“…This text attempts to reconstruct the collection & to explore how ancient sculpture was understood by Byzantine Greeks. From its foundation in the fourth century to its fall to the Ottoman Turks in the fifteenth, the city of Constantinople boasted a collection of antiquities unrivalled by any city of the medieval world. …”

“…Special attention is directed toward decorations based on Byzantine models; the heritage of Italian master builders and carvers; the impact of architects and others sent by Elizabeth I; the formation of the Russian Imperial Baroque; the Enlightenment in Russian art; and 19th- and 20th-century European influences. …”
Sumario

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cultural memory -- "A blow sent by God" : changing Byzantine memories of the Crusades / Jonathan Harris -- Living and remembering the Crusades and the Reconquista : Iberia, 11th-13th centuries / Ana Rodriguez -- The Muslim memory of the Crusades / Alex Mallett -- Appropriating history : remembering the Crusades in Latvia and Estonia / Carsten Selch Jensen…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Jews in ancient civic life / Gary Gilbert -- Urbanizing Jews : agriculture, slave codes, and the Byzantine empire / Anthony Meyer -- Vienna's Jewish community, 1819-1826 : glimpses from Beethoven's conversation books at the dawn of a new era / Theodore Albrecht -- A tale of two cities : Jewish creativity in Venice and Prague / Ori Z. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Fascicule supplémentaire II La philosophie byzantine…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- First stage : Florensky -- Second stage : Zhegin -- Third stage : Boris Uspensky -- An alternative view : Karl Doehlemann -- Registering presence in the icon -- The cult of images and Eastern Orthodox identity -- The western position : a critical reappraisal -- Icon and relic -- Real presence in the image -- Classical antique sources -- Christian sources : Byzantine theology of the image -- A modern view : the icon as symbol in Florensky's writings -- Seeing the world with the eyes of God : an alternative explanation of reverse perspective -- A new definition of reverse perspective as a prerequisite for the present hypothesis -- The cubist background -- The theosophical background -- Classical Greek sources on divine eternity -- Christian sources on divine eternity -- Theology through liturgy -- Theology through the arts -- The present hypothesis in context -- Leibniz and the way God sees things -- Schopenhauer and art as a repetition of eternity -- Worringer's eternalization of the object…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Patrons & their text scrolls in fifteenth-century English art / Nigel Morgan -- Faceless icons: the problems of patronage in Byzantine Art / Robin Cormack -- Seeking patronage: patrons & matrons in language, art, and historiography / Corine Schleif -- Issues of female patronage: French books of hours, 1220-1320 / Adelaide Bennett -- Portraits & their patrons: reconsidering agency in late medieval art / Stephen Perkinson -- Bohun women & manuscript patronage in fourteenth-century England / Lucy Freeman Sandler -- Patron-function / Aden Kumler -- General index -- Index of manuscripts…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The (Three in One) Provincia Palaestina: The Three Administrative Provinces of Byzantine Palestine (4th‒Early 7th Centuries AD) 5. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…--Church and society: Erickson, J. H. Oikonomia in Byzantine canon law. Henry, P. Images of the church in the second Nicene Council and in the Libri Carolini. …”

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Tabla de Contenidos: “…"Ragusan roots and riddles: the origins of Ragusa/Dubrovnik -- Distant friends and hostile neighbours: Dubrovnik under byzantine protection (c. 800-1205) -- The Serenissima's subjects: Dubrovnik under Venetian rule (1205-1358) -- A kind of independence: Dubrovnik's autonomous development under Hungarian ssuzerainty (1358-c. 1433) -- Eastern approaches: Dubrovnik within the Ottoman Empire (c. 1396-1526) -- War, diplomacy and chaos: Dubrovnik between the Habsburgs, Venice and the Porte (1526-1667) -- Merchant venturing: economic development (c. 1272-1667) -- Ragusan society: Dubrovnik's social structure and Mores (c. 1300-c. 1667) -- Religious life: ecclesiastical organization and spirituality in Dubrovnik (c. 1190-1808) -- Cultural life: literature, scholarship, painting and music (c. 1358-c. 1667) -- The construction of Dubrovnik: settlement and urban planning, fortification and defense, public and private building in the Ragusan Republic (c. 1272-1667) -- Death and resurrection: the great earthquake and its aftermath (1667-1669) -- Sunset years: political, economic, social and cultural life (1669-1792) -- The fall of the Ragusan Republic: the background to and circumstances of the abolition of the Republic in 1808 -- Postscript. …”

“…The bulk of the material, however, comes from the 7th/8th century, the crucial period of Egypt’s transition from a province of the Byzantine empire to a province of the early Islamic caliphate…”

“…This collective publication deals with the loanwords, which are found in 18 late Byzantine historians and chronicles…”

“…The poems' fate in Byzantium is also examined and three Byzantine paraphrases are edited in an appendix.The introduction examines features of Gregory's poetry in general. …”

“…While the main chronological focus is clearly set on the Nabataean and Roman periods, it also considers the preceding Iron Age and Hellenistic periods, as well as the subsequent Byzantine period. The aim is to examine rural settlement patterns and subsistence strategies, aspects of rural water management, the extensive infrastructural network, the funerary and religious landscape, the military disposition, as well as the industrial potential of rural Petra. …”

“…Then, there are texts of documentary nature: petitions, tax receipts, registers, reports, private letters, testimony of the daily life in Egypt during Roman and Byzantine times…”

“…The interdisciplinary nature of the studies provides ample opportunity for a comparative exploration of female bodies and medical expertise on them across the geographically diverse but culturally often closely entangled Ancient Mesopotamian, Egyptian, Graeco-Roman, Persian, Byzantine, early Christian, Jewish-Talmudic, and Syriac cultures. …”

“…Leontius of Byzantium (485-543) Byzantine monk and theologian who provided a breakthrough of terminology in the 6th-century Christological controversy over the mode of union of Christ's human nature with his divinity. …”

“…"This volume contains a critical edition, with an English translation and notes, of 20 chapters of the Semeioseis gnomikai ("Sententious notes") of the Byzantine statesman Theodore Metochites (1270-1332).The introduction gives an extensive, partly new, description and assessment of the manuscripts as physical objects and in their relationship to each other. …”