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Indlæser... The Invention of Byzantium in Early Modern Europeaf Nathanael Aschenbrenner (Redaktør), Jake Ransohoff (Redaktør)
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The thirteen essays that make up this extensive volume cover the span of four centuries between the twilight of Byzantium in the fifteenth century and the last decades of the nineteenth century when, first in Russia and then in Germany, Byzantine studies won their autonomy as an academic discipline. The essays move in different directions, from the study of the work of Renaissance and post-Renaissance scholars whose work reflects an interest in medieval Greek culture to a discussion of broader issues shaping how the long-lived eastern Roman empire was perceived. The volume is divided into four sections. The first two are organized chronologically and the next two are thematic. Its contributors include both Byzantinists and cultural or literary historians of early modern Europe. Tilhører Forlagsserien
"A gulf of centuries separates the "Byzantine Empire" from the academic field of "Byzantine studies." This book offers a new approach to the history of Byzantine scholarship, focusing on the attraction that Byzantium held for Early Modern Europeans and challenging the stereotype that they dismissed the Byzantine Empire as an object of contempt. The authors in this book focus on how and why the Byzantine past was used in Early Modern Europe: to diagnose cultural decline, to excavate the beliefs and practices of early Christians, to defend absolutism or denounce tyranny, and to write strategic ethnography against the Ottomans. By tracing Byzantium's profound impact on everything from politics to painting, this book shows that the empire and its legacy remained relevant to generations of Western writers, artists, statesmen, and intellectuals as they grappled with the most pressing issues of their day. Refuting reductive narratives of absence or progress, this book shows how "Byzantium" underwent multiple overlapping and often discordant reinventions before the institutionalization of "Byzantine studies" as an academic discipline. As this book suggests, it was precisely Byzantium's ambiguity-as both Greek and Roman, ancient and medieval, familiar and foreign-that made it such a vibrant and vital part of the Early Modern European imagination"-- Ingen biblioteksbeskrivelser fundet. |
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