1st Edition
Strangers to Themselves: The Byzantine Outsider Papers from the Thirty-Second Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton, March 1998
Edited By Dion C. Smythe
Copyright 2000
279 Pages
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Routledge
279 Pages
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Routledge
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March 1998 saw Byzantinists gathering together at the University of Sussex in Brighton, for the annual symposium held by the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies. Their aim was to consider the question of the 'Byzantine outsider'. Some categories of outsiders appear clear and simple: those marked out by class, race, sex, religion. But these categories are not universals. Today,... Read more
Contents: The ’other’ in Byzantium, Margaret Mullett; Aliens and citizens of elsewhere: xeniteia in East Christian monastic literature, John McGuckin; Byzantine asceticism - a stranger to the Church?, Janet Rutherford; Middle Byzantine ’Tours of Hell’: outsider theodicy?, Jane Baun; John of Phoberou: a voice crying in the wilderness, Robert H. Jordan; The hermit as a stranger in the desert, Nancy Å evcenko; Exclues et aliénées: les femmes dans la tradition canonique Byzantine, Joëlle Beaucamp; Hebrews, Greeks or Romans? Jewish culture and identity in Byzantium, Nicholas de Lange; The engima of the Romaniote (Jewish-Byzantine) tombs, Hanna Jacobsohn; The Byzantine outsider in trade (c.900-c.1350), David Jacoby; Constantinople and the outside world, Paul Magdalino; Patron imagery from the fringes of the empire, Lyn Rodley; The world of fiction and the world ’out there’: the case of the Byzantine novel, Roderick Beaton; Akritis and outsiders, Elizabeth Jeffreys; Defining the foreign in Kekaumenos, C. Roueché; Procopius the outsider?, Geoffrey Greatrex; Foreigners in tenth-century Byzantium: a contribution to the history of cultural encounter, Liliana Simeonova; Byzantine conceptions of otherness after the annexation of Bulgaria (1018), Paul Stephenson; Conclusion, Robin Cormack; Index.
Biography
Dion C. Smythe
'... will surely become a key reference for future research in the field.' Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies
