1st Edition
The Expansion of Orthodox Europe Byzantium, the Balkans and Russia
Edited By Jonathan Shepard
Copyright 2007
588 Pages
by
Routledge
588 Pages
by
Routledge
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This volume aims to clarify the context for the expansion of Western Europe by focusing on what had been the greatest power in early medieval Europe, the Byzantine empire, and on the continuing strengths and expansion of the Orthodox world. Byzantine 'orthodoxy' offered a format for faith, hope and fear in various combinations, involving religious beliefs and an idealised world-order. Its... Read more
Contents: Introduction; Part 1 The Buoyancy of Byzantium Before 1204: Its Manifest Destiny and Many Frontiers: God and the 'family of princes' presided over by the Byzantine emperor, André Grabar; The strength of empire and capital as seen through Byzantine eyes, Paul J. Alexander; The history of the future and its uses: prophecy, policy and propaganda (with postscript), Paul Magdalino; Emperors and expansionism: from Rome to Middle Byzantium, Jonathan Shepard; Isaac II, Saladin and Venice, Paul Magdalino; Byzantine trade with Egypt from the mid-10th century to the 4th Crusade, David Jacoby; Prayer, illumination and good times: the export of Byzantine wine and oil to the north of Russia in pre-Mongol times, Thomas S. Noonan and Roman K. Kovalev; 'Wine and oil for all the Rus!' the importation of Byzantine wine and olive oil to Kievan Rus, Thomas S. Noonan and Roman K. Kovalev; The many frontiers of the pre-Mongol Rus, David B. Miller; Mission impossible: ups and downs in Byzantine missionary activity from the 11th to the 15th century, Sergey A. Ivanov; The '2nd Bulgarian Empire': its origin and history to 1204, Robert L. Wolff. Part II After the Fall: Shifting Centres of the Orthodox World: Fragmentation (1204-1453) (with bibliography), Stephen W. Reinert; Some observations on the administrative terminology of the 2nd Bulgarian Empire (13th-14th centuries), Ivan Biliarsky; Tsar Stephen DuÅ¡an and Mount Athos, George C. Soulis; Between kingdom and empire: DuÅ¡an's state 1346-1355 reconsidered, Sima M. Cirkovic; Divine wisdom as part of Byzantine imperial ideology: research into the artistic interpretations of the theme in medieval Serbia. Narthex programme of Lesnovo and Sopocani, Zaga Gavrilovic; Khan or basileus: an aspect of Russian medieval political theory, Michael Cherniavsky; 'Know thy enemy': medieval Russian familiarity with the Mongols of the Golden Horde, Charles J. Halperin; Under pressure from the pagans? - the Mongols and the Russian Church, Se
Biography
Jonathan Shepard is a British historian specializing in early medieval Russia, the Caucasus, and the Byzantine Empire. Formerly University Lecturer in Russian History at the University of Cambridge, he is regarded as a leading authority in Byzantine studies and on the Kievan Rus.
