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The Late Byzantine Romance in Context Narrativity and Identities in the Mediterranean (13th–16th Centuries)

The Late Byzantine Romance in Context: Narrativity and Identities in the Mediterranean (13th–16th Centuries)

1st Edition

Forthcoming

Edited By Ioannis Smarnakis, Zissis D. Ainalis
April 23, 2024

This book investigates issues of identity and narrativity in late Byzantine romances in a Mediterranean context, covering the chronological span from the capture of Constantinople by the Crusaders in 1204 to the 16th century. It includes chapters not only on romances that were written and read in ...

Art, Power, and Patronage in the Principality of Epirus, 1204–1318

Art, Power, and Patronage in the Principality of Epirus, 1204–1318

1st Edition

By Leonela Fundić
January 29, 2024

The Principality of Epirus was a medieval Greek state established in the western part of the Balkans after the fall of Constantinople to the forces of the Fourth Crusade in 1204. The Epirote rulers from the Komnenos Doukas family claimed to be legitimate successors to the Byzantine imperial throne ...

Between Byzantine Men Desire, Homosociality, and Brotherhood in the Medieval Empire

Between Byzantine Men: Desire, Homosociality, and Brotherhood in the Medieval Empire

1st Edition

By Mark Masterson
January 29, 2024

The presence and importance of same-sex desire between men in the Byzantine Empire has been understudied. While John Boswell and others tried to open a conversation about desire between Byzantine men decades ago, the field reverted to emphasis on prohibition and an inability to read the evidence of...

Julian the Apostate in Byzantine Culture

Julian the Apostate in Byzantine Culture

1st Edition

By Stefano Trovato
January 29, 2024

Julian, the last pagan emperor of the Roman empire, died in war in 363. In the Byzantine (that is, the Eastern Roman) empire, the figure of Julian aroused conflicting reactions: antipathy towards his apostasy but also admiration for his accomplishments, particularly as an author writing in Greek. ...

Breastfeeding and Mothering in Antiquity and Early Byzantium

Breastfeeding and Mothering in Antiquity and Early Byzantium

1st Edition

Edited By Stavroula Constantinou, Aspasia Skouroumouni-Stavrinou
September 29, 2023

This volume offers the first comparative, interdisciplinary, and intercultural examination of the lactating woman – biological mother and othermother – in antiquity and early Byzantium. Adopting methodologies and knowledge deriving from a variety of disciplines, the volume’s contributors ...

Secular Byzantine Women Art, Archaeology, and Ethnography of Female Material Culture from Late Roman to Post-Byzantine Times

Secular Byzantine Women: Art, Archaeology, and Ethnography of Female Material Culture from Late Roman to Post-Byzantine Times

1st Edition

Edited By Sophia Germanidou
September 25, 2023

Secular Byzantine Women examines female material culture during the Late Roman, Byzantine, and Post-Byzantine eras, to better understand the lives of ordinary and humble women during this period. Although recent scholarship has contributed greatly to our knowledge of Byzantine and medieval ...

Byzantine Childhood Representations and Experiences of Children in Middle Byzantine Society

Byzantine Childhood: Representations and Experiences of Children in Middle Byzantine Society

1st Edition

By Oana-Maria Cojocaru
May 31, 2023

Byzantine Childhood examines the intricacies of growing up in medieval Byzantium, children’s everyday experiences, and their agency. By piecing together a wide range of sources and utilising several methodological approaches inspired by intersectionality, history from below and microhistory, it ...

Ethos, Logos, and Perspective Studies in Late Byzantine Rhetoric

Ethos, Logos, and Perspective: Studies in Late Byzantine Rhetoric

1st Edition

By Florin Leonte
March 10, 2023

Ethos, Logos, and Perspective represents the first comprehensive study of late Byzantine court rhetorical praise as a general phenomenon surfacing in many types of rhetorical epideictic compositions dating from the fourteenth and the fifteenth centuries: panegyrics, encomia, city descriptions, ...

Byzantine Military Rhetoric in the Ninth Century A Translation of the Anonymi Byzantini Rhetorica Militaris

Byzantine Military Rhetoric in the Ninth Century: A Translation of the Anonymi Byzantini Rhetorica Militaris

1st Edition

By Georgios Theotokis, Dimitrios Sidiropoulos
January 09, 2023

Byzantine Military Rhetoric in the Ninth Century is the first English translation of the ninth-century Anonymi Byzantini Rhetorica Militaris. This influential text offers a valuable insight into the warrior ethic of the period, the role of religion in the justification of war, and the view of other...

Holiness on the Move: Mobility and Space in Byzantine Hagiography

Holiness on the Move: Mobility and Space in Byzantine Hagiography

1st Edition

Edited By Mihail Mitrea
December 30, 2022

Holiness on the Move: Mobility and Space in Byzantine Hagiography explores the literary, religious, and social functions of monastic mobility in Byzantine hagiography, touching on aspects of space, narrative, and identity. The ten chapters included in this volume highlight the multifaceted and rich...

Essence and Energies: Being and Naming God in St Gregory Palamas

Essence and Energies: Being and Naming God in St Gregory Palamas

1st Edition

By Tikhon Pino
October 03, 2022

St. Gregory Palamas (ca. 1296–1357) is among the most well-known and celebrated theologians of late Byzantium. This book provides a comprehensive account of the essence-energies distinction across his twenty-five treatises and letters written over a twenty-year period. An Athonite monk, abbot, and...

War in Eleventh-Century Byzantium

War in Eleventh-Century Byzantium

1st Edition

Edited By Georgios Theotokis, Marek Meško
April 29, 2022

War in Eleventh-Century Byzantium presents new insights and critical approaches to warfare between the Byzantine Empire and its neighbours during the eleventh century. Modern historians have identified the eleventh century as a landmark era in Byzantine history. This was a period of invasions, ...

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