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Routledge Handbook of the Modern Reception of Byzantium

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The Routledge Handbook of the Modern Reception of Byzantium provides a systematic and comprehensive commentary on the various ways that Byzantium has been responded to in the modern world and introduces the reader to areas of Byzantine not covered to date through its international case studies.Most studies dealing with the modern reception of Byzantium focus on its role in the formation of national or European identities, or as an exotic ‘other,’ without covering the various spheres of culture, beyond history writing and literature, within which the reception of Byzantium may be discerned. This Handbook responds to the need perceived by scholars and students for a publication that brings definition and clarity to this growing field of Byzantine studies. The volume is structured around seven thematic sections – histories, politics, architecture, art, display, literature, and embodied and performative culture – each opened by a substantial conceptual essay from a leading scholar, and expanded through focused case studies that range geographically from China and Argentina to Ukraine, Ethiopia and the Greek diaspora in the United States. Together, forty-nine contributions from an internationally distinguished roster of scholars illuminate Byzantium as a polysemic signifier: from decadence and bureaucratic complexity to spiritual purity, creative reinvention and nationalist aspiration. Richly illustrated and expansive in scope, the volume gives particular attention to receptions long inaccessible to an English-speaking audience, correcting the field's historic privileging of Western European perspectives.An essential reference work for researchers, lecturers and students, the Handbook will be indispensable across Byzantine studies, art history, architecture, cultural history, political thought, literary studies, film, and heritage studies.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-09-20
Mått174 x 246 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieRoutledge History Handbooks
Antal sidor606
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9781032077802

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Niamh Bhalla is Assistant Dean, Associate Professor of Art History and Director for Belonging at Northeastern University, London, UK. Specialising in early Christian and Byzantine art and architecture, and their modern revivals, her work engages with the lived experience of art and visual and material theology. She is the author of Experiencing the Last Judgement (Routledge, 2021) and Newman University Church, Dublin: Architectural revivalism in the British Isles and the authority of form (2024).Dimitra Kotoula is a Curator at the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and teaches Byzantine Art History and Archaeology at College Year in Athens based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Her research focuses on modern receptions of Byzantium, issues of form and function in Byzantine art, with particular emphasis on eschatology, as well as post-Byzantine networks of humanism, artistic exchanges and the post-Byzantine icon.

Part 1. INTRODUCTION 1. Sailing to where? The Polysemic World of 'Byzantium' and its (Mis?) Perceptions. Part 2. HISTORIES 2. Main essay: Histories. Re-writing Byzantium. 3. Byzantine Receptions in Ukraine. 4. Heading North: Scandinavia and Modern Byzantine Studies. 5. The 'Armenian Voice' in the Reception of Byzantium: A Cultural Interpretation within a Political Framework. 6. Flying to the other side of the Atlantic: The Byzantium of North American Academia. 7. Byzantine Studies in Argentina: A retrospective review of scholarship and an analysis of the present state of research. 8. Byzantine Studies in China. Part 3. POLITICS 9. Main essay: Writing Byzantium, Writing the Nation: Historiography, Politics and Identity in Southeastern Europe. 10. Byzantine Law, a European Law: Byzantium in the legal systems of France, Germany and Greece during the nineteenth century. 11. How 'Byzantine' should it be? The Byzantium of the Greeks. 12. Byzantium and its Contested Heritage in Modern Turkey. 13. Adding the Byzantine Element: Byzantium and Nation-State Building in Bulgaria. 14. Byzantine Studies in Soviet Russia (1918–1990). 15. Byzantium and the Third Rome in Reactive Orthodox Imaginaries. Part 4. ARCHITECTURE 16. Main essay: Byzantine Revival Architecture. A History. 17. Early Byzantinism in the British Isles: Newman University Church, Dublin. 18. 'Rome of the East': The Neo-Byzantine Style in the Architecture of the Russian Empire. 19. Authenticity and Exuberance: Reflections of Byzantium in German Mausolea, 1860–1920. 20. Byzantinism in Serbian and Croatian Architecture (19th and 21st centuries). 21. Immigrant Art and Architecture: Byzantium and the Greek Diaspora in the United States. 22. Byzantium in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: The Greek Orthodox Cathedral of Hagios Froumentios c. 1929. Part 5. ART 23. Main essay: Visual Paradigms: The Form and Shape of Byzantine Reception. 24. It All Started with Italy: The Reception of Italy's Mosaics in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. 25. The Russian Foundations of Byzantine Studies: before and around Kondakov. 26. "From death to new birth": The Arts and Crafts reappropriation of Byzantine Art and Architecture. 27. Georgian Altar Screens and Byzantine Revivalism 1800–1920. 28. Bearden's Byzantium: Two Madonnas. 29. Uses of the 'Byzantine' in Modern Art and Criticism. Part 6. DISPLAY 30. Main essay: Displaying Byzantium. Art and Politics 1945–2024. 31. Through an Imperial Lens: The First Byzantine Exhibitions. 32. How to Deal with it? The Display of Byzantine Heritage in Turkey (1846–1950). 33. Gabriel Millet (1867–1953)'s Photographic Archive and the Reception of Byzantium. 34. A Pavilion and an Exhibition: Byzantium 1900–1931. 35. Break it like the Iconoclasts: Byzantium and the Case of Iconoclasm Exhibitions. 36. Curating Exhibitions on Byzantium and Beyond. Part 7. LITERATURE 37. Main essay: Byzantium's Journey Through Centuries: Byzantium as a Literary Inspiration. 38. Byzantine Vernacular Literature and the Beginnings of Czech Byzantine Studies: The Case of Karel Müller. 39. The Reception of Byzantium in the Textbooks of Secondary Education in Greece in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. 40. Chained to the Barbarian: Byzantium in English-Language Fiction. 41. Byzantium in Modern Poetry: Mythology and Iconicity. Part 8. EMBODIED PARADIGMS 42. Main essay: Embodied Paradigms: Performative Responses to Byzantium. 43. The Byzantine Heritage of Contemporary Musical Instruments. 44. Byzantium, Dramatic Poetry and Henrik Ibsen's 'Emperor and Galilean'. 45. Becoming Tarkovsky: The Byzantine Element in Andrei Rublev. 46. The Byzantines Among Us: Contemporary Jewelry Making and Byzantium. 47. Fashioned After Byzantium. 48. Byzantium in Videogames. 49. UNESCO and Byzantine Heritage.