Change in Byzantine Culture in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries

Portada
University of California Press, 1990 - 312 pàgines
Byzantium, that dark sphere on the periphery of medieval Europe, is commonly regarded as the immutable residue of Rome's decline. In this highly original and provocative work, Alexander Kazhdan and Ann Wharton Epstein revise this traditional image by documenting the dynamic social changes that occurred during the eleventh and twelfth centuries.
 

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FROM LATE ANTIQUITY TO
1
DECENTRALIZATION AND FEUDALIZATION OF
24
III
74
THE PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE
120
BYZANTIUM AND ALIEN CULTURES
167
MAN IN LITERATURE AND ART
197
Conclusion
231
Index
267
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Sobre l'autor (1990)

A. P. Kazhdan, the distinguished Russian Byzantinist, is Senior Research Associate at Dumbarton Oaks Center for Byzantine Studies. Ann Wharton Epstein, past President of the Byzantine Studies Conference, is Associate Professor of Art History at Duke University.

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