Author: Michael Grünbart
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN: 3643108974
Category : Ceremonial exchange
Languages : de
Pages : 307
Book Description
Geschenke erhalten die Freundschaft
Author: Michael Grünbart
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN: 3643108974
Category : Ceremonial exchange
Languages : de
Pages : 307
Book Description
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN: 3643108974
Category : Ceremonial exchange
Languages : de
Pages : 307
Book Description
War in the Hellenistic World
Author: Angelos Chaniotis
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0470775211
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Exploiting the abundant primary sources available, this book examines the diverse ways in which war shaped the Hellenistic world. An overview of war and society in the Hellenistic world. Highlights the interdependence of warfare and social phenomena. Covers a wide range of topics, including social conditions as causes of war, the role of professional warriors, the discourse of war in Hellenistic cities, the budget of war, the collective memory of war, and the aesthetics of war. Draws on the abundance of primary sources available.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0470775211
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Exploiting the abundant primary sources available, this book examines the diverse ways in which war shaped the Hellenistic world. An overview of war and society in the Hellenistic world. Highlights the interdependence of warfare and social phenomena. Covers a wide range of topics, including social conditions as causes of war, the role of professional warriors, the discourse of war in Hellenistic cities, the budget of war, the collective memory of war, and the aesthetics of war. Draws on the abundance of primary sources available.
Designing for Luxury on the Bay of Naples
Author: Mantha Zarmakoupi
Publisher:
ISBN: 0199678383
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
This study explores Roman luxury villa lifestyle and architecture to shed light on the villas' design as a dynamic process related to cultural, social, and environmental factors. Through an analysis of five villas from around the bay of Naples, it shows how the Romans developed a sophisticated interplay between architecture and landscape.
Publisher:
ISBN: 0199678383
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
This study explores Roman luxury villa lifestyle and architecture to shed light on the villas' design as a dynamic process related to cultural, social, and environmental factors. Through an analysis of five villas from around the bay of Naples, it shows how the Romans developed a sophisticated interplay between architecture and landscape.
Epigram, Art, and Devotion in Later Byzantium
Author: Ivan Drpić
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107151511
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 515
Book Description
Using epigrammatic poetry as a framework, investigates the interplay between art and religious devotion in the later Byzantine period.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107151511
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 515
Book Description
Using epigrammatic poetry as a framework, investigates the interplay between art and religious devotion in the later Byzantine period.
Writing and Reading Byzantine Secular Poetry, 1025-1081
Author: Floris Bernard
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191008788
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 395
Book Description
In the mid-eleventh century, secular Byzantine poetry attained a hitherto unseen degree of wit, vividness, and personal involvement, chiefly exemplified in the poetry of Christophoros Mitylenaios, Ioannes Mauropous, and Michael Psellos. This is the first volume to consider this poetic activity as a whole, critically reconsidering modern assumptions about Byzantine poetry, and focusing on Byzantine conceptions of the role of poetry in society. By providing a detailed account of the various media through which poetry was presented to its readers, and by tracing the initial circulation of poems, this volume takes an interest in the Byzantine reader and his/her reading habits and strategies, allowing aspects of performance and visual representation, rarely addressed, to come to the fore. It also examines the social interests that motivated the composition of poetry, establishing a connection with the extraordinary social mobility of the time. Self-representative strategies are analyzed against the background of an unstable elite struggling to find moral justification, which allows the study to raise the question of patronage, examine the discourse used by poets to secure material rewards, and explain the social dynamics of dedicatory epigrams. Finally, gift exchange is explored as a medium that underlines the value of poetry and confirms the exclusive nature of intellectual friendship.
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191008788
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 395
Book Description
In the mid-eleventh century, secular Byzantine poetry attained a hitherto unseen degree of wit, vividness, and personal involvement, chiefly exemplified in the poetry of Christophoros Mitylenaios, Ioannes Mauropous, and Michael Psellos. This is the first volume to consider this poetic activity as a whole, critically reconsidering modern assumptions about Byzantine poetry, and focusing on Byzantine conceptions of the role of poetry in society. By providing a detailed account of the various media through which poetry was presented to its readers, and by tracing the initial circulation of poems, this volume takes an interest in the Byzantine reader and his/her reading habits and strategies, allowing aspects of performance and visual representation, rarely addressed, to come to the fore. It also examines the social interests that motivated the composition of poetry, establishing a connection with the extraordinary social mobility of the time. Self-representative strategies are analyzed against the background of an unstable elite struggling to find moral justification, which allows the study to raise the question of patronage, examine the discourse used by poets to secure material rewards, and explain the social dynamics of dedicatory epigrams. Finally, gift exchange is explored as a medium that underlines the value of poetry and confirms the exclusive nature of intellectual friendship.
A Companion to Ancient Macedonia
Author: Joseph Roisman
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1405179368
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 680
Book Description
The most comprehensive and up-to-date work available on ancient Macedonian history and material culture, A Companion to Ancient Macedonia is an invaluable reference for students and scholars alike. Features new, specially commissioned essays by leading and up-and-coming scholars in the field Examines the political, military, social, economic, and cultural history of ancient Macedonia from the Archaic period to the end of Roman period and beyond Discusses the importance of art, archaeology and architecture All ancient sources are translated in English Each chapter includes bibliographical essays for further reading
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1405179368
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 680
Book Description
The most comprehensive and up-to-date work available on ancient Macedonian history and material culture, A Companion to Ancient Macedonia is an invaluable reference for students and scholars alike. Features new, specially commissioned essays by leading and up-and-coming scholars in the field Examines the political, military, social, economic, and cultural history of ancient Macedonia from the Archaic period to the end of Roman period and beyond Discusses the importance of art, archaeology and architecture All ancient sources are translated in English Each chapter includes bibliographical essays for further reading
Documentality
Author: Jacqueline Arthur-Montagne
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110791919
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
This volume unites scholars of classical epigraphy, papyrology, and literature to analyze the documentary habit in the Roman Empire. Texts like inscriptions and letters have gained importance in classical scholarship, but there has been limited analysis of the imaginative and sociological dimensions of the ancient document. Individual chapters investigate the definition of the document in ancient thought, and how modern understandings of documentation may (mis)shape scholarly approaches to documentary sources in antiquity. Contributors reexamine familiar categories of ancient documents through the lenses of perception and function, and reveal where the modern understanding of the document departs from ancient conceptions of documentation. The boundary between literary genres and documentary genres of writing appears more fluid than prior scholarship had allowed. Compared to modern audiences, inhabitants of the Roman Empire used a more diverse range of both non-textual and textual forms of documentation, and they did so with a more active, questioning attitude. The interdisciplinary approach to the "mentality" of documentation in this volume advances beyond standard discussions of form, genre, and style to revisit the document through the eyes of Greco-Roman readers and viewers.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110791919
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
This volume unites scholars of classical epigraphy, papyrology, and literature to analyze the documentary habit in the Roman Empire. Texts like inscriptions and letters have gained importance in classical scholarship, but there has been limited analysis of the imaginative and sociological dimensions of the ancient document. Individual chapters investigate the definition of the document in ancient thought, and how modern understandings of documentation may (mis)shape scholarly approaches to documentary sources in antiquity. Contributors reexamine familiar categories of ancient documents through the lenses of perception and function, and reveal where the modern understanding of the document departs from ancient conceptions of documentation. The boundary between literary genres and documentary genres of writing appears more fluid than prior scholarship had allowed. Compared to modern audiences, inhabitants of the Roman Empire used a more diverse range of both non-textual and textual forms of documentation, and they did so with a more active, questioning attitude. The interdisciplinary approach to the "mentality" of documentation in this volume advances beyond standard discussions of form, genre, and style to revisit the document through the eyes of Greco-Roman readers and viewers.
The End of Greek Athletics in Late Antiquity
Author: Sofie Remijsen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107050782
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
A comprehensive study of how and why athletic contests, a characteristic feature of ancient Greek culture, disappeared in late antiquity.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107050782
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
A comprehensive study of how and why athletic contests, a characteristic feature of ancient Greek culture, disappeared in late antiquity.
A Companion to Byzantium and the West, 900-1204
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004499245
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 591
Book Description
The eighteen chapters of this book explore the complex history of exchange between Byzantium and the Latin West over a period of more than three hundred years, with a focus on the political, ecclesiastical and cultural spheres. Besides outlining the history of competition and collaboration between two empires in medieval Europe, a range of regional approaches, stretching from England to the Crusader kingdoms, offer insights into the many aspects of Byzantine-Latin contact and exchange. Further sections explore patterns of mutual perception, linguistic and material dimensions of the contacts, as well as the role played by various groups of “cultural brokers” such as ambassadors, merchants, monks and Jewish communities. Contributors are: Axel Bayer, Saskia Dönitz, Nicolas Drocourt, Leonie Exarchos, Daniel Föller, Christian Gastgeber, Hans-Werner Goetz, Dominik Heher, Klaus Herbers, Christopher Hobbs, David Jacoby, Sebastian Kolditz, Savvas Neocleous, Johannes Pahlitzsch, Annick Peters-Custot, Miriam Salzmann, Jonathan Shepard, Juan Signes Codoñer, and Eleni Tounta.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004499245
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 591
Book Description
The eighteen chapters of this book explore the complex history of exchange between Byzantium and the Latin West over a period of more than three hundred years, with a focus on the political, ecclesiastical and cultural spheres. Besides outlining the history of competition and collaboration between two empires in medieval Europe, a range of regional approaches, stretching from England to the Crusader kingdoms, offer insights into the many aspects of Byzantine-Latin contact and exchange. Further sections explore patterns of mutual perception, linguistic and material dimensions of the contacts, as well as the role played by various groups of “cultural brokers” such as ambassadors, merchants, monks and Jewish communities. Contributors are: Axel Bayer, Saskia Dönitz, Nicolas Drocourt, Leonie Exarchos, Daniel Föller, Christian Gastgeber, Hans-Werner Goetz, Dominik Heher, Klaus Herbers, Christopher Hobbs, David Jacoby, Sebastian Kolditz, Savvas Neocleous, Johannes Pahlitzsch, Annick Peters-Custot, Miriam Salzmann, Jonathan Shepard, Juan Signes Codoñer, and Eleni Tounta.
The Medieval Gift and the Classical Tradition
Author: Lars Kjaer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108424023
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
Explores how classical ideals of generosity influenced the writing and practice of gift giving in medieval Europe.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108424023
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
Explores how classical ideals of generosity influenced the writing and practice of gift giving in medieval Europe.