Spatialities of Byzantine Culture from the Human Body to the Universe /

Spatialities of Byzantine Culture from the Human Body to the Universe / / edited by Myrto Veikou and Ingela Nilsson.

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Compensating a four-decades shortfall, this collective volume is the first reader in Byzantine spatial studies. It offers a diversity of topics and scientific approaches, articulated by up-to-date interdisciplinary dialogue, and reflects on the future challenges of Byzantine spatial studies.

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Superior document:The Medieval Mediterranean ; 133
TeilnehmendeR:
Veikou, Myrto,
Nilsson, Ingela,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2022.
Year of Publication:2022
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
French
Series:The Medieval Mediterranean ; 133.
Physical Description:1 online resource (705 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Half Title
  • Series Information
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of Figures
  • Abbreviations
  • Notes on Contributors
  • (Byzantine) Space Matters! An Introduction
  • Bibliography
  • Part 1 The (Most) Private Space: The Human Body
  • Editorial Note on Part 1
  • 1 The Human Belly as a 'Natural Symbol': The Greek and Byzantine