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Piroska and the Pantokrator: Dynastic Memory, Healing and Salvation in Komnenian Constantinople
1st Edition
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By Marianne Sághy, Robert G. Ousterhout
October 09, 2019
This book is about the Christ Pantokrator, an imposing monumental complex serving monastic, dynastic, medical and social purposes in Constantinople, founded by Emperor John II Komnenos and Empress Piroska-Eirene in 1118. Now called the Zeyrek Mosque, the second largest Byzantine religious edifice ...
Pagans and Christians in the Late Roman Empire: New Evidence, New Approaches (4th-8th centuries)
1st Edition
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By Marianne Sághy, Edward M. Schoolman
October 10, 2017
Do the terms 'pagan' and 'Christian,' 'transition from paganism to Christianity' still hold as explanatory devices to apply to the political, religious and cultural transformation experienced Empire-wise? Revisiting 'pagans' and 'Christians' in Late Antiquity has been a fertile site of scholarship ...
The Harbour of all this Sea and Realm: Crusader to Venetian Famagusta
1st Edition
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By Michael J.K. Walsh, Nicholas Coureas, Tamás Kiss
June 10, 2014
The Harbour of All This Sea and Realm offers an overview of the Lusignan, Genoese and Venetian history of the main port city of Cyprus, a Mediterranean crossroads. The essays contribute to the understanding of Famagusta's social and administrative structure, as well as the influences on its ...
Angels, Devils: The Supernatural and Its Visual Representation
1st Edition
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By Gerhard Jaritz
October 01, 2011
Supernatural phenomena and causalities played an important role in medieval society. Religious practice was relying upon a set of cult images and the sacral status of these depictions of divine or supernatural persons became the object of heated debates and provoked iconoclastic reactions.The ...
Promoting the Saints: Cults and Their Contexts from Late Antiquity until the Early Modern Period
1st Edition
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By Ottó Gecser, József Laszlovszky, Balázs Nagy, Marcell Sebok, Katalin Szende
July 01, 2010
The studies in this volume concentrate on a complex set of socio-cultural phenomena, the cult of saints, in a variety of regions from Egypt to Poland, with a focus on Italy and Central Europe. The subjects of the contributions range in time from the fourth until the eighteenth century. The ...
The Apostolic Penitentiary in Local Contexts
1st Edition
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By Gerhard Jaritz, Kirsi Salonen, Torsten Jørgensen
January 10, 2007
The volume investigates the registers of fifteenth-century supplications to the Apostolic Penitentiary of the Holy See and presents an analysis of a multiplicity of issues in which a context of the local needs of Western Christians and the central power of the Pope occurred. The contributions make ...
The Long Arm of Papal Authority: Late Medieval Christian Peripheries and Their Communications with the Holy See
1st Edition
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By Gerhard Jaritz
July 20, 2005
The volume contains selected papers from two conferences in 2003, at the University of Bergen (Norway) and at Central European University in Budapest. They deal comparatively with the communication of the Holy See with Northern Europe and Eastern Central Europe in the Late Middle Ages, both areas ...
Latin Classics in Medieval Hungary: Eleventh Century
1st Edition
By Elod Nemerkényi
January 01, 2004
The first comprehensive study on the influence of Latin classical texts and traditions in medieval Hungary based on philological and historical analysis of eleventh century sources. The author proves that the Latin classics had a stronger impact on the formation of Latin literacy in medieval ...