Society, Culture and Politics in Byzantium (Variorum Collected Studies)

Society, Culture and Politics in Byzantium is the fourth selection of papers by the late Nicolas Oikonomides to be published in the Variorum Collected Studies Series. Its focus is upon the Byzantine world after the Fourth Crusade and during the Palaeologan period, though several studies deal with a longer time span. The twenty-eight articles included look first at questions of language and literacy, and then at the relationships between art and politics. The final sections examine aspects of the history of the later empire, in the age of its decline, caught between the economic penetration of the Western European states and the expansion of the Ottoman Turks, and consider the development of Byzantine institutions, monasteries and the Church in this period. Cover Series Half Title Title Copyright Contents Preface Acknowledgements PUBLISHER'S NOTE LANGUAGE AND LITERACY I L'"Unilinguisme" officiel de Constantinople byzantine (VIIe-XIIe S.) Symmeikta 13. Athens, 1999 II Ματζουχίνα-Ματζουχάτος in Ptochoprodromos ΦΙΛΕΛΛΗΝ 17. Studies in Honour of Robert Browning, ed. C.N. Constantinides, N.M. Panagiotakes, E. Jeffreys and A.D. Angelou. Venice, 1996 III Mount Athos: levels of literacy Dumbarton Oaks Papers 42. Washington, D.C., 1988 IV Literacy in thirteenth-century Byzantium: an example from Western Asia Minor TO ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΟΝ. Studies in Honor of Speros Vryonis, Jr., Vol. 1, ed. John S. Langdon, Stephen W. Reinert, Jelisaveta Stanojevich Allen and Christos P. loannides. Scarsdale, N.Y., 1993 V Byzance : à propos d'alphabétisation Bilan et Perspectives des Études Médiévales en Europe, ed. J. Hamesse. Louvain-la-Neuve, 1995 VI Η έγγραματωσόνη τών Κρητικω̃ν γύρω στο 1200 Acts of the VIIth International Congress of Cretan Studies, 11/2. Rethymnon, 1995 ART AND POLITICS VII Some remarks on the apse mosaic of St. Sophia Dumbarton Oaks Papers 39. Washington, D.C., 1985 VIII Η στολή του επάρχου κι ο Σκυλίτζης της Μαδρίτης Euphrosynon: Aphieroma ston Manoli Chatzidaki. Athens, 1992 IX La couronne dite de Constantin Monomaque Travaux et Mémoires 12. Paris, 1994 Χ Η αυτοκράτειρα Αγία Σοφία Thymiama sti Mnimi tis Laskarinas Mpoura. Athens, 1994, pp. 235-238 XI The significance of some imperial monumental portraits of the X and XI centuries Zograf 25. Belgrade, 1996, pp. 23-26 XII Pictorial propaganda in XIIth c. Constantinople Glas 390 de I'Académie serbe des sciences et des arts. Classe des sciences historiques 11. Belgrade, 2001 XIII The holy icon as an asset Dumbarton Oaks Papers 45. Washington, D.C., 1991 XIV An imperial Byzantine casket and its fate at a humanist's hands (with Anthony Cutler) The Art Bulletin 70. New York, 1988, pp. 77-87 BYZANTIUM AFTER 1204 XV La rinascita delle istituzioni bizantine dopo il 1204 Federico II e il mondo mediterraneo. Palermo, 1995 XVI A propos des armées des premiers Paléologues et des compagnies de soldats Travaux et Mémoires 8. Paris, 1981 XVII Byzantium between East and West (XIII-XV cent.) Byzantium and the West c.850-c.1200. Proceedings of the XVIII Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, ed. J.D. Howard-Johnston. Amsterdam, 1988 XVIII The Byzantine overlord of Genoese possessions in Romania Porphyrogenita. Essays on the History and Literature of Byzantium and the Latin East in Honour of Julian Chrysostomides, ed. Charalambos Dendrinos, Jonathan Harris, Eirene Harvalia-Crook, Judith Herrin. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003 XIX The Turks in Europe (1305-13) and the Serbs in Asia Minor (1313) The Ottoman Emirate (1300-1389), ed. Elizabeth Zachariadou. Halcyon Days in Crete I: A Symposium Held in Rethymnon 11-13 January 1991. Rethymnon: Crete University Press, 1993 XX From soldiers of fortune to Gazi warriors: the Tzympe affair Studies in Ottoman History in Honour of Professor V.L. Menage, ed. Colin Heywood and Colin Imber. Istanbul: The Isis Press, 1994 XXI Pour une typologie des villes "separees" sous les Paleologues Geschichte und Kultur der Palaiologenzeit, ed. Werner Seibt. Vienna, 1996 XXII Andronic II Paléologue et la ville de Kroia The Mediaeval Albanians. International Symposium 5. Athens, 1998 XXIII Byzantine diplomacy, A.D. 1204-1453: means and ends Publications of the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies, ed. Jonathan Shepard and Simon Franklin. Aldershot: Ashgate/Variorum, 1992 ATHOS AND THE CHURCH XXIV To μερίδιο των μοναστηριών στην αγορά της τουρκακρατούμευης Θεσσαλονίκης (1400) Demetria 28, 7th Scholarly Symposium, 'Christian Thessalonica', Stauropegial and Parochial Monasteries. Thessaloniki, 1995 XXV Patronage in Palaiologan Mt Athos Mount Athos and Byzantine Monasticism. Papers from the Twenty-Eighth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Birmingham, March 1994, ed. Anthony Bryer and Mary Cunningham. Aldershot, Ashgate/Variorum, 1996 XXVI Le temps des faux Mount Athos in the 14th-16th Centuries. Athonika Symmeikta 4. Athens, 1997 XXVII Αγροτικό περίσσευμα και ο ρόλος του κράτους γύρω στο 1300 Manuel Panselinos and His Age. Byzantium Today 3. Athens, 1999 XXVIII Réflexions sur le monocondyle épiscopal du 16e s. The Greek Script in the 15th and 16th Centuries. International Symposium 7. Athens, 2000 Index The 28 articles in this text look at language and literacy, art and politics, Byzantium after 1204, and Mount Athos and the church. Half of them are in English, the others in French, Greek, or Italian. Among their topics are an example from western Asia Minor of literacy in 13th-century Byzantium, an imperial Byzantine casket and its fate at a humanist's hands, the Byzantine overlord of Genoese possessions in Romania, and patronage in Palaiologan Mount Athos The fourth selection of papers by the late Nicolas Oikonomides to be published in the "Variorum Collected Studies Series" focusing on the Byzantine world after the Fourth Crusade and during the Palaeologan period. The 28 articles included look first at questions of language and literacy, and then at the relationships between art and politics Nicolas Oikonomidès ; Edited By Elizabeth Zachariadou. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.