The Routledge Handbook of Byzantine Visual Culture in the Danube Regions, 1300-1600

Introduction

Maria Alessia Rossi and Alice Isabella Sullivan

Chapter 1: Byzance après Byzance: The Paradigm

Ovidiu Cristea and Ovidiu Olar

Part I: Art Historical Overviews

Chapter 2: The Afterlives of Byzantine Art in the Wider Adriatic

Margarita Voulgaropoulou

Chapter 3: Art and Architecture in the Balkans and the Lower Danube Regions

Jelena Bogdanović, Ljubomir Milanović, and Marina Mihaljević

Chapter 4: The Visual Culture of Wallachia before and after 1453

Elisabeta Negrău

Chapter 5: Moldavian Visual Culture before and after 1453

Vlad Bedros

Chapter 6: Byzantine Elements in Wall Painting in the Kingdom of Hungary

Zsombor Jékely

Chapter 7: Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Art in Modern Slovakia

Vladislav Grešlík

Part II: Contacts and Patronage Beyond Borders

Chapter 8: Framing Silk Patronage in the Late Medieval Eastern Adriatic

Iva Jazbec Tomaić and Danijel Ciković

Chapter 9: A Ruler and a Churchman: Collaborative Patronage of Monasteries in Medieval Serbia

Anna Adashinskaya

Chapter 10: The Danubian Lands, Mount Athos, and Mount Sinai: Meaningful Connections

Alice Isabella Sullivan

Chapter 11: Greek Merchants and the Genoese Lower Danube in the Late Fourteenth Century

Marco Cassioli

Chapter 12: Medieval Wall Paintings in Transylvanian Orthodox Churches: Signs of Cross-Cultural Interactions

Elena-Dana Prioteasa

Chapter 13: Charles IV and Byzantium: Icon Painting and Stone Incrustation in Fourteenth Century Prague

Jana Gajdošová

Part III: Ideals and Ideologies in Images and Texts

Chapter 14: The Bowing Prince: Post-Byzantine Representations of Christian Rulership in Moldavian Wall Painting

Andrei Dumitrescu

Chapter 15: Ethics, Piety, and Politics in The Teachings of Neagoe Basarab to His Son Theodosie

Ioana Manea

Chapter 16: Sophia: The Personification of Divine Wisdom in the Lower Danube Region

Zofia A. Brzozowska

Chapter 17: Shaping Images of Sanctity and Kingship between Byzantium and Serbia during the Nemanjići Dynasty

Irene Caracciolo

Chapter 18: Eastern Roman and Bulgarian Perceptions of Each Other in the Thirteenth Century

Grant Schrama

Part IV: Adaptations and Transmissions across Media and Geographies

Chapter 19: Silversmiths in Southeastern Europe: Visual Culture between Islam, Byzantium, and the Latin West

Anita Paolicchi

Chapter 20: Late Medieval Balkan Dress beyond Byzantium

Nikolaos Vryzidis

Chapter 21: Overhanging Rooms in Dwellings of the Danubian Regions

Serena Acciai

Chapter 22: The Byzantine Alexander Romance in Slavonic

Antoaneta Granberg

Chapter 23: Genres and Translations: The South Slavonic Versions of the Palaea Historica

Małgorzata Skowronek

Chapter 24: Communication and Memory in Medieval Church Slavonic Paratexts in the Balkans

Izabela Lis-Wielgosz and Ivan N. Petrov

Biography

Maria Alessia Rossi, PhD, is an Art History Specialist at the Index of Medieval Art at Princeton University. She is the author of Visualizing Christ’s Miracles in Late Byzantium: Art, Theology, and Court Culture (2024). She also co-edited Late Byzantium Reconsidered: The Arts of the Palaiologan Era in the Mediterranean (2019), Byzantium in Eastern European Visual Culture in the Late Middle Ages (2020), and Eclecticism in Late Medieval Visual Culture at the Crossroads of the Latin, Greek, and Slavic Cultural Spheres (2021). Rossi is the co-founder of the initiative North of Byzantium and the digital platform Mapping Eastern Europe.

Alice Isabella Sullivan, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Medieval Art and Architecture and the Director of Graduate Studies at Tufts University, specializing in the artistic production of Eastern Europe and the Byzantine-Slavic cultural spheres. She is the author of The Eclectic Visual Culture of Medieval Moldavia (2023) and co-editor of several volumes. In addition, she is co-director of the Sinai Digital Archive and co-founder of North of Byzantium and Mapping Eastern Europe—two initiatives that explore the history, art, and culture of the northern frontiers of the Byzantine Empire in Eastern Europe during the medieval and early modern periods.