Spatialities of Byzantine Culture from the Human Body to the Universe

Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-90-04-51874-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Französisch, Band 133, 678 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 1538 g

Reihe: The Medieval Mediterranean

“Space Matters!” claimed Doreen Massey and John Allen at the heart of the Spatial Turn developments (1984). Compensating a four-decades shortfall, this collective volume is the first reader in Byzantine spatial studies. It contextualizes the spatial turn in historical studies by means of interdisciplinary dialogue. An introduction offers an up-to-date state of the art. Twenty-nine case studies provide a wide range of different conceptualizations of space in Byzantine culture articulated in a single collection through a variety of topics and approaches. An afterword frames the future challenges of Byzantine spatial studies in a changing world where space is a claim and a precarious social value.

Contributors are Ilias Anagnostakis, Alexander Beihammer, Helena Bodin, Darlene L. Brooks Hedstrom, Béatrice Caseau Chevallier, Paolo Cesaretti, Michael J. Decker, Veronica della Dora, Rico Franses, Sauro Gelichi, Adam J. Goldwyn, Basema Hamarneh, Richard Hodges, Brad Hostetler, Adam Izdebski, Liz James, P. Nick Kardulias, Isabel Kimmelfield, Tonia Kiousopoulou, Johannes Koder, Derek Krueger, Tomasz Labuk, Maria Leontsini, Yulia Mantova, Charis Messis, Konstantinos Moustakas, Margaret Mullett, Ingela Nilsson, Robert G. Ousterhout, Georgios Pallis, Myrto Veikou, Joanita Vroom, David Westberg, and Enrico Zanini.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Veikou, Myrto

Nilsson, Ingela

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Byzantinische Geschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Myrto Veikou, Ph.D., (2007 Athens University / 2020 Uppsala University), is Researcher in Greek and Byzantine Studies at Uppsala University. Her research interests focus on Byzantine Spatial studies. Her most recent monograph is Spatial Paths to Holiness – Literary ‘Lived Spaces’ in eleventh-century Byzantine saints’ Lives (forthcoming in Studia Byzantina Upsaliensia).

Ingela Nilsson, Ph.D. (2001, Gothenburg University), is Professor of Greek and Byzantine Studies at Uppsala University since 2010. Her research interests include all forms of narration and literary adaptation. Her most recent monograph is Writer and Occasion in Twelfth-Century Byzantium: The Authorial Voice of Constantine Manasses (CUP, 2021).