Wanted: Byzantium |
The Desire for a Lost Empire
Studia Byzantina Upsaliensia No. 15
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Edited by: Ingela Nilsson & Paul Stephenson
October 2014
Uppsala University
Distributed by Coronet Books
ISBN: 9789155489151
304 Pages, Illustrated
$82.50 Paper original
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Contents:
- Inventing and re-inventing Byzantium : Nikephoros Phokas, Byzantine studies in Greece, and "New Rome' / John Burke
- Was innovation unwanted in Byzantium? / Apostolos Spanos
- What does it mean to be Greek in Rus'? On identity and cultural transfer / Fedir Androshchuk
- When did Constantinople actually fall? / Olof Heilo
- "I come from a cursed land and from the depths of darkness" : life after death in Greek laments about the fall of Constantinople / Adam J. Goldwyn
- Surviving exile : Byzantine families and the Serenissima 1453-1600 / Ersie Burke
- The three fathers of the Greek Orthodox Church : Greek paideia, Byzantine innovation and the formation of modern Greek identity / Helen Saradi
- The mosaic in the apse : Friedenskirche and the construction of a desired past / Tonje Haugland Sørensen
- Paul Moore and more Psellos : still 'Wanted' in Byzantium / Barbara Crostini
- Night at the museum : on the category of the 'Byzantine' in today's Byzantine chant / Tore Tyvarnø Lind
- "Into golden dusk" : orthodox icons as objects of late modern and postmodern desire / Helena Boudin
- From Byzantium to the Andes / Eric Cullhed
- Perne in a gyre : the poetic representation of an ideal state in the Byzantine poems of W.B. Yeats / Thomas Sj̈ösvärd
- And the Oscar goes to ... the emperor! Byzantium in the cinema / Przemysław Marciniak
- Desiring and acquiring Byzantine artefacts in the USA : cultural property, restoration, and display / Paul Stephenson --- Exhibiting Byzantium : three case studies in the display and reception of Byzantine art, 1997-2008 / Isabel Kimmelfield.
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