Byzantium in the Czech Lands (4th-16th Centuries)

Historical and Art Historical Perspectives
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-90-04-18552-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 87, 502 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1105 g

Reihe: East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450

This book offers the first comprehensive study of Byzantine influence on the art and iconography of East Central Europe. Petr Balcárek focuses on the Byzantine cultural and religious legacy in the Czech lands, thereby bringing to light rarely seen images and presenting fresh hypotheses based on newly-explored theological interpretations and historical evidence.

Including a discussion of the Czech and Slovak historiography on Byzantine studies, the work analyses significant artistic and iconographical artefacts in light of the intricate historical and political relationships that shaped Byzantine presence in these territories, comparing them with similar objects from other areas of Byzantine influence in order to draw wide-reaching conclusions.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Balcárek, Petr

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Petr Balcárek, Ph.D. (2008), Palacký University, is Director of the Institute for Byzantine and Eastern Christian Studies. His main research interest focuses on Eastern-Christian theology, art, and architecture. He has published a considerable number of articles in periodicals such as Studia Patristica, Byzantinoslavica, Byzantinoslovaca, Palaeobulgarica, Eirene, Ars, Historica, IJOT, and others. Together with Vladimír Vavrínek, he is co-author of Encyklopedie Byzance (Encyclopaedia of Byzantium). Mluva obrazu (The Language of Images), published together with Rudolf Chadraba, includes his extensive study “Pelikán jako obraz a symbol” (The Pelican as Image and Symbol).