Mythic Constantinople
Author | : Mark Shirley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 2021-02-16 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781989028162 |
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Author | : Mark Shirley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 2021-02-16 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781989028162 |
Author | : Rebecca Stephens Falcasantos |
Publisher | : University of California Press |
Total Pages | : 237 |
Release | : 2020-06-02 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0520304551 |
As Christian spaces and agents assumed prominent positions in civic life, the end of the long span of the fourth century was marked by large-scale religious change. Churches had overtaken once-thriving pagan temples, old civic priesthoods were replaced by prominent bishops, and the rituals of the city were directed toward the Christian God. Such changes were particularly pronounced in the newly established city of Constantinople, where elites from various groups contended to control civic and imperial religion. Rebecca Stephens Falcasantos argues that imperial Christianity was in fact a manifestation of traditional Roman religious structures. In particular, she explores how deeply established habits of ritual engagement in shared social spaces—ones that resonated with imperial ideology and appealed to the memories of previous generations—constructed meaning to create a new imperial religious identity. By examining three dynamics—ritual performance, rhetoric around violence, and the preservation and curation of civic memory—she distinguishes the role of Christian practice in transforming the civic and cultic landscapes of the late antique polis.
Author | : Jonathan Harris |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 301 |
Release | : 2017-02-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1474254675 |
Jonathan Harris' new edition of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, Constantinople, provides an updated and extended introduction to the history of Byzantium and its capital city. Accessible and engaging, the book breaks new ground by exploring Constantinople's mystical dimensions and examining the relationship between the spiritual and political in the city. This second edition includes a range of new material, such as: * Historiographical updates reflecting recently published work in the field * Detailed coverage of archaeological developments relating to Byzantine Constantinople * Extra chapters on the 14th century and social 'outsiders' in the city * More on the city as a centre of learning; the development of Galata/Pera; charitable hospitals; religious processions and festivals; the lives of ordinary people; and the Crusades * Source translation textboxes, new maps and images, a timeline and a list of emperors It is an important volume for anyone wanting to know more about the history of the Byzantine Empire.
Author | : Carrie J. Preston |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 2014-07-10 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0199384584 |
Modernism's Mythic Pose recovers the tradition of Delsartism, a popular international movement that promoted bodily and vocal solo performances, particularly for women. This strain of classical-antimodernism shaped dance, film, and poetics. Its central figure, the mythic pose, expressed both skepticism and nostalgia and functioned as an ambivalent break from modernity.
Author | : Harrison Griswold Dwight |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 622 |
Release | : 1926 |
Genre | : Istanbul (Turkey) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Sarah Bassett |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 435 |
Release | : 2022-03-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108498183 |
The collected essays explore late antique and Byzantine Constantinople in matters sacred, political, cultural, and commercial.
Author | : Pete Nash |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2021-02-06 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781989028155 |
Mythras Core rules Mythras is the acclaimed roleplaying game from The Design Mechanism. For those new to the game, Mythras is a straightforward, roll-under percentile system. In Mythras your characters are defined by their culture, career, community, background, comrades, skills, magic and cults. Progression is through skill advancement - not levels or similarly abstract concepts. As your characters adventure and quest, their capabilities improve and their relationships deepen and strengthen. Players and Games Masters have complete flexibility over what can be achieved, and the way characters develop is entirely dependent on choices players make, depending on their characters' aspirations and motivations. Games Masters receive a huge amount of support through the Mythras rules. All the concepts and game mechanics are explained clearly with options and considerations explored and presented for ease of use. You need only this rulebook for many years of exciting and imaginative play. Mythras contains everything needed for play, except for dice and friends. It includes five magic systems, innovative combat, over 60 creatures, and copious guidance on how to use the rules and run Mythras games! Come and try one of the best roleplaying systems around...
Author | : Cyril A. Mango |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : |
This volume is devoted to the history, monuments and topography of Byzantine Constantinople, and includes two specially written pieces, as well as up-dates to the studies reprinted. Many of the articles deal with the imperial constructions of the first centuries of the City's existence - for instance, the columns of Constantine and Justinian, the Mausoleum of the Holy Apostles and the churches of St Sophia, St John of Studius, and Sts Sergius and Bacchus - structures which provided the basic monumental framework around which Constantinople developed and its life was lived. In his reconstruction of these monuments and their history, Cyril Mango demonstrates how much can be achieved by combining the information gained from meticulous examination of the written sources, whether contemporary or from post-medieval travellers, with that provided by the surviving buildings themselves and the remains that have been excavated. Ce volume, voué à l'histoire, aux monuments et à la topographie de Constantinople la Byzantine, comprend deux études rédigées pour l'occasion, ainsi qu'une mise à jour des travaux qui y sont re-publiés. Bon nombre des études traitent plus particulièrement des constructions impériales datant des premiers siècles d'existence de la cité - tels, les colonnes de Constantin et de Justinien, la Mausolé des Saints Apà ́tres et les églises de Ste Sophie, St Jean de Studius, ou de Sts Serge et Bacchus; un ensemble de structures qui apportèrent la base monumentale autour de laquelle Constantinople s'est développée et a vécu. Au travers de cette reconstruction des monuments et de leur histoire, Cyril Mango démontre combien peut Ãatre atteint en combinant l'information acquise à partir d'un examen méticuleux des sources écrites - que celles-ci soient contemporaines ou proviennent des voyageurs post-médiévaux - à celle que l'on peut tirer des bâtiments-mÃames qui ont survécu, ainsi que des restes qui été re
Author | : H.G. Dwight |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 633 |
Release | : 2019-06-04 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1317847636 |
This substantial account of Constantinople — or Istanbul as it is known today — is both a history and a guide to that magnificent and fabled metropolis where east and west have met for many centuries. Written in 1915 when, as Stamboul, the city was the last stop on the Orient Express, it is illustrated with many rare period photographs. This book for the general reader evokes all the colour and richness of the ultimate oriental city, ancient capital of the Byzantine and Ottoman empires, captured on the brink of modernization in the first years after the revolution. The author describes everyday life in the city, - the features of permanent interest such as mosques, gardens, fountains, the traces of Byzantium and the quays of the Golden Horn as well as the feasts, custom’s, festivals and holidays that once enlivened Constantinople but are now only a memory. The work concludes with an account of the revolution and of the effects of World War I on the city. This is a portrait of the Istanbul that all travellers hope to find - and still can, in the pages of this book.
Author | : Ruth Tenzer Feldman |
Publisher | : Twenty-First Century Books |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 2008-01-01 |
Genre | : Young Adult Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0761340262 |
How did the loss of one city change the history of Europe? In the Middle Ages, Constantinople’s perfect geographic location—positioned along a land trade route between Europe and Asia as well as on a strategic seaway from the Black Sea to the Mediterranean— made the city extremely desirous, and as a result, prone to attack. Under the control of the Roman and Byzantine Empires, Constantinople became known as "the Eye of the World," a center of government, trade, art, religion, and learning, and was even more desirous. Rulers built three sets of walls to protect Constantinople from attacks by Asiatic tribes. But the city’s fall to the Turkish Ottomans in 1453 marked the official end of the Byzantine Empire—and the end of the Middle Ages. Learn how the fall of Constantinople became one of history’s most pivotal moments.