pages
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978-1-4724-1669-8
£75.00 $134.95
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Questions of Gender in Byzantine Society
Edited by Bronwen Neil, Australian Catholic University,
Australia and Lynda Garland, University of New England,
Australia
Includes 3 b&w illustrations
August 2013 Hardback ebook PDF ebook ePUB 232 pages
978-1-4094-4779-5 978-1-4094-4780-1
978-1-4094-7449-4
£70.00 $119.95
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Ruskin’s Venice
The Stones Revisited New Edition
SECOND EDITION
Sarah Quill
In Ruskin’s Venice: The Stones Revisited, newly published
in a revised, extended and re-designed edition,
photographer Sarah Quill has selected passages from
Ruskin’s The Stones of Venice and has linked them to her
own photographs of Venetian architecture, so creating a
fascinating guide that fuses Ruskin’s vision of the city with images of the present day.
This new edition incorporates up-to-date views of buildings
which have been cleaned since originally photographed.
Several of Ruskin’s watercolours are included, with extracts
and reproductions from his Venetian notebooks, now
publicly available, and some of his original daguerreotype
photographs of Venice. Sarah Quill’s expert editorial
annotations and commentary, incorporating extracts from
Ruskin’s letters from Venice, enhance our understanding
of Ruskin’s text and provide an essential linking thread
throughout. The book has been completely re-designed to
be even more user-friendly as both a reference book and a guide for travellers to Venice.
Includes 325 illustrations
March 2015 Hardback 256 pages
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The Sasanian World through
Georgian Eyes
The Siege and the Fall of
Constantinople in 1453
Caucasia and the Iranian Commonwealth in Late Antique Georgian Literature
Historiography, Topography, and Military Studies
Stephen H. Rapp Jr, Sam Houston State University, USA
Georgian literary sources for Late Antiquity are commonly
held to be later productions devoid of historical value. As
a result, scholarship outside the Republic of Georgia has
privileged Graeco-Roman and even Armenian narratives.
However, when investigated within the dual contexts of
a regional literary canon and the active participation of
Caucasia’s diverse peoples in the Iranian Commonwealth,
early Georgian texts emerge as rich repositories of late
antique attitudes and outlooks.
Includes 51 b&w illustrations and 2 maps
October 2014 Hardback ebook PDF 540 pages
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Shifting Genres in Late Antiquity
Edited by Geoffrey Greatrex, University of Ottawa, Canada, and Hugh Elton, Trent University, Canada, with the assistance of Lucas McMahon, Central European
University, Budapest
This volume examines the transformation that took place in
a wide range of genres in Late Antiquity. Aspects of sacred
and secular literature are discussed, alongside chapters
on technical writing, monody, epigraphy, epistolography
and visual representation. What emerges is the flexibility of
genres in the period: late antique authors were not slavish
followers of their classical predecessors, but were capable
of engaging with existing models and adapting them to
their own purposes.
Includes 24 b&w illustrations
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Marios Philippides, University of Massachusetts, USA and Walter K. Hanak, Shepherd University, USA
Includes 75 b&w illustrations and 4 maps
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Travellers, Merchants and Settlers in the Eastern Mediterranean, 11th–14th Centuries
David Jacoby, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
VARIORUM COLLECTED STUDIES SERIES: CS1045
‘Viewed individually, the articles provide new perspectives
on sources that have previously been engaged with in the
context of ‘the Crusades’ by other scholars. Taken together, as
in this book, they provide a layered understanding that proves
the worth and value of this reprint… the authors layered
categorisations explore Westerners’ interactions with the
local social, cultural, economic, and political environment(s).
Such a framework helps to open up room for more nuanced
understandings of the Eastern Mediterranean.’
Reviews in History
This collection of studies, the eighth by David Jacoby,
covers a period witnessing intensive geographic mobility
across the Mediterranean – from the eleventh century to the
fifteenth – illustrated by a growing number of Westerners
engaging in pilgrimage, crusade, trading, shipping and
settlement. Jacoby’s essays address encounters between
Christians and Muslims in crusader Acre, rivalries
between maritime powers, the fall of crusader states,
the restructuring of trade, economic development in the
Byzantine provinces, and the function of Venice in Latin
Constantinople.
June 2014 Hardback 340 pages
978-1-4724-2579-9 £90.00 $165.00
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Wonderful Things: Byzantium through its Art
Papers from the 42nd Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, London, 20-22 March 2009
Edited by Antony Eastmond, Courtauld Institute of Art, UK and Liz James, University of Sussex, UK
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