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Images of the Byzantine World - Visions, Messages and Meanings: Studies presented to Leslie Brubaker (Paperback)
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Images of the Byzantine World - Visions, Messages and Meanings: Studies presented to Leslie Brubaker (Paperback)
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The main themes of this volume are the identification of 'visions',
'messages', and 'meanings' in various facets of Byzantine culture
and the possible differences in the perception of these visions,
messages and meanings as seen by their original audience and by
modern scholars. The volume addresses the methodological question
of how far interpretations should go - whether there is a tendency
to read too much into too little or whether not enough attention is
paid to apparent minutiae that may have been important in their
historical context. As the essays span a wide chronological era,
they also present a means of assessing the relative degrees of
continuity and change in Byzantine visions, messages and meanings
over time. Thus, as highlighted in the concluding section, the book
discusses the validity of existing notions regarding the fluidity
of Byzantine culture: when continuity was a matter of a rigid
adherence to traditional values and when a manifestation of the
ability to adapt old conventions to new circumstances, and it shows
that in some respects, Byzantine cultural history may have been
less fragmented than is usually assumed. Similarly, by reflecting
not just on new interpretations, but also on the process of
interpreting itself, the contributors demonstrate how research
within Byzantine studies has evolved over the past thirty years
from a set of narrowly defined individual disciplines into a
broader exploration of interconnected cultural phenomena.
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