1st Edition
Global Byzantium Papers from the Fiftieth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies
Introduction: The Future of Global Byzantium
Rebecca Darley
1. Seen from across the Sea: India in the Byzantine Worldview
Rebecca Darley
2. Byzantium beyond Byzantium: What about Greek(s) in Eighth-Century Italy?
Francesca Dell’Acqua
3. Silk in the Byzantine World: Technology and Transmission
Julia Galliker
4. Composing World History at the Margins of Empire: Armenian and Byzantine Traditions in Comparative Perspective
Tim Greenwood
5. Global Byzantium: Whirlwind Romance or Fundamental Paradigm Shift?
Catherine Holmes
6. Global Art or Local Art? The Mosaic Panels of Justinian and Theodora in S Vitale, Ravenna
Liz James
7. Movement and Mobility: Cotton and the Visibility of Trade Networks Across the Saharan Desert
Anna C. Kelley
8. Maniera Greca and Renaissance Europe: More than Meets the Eye
Angeliki Lymberopoulou
9. Magical Signs in Christian Byzantium, Judaism and Islam: A Global Language
Henry Maguire
10. How global was the Mediterranean in the Early Middle Ages? A view from the Western edge
Eduardo Manzano Moreno
11. Hegemony, Counterpower and Global History: Medieval New Rome and Caucasia in a Critical Perspective
Nicholas S.M. Matheou
12. What is "Byzantine"? Gender, Ethnicity and the Construction of Identities on Byzantium’s Literary Frontiers
Stephanie Novasio
13. The Helladic Paradigm in a Global Perspective
Robert Ousterhout
14. Secluded Place or Global Magnet? The Monastery of Saint Catherine in the Sinai and its Manuscript Collection
Claudia Rapp
15. Early Byzantine Art in China: A Test Case for Global Byzantium
Linda Safran
16. Centre or Periphery? Constantinople and the Eurasian Trading System at the End of Antiquity
Peter Sarris
17. Transferring Skills and Techniques across the Mediterranean: Some Preliminary Remarks on Stucco in Italy and Byzantium
Flavia Vanni
18. Import, Export: The Global Impact of Byzantine Marriage Alliances during the Tenth Century
Lauren A. Wainwright
Conclusion: Post-Colonial Reflections and the Challenge of Global Byzantium
Daniel Reynolds
Biography
Leslie Brubaker is Professor Emerita of Byzantine art and Director of the Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies at the University of Birmingham. She has published widely on Byzantine culture, with particular emphasis on manuscripts, iconoclasm, and gender. Her most recent projects have focussed on the cult of the Virgin in Byzantium, processions, and the Byzantine peasantry.
Rebecca Darley is Lecturer in Global History, 500–1500 CE, at the University of Leeds. Her research focusses on Byzantine cultural history, especially perceptions of the foreign and on political and economic changes in the Western Indian Ocean in the first millennium CE, as well as all things numismatic.
Daniel Reynolds is Senior Lecturer in Byzantine History at the Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies, University of Birmingham and co-director the Crossroads of Empires Project in Montecorvino Rovella, Italy. He completed his PhD at the Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies University of Birmingham and held a British Academy postdoctoral fellowship from 2014 to 2017.
‘This collection of expert papers [is] a worthy effort to put Byzantium back on the world stage, showing how it played a highly significant role in terms of connectivity well beyond the margins of the Mediterranean … the book overall stands as an important contribution to future directions in which Byzantine studies might usefully develop’ - Medieval Archaeology, 67/2, 2023.
