Byzantine style, religion and civilization : in honour of Sir Steven Runciman / Elizabeth Jeffreys.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Runciman, Steven, 1903-2000.

Jeffreys, Elizabeth.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion.

Byzantine Empire--Civilization.

Byzantine Empire.

Civilization.

Byzantine Empire--Religion.

Genre:

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

lv, 436 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Summary:

Sir Steven Runciman's History of the Crusades (1951-4) remains widely read and influential to this day but represents only a part of his wide-ranging, erudite and immensely readable literary activity. His early work focused on Byzantium in the tenth century (The Emperor Romanus Lecapenus) and the history of the first Bulgarian empire. Later he wrote with authority on ecclesiastical relations between the eastern and western churches (The Eastern Schism), and more generally on Byzantine culture (Byzantine Style and Civilization) with forays into medieval diplomacy (The Sicilian Vespers) and British colonial society (The White Rajahs). With a diplomatic past which informed his work, he was the doyen of Byzantine studies in Britain. This volume of essays on topics relevant to Sir Steven's interests, long planned in his honour by British Byzantinists of all generations, includes a memoir of his life and a full bibliography of his writings.

Contents:

Bibliography of Sir Steven Runciman's works xx

James Cochran Stevenson Runciman / Anthony Bryer xxxix

Part I Style

1 The Christian Topography (Vat. gr. 699) revisited: image, text, and conflict in ninth-century Byzantium / Leslie Brubaker 3

2 Byzantine enamels in the twentieth century / David Buckton 25

3 The rise and fall of towns, loci of maritime traffic, and silk production: the problem of Thisvi-Kastorion / Archibald Dunn 38

4 Women in Serbian politics, diplomacy and art at the beginning of Ottoman rule / Zaga Gavrilovic 72

5 Byzantium-Venice-Manchester: an early thirteenth-century carved marble basin and British Byzantinism at the turn of the twentieth century / Lucy-Anne Hunt 91

6 Manners maketh Romans? Young barbarians at the emperor's court / Jonathan Shepard 135

7 Byzantine and crusader art: Sir Steven was right / D. C. Winfield 159

Part II Religion

8 The discovery of the relics of St Grigor and the development of Armenian tradition in ninth-century Byzantium / Timothy Greenwood 177

9 The image of Edessa: some notes on its later fortunes / Paul Hetherington 192

10 Photios as a theologian / Andrew Louth 206

11 Magic at the crossroads in the sixth century / J. Nimmo-Smith 224

12 'The Angelic Life': monasteries for eunuchs / Shaun Tougher 238

13 Armed pilgrimage and the reign of the anti-Christ: Steven Runciman and the origins of the First Crusade / F. R. Trombley 253

Part III Civilization

14 Wine for immortality and immortality for wine: reflections on the Dionysiaca of Nonnos of Panopolis / David Frendo 275

15 'Greek Fire' revisited: recent and current research / John Haldon 290

16 Constantinople in the reign of Basil II / Catherine Holmes 326

17 A short piece of narrative history: war and diplomacy in the Balkans, winter 921/2-spring 924 / J. D. Howard-Johnston 340

18 Restoration of Orthodoxy, the pardon of Theophilos and the Acta Davidis, Symeonis et Georgii / Patricia Karlin-Hayter 361

19 Freestanding towers in the countryside of Rhodes / P. W. Lock 374

20 The Campanopetra reconsidered: the pilgrimage church of the Apostle Barnabas? / A. H. S. Megaw 394

21 The travels of Paul Lucas / Lyn Rodley 405

22 Aristocrats and aliens in early Byzantine Constantinople / Peter Sarris 413.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [xx]-xxxviii) and index.

ISBN:

0521834457

9780521834452

9780521834 452

OCLC:

70483525

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