Byzantine Religious Culture: Studies in Honor of Alice-Mary Talbot

Neuausgabe 2011
ISBN: 978-90-04-21244-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 92, 592 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 1081 g

Reihe: Medieval Mediterranean

Alice-Mary Talbot has profoundly influenced Byzantine Studies in America and Europe, focusing her scholarship upon the social context of Byzantine religious practices. As Director of Byzantine Studies at Dumbarton Oaks and as editor of Dumbarton Oaks Papers, she touched the professional lives of senior and junior Byzantinists alike. This collection of twenty-five articles from scholars associated with her at various stages in her career compasses such varied disciplines as art history, social history, literature, epigraphy, numismatics and sigillography; contributions are grouped in three related sections: “Women,” “Icons and Images,” and finally “Texts, Practices, Spaces.” Illustrated with both b/w and color images, the volume is at once a varied and a coherent tribute to this extraordinary scholar.

Contributors are Alexander Alexakis, Simon Bendall, Annemarie Weyl Carr, John Duffy, Stephanos Efthymiadis, Elizabeth A. Fisher, Jaroslav Folda, Sharon E. J. Gerstel, Michael Grünbart, Susan Ashbrook Harvey, Angela Constantinides Hero, Michel Kaplan, Paul Magdalino, Henry Maguire, Maria Mavroudi, Stamatina McGrath, Cécile Morrisson, John Nesbitt, Arietta Papaconstantinou, Stratis Papaioannou, Manolis Patedakis, Brigitte Pitarakis, Claudia Rapp, Nancy Patterson Ševcenko, Brooke Shilling, Paul Stephenson and Denis Sullivan.

Zielgruppe

Scholars of Byzantine social and cultural history interested in religious practices, institutions, texts and artifacts within the context of the late antique and medieval Mediterranean world.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sullivan, Denis

Fisher, Elizabeth A.

Papaioannou, Stratis

Weitere Mitwirkende

Sullivan, Denis

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Byzantinische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Griechische & Byzantinische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Östliche & Orientalische Orthodoxe Kirchen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Frühchristliche, byzantinische Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations. xi
List of Contributors. xvii
Introduction. xxi
Publications of Alice-Mary Talbot. xxvii
List of Abbreviations. xxxv

WOMEN
Including the ‘Despised Woman’: Jacob of Serug at the Nativity Feast. 3
Susan Ashbrook Harvey
A Meeting of Hypatia of Alexandria with St. Febronia of Nisibis in the Life of Sts. David, Symeon and George of Lesbos. 19
Alexander Alexakis
Une hotesse importante de l’eglise Saint-Jean-Baptiste de l’Oxeia a Constantinople: Febronie. 31
Michel Kaplan
Learned Women of Byzantium and the Surviving Record. 53
Maria Mavroudi
Women in Byzantine History in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries: Some Theoretical Considerations. 85
Stamatina McGrath
Anna Komnene’s Will. 99
Stratis Papaioannou

ICONS AND IMAGES
The Matter of the Word in an Icon in Houston. 125
Annemarie Weyl Carr
The Other Image at the Palace Gate and the Visual Propaganda of Leo III. 139
Paul Magdalino
Sacred Objects with Holy Light: Byzantine Icons with Chrysography. 155
Jaroslav Folda
‘Tiles of Nicomedia’ and the Cult of Saint Panteleimon. 173
Sharon E. J. Gerstel
Michael Psellos on the ‘Usual’ Miracle at Blachernae, the Law, and Neoplatonism. 187
Elizabeth A. Fisher
“Pangs of Labor without Pain”: Observations on the Iconography of the Nativity in Byzantium. 205
Henry Maguire
Byzantine ‘Medals’: Coins, Amulets and Piety. 217
Cecile Morrisson and Simon Bendall
New Evidence on Lead Flasks and Devotional Patterns: From Crusader Jerusalem to Byzantium. 239
Brigitte Pitarakis
The Posthumous Miracles of St. Eustratios on a Sinai Templon Beam. 267
Nancy Patterson Ševcenko

TEXTS, PRACTICES, SPACES
Hagiography and the Cult of Saints in the Light of Epigraphy and Acclamations. 291
Claudia Rapp
The Jewish Boy Legend and the ‘Western Twist’. 313
John Duffy
Saints and Saracens: On Some Miracle Accounts of the Early Arab Period. 323
Arietta Papaconstantinou
The Monastery of Diomedes. 339
John W. Nesbitt
Les saints d’Italie meridionale (IXe–XIIe s.) et leur role dans la societe locale. 347
Stephanos Efthymiades
Zur Memorialkultur im byzantinischen Mittelalter. 373
Michael Grunbart
Siege Warfare, Nikephoros II Phokas, Relics and Personal
Piety. 395
Denis F. Sullivan
An Anonymous Narrative of the Martyrdom of the Anchorites of Mount Sinai (BHG 307d). 411
Angela Constantinides Hero
Nicholas the Monk and Former Soldier. 421
Paul Stephenson and Brooke Shilling
The Testament of the Patriarch Athanasios I of Constantinople (1289–93, 1303–09). 439
Manolis S. Patedakis

Index. 465

Über Autor(innen)

Fisher, Elizabeth A.
Elizabeth A. Fisher, Ph.D. (1972) in Classical Philology, Harvard University, is Professor of Classics at George Washington University and editor of Michaelis Pselli Orationes hagiographicae (Teubner 1994). She is currently working on Greek translators’ prefaces.

Sullivan, Denis
Denis Sullivan, Ph.D. (1972) Classical Philology, University of North Carolina, Professor, Curriculum and Instruction, University of Maryland. His publications include The Life of St. Nikon, Siegecraft: Two Tenth-Century Instructional Manuals, and, with Alice-Mary Talbot, The History of Leo the Deacon.

Papaioannou, Stratis
Stratis Papaioannou, Ph.D. (2000) in Byzantine Studies, University of Vienna, is Associate Professor of Classics at Brown University. His book Michael Psellos, Rhetoric and Authorship in Byzantium will appear at Cambridge University Press.

Denis Sullivan, Ph.D. (1972) Classical Philology, University of North Carolina, Professor, Curriculum and Instruction, University of Maryland. His publications include The Life of St. Nikon, Siegecraft: Two Tenth-Century Instructional Manuals, and, with Alice-Mary Talbot, The History of Leo the Deacon.
Elizabeth A. Fisher, Ph.D. (1972) in Classical Philology, Harvard University, is Professor of Classics at George Washington University and editor of Michaelis Pselli Orationes hagiographicae (Teubner 1994). She is currently working on Greek translators’ prefaces.
Stratis Papaioannou, Ph.D. (2000) in Byzantine Studies, University of Vienna, is Associate Professor of Classics at Brown University. His book Michael Psellos, Rhetoric and Authorship in Byzantium will appear at Cambridge University Press.