The Routledge Handbook of the Modern Reception of Byzantium

Part 1. INTRODUCTION 1.  Sailing to where? The Polysemic World of 'Byzantium' and its (Mis?) Perceptions. Part 2. HISTORIES 2.  Main essay: Histories. Re-writing Byzantium. 3.  Byzantine Receptions in Ukraine. 4.  Heading North: Scandinavia and Modern Byzantine Studies. 5.  The 'Armenian Voice' in the Reception of Byzantium: A Cultural Interpretation within a Political Framework. 6.  Flying to the other side of the Atlantic: The Byzantium of North American Academia. 7.  Byzantine Studies in Argentina: A retrospective review of scholarship and an analysis of the present state of research. 8.  Byzantine Studies in China. Part 3. POLITICS 9.  Main essay: Writing Byzantium, Writing the Nation: Historiography, Politics and Identity in Southeastern Europe. 10.  Byzantine Law, a European Law: Byzantium in the legal systems of France, Germany and Greece during the nineteenth century. 11.  How 'Byzantine' should it be? The Byzantium of the Greeks. 12.  Byzantium and its Contested Heritage in Modern Turkey. 13.  Adding the Byzantine Element: Byzantium and Nation-State Building in Bulgaria. 14.  Byzantine Studies in Soviet Russia (1918–1990). 15.  Byzantium and the Third Rome in Reactive Orthodox Imaginaries. Part 4. ARCHITECTURE 16.  Main essay: Byzantine Revival Architecture. A History. 17.  Early Byzantinism in the British Isles: Newman University Church, Dublin. 18.  'Rome of the East': The Neo-Byzantine Style in the Architecture of the Russian Empire. 19.  Authenticity and Exuberance: Reflections of Byzantium in German Mausolea, 1860–1920. 20.  Byzantinism in Serbian and Croatian Architecture (19th and 21st centuries). 21.  Immigrant Art and Architecture: Byzantium and the Greek Diaspora in the United States. 22.  Byzantium in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: The Greek Orthodox Cathedral of Hagios Froumentios c. 1929. Part 5. ART 23.  Main essay: Visual Paradigms: The Form and Shape of Byzantine Reception. 24.  It All Started with Italy: The Reception of Italy's Mosaics in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. 25.  The Russian Foundations of Byzantine Studies: before and around Kondakov. 26.  "From death to new birth": The Arts and Crafts reappropriation of Byzantine Art and Architecture. 27.  Georgian Altar Screens and Byzantine Revivalism 1800–1920. 28.  Bearden's Byzantium: Two Madonnas. 29.  Uses of the 'Byzantine' in Modern Art and Criticism. Part 6. DISPLAY 30.  Main essay: Displaying Byzantium. Art and Politics 1945–2024. 31.  Through an Imperial Lens: The First Byzantine Exhibitions. 32.  How to Deal with it? The Display of Byzantine Heritage in Turkey (1846–1950). 33.  Gabriel Millet (1867–1953)'s Photographic Archive and the Reception of Byzantium. 34.  A Pavilion and an Exhibition: Byzantium 1900–1931. 35.  Break it like the Iconoclasts: Byzantium and the Case of Iconoclasm Exhibitions. 36.  Curating Exhibitions on Byzantium and Beyond. Part 7. LITERATURE 37.  Main essay: Byzantium's Journey Through Centuries: Byzantium as a Literary Inspiration. 38.  Byzantine Vernacular Literature and the Beginnings of Czech Byzantine Studies: The Case of Karel Müller. 39.  The Reception of Byzantium in the Textbooks of Secondary Education in Greece in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. 40.  Chained to the Barbarian: Byzantium in English-Language Fiction. 41.  Byzantium in Modern Poetry: Mythology and Iconicity. Part 8. EMBODIED PARADIGMS 42.  Main essay: Embodied Paradigms: Performative Responses to Byzantium. 43.  The Byzantine Heritage of Contemporary Musical Instruments. 44.  Byzantium, Dramatic Poetry and Henrik Ibsen's 'Emperor and Galilean'. 45.  Becoming Tarkovsky: The Byzantine Element in Andrei Rublev. 46.  The Byzantines Among Us: Contemporary Jewelry Making and Byzantium. 47.  Fashioned After Byzantium. 48.  Byzantium in Videogames. 49.  UNESCO and Byzantine Heritage.

Biography

Niamh Bhalla is Assistant Dean, Associate Professor of Art History and Director for Belonging at Northeastern University, London, UK. Specialising in early Christian and Byzantine art and architecture, and their modern revivals, her work engages with the lived experience of art and visual and material theology. She is the author of Experiencing the Last Judgement (Routledge, 2021) and Newman University Church, Dublin: Architectural revivalism in the British Isles and the authority of form (2024).

Dimitra Kotoula is a Curator at the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and teaches Byzantine Art History and Archaeology at College Year in Athens based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Her research focuses on modern receptions of Byzantium, issues of form and function in Byzantine art, with particular emphasis on eschatology, as well as post-Byzantine networks of humanism, artistic exchanges and the post-Byzantine icon.