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Category : Numismatics
Languages : en
Pages : 372
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Actes du XIe Congrès international de numismatique: Monnaies byzantines, monnaies médiévales et orientales
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Category : Numismatics
Languages : en
Pages : 372
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Publisher:
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Category : Numismatics
Languages : en
Pages : 372
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Byzantium and the Pechenegs
Author: Mykola Melnyk
Publisher: East Central and Eastern Europ
ISBN: 9789004280465
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
"This book traces 150 years' worth of scholarly interpretations of relations between Byzantium and various North Pontic nomads, with particular attention to how colonialist or national aspirations often triggered, hampered, biased, or otherwise influenced these interpretations. Original in its interdisciplinary approach, Mykola Melnyk's book highlights an overlooked topic: the history of non-historic peoples. Going beyond the well-studied written sources for nomadic history, the author incorporates insights provided by archaeology, linguistics, and the natural sciences, bringing forth promising avenues of research into the subject of nomadic cultures in the medieval world"--
Publisher: East Central and Eastern Europ
ISBN: 9789004280465
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
"This book traces 150 years' worth of scholarly interpretations of relations between Byzantium and various North Pontic nomads, with particular attention to how colonialist or national aspirations often triggered, hampered, biased, or otherwise influenced these interpretations. Original in its interdisciplinary approach, Mykola Melnyk's book highlights an overlooked topic: the history of non-historic peoples. Going beyond the well-studied written sources for nomadic history, the author incorporates insights provided by archaeology, linguistics, and the natural sciences, bringing forth promising avenues of research into the subject of nomadic cultures in the medieval world"--
Performing the Gospels in Byzantium
Author: Roland Betancourt
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108870872
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Tracing the Gospel text from script to illustration to recitation, this study looks at how illuminated manuscripts operated within ritual and architecture. Focusing on a group of richly illuminated lectionaries from the late eleventh century, the book articulates how the process of textual recitation produced marginalia and miniatures that reflected and subverted the manner in which the Gospel was read and simultaneously imagined by readers and listeners alike. This unique approach to manuscript illumination points to images that slowly unfolded in the mind of its listeners as they imagined the text being recited, as meaning carefully changed and built as the text proceeded. By examining this process within specific acoustic architectural spaces and the sonic conditions of medieval chant, the volume brings together the concerns of sound studies, liturgical studies, and art history to demonstrate how images, texts, and recitations played with the environment of the Middle Byzantine church.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108870872
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Tracing the Gospel text from script to illustration to recitation, this study looks at how illuminated manuscripts operated within ritual and architecture. Focusing on a group of richly illuminated lectionaries from the late eleventh century, the book articulates how the process of textual recitation produced marginalia and miniatures that reflected and subverted the manner in which the Gospel was read and simultaneously imagined by readers and listeners alike. This unique approach to manuscript illumination points to images that slowly unfolded in the mind of its listeners as they imagined the text being recited, as meaning carefully changed and built as the text proceeded. By examining this process within specific acoustic architectural spaces and the sonic conditions of medieval chant, the volume brings together the concerns of sound studies, liturgical studies, and art history to demonstrate how images, texts, and recitations played with the environment of the Middle Byzantine church.
Dictionary Catalogue of the Byzantine Collection of the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library, Washington, D.C.
Author: Dumbarton Oaks
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Category : Art, Byzantine
Languages : en
Pages : 800
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Category : Art, Byzantine
Languages : en
Pages : 800
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Numismatic Issues
Author: Franklin Mint
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Category : Medals
Languages : en
Pages : 206
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Category : Medals
Languages : en
Pages : 206
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Viewing the Morea
Author: Sharon E. J. Gerstel
Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks Byzantine Symposia and Colloquia
ISBN: 9780884023906
Category : Civilization, Medieval
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Viewing the Morea focuses on the late medieval Morea (Peloponnese), beginning with the bold attempt of Western knights to establish a kingdom on its soil. The authors explore how the groups of this contested region--Crusaders, Orthodox villagers, and Venetians--interacted, asserted identity, and recollected the ancient history of the Peloponnese.
Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks Byzantine Symposia and Colloquia
ISBN: 9780884023906
Category : Civilization, Medieval
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Viewing the Morea focuses on the late medieval Morea (Peloponnese), beginning with the bold attempt of Western knights to establish a kingdom on its soil. The authors explore how the groups of this contested region--Crusaders, Orthodox villagers, and Venetians--interacted, asserted identity, and recollected the ancient history of the Peloponnese.
Studies in the Iconography of Northwest Semitic Inscribed Seals
Author: Benjamin Sass
Publisher: Saint-Paul
ISBN: 9783525537602
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Publisher: Saint-Paul
ISBN: 9783525537602
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Trade and Markets in Byzantium
Author: Cécile Morrisson
Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection
ISBN: 9780884023777
Category : Byzantine Empire
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
How are markets in antiquity to be characterized? As comparable to modern free markets? As controlled by the State? Or in completely different terms, as free but regulated? Here, scholars address these and related questions by reexamining and reinterpreting records from Byzantium and its hinterland for local, regional, and interregional trade.
Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection
ISBN: 9780884023777
Category : Byzantine Empire
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
How are markets in antiquity to be characterized? As comparable to modern free markets? As controlled by the State? Or in completely different terms, as free but regulated? Here, scholars address these and related questions by reexamining and reinterpreting records from Byzantium and its hinterland for local, regional, and interregional trade.
Byzantium in the Iconoclast Era (ca 680–850): The Sources
Author: Leslie Brubaker
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351953656
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 405
Book Description
Iconoclasm, the debate about the legitimacy of religious art that began in Byzantium around 730 and continued for nearly 120 years, has long held a firm grip on the historical imagination. Byzantium in the Iconoclast Era is the first book in English to survey the original sources crucial for a modern understanding of this most elusive and fascinating period in medieval history. It is also the first book in any language to cover both the written and the visual evidence from this period, a combination of particular importance to the iconoclasm debate. The authors, an art historian and a historian who both specialise in the period, have worked together to provide a comprehensive overview of the visual and the written materials that together help clarify the complex issues of iconoclasm in Byzantium.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351953656
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 405
Book Description
Iconoclasm, the debate about the legitimacy of religious art that began in Byzantium around 730 and continued for nearly 120 years, has long held a firm grip on the historical imagination. Byzantium in the Iconoclast Era is the first book in English to survey the original sources crucial for a modern understanding of this most elusive and fascinating period in medieval history. It is also the first book in any language to cover both the written and the visual evidence from this period, a combination of particular importance to the iconoclasm debate. The authors, an art historian and a historian who both specialise in the period, have worked together to provide a comprehensive overview of the visual and the written materials that together help clarify the complex issues of iconoclasm in Byzantium.
Islamic History Through Coins
Author: Jere L. Bacharach
Publisher: American Univ in Cairo Press
ISBN: 9789774249303
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
What can one discover through the study of medieval Islamic coins? It appears that the regular gold dinars and silver dirhams issued by the Ikhshidid rulers of Egypt and Palestine (935-69) followed a series of understood but unwritten rules. As the first part of this book reveals, these norms involved whose names could appear on the regular currency, where the names could be placed (based upon a strict hierarchical order), and even which parts of a Muslim name could be included. The founder of the dynasty, Muhammad ibn Tughj, could use the honorific al-Ikhshid; his eldest son and successor could use his teknonym Abu al-Qasim; his brother, the third ruler, could use only his name Ali; and the eunuch Kafur, effective ruler of Egypt for over twenty years, could never inscribe his name on the regular coinage. At the same time, each one of these rulers was named in the Friday sermon and most had their teknonym inscribed on textiles. Presentation coins, the equivalent of modern commemorative pieces, could break all these rules, and a wide variety of titles appeared, as well as a series of coins with human representation. The second half of the book is a catalogue of over 1,200 specimens, enabling curators, collectors, and dealers to identify coins in their own collections and their relative rarity. Throughout the book numismatic pieces are illustrated, along with commentary on their inscriptions, layout, and metallic content.
Publisher: American Univ in Cairo Press
ISBN: 9789774249303
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
What can one discover through the study of medieval Islamic coins? It appears that the regular gold dinars and silver dirhams issued by the Ikhshidid rulers of Egypt and Palestine (935-69) followed a series of understood but unwritten rules. As the first part of this book reveals, these norms involved whose names could appear on the regular currency, where the names could be placed (based upon a strict hierarchical order), and even which parts of a Muslim name could be included. The founder of the dynasty, Muhammad ibn Tughj, could use the honorific al-Ikhshid; his eldest son and successor could use his teknonym Abu al-Qasim; his brother, the third ruler, could use only his name Ali; and the eunuch Kafur, effective ruler of Egypt for over twenty years, could never inscribe his name on the regular coinage. At the same time, each one of these rulers was named in the Friday sermon and most had their teknonym inscribed on textiles. Presentation coins, the equivalent of modern commemorative pieces, could break all these rules, and a wide variety of titles appeared, as well as a series of coins with human representation. The second half of the book is a catalogue of over 1,200 specimens, enabling curators, collectors, and dealers to identify coins in their own collections and their relative rarity. Throughout the book numismatic pieces are illustrated, along with commentary on their inscriptions, layout, and metallic content.