{"product_id":"trends-and-turning-points-constructing-the-late-antique-and-byzantine-world-9789004395732","title":"Trends and Turning Points: Constructing the Late Antique and Byzantine World","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTrends and Turning Points presents sixteen articles, examining the discursive construction of the late antique and Byzantine world, focusing specifically on the utilisation of trends and turning points to make stuff from the past, whether texts, matter, or action, meaningful. Contributions are divided into four complementary strands, Scholarly Constructions, Literary Trends, Constructing Politics, and Turning Points in Religious Landscapes. Each strand cuts across traditional disciplinary boundaries and periodisation, placing historical, archaeological, literary, and architectural concerns in discourse, whilst drawing on examples from the full range of the medieval Roman past. While its individual articles offer numerous important insights, together the volume collectively rethinks fundamental assumptions about how late antique and Byzantine studies has and continues to be discursively constructed.    Contributors are: David Barritt, Laura Borghetti, Nikolas Churik, Elif Demirtiken, Alasdair C. Grant, Stephen Humphreys, Mirela Ivanova, Hugh Jeffery, Valeria Flavia Lovato, Francesco Lovino, Kosuke Nakada, Jonas Nilsson, Theresia Raum, Maria Rukavichnikova, and Milan Vukašinović.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements  List of Illustrations  Notes on Contributors    Part 1: Scholarly Constructions  1 Constructing Late Antiquity and Byzantium: Introducing Trends and Turning Points     Matthew Kinloch  2 Constructing the Past through the Present: The Eurasian View of Byzantium in the Pages of Seminarium Kondakovianum     Francesco Lovino    Part 2: Literary Trends  3 The Power of the Cross: The Role of the Helper in Kassia’s Hymns’ Narratological Structure and Its Doctrinal Implications     Laura Borghetti  4 Tzetzes, Eustathius, and the ‘city-sacker’ Epeius: Trends and Turning Points in the 12th-century Reception of Homer     Valeria Flavia Lovato  5 Greek Explicating Greek: A Study of Metaphrase Language and Style     Nikolas Churik  6 Doing and Telling Administration and Diplomacy: Speech Acts in the 13th-Century Balkans     Milan Vukašinović  7 Laughing up the Sleeve: The Image of the Emperor and Ironic Discourse in George Pachymeres’ Historia     Maria Rukavichnikova    Part 3: Constructing Politics  8 The Roman Revolution: Leo I, Theodosius II and the Contest for Power in the 5th Century     David Barritt  9 The Reinvention of the Soldier-Emperor under Heraclius     Theresia Raum  10 Omens of Expansionism? Revisiting the Caucasian Chapters of De Administrando Imperio      Kosuke Nakada  11 The Madara Horseman and Triumphal Inscriptions in Krum’s Early Medieval Bulgaria (c.803–14)      Mirela Ivanova  12 The Emperor is for Turning: Alexios Komnenos, John the Oxite and the Persecution of Heretics      Jonas Nilsson    Part 4: Turning Points in Religious Landscapes  13 Eight Hundred Years of the Cult of the Archangels at Aphrodisias\/Stauropolis: Modern and Ancient Narratives      Hugh Jeffery  14 Crosses as Water Purification Devices in Byzantine Palestine      Stephen Humphreys  15 Byzantium’s Ashes and the Bones of St Nicholas: Two Translations as Turning Points, 1087–1100      Alasdair C. Grant  16 Changing Profiles of Monastic Founders in Constantinople, From the Komnenoi to the Palaiologoi: The Case of the Theotokos Pammakaristos Monastery in Context      Elif Demirtiken    Bibliography  Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210772177239,"sku":"9789004395732","price":104.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/trends-and-turning-points-constructing-the-late-antique-and-byzantine-world-9789004395732","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}