Cosmopolitan Byzantium : People, Ideas, and Interactions. A ›Festschrift‹ for Claudia Rapp / Maria-Lucia Goiana, Krystina Kubina, Christodoulos Papavarnavas, Giulia Rossetto.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Goiana, Maria-Lucia, editor.

Kubina, Krystina, editor.

Papavarnavas, Christodoulos, editor.

Rossetto, Giulia, editor.

Series:

De Gruyter STEM

De Gruyter Reference

De Gruyter Studium

Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie , 0084-5396 ; 238

Studien zur deutschen Literatur , 0081-7236 ; 222

Millennium-Studien / Millennium Studies , 1862-1139 ; 121

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XXII, 328 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berlin Boston De Gruyter, [2026]

Language Note:

In English.

Biography/History:

M.-L. Goiana , ÖAW, Vienna; K. Kubina , Univ. of Vienna; Chr. Papavarnavas , ÖAW, Vienna; G. Rossetto , Univ. of Vienna.

Summary:

Throughout a millennium of history, the Byzantine Empire remained at the intersection of Eastern and Western civilizations. The location of its great capital city, Constantinople, on the frontier between Europe and Asia, ensured its enduring importance in cross-cultural exchange. People of different ethnicities, social strata, and faiths from the Eastern Mediterranean and beyond left their marks as travellers or settlers. From late antiquity, when the entire Eastern Mediterranean was encompassed by the empire, until the fifteenth century, when Byzantium had been reduced to a city-state with its hinterland, Byzantine culture had a far-reaching impact on the region. This volume considers Byzantium as a cosmopolitan space. Guided by the major research interests of Claudia Rapp, to whom it is dedicated, it is divided into three thematic blocks: "Sanctity and Society", "Mobility and Identities", and "Manuscripts and Material Culture". The contributions reveal Byzantium as a realm of intercultural contact and exchange, where majority and minority cultures were in a complex dialogue and productive tension with each other, and where pilgrims, traders, soldiers, and scholars traversed political, religious, social, and intellectual borders.

Contents:

Frontmatter

VIITable of Contents

IXPreface

XIIITabula Gratulatoria

XXIFigures

1Sanctity and Society2

3From Bishop to Martyr, from Constantinople to Rome / Maya Maskarinec

19Preaching Against Elitist Practices in Early Ninth-Century Constantinople / Stephanos Efthymiadis

33Additional Identifications of the fontes of the Florilegium Marcianum (M) Edited by Prof. P. Odorico / Alexander Alexakis

45Eros in the "Macedonian Renaissance" / Theodora Antonopoulou

65Writing with the Church Fathers / Mihail Mitrea

87Mobility and Identities88

89The Portrait of Empress Aelia Eudoxia in Pseudo-Martyrius' Oratio funebris and in an Armeno/Syriac Speech Attributed to John Chrysostom (Sermo in Eudoxiam imperatricem) / Emilio Bonfiglio

107Theodora as an Emblem of Cosmopolitan Byzantium / Judith Herrin

123Early Examples of Serbo-Bulgarian Political Kinship / Srđan Pirivatrić

135Von China nach Byzanz / Maria Teresa Catalano, Martina Filosa, Claudia Sode

147Diplomatic Missions of a Cosmopolitan Empire / Paraskevi Sykopetritou

165Un colloque sur la fraternité rituelle au monastère de la Péribleptos et la réponse d'un moine stoudite au hiéromoine Arsène / Olivier Delouis

179Kaisarios Dapontes und sein Kanon auf viele außergewöhnliche Dinge / Albrecht Berger

197Manuscripts and Material Culture198

199Visual Dialogues About the Theotokos, Across the Mediterranean / Leslie Brubaker

211The Figure of the Virgin Mary Across the Mediterranean and Beyond / Francesca Dell'Acqua

233"This Great House of Such Magnitude" / Elizabeth S. Bolman

251Sapientia quae a Deo stulta facta est / Filippo Ronconi

307Liturgical Multilingualism in and Around Jerusalem / Daniel Galadza

Notes:

This eBook is made available Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed June 25 2026)

ISBN:

9783112253113