Sight, Touch, and Imagination in Byzantium, Paperback - ***

Considering the interrelations between sight, touch, and imagination, this book offers a new approach to how we understand the way that ancient and...

This collection restores the fountains of Roman Byzantium, Byzantine Constantinople and Ottoman Istanbul, reviving the sounds, shapes, smells and s...

Examines the aesthetic principles and spiritual operations at work in Hagia Sophia. Drawing on art and architectural history, liturgy, musicology, ...

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Publisher: Distributed Art PublishersNumber of pages: 392Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 238 x 289 x 39Cover type: HardbackEditor(s): Ilona Katze...

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The author of }Taste: A New Way To Cook{ addresses how the other senses accompany taste in our reception of food, and offers revelatory recipes tha...

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The remarkable 1, 000-year history of one of the world's greatest and most misunderstood empiresPublisher: The History Press LtdAuthor(s): John Hal...

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DescriptionA leading historian argues that in the empire we know as Byzantium, the Greek-speaking population was actually Roman, and scholars have ...

Romanos' lively and dramatic hymns are a highlight of Byzantine literary invention. This book examines the rhetorical embodiment of theological the...

Explores the nexus of art, personal piety, and self-representation in the last centuries of Byzantium, focusing upon the evidence of verse inscript...

A pioneering exploration of the performance of hymns in Byzantium over a period of almost four centuries, investigating how hymnody wove together f...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Jonathan (The George Washington University, USA) SheaNumber of pages: 272Collection: New Directions ...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Athanasios MarkopoulosNumber of pages: 372Collection: Variorum Collected StudiesPublication date: 2018Dim...

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Publisher: Onwards and UpwardsAuthor(s): Dr Ian DonaldIllustration(s): 1 pen illustration per chapterNumber of pages: 134Publication date: 2021Dime...

This is the first comprehensive study of occasional writing in Byzantium, focusing on the literary output of Constantine Manasses. It argues that, ...

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Romanos' lively and dramatic hymns are a highlight of Byzantine literary invention. This book examines the rhetorical embodiment of theological the...

Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & CollectionAuthor(s): Jake RansohoffNumber of pages: 400Collection: ExtravagantesPublication date: 2022...

Publisher: Cambridge University PressAuthor(s): Mary B. (University of Nottingham) CunninghamIllustration(s): Worked examples or ExercisesNumber of...

Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & CollectionAuthor(s): Margaret MullettNumber of pages: 342Collection: Dumbarton Oaks Byzantine Symposia...

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