Eastern Approaches to Byzantium: Papers from the Thirty-third Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, University of Warwick, Coventry, March 1999Variorum
edited by Antony Eastmond
ISBN: 0754603229
price: $79.95 hardcover
The eastern frontier of Byzantium and the interaction of the
peoples that lived along it are the themes of this book. With a
focus on the ninth to thirteenth centuries and dealing with both
art history and history, the essays provide reconsiderations of
Byzantine policy on its eastern borders, new interpretations and
new materials on Byzantine relations with the Georgians,
Armenians and Seljuqs, as well as studies on the writing of
history among these peoples. Presenting research from Russia and
Georgia as well as Europe and the USA, the contributors stress
the interaction and interdependence of all the peoples along this
frontier zone, and consider the different ways in which the
political and cultural power of Byzantium was appropriated. They
provide important comparative evidence for the relationship
between local and Byzantine cultures, and open up new avenues for
research into the history of eastern Anatolia and the Caucasus.
The volume arises from the thirty-third Spring Symposium of
Byzantine Studies held at the University of Warwick in March
1999.
Contents: Introduction, Antony Eastmond; The decline of medieval
Hellenism in Asia Minor and the process of Islamization from the
11th through the 15th century: the book in the light of
subsequent scholarship, 1971-98, Speros Vryonis Jr; Byzantium's
eastern frontier: Constantine VII, Caucasian openings and the
road to Aleppo, Jonathan Shepard; "How the east was
won" in the reign of Basil II, Catherine Holmes; La
conception militaire de la frontière orientale (IXe-XIIIe siècle),
Jean-Claude Cheynet; History writing in the east: Some
reflections on Seljuq historiography, Carole Hillenbrand;
"The concept of history" in medieval Arnenian
historians, Robert W. Thomson; From bumberazi to basileus:
writing cultural synthesis and dynastic change in medieval
Georgia (K'art'li), Stephen H. Rapp Jr; Byzantines: Bearing gifts
from the east: imperial relic hunters abroad, Liz James; Art chrétien
en Anatolie turque: le témoignage de peintures inédites à
Tatlarin, Catherine Jolivet-Lévy; Georgians: Newly discovered
early paintings in the Gareja desert, Zaza Skhirtladze; Byzantium
and its eastern barbarians: the cult of saints in Svanet'i,
Brigitta Schrade; Georgian perceptions of Byzantium in the 11th
and 12th centuries, Giorgi Tcheishvili; Stalin and Georgian
enamels, David Buckton; Armenians: The visual expression of power
and piety in medieval Armenia: the palace and palace church at
Aghtamar, Lynn Jones; Imperial aspirations: Armenian Cilicia and
Byzantium in the 13th century, Helen C. Evans; Selijuqs and
Turkomans: Turkoman and Byzantine self-identity. Some reflections
on the logic of title-making in 12th- and 13th-century Anatolia,
Rustam Shukurov; Selijuqs before the Selijuqs: nomads and
frontiers inside Byzantium, Pamela Armstrong; Index.
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