Byzantium and the Low Countries in the Tenth Century
| Author | : V. D. van Aalst |
| Publisher | : Coronet Books |
| Total Pages | : 186 |
| Release | : 1985 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : |
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The Empress Theophano
| Author | : Adelbert Davids |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 368 |
| Release | : 2002-08-15 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9780521524674 |
The Byzantine princess Theophano, who came to the West in 972 to marry the Ottonian emperor Otto II, died as empress of the Ottonian Empire in Nijmegen in 991. In commemoration of this event a group of distinguished scholars met in 1991 at the castle of Hernen in the Netherlands with the aim of discussing various issues and aspects of Theophano's background in Byzantium, her life in the West, and her impact on society at the turn of the first millennium. This volume brings together in carefully edited form a group of the papers and proceedings from 1991. Each contribution helps to place Theophano in a broad cultural and historical context. The historical, intellectual and artistic background of her age are described, and there are essays on her education, her surroundings, and on the image of noble women in the middle ages.
Reimagining Europe
| Author | : Christian Raffensperger |
| Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
| Total Pages | : 297 |
| Release | : 2012-03-12 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0674068548 |
An overriding assumption has long directed scholarship in both European and Slavic history: that Kievan Rus' in the tenth through twelfth centuries was part of a Byzantine commonwealth separate from Europe. Christian Raffensperger refutes this conception and offers a new frame for two hundred years of history, one in which Rus' is understood as part of medieval Europe and East is not so neatly divided from West. With the aid of Latin sources, the author brings to light the considerable political, religious, marital, and economic ties among European kingdoms, including Rus', restoring a historical record rendered blank by Russian monastic chroniclers as well as modern scholars ideologically motivated to build barriers between East and West. Further, Raffensperger revises the concept of a Byzantine commonwealth that stood in opposition to Europe-and under which Rus' was subsumed-toward that of a Byzantine Ideal esteemed and emulated by all the states of Europe. In this new context, appropriation of Byzantine customs, law, coinage, art, and architecture in both Rus' and Europe can be understood as an attempt to gain legitimacy and prestige by association with the surviving remnant of the Roman Empire. Reimagining Europe initiates an expansion of history that is sure to challenge ideas of Russian exceptionalism and influence the course of European medieval studies.
A Companion to Byzantium and the West, 900-1204
| Author | : |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 591 |
| Release | : 2021-12-06 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9004499245 |
This book explores the complex history of contact and exchange between Byzantium and the Latin West over a formative period of more than three hundred years, with a focus on the political, ecclesiastical and cultural spheres.
The Birth of the West
| Author | : Paul Collins |
| Publisher | : Public Affairs |
| Total Pages | : 498 |
| Release | : 2013-02-12 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 161039013X |
A narrative history of the origins of Western civilization argues that Europe was transformed in the tenth century from a continent rife with violence and ignorance to a continent on the rise.
The Haskins Society Journal 27
| Author | : Laura L. Gathagan |
| Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
| Total Pages | : 216 |
| Release | : 2016-12-15 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1783271485 |
Wide-ranging and current research into the Anglo-Norman and Angevin worlds.
The Haskins Society Journal 12
| Author | : Alan Cooper |
| Publisher | : Boydell Press |
| Total Pages | : 206 |
| Release | : 2003-08-21 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9781843830085 |
Recent research on the Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman, Viking and Angevin worlds of the eleventh and twelfth centuries. The latest volume of the Haskins Society Journal presents recent research on the Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman, Viking and Angevin worlds of the eleventh and twelfth centuries. A set of articles explores aspects of Anglo-Saxonhistory, including the law of the highway, lordship formulas, royal succession in the ninth century, and the image of kinship under Edward the Confessor. Other contributions examine twelfth-century historians, saints lives in Normandy and Iceland, relationships between religious houses and the laity in thirteenth-century England, and eleventh-century Angevin dispute resolution. This volume of the Haskins Society Journal includes papers read at the 20th Annual Conference of the Charles Homer Haskins Society at Cornell University in October 2001 as well as other contributions. Contributors include DAVE POSTLES, JOHN GILLINGHAM, ALAN COOPER, THOMAS D. HILL, RICHARD ABELS, LYNN JONES, ASDIS EDILSDOTTIR, SAMANTHAT KAHN HERRICK, HENK TEUNIS, BERNARD S. BACHRACH.
East and West in the Crusader States
| Author | : Krijna Nelly Ciggaar |
| Publisher | : Peeters Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 232 |
| Release | : 1996 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9789068317923 |
This work, the Acta of the colloquium of the same name held in Hernen (Netherlands), is a collection of essays dealing with the relations between East and West in the context of the Crusader States. In this connection "East" refers in particular to the non-Byzantine Oriental Christians, Muslims and Jews who set the tone for daily life in "Outremer" to a great extent. Attention is focused upon the relations between the various communities, the social position of the minorities, and religious and cultural, especially literary, contacts and influences.
Rulers and Rulership in the Arc of Medieval Europe, 1000-1200
| Author | : Christian Raffensperger |
| Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
| Total Pages | : 234 |
| Release | : 2023-08-24 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1000921670 |
Rulers and Rulership in the Arc of Medieval Europe challenges the dominant paradigm of what rulership is and who rulers are by decentering the narrative and providing a broad swath of examples from throughout medieval Europe. Within that territory, the prevalent idea of monarchy and kingship is overturned in favor of a broad definition of rulership. This book will demonstrate to the reader that the way in which medieval Europe has been constructed in both the popular and scholarly imaginations is incorrect. Instead of a king we have multiple rulers, male and female, ruling concurrently. Instead of an independent church or a church striving for supremacy under the Gregorian Reform, we have a pope and ecclesiastical leaders making deals with secular rulers and an in-depth interconnection between the two. Finally, instead of a strong centralizing polity growing into statehood we see weak rulers working hand in glove with weak subordinates to make the polity as a whole function. Medievalists, Byzantinists, and Slavists typically operate in isolation from one another. They do not read each other’s books, or engage with each other’s work. This book requires engagement from all of them to point out that the medieval Europe that they work in is one and the same and demands collaboration to best understand it.
Western Travellers to Constantinople
| Author | : K.N. Ciggaar |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 433 |
| Release | : 2022-04-19 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9004478051 |
This volume deals with relations between the West and Byzantium, from the accession of Otto I the Great in Germany in 962, until the Fourth Crusade when Constantinople was conquered by the Western crusading armies in 1204. The impact which these contacts and confrontations had on both sides is discussed in sections dealing with specific areas (such as the North, Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Spain) as well as in sections dealing with specific aspects of the process: the journey, the attractions of the East, and the idea of "autoritates" and "translationes" of various political and intellectual ideas. An extensive index will help readers to find specific topics. The book is illustrated with maps, and with a number of objects betraying Byzantine influence in the West, or Western presence in Byzantium.
