Worlds of Byzantium : religion, culture, and empire in the medieval Near East / edited by Elizabeth S. Bolman, Case Western Reserve University, Ohio, Scott Fitzgerald Johnson, University of Oklahoma, Jack Tannous, Princeton University, New Jersey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bolman, Elizabeth S., 1960- author, editor.

Johnson, Scott Fitzgerald, 1976- author, editor.

Tannous, Jack Boulos Victor, 1980- author, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Byzantine Empire--Civilization.

Byzantine Empire.

Byzantine Empire--History.

Byzantine Empire--Church history.

Byzantine Empire--Religious life and customs.

Middle East--Church history.

Middle East.

Middle East--Religious life and customs.

Christians--Middle East--History.

Christians.

Christianity and other religions--Middle East.

Christianity and other religions.

Christianity.

Civilization.

Interfaith relations.

Genre:

Church history

History

Physical Description:

xxix, 696 pages : color illustrations, maps, plans, facsimiles ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2024.

Summary:

"Privileging culture and language over politics, this book offers an expanded understanding of what it means to study the Byzantine empire in the late antique and medieval periods, one that explicitly includes the Christian populations of the Muslim-ruled Middle East as well as neighbouring states like Ethiopia and Armenia"-- Provided by publisher.

"Worlds of Byzantium offers a new understanding of what it means to study the history and visual culture of the Byzantine empire during late antiquity and the Middle Ages. Arguing that linguistic and cultural frontiers do not always coincide with political ones, it suggests that Byzantine studies should look not only within but also beyond the borders of the Byzantine empire and include the history of Christian populations in the Muslim-ruled Middle East and neighbouring states like Ethiopia and Armenia and integrate more closely with Judaic and Islamic studies. With essays by leading scholars in a wide range of fields, it offers a vision of a richly interconnected eastern Mediterranean and Near East that will be of interest to anyone who studies the premodern world."-- Publisher's website.

Contents:

Worlds of Byzantium: problems, frameworks, and opportunity in the Byzantine Near East / Scott Fitzgerald Johnson

East of Byzantium revisited: the study of the Byzantine Near East, past and present / Columba Stewart

Byzantium and the turn to the East / Averil Cameron

The Classical Near East / Kevin T. van Bladel

Alternatives to Commonwealth: modes of connectivity between Byzantium and Medieval Eastern Europe / Christian Raffensperger

Movement and creation: a reassessment of Early Byzantine visual culture / Elizabeth S. Bolman

Letters from the edge: mapping pseudo-Arabic between Byzantium and the Near East / Alicia Walker

Antioch after dark: archaeology and the "Dark Ages" in North Syria / Michael J. Decker

Ars Sacra in the East and after Byzantium / Cecily J. Hilsdale

The Church of the Virgin in Dayr al-Sury?an (Wadi al-Natrun): architecture, art, and history between Coptic and Syriac Christianity / Karel C. Innemaee, Lucas van Rompay, and Dobrochna Zielianska

Three questions concerning Armenian and Byzantine Art / Christina Maranci

Makurian visual culture: between Byzantium and Africa / W?odzimierz Godlewsk

Byzantine Syriac: language and religious community in the Middle East / Jack Tannous

Greek identity in the Sinai / Hieromonk Justin of Sinai

Patriarchs, caliphs, monks, scribes, and the Byzantinization of Jerusalem's liturgy / Daniel Galadza

Byzantine Judaism in early Islamic Palestine: rethinking the Gaonic model / Eve Krakowski

Ethiopia: Christianity, language, and identity / George Hatke

Armenia and Byzantium: simultaneously at the center and on the periphery / Robin Darling Young

Byzantine Georgia/Georgian Byzantium / Stephen Rapp Jr.

Conclusion: ends and means / Jack Tannous.

Notes:

"This book ... began life as a collection of papers delivered at Dumbarton Oaks in the course of the annual Byzantine Studies Symposium on April 22-4, 2016. The symposium occurred during the 75th anniversary of Dumbarton Oaks...."--Preface, page xxvii.

"The ... volume .... represents a totally new coneption of Worlds of Byzantium, a book which covers the entire Byzantine Near East, from the Caucasus to Ethiopia, and spans the fourth to fourteenth centuries."--Preface, page xxvii.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Worlds of Byzantium

ISBN:

9781108492096

1108492096

9781108710282

110871028X

OCLC:

1388499266

Publisher Number:

CIPO000068144