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Power and Fear: Awe before the Emperor in Byzantium,
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Ivanov S. A.
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It is generally accepted that the subjects of the Byzantrine Emperor were living in the state of constant fear before him. UYetr, if we analyze how Byzantine authors describe the awe before the ruler, we will see that the weas enough room for irony, criticism and even derision
Routledge, 2025.
The Routledge Handbook of Rewriting in Byzantium presents an overview of the various rewriting processes involved in the production of Byzantine literature. Due to the lack of recent systematic research on the totality of Byzantine literature, which embraces a long millennium of texts, the fluid concept of ‘rewriting’, here studied for the first time in all ...
Added: April 11, 2025
Лихачева Д. Д., Искусствознание 2023 № 3 С. 46–71
This article is devoted to the images of churches and monasteries of
Constantinople in the Menologium of Basil II, one of the most beautiful manuscripts of the
Macedonian Renaissance. The appeal to early art, characteristic of the painting of this time, led
to the return of many techniques and pictorial forms forgotten during the iconoclastic period.
This also affected ...
Added: November 3, 2023
Ivanov S. A., , in: Medieval Rus' and Early Modern Russia. Texts and Contexts.: L.: Routledge, 2023. Ch. 5 P. 69–76.
New, previously unnoticed quotes from Byzantine sources are revealed in the Primary Chronicle of Rus', as well as in the Kievan Chronicle. The nature of excerpting from Greek works is analyzed. ...
Added: June 26, 2023
Biriukov D., Studies in East European Thought 2022 Vol. 1 Article 2
I detect a specific attitude to Byzantium (“the Byzantine Enlightenment”) in Ivan Kireevsky’ Slavophile article “On the Character of Enlightenment in Europe” (1852). I qualify this attitude as Byzantinocentrism. I take that as a focal point and, against this background, consider the image of Byzantium in Kireevsky and some thinkers of his social circle. It allows ...
Added: October 30, 2022
Ivantchik A., Zeitschrift fur Papyrologie und Epigraphik 2022 Vol. 222 P. 138–144
During excavations in 2009, the upper part of a decree, dating back to the first half of the 2nd century BC, was discovered at the trench R-25. The decree was written in a Dorian dialect and thus belonged not to Olbia but to one of the Dorian cities; its name is not mentioned in the ...
Added: October 18, 2022
Ivanov S. A., Istanbul: Kitap Yayınevi, 2020.
Bunda şaşacak bir şey yok, zira Bizanslıların başkenti Konstantinopolis yok artık. Onun yerinde başka bir şehir, yeni bir ülkenin, başka bir halkın ve uygarlığın kültür başkenti yükseliyor. Osmanlı denizinin dalgaları üzerinde batık Bizans anakarasının ancak kimi zirveleri uç veriyor bugün. Elinizde tuttuğunuz kitap bir İstanbul rehberi değil, bir Bizans tarihi de değil. Okura, bir şehir ...
Added: October 15, 2022
Ivanov S. A., , in: Managing emotion in Byzantium: Passions, Affects and Imaginings.: L.: Routledge, 2022. Ch. 16 P. 427–442.
It is assumed that all Byzantines trembled before the Emperor, as if he was God. Emperors indeed constructed their image so as to insipre quasi-religious awe. Yet, there existed a different sort of emotion among Byzantine intellectuals: they tried to overcome their fear, satirize it. ...
Added: October 14, 2022
L.: Routledge, 2022.
Byzantinists entered the study of emotion with Henry Maguire’s ground-breaking article on sorrow, published in 1977. Since then, classicists and western medievalists have developed new ways of understanding how emotional communities work and where the ancients’ concepts of emotion differ from our own, and Byzantinists have begun to consider emotions other than sorrow. It is time to look at what ...
Added: October 14, 2022
Lukhovitskiy L., СПб.: Дмитрий Буланин, 2023.
В монографии прослеживается эволюция исторической памяти об иконоборческих спорах VIII—IX вв. в литературе средне- и поздне-византийского периода. В фокусе внимания автора находятся, с одной стороны, моменты актуализации обвинений в иконоборчестве в церковно-политических конфликтах эпохи Алексея I Комнина (1081—1118 гг.), Лионской унии (1274 г.) и исихастских споров (середина XIV в.), а с другой — художественные образы ...
Added: September 20, 2022
Kosourov D., В кн.: BYZANTINOCAUCASICAВып. 1.: Институт востоковедения РАН, 2021. Гл. 6 С. 121–132.
The article considers the foreign policy of the Georgian Kingdom immediately after the end of the Georgian-Byzantine war of 1021-1022 and the formation of the Byzantine theme of Iberia around 1023 in the territory of the Southern Tao. Despite the heavy defeat in this war, the Georgian king George I (1014–1027) continued the struggle for ...
Added: May 10, 2022
Ivanov S. A., Istanbul: Kitap Yayınevi, 2021.
Each chapter of this guidebook includes a general map of the area it covers plus a number of
more detailed maps that allow one to navigate the back streets of Istanbul. Maps of
the present-day city show all the preserved Byzantine monuments, as well as the
approximate positions of the buildings that did not survive, but which researchers
have ...
Added: February 2, 2022
Niš: Универзитет у Нишу, 2018.
Collection of works of the 16th Symposium Niš and Byzantium (the University of Niš) dedicated to "Roman Crown of the Orthodox Kingdom - 800 Years since the Coronation of Stefan the First-Crowned" ...
Added: December 8, 2021
Lukhovitskiy L., Vardazaryan O., Travaux et Memoires 2020 Vol. 24 No. 2 P. 65–103
The article offers the first commented English translation of the Letter to the Armenians (CPG 8001) by Germanos, Patriarch of Constantinople (715–30). The Letter is extant only in an early Armenian translation and until now was accessible to non-Armenologists in an incomplete and unreliable 19th-century Latin translation. The new translation is accompaniedby an introduction, which ...
Added: October 2, 2021
Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2022.
This is the inaugural volume of the new series Studies in Byzantine Epigraphy. The series will encompass studies that look at a wide range of inscriptions from late antiquity to later Byzantium in a variety of social and spatial contexts. ...
Added: September 9, 2021
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021.
This volume, the first ever of its kind in English, introduces and surveys Greek literature in Byzantium (330 - 1453 CE). In twenty-five chapters composed by leading specialists, The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Literature surveys the immense body of Greek literature produced from the fourth to the fifteenth century CE and advances a nuanced understanding of what ...
Added: July 16, 2021
Ivanov S. A., Quaestio Rossica 2021 Т. 9 № 2 С. 666–678
Catherine II inspired many Russian projects in historical science. She herself was an active, if amateur, historian. The Empress eagerly used history to promote her own political ideas, but she was also an avid reader of history, both Russian and Ancient. But what about Byzantine history? One would think she would have been interested in ...
Added: July 8, 2021
Ivanov S. A., В кн.: Анатомия власти: государи и подданные в Европе в Средние века и Новое время.: М.: Издательский дом НИУ ВШЭ, 2021. С. 55–65.
The Greek term kosmokrator 'world-ruler' had two opposite meanings: the Devil and the Emperor/ The firm one went back to Gnosticism, the second was derived from Hellenistic ideas about Kings' power. From the 6th until the 12th century the christian meaning Devil squeezed out the political one but in the 12th century the word "kosmokrator' ...
Added: June 2, 2021