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Managing emotion in Byzantium: Passions, Affects and Imaginings
L. :
Routledge, 2022.
Under the general editorship: M. Mullett, S. A. Harvey
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 is distinctive about Byzantine emotion.
This volume is the first to look at the constellation of Byzantine emotions. Originating at an international colloquium at Dumbarton Oaks, these papers address issues such as power, gender, rhetoric, or asceticism in Byzantine society through the lens of a single emotion or cluster of emotions. Contributors focus not only on the construction of emotions with respect to perception and cognition but also explore how emotions were communicated and exchanged across broad (multi)linguistic, political and social boundaries. Priorities are twofold: to arrive at an understanding of what the Byzantines thought of as emotions and to comprehend how theory shaped their appraisal of reality.
Chapters
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. ...
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Назарова А. Е., Болонина В. А., Редакция журнала “Скиф. Вопросы студенческой науки, 2025.
The article focuses on understanding reflection in the context of narrative analysis as a means to achieve deepself-awareness of personal well-being. The focus is on the analysis of reflexive activity as a dual process, where reflectionsimultaneously serves as a means of self-understanding and a tool for cognitive cognition of the moment of happiness.The idea is ...
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Абдулаев А. Д., Мониторинг общественного мнения: Экономические и социальные перемены 2026 № 2 С. 259–283
This paper examines the relationship between various forms of state market presence and the intensity of conflicts between residents and management companies in multi-family housing in St. Petersburg. State entities are conceptualized as multi-level agents operating within the housing and utilities market, functioning not only as regulators but also as service providers and consumers. Conflict ...
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Vinogradov A., Slovĕne 2025 Т. 14 № 2 С. 38–55
The article deals with the reconstruction of the political governance in Novgorod from the first half to mid-11th century, which was being interpreted very differently due to significant discrepancies in the sources. The Novgorod prince was usually the son of the Kiev one, but not necessarily the eldest (who could also occupy another see, e.g., ...
Added: May 11, 2026
Bodrova M., Археология евразийских степей 2026 № 1 С. 287–292
The article examines a Neo-Babylonian seal discovered among the grave goods of a Sarmatian burial in Kurgan No. 3 near the village of Tbilisskaya (Pre-Caucasus region). Although the burial itself dates to the late 1st – early 2nd century CE, the seal’s iconography and carving technique indicate its origin in the Neo-Babylonian cultural sphere of the ...
Added: May 8, 2026
Gužvica S., Tokovi Istorije 2026 No. 1 P. 15–52
The paper analyzes the intellectual climate and political circumstances that shaped and heavily influenced the literary imagination and the semantic horizon of two novels—The Optimists: the Novel of a Revolution by Ervin Sinkó and Like a Tear in the Ocean: A Trilogy by Manès Sperber. Besides introductory remarks and conclusion, the paper’s structure is threefold, ...
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Nikonov A., Логос 2026 Т. 36 № 170(1) С. 271–296
The article examines Soviet mass songs of the 1930s as an active space for articulating the socialist realist principles of “narodnost” (people’s character) and “partiinost” (party-mindedness). The focus is not only on the content of song production but also on the complex of practices involved in its creation and dissemination, the analysis of which reveals ...
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Крол А. А., Кузнецов Д. А., Ladynin I. A., Восток. Афро-азиатские общества: история и современность 2026 Т. 1 С. 244–261
The publication presents a new translation and commentary of the Quban Stela of Ramesses II (Musée des beaux-arts Grenoble, Collection égyptienne, inv. 1937, 1969, 3565). This monument dates to the beginning of his reign (ca. 1287 BC); it was found near the ruins of the fortress of Baki, close to the Nubian village of Kuban. The composers of the ...
Added: May 5, 2026
Ladynin I. A., Дашкина А. Р., Проблемы истории, филологии, культуры 2026 № 1 (91) С. 24–37
The article examines two aspects of the integration of Nubia (with particular attention to Lower Nubia) into the statehood of ancient Egypt during early antiquity (up to the end of the 2nd millennium BC). During the First and Second Intermediate Periods, Nubia demonstrates the adoption of Egyptian traditions of royal power, incorporating its territory into ...
