Power and Subversion in Byzantium - Papers from the 43rd Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Birmingham, March 2010 (Hardcover, New Ed)

This volume addresses a theme of special significance for Byzantine studies. Byzantium has traditionally been deemed a civilisation which deferred to authority and set special store by orthodoxy, canon and proper order. Since 1982 when the distinguished Russian Byzantinist Alexander Kazhdan wrote that 'the history of Byzantine intellectual opposition has yet to be written', scholars have increasingly highlighted cases of subversion of 'correct practice' and 'correct belief' in Byzantium. This innovative scholarly effort has produced important results, although it has been hampered by the lack of dialogue across the disciplines of Byzantine studies. The 43rd Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies in 2010 drew together historians, art historians, and scholars of literature, religion and philosophy, who discussed shared and discipline-specific approaches to the theme of subversion. The present volume presents a selection of the papers delivered at the symposium enriched with specially commissioned contributions. Most papers deal with the period after the eleventh century, although early Byzantium is not ignored. Theoretical questions about the nature, articulation and limits of subversion are addressed within the frameworks of individual disciplines and in a larger context. The volume comes at a timely junction in the development of Byzantine studies, as interest in subversion and nonconformity in general has been rising steadily in the field.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Publications of the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies
Release date:	October 2013
First published:	2013
Editors:	Michael Saxby • Dimiter Angelov
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	316
Edition:	New Ed
ISBN-13:	978-1-4724-1228-7
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > World history > 500 to 1500 Books > Humanities > History > European history > General Books > History > European history > General Books > History > World history > 500 to 1500
LSN:	1-4724-1228-1
Barcode:	9781472412287

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