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THE BYZANTINE WORLD
The Byzantine World presents the latest insights of the leading scholars in the fields of Byzantine studies, history, art and architectural history, literature and theology. Those who know little of Byzantine history, culture and civilization between ad 700 and 1453 will find overviews and distillations, while those who know much already will be afforded countless new vistas. Each chapter offers an innovative approach to a well-known topic or a diversion from a well-trodden path.
Readers will be introduced to Byzantine women and children, men and eunuchs, emperors, patriarchs, aristocrats and slaves. They will explore churches and fortifications, monasteries and palaces, from Constantinople to Cyprus and Syria in the east, and to Apulia and Venice in the west. Secular and sacred art, profane and spiritual literature will be revealed to the reader, who will be encouraged to read, see, smell and touch. The worlds of Byzantine ceremonial and sanctity, liturgy and letters, Orthodoxy and heresy will be explored, by both leading and innovative international scholars. Ultimately, the expert reader, as all will now be, will find insights into the emergences of modern Byzantine studies and of popular Byzantine history.
Paul Stephenson is Reader in Medieval History at the University of Durham, and formerly was Rowe Professor of Byzantine History at the University of Wisconsin, a joint appointment with Dumbarton Oaks. He has researched and taught in the UK, Ireland, Germany, Greece, Sweden and the USA, and held fellowships from the British Academy, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the Onassis Foundation and the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Studies. He is author of Byzantium’s Balkan Frontier (2000), The Legend of Basil the Bulgar-Slayer (2003) and Constantine: Unconquered Emperor, Christian Victor (2009).
CONTRIBUTORS
Michael Angold is Professor Emeritus of Byzantine History at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of Church and Society in Byzantium under the Comneni, 1081–1261 (1995) and editor of The Cambridge History of Christianity, V: Eastern Christianity (2006).
Johann P. Arnason, born in Iceland, is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at La Trobe University, Melbourne, and Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Human Studies, Charles University, Prague. His research interests have focused on historical sociology, with particular emphasis on the comparative analysis of civilizations. His recent publications include: Eurasian Transformations, Tenth to Thirteenth Centuries: Crystallizations, Divergences, Renaissances (2004, edited with Bjorn Wittrock); Axial Civilizations and World History (2005, edited with S. N. Eisenstadt and Bjorn Wittrock); and Domains and Divisions of European History (2009, edited with Natalie J. Doyle).
Nikolas Bakirtzis is Researcher and Marie Curie Fellow at the Science and Technology in Archaeology Research Center (STARC) of the Cyprus Institute in Nicosia. He is also affiliated with the Center for World Heritage Studies at the University of Minnesota as a Research Associate. Emmanuel C. Bourbouhakis is DFG postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of History at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, having taken his Ph.D. in the Department of the Classics at Harvard University. Despina Christodoulou is a researcher and translator based in Athens and London. She has a Ph.D. in ancient history from the University of Cambridge and has published on various subjects in modern Greek history, from the foustanella and Stoli Amalias to the childhood of Andreas Papandreou. She is currently writing a monograph on Byron’s first trip to Greece.
Thomas E. A. Dale is Professor of Medieval Art History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His current research focuses on medieval Venice and cultural exchange with the eastern Mediterranean, and on corporeality and the senses in Romanesque art. He is the author of Relics, Prayer and Politics in Medieval Venetia (1997), and editor with John Mitchell of Shaping Sacred Space and Institutional Identity in Romanesque Mural Painting (2004).
J. M. Featherstone holds a research position in Byzantine Studies at the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and is lecturer at the Centre de Recherches Historiques (CRH) at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. John Haldon is Professor of Byzantine History and Hellenic Studies at Princeton University, a Senior Fellow at Dumbarton Oaks, and Director of the Avkat Archaeological Project in Turkey. His research focuses on the history of the early and middle Byzantine empire; on state systems and structures across the European and Islamic worlds; and on the production, distribution and consumption of resources in the late ancient and medieval world, especially in the context of warfare.
Catherine Holmes is Tutor in Medieval History at University College, Oxford. Her research has focused on the political and cultural history of middle Byzantium. She is the author of Basil II and the Governance of Empire (976–1025) (2005) and has edited with Judith Waring, Literacy, Education and Manuscript Transmission in Byzantium and Beyond (2002). Anthony Kaldellis is Professor of Greek and Latin at The Ohio State University. He has published studies on various aspects of Byzantine culture and literature, including historiography, the reception of the classical tradition, the history of the Parthenon and the island of Lesbos. His most recent books are Hellenism in Byzantium (2007) and The Christian Parthenon (2009).
Tia Kolbaba is Associate Professor of Religion at Rutgers University. She is the author of The Byzantine Lists: Errors of the Latins (2001) and Inventing Latin Heretics: Byzantines and the Filioque in the Ninth Century (2008). Christopher Livanos is associate professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He is the author of Greek Tradition and Latin Influence in the Work of George Scholarios: Alone Against All of Europe (2006). Henry Maguire is Professor of Art History at the Johns Hopkins University. Together with Eunice Dauterman Maguire, he is the author of Other Icons, Art and Power in Byzantine Secular Culture (2007). Among his other publications are: Art and Eloquence in Byzantium (1981) and The Icons of their Bodies, Saints and their Images in Byzantium (1996). Vasileios Marinis is assistant professor of Christian art and architecture at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music and Yale Divinity School. When he wrote his chapter he was the Kallinikeion Assistant Professor of Byzantine Art at Queens College, CUNY. His research focuses on the interaction of architecture and ritual in the Byzantine churches of Constantinople. Cécile Morrisson is Director of Research Emerita at the CNRS (National Centre for Scientific Research, Paris) and Advisor for Byzantine Numismatics, Dumbarton Oaks. She contributed to The Economic History of Byzantium (2002), and published with A. Laiou, The Byzantine Economy (2007). She has also recently edited a large handbook, Le monde byzantin, I: L’empire romain d’Orient (330–641) (2004). Joseph A. Munitiz, formerly Master of Campion Hall, Oxford, is Honorary Research Fellow, University of Birmingham Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies. He is the editor of three Byzantine texts (Theognostos, Nikephoros Blemmyes and Anastasius of Sinai, all CCSG), and of “Ignatiana, texts relating to Ignatius of Loyola, the sixteenth-century founder of the Society of Jesus (of which he is a member).
Leonora Neville is Associate Professor of History and Associate Director of the Center for the Study of Early Christianity at The Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. She is the author of Authority in Byzantine Provincial Society, 950–1100 (2004). Robert Ousterhout is Professor of Byzantine Art and Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania, where he also serves as Director of the Center for Ancient Studies. He is the author of Master Builders of Byzantium (1999, 2008), A Byzantine Settlement in Cappadocia (2005), The Byzantine Monuments of the Evros/Meric River Valley (with Ch. Bakirtzis, 2007) and several studies of the Kariye Camii in Istanbul. Tassos Papacostas is RCUK Fellow in Byzantine Material Culture at King’s College London. His work so far has concentrated on Byzantine prosopography, on the architecture and archaeology of medieval Cyprus, and on the impact of western architecture in the medieval eastern Mediterranean. He is the co-author of the PBW online database (http://pbw.kcl.ac.uk) and his recent publications include “The History and Architecture of the Monastery of Saint John Chrysostom at Koutsovendis, Cyprus,” DOP 61 (2007).
Stratis Papaioannou is the William A. Dyer, Jr Assistant Professor in the Humanities at Brown University where he holds a joint appointment between Brown’s Department of Classics and Dumbarton Oaks. He has published on Byzantine concepts of self, literary aesthetics and medieval Greek epistolography. Currently, he is working on a study of post-classical Greek autobiography as well as an edition of the letters of Michael Psellos.
Bissera V. Pentcheva is Assistant Professor of Medieval Art in the Art and Art History Department at Stanford University. She is the author of Icons and Power: The Mother of God in Byzantium (2006) and The Sensual Icon: Space, Ritual, and the Senses in Byzantium (2010).
Srdan Pirivatric´ is Research Fellow in the Institute for Byzantine Research, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. From 2001 to 2005 he served as diplomat in the Embassy of Yugoslavia and of Serbia and Montenegro in Sofia and Athens. He is the author of The State of Samuilo: Its Extent and Character (1997, 2000) and of some thirty articles related to Byzantine history and the early centuries of Serbia and Bulgaria. Günter Prinzing, Professor of Byzantine Studies at the Historical Institute of the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz, retired in October 2008. He is the editor of Demetrii Chomateni Ponemata diaphora, CFHB 38 (2002) and of the series Mainzer Veröffentlichungen zur Byzantinistik (Wiesbaden), and is co-editor of the journal Südost-Forschungen (Munich). He is preparing a large study of “Slavery and Slaves in the Byzantine Empire” for the series Forschungen zur antiken Sklaverei. Diether Roderich Reinsch, from 1986 to 1993, held the chair of Byzantine and Modern Greek Philology at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum, and from 1993 to 2005 the chair of Byzantinology at the Freie Universität of Berlin. He is the editor of Critobuli Imbriotae Historiae, CFHB 22 (1983) and with A. Kambylis of Annae Comnenae Alexias, 2 vols, CFHB 50 (2001).
Youval Rotman is Assistant Professor of Byzantine History at Yale University. He received his doctorate from the Universities of Tel Aviv and Paris X–Nanterre. He is the author of Les esclaves et l’esclavage de la Méditerranée antique à la Méditerranée médiévale, VIe–XIe siècles (2004). Jonathan Shepard was University Lecturer in History at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Peterhouse. He is the author, with S. Franklin, of The Emergence of Rus, 750–1200 (1996) and most recently editor of The Cambridge History of the Byzantine Empire (2008). Paul Stephenson is Reader in Medieval History at the University of Durham and author of Byzantium’s Balkan Frontier (2000), The Legend of Basil the BulgarSlayer (2003) and Constantine: Unconquered Emperor, Christian Victor (2009).
Denis Sullivan is a Professor at the University of Maryland College Park. His publications include The Life of Saint Nikon (1987), Siegecraft: Two Tenth-Century Instructional Manuals (2000) and, with Alice-Mary Talbot, The History of Leo the Deacon: Byzantine Military Expansion in the Tenth Century (2005). Alice-Mary Talbot was Director of Byzantine Studies at Dumbarton Oaks from 1997 to 2009. A specialist in Byzantine hagiography and monasticism, she has edited Holy Women of Byzantium (1996) and Byzantine Defenders of Images (1998). She also served as executive editor of the Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium (1991). Shaun Tougher is Senior Lecturer in Ancient History at Cardiff University, and has also taught at Queen’s University Belfast and the University of St Andrews. He is the author of The Reign of Leo VI (886–912) (1997), Julian the Apostate (2007) and The Eunuch in Byzantine History and Society (2008), and editor of Eunuchs in Antiquity and Beyond (2002).
Warren T. Woodfin has held fellowships and positions at Duke and Princeton Universities, and the University of Pennsylvania, and is currently a fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. His articles have appeared in Cahiers archéologiques, DOP and Gesta, and his book, The Embodied Icon, will be published by Oxford University Press.
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