Added: May 5, 2026
Ladynin I. A., Вестник древней истории 2024 Т. 84 № 1 С. 5–26
The article analyses a set of Classical evidence reflecting the Egyptian conquest of Bactria or its attempt (Diod. I. 46–47; Tac. Ann. II. 60. 3; Strabo XVII. 1. 46), a statement of Manetho of Sebennytos on the vast conquests of king Sethos-Ramesses (I) (Manetho. Frg. 50 = Ios. C.Ap. I. 15. § 98–102), and the ...
Added: May 5, 2026
Ladynin I. A., Немировский А. А., Social Evolution & History 2025 Vol. 24 No. 2 P. 162–167
The article deals with the problem of the state formation in the two key areas of the early civilizations, i.e. Egypt and Mesopotamia. In Egypt the stage of the so-called nome states was largely avoided, as the local polities had probably the nature of chiefdoms and the state emerged when they were integrated into larger ...
Added: May 5, 2026
Medakin S., Новое прошлое 2026 № 1 С. 129–147
The article deals with the peculiarities of the representation of history and culture of the XIX century on the pages of the magazine “Krokodil” in 1941–1945. It was the 19th century, excluding the events of the 20th century, that received the most coverage in “Krokodil” during this period — a little less than a third ...
Added: May 1, 2026
Mylonas Y., L.: Routledge, 2026.
This book presents a critical examination of how cultural forms, ranging from cinema and TV to literature, address class within the overarching context of a crisis conjuncture, specifically the period following the 2008 financial crash. It demonstrates how culture serves as a crucial site for capturing the contemporary "structure of feeling", publicly mediating the period's ...
Added: April 30, 2026
Минаева М. Д., Вестник Института востоковедения РАН 2025 № 6 С. 143–155
This article examines the rhetorical device of “irony” in the Sanskrit poetic tradition, using examples from the medieval playwright Vatsarāja’s Kirātārjunīya (“The Kirāta and Arjuna,” 12th century). This play belongs to the rare vyāyoga genre, which is characterized by the depiction of a great battle between two renowned heroes accompanied by a verbal duel filled with ...
Added: April 30, 2026
Zemlyakov M., Средние века 2026 № 87 (1) С. 168–175
The publication establishes a full text of a report made by Professor Vladimir M. Lavrovsky at Lomonosov Moscow State University (Faculty of History). This report focuses on the results of his scientific mission to the Anglo-Soviet Conference (London, September 1958). Lavrovsky describes in details the discussion on his own report and accentuates the advantages of ...
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Прошин А. В., Vox Medii Aevi 2025 Т. 1 (12) С. 13–36
Поскольку древнерусским князьям приходилось постоянно принимать участие в походах и сражениях, идеал правителя должен был, несомненно, отражать представления о них как о воинах. Предполагаемая рядом исследователей первостепенная важность воинского образа
князей, включающего их ратные и полководческие качества, однако, не находит подтверждения среди летописных некрологов (посмертных панегириков). Эти текст конструируют посмертный образ князя, отмечая его важнейшие качества ...
Added: April 29, 2026
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
Nikolai F., Диалог со временем 2024 № 87 С. 376–381
The article analyzes «The Routledge Companion to Gender and Affect» (2023), edited by Todd Reeser. The concept of affect is used here to explain the rise of right-wing populists in contemporary world, the active transformation of neoliberal hegemony, and the failure of leftist intellectuals that still dominate Anglo-American universities. It captures the changes in the ...
Added: January 21, 2025
Ivanova M., Вестник Томского государственного университета. История 2025 № 94 С. 38–47
This article is devoted to the reconstruction of the gendarme officers’ collective perceptions about the Russian Empire’s territory on the materials about the 2nd gendarme district. The study examined the records of the high police, which reflected the gendarme officers’ ideas about the people’s political loyalty and loyalist sentiments. The study is based on archival ...
Added: November 16, 2024
Забродина Е. А., Артикульт 2020 Т. 39 № 3 С. 65–72
The most tragic emotions were perceived usually as antisocial in the Middle Ages. There was often the link between the emotions and the seven dead sins. However, the perception of these emotions could change under the influence of the situation. Sometimes tragic emotions could become logical or even useful for an individual. This aspect in ...
Added: October 5, 2024
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