Byzantium and the West : perception and reality (11th-15th c.) / edited by Nikolaos G. Chrissis, Athina Kolia-Dermitzaki, and Angeliki Papageorgiou.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Chrissis, Nikolaos G., editor.

Kolia-Dermitzakē, Athēna, editor.

Papageōrgiou, Angelikē, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Intercultural communication--Mediterranean Region--History--To 1500.

Intercultural communication.

International relations.

Relations.

History.

Byzantine Empire--Relations--Europe, Western.

Byzantine Empire.

Europe, Western--Relations--Byzantine Empire.

Europe, Western.

Byzantine Empire--History--1081-1453.

Mediterranean Region--History--476-1517.

Mediterranean Region.

Western Europe.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xii, 328 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2019.

Summary:

"The interaction between Byzantium and the Latin West was intimately connected to practically all the major events and developments which shaped the medieval world in the High and Late Middle Ages - for example, the rise of the 'papal monarchy', the launch of the crusades, the expansion of international and long-distance commerce, or the flowering of the Renaissance. This volume explores not only the actual avenues of interaction between the two sides (trade, political and diplomatic contacts, ecclesiastical dialogue, intellectual exchange, armed conflict), but also the image each side had of the other and the way perceptions evolved over this long period in the context of their manifold contact. Twenty-one stimulating papers offer new insights and original research on numerous aspects of this relationship, pooling the expertise of an international group of scholars working on both sides of the Byzantine-Western 'divide', on topics as diverse as identity formation, ideology, court ritual, literary history, military technology and the economy, among others. The particular contribution of the research presented here is the exploration of how cross-cultural relations were shaped by the interplay of the thought-world of the various historical agents and the material circumstances which circumscribed their actions. The volume is primarily aimed at scholars and students interested in the history of Byzantium, the Mediterranean world, and, more widely, intercultural contacts in the Middle Ages"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Keroularios in 1054 : nonconfrontational to the Papal Legates and loyal to the emperor / Anthony Kaldellis

Colonisation and population movements in the Mediterranean in the Middle Ages / Michel Balard

Genoa and Byzantium : aspects of a long relationship / Sandra Origone

Byzantium and the Crusades in the Komnenian era : perception and reality / Athina Kolia-Dermitzaki

Some thoughts on the relations between Greeks and Latins at the time of the first and fourth Crusades / Jean-Claude Cheynet

Crusader perceptions of Byzantium, c.1095 to c.1150 / Jonathan Phillips

The perception of Westerners in the court of John II Komnenos / Angeliki Papageorgiou

A twelfth-century perspective on Byzantium's western neighbours : the witness of Manganeios Prodromos / Elizabeth Jeffreys

De-centring twelfth-century Constantinople : Archbishop Eustathios and the Norman conquest of Thessalonica revisited / Catherine Holmes

The fall of Jerusalem in 1187 to Saladin and its impact on Byzantine opinion / Michael Angold

Admiral Eugenius of Sicily (12th c.) : court poetry and political propaganda in a cross-cultural environment / Eleni Tounta

A detail of the Third Lateran Council (1179) : the leper king of Jerusalem and the Papal policy in the East / Nikoletta Giantsi

Byzantium and Hungary in the late twelfth century and on the eve of the fourth Crusade : personal ties and spheres of influence / Alicia Simpson

Nicaea and the West (1204-1261) : aspects of reality and rhetoric / Ilias Giarenis

The image of the "Greek" and the reality of Greco-Latin Interaction in Romania, according to thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Latin sources / Maria Dourou-Eliopoulou

Perceptions of the Greek clergy and rite in late Medieval pilgrimage accounts to the Holy Land / Nickiphoros I. Tsougarakis

De-centring twelfth-century Constantinople : Archbishop Eustathios and the Norman conquest of Thessalonica revisited / Catherine Holmes

The fall of Jerusalem in 1187 to Saladin and its impact on Byzantine opinion / Michael Angold

Perceptions of the Greek clergy and rite in late Medieval pilgrimage accounts to the Holy Land / Nickiphoros I. Tsougarakis

The ἑσπέρια γένη in Byzantine literature before and after the first capture of Constantinople (mid-12th to mid-13th c.) / Theodora Papadopoulou

Worlds apartReconsidering late Byzantine identity through the image of the West / Nikolaos G. Chrissis

In the face of a historical puzzle : Western adventurers, friars and nobility in the service of Michael VIII Palaiologos (1261-1282) / Sophia Mergiali-Sahas

Μιξοβάρβαροι and λίζιοι : theory and practice regarding the integration of Westerners in late Byzantine social and economic reality / Triantafyllitsa Maniati-Kokkini

"Our engines are better than yours" : perception and reality of late Byzantine military technology / Christos Makrypoulias.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Byzantium and the West

ISBN:

9781138059740

1138059749

OCLC:

1061865663

Publisher Number:

99981322252