The Historians of Late Antiquity, Rohrbacher, David
Автор: Clark, Gillian Название: Late Antiquity: A Very Short Introduction ISBN: 0199546207 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199546206 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: от 1138.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть
Описание: The time known as Late Antiquity (c.300-c.800) was a fascinatingly diverse and important period which saw the `Fall of Rome` and the growth of Christianity and Islam. Gillian Clark explores its historical controversies, introducing the main characters and themes, and demonstrating the transition between the medieval and ancient.
Автор: Hennessy Название: Images of Children in Byzantium ISBN: 1138265179 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138265172 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 6583.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book covers a subject that has never previously been addressed, and yet it is both a fascinating and a provocative one: the representation of children in Byzantium. The visual material is extensive, intriguing and striking, and the historical context is crucially important to our understanding of Byzantine culture, social history and artistic output. The imagery explored is drawn from the fourth to the fifteenth centuries and encompasses media from manuscripts to mosaics and enamel.
Part of the allure of this subject is that people do not associate childhood with Byzantium. Ernst Gombrich commented, 'who could find it easy, after a visit to Ravenna and its solemn mosaics, to think of noisy children in Byzantium?'. However, in Byzantium, patrons of art were often young, such as emperors who acceded to the throne as teenagers, and makers of art, sculptors, mosaicists, painters often began their training at an early age.
How did this affect the creation, promotion and production of art? The study questions the definitions and perceptions of childhood, focusing on topics such as the family, saintly children and those associated with imperial power. Cecily Hennessy demonstrates that children are featured often in visual imagery and in key locations, indicating that they played a central role in Byzantine life, something which has previously been overlooked or ignored. In tackling this new subject she reveals important aspects of childhood, youth, and by extension adulthood in Byzantine society and raises issues that are also applicable to the present and to other historical contexts.
Автор: Skinner, Marilyn B. Название: Clodia Metelli ISBN: 0195375017 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780195375015 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 6414.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Clodia Metelli: The Tribune`s Sister is the first full-length biography of a Roman aristocrat whose colorful life, as portrayed by contemporaries, has inspired numerous modern works of popular fiction, art, and poetry. This study, by examining the way in which she was represented, sheds light on the role played by major female figures in Roman literature.
Автор: Walter Название: The Warrior Saints in Byzantine Art and Tradition ISBN: 1138253855 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138253858 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 7501.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Christopher Walter's study of the cult and iconography of Byzantine warrior saints - George, Demetrius, the two Theodores, and dozens more - is at once encyclopaedic and interpretative, and the first comprehensive study of the subject. The author delineates their origins and development as a distinctive category of saint, showing that in its definitive form this coincides with the apogee of the Byzantine empire in the 10th-11th centuries. He establishes a repertory, particularly of their commemorations in synaxaries and their representations in art, and describes their iconographical types and the functions ascribed to them once enrolled in the celestial army: support for the terrestrial army in its offensive campaigns, and a new protective role when the Byzantine Empire passed to the defensive.
The survey highlights the lack of historicity among the Byzantines in their approach to the lives of these saints and their terrestrial careers. An epilogue briefly treats the analogous traditions in the cultures of neighbouring peoples. Walter draws attention to the development of an echelon of military saints, notably in church decoration, which provides the surest basis for defining their specificity; also to the way in which they were depicted, generally young, handsome and robust, and frequently 'twinned' in pairs, so calling attention to the importance of camaraderie among soldiers.
At the same time, this work opens a new perspective on the military history of the Byzantine Empire. Its ideology of war consistently followed that of the Israelites; protected and favoured by divine intervention, there was no occasion to discuss the morality of a 'just war'. Consequently, when considering Byzantine methods of warfare, due attention should be given to the important role which they attributed to celestial help in their military campaigns.
Автор: Cameron Averil Название: Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity ISBN: 0415579619 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415579612 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 7195.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book provides both a detailed introduction to the vivid and exciting period of `late antiquity` and a direct challenge to conventional views of the end of the Empire.
Описание: This book will interest anyone who wants to better understand the period spanning the end of the Roman Empire and the birth of medieval civilization. It is a unique, far-reaching study that goes beyond synthesis to propose a new paradigm for urban evolution across the Roman world.
Автор: Kaldellis Название: Byzantine Readings of Ancient Historians ISBN: 0415732328 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415732321 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 22202.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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The survival of ancient Greek historiography is largely due to its preservation by Byzantine copyists and scholars. This process entailed selection, adaptation, and commentary, which shaped the corpus of Greek historiography in its transmission. By investigating those choices, Kaldellis enables a better understanding of the reception and survival of Greek historical writing.
Byzantine Readings of Ancient Historians includes translations of texts written by Byzantines on specific ancient historians. Each translated text is accompanied by an introduction and notes to highlight the specific context and purpose of its composition. In order to present a rounded picture of the reception of Greek historiography in Byzantium, a wide range of genres have been considered, such as poems and epigrams, essays, personalized scholia, and commentaries. Byzantine Readings of Ancient Historians is therefore an important resource for scholars and students of ancient history.
Автор: Rohrbacher, David Название: The Historians of Late Antiquity ISBN: 0415204585 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415204583 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 22202.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The first translation, produced by a team of eight scholars, of the Declamations and Preliminary Talks of the sixth-century sophist Choricius of Gaza. This volume also contains a detailed study of Choricius` reception in Byzantium and Renaissance Italy.
Название: Byzantium and the West ISBN: 1138059749 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138059740 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 22202.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Contributors to this volume explore the multi-faceted and multi-layered contact between Byzantium and the West, from the `schism` of 1054 to the fifteenth century, and evaluate how the interaction between the two sides was shaped by the parallel and often competing influences of perception and reality.
Автор: Sofie Remijsen Название: The End of Greek Athletics in Late Antiquity ISBN: 1107644704 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107644700 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 6019.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The demise of the ancient Olympics has commonly been blamed on a ban imposed by the Christian emperor Theodosius I. Sofie Remijsen challenges this conventional view, and traces instead the collapse of the entire professional circuit of Greek athletics under the pressure of changing institutions and perceptions in late antiquity.
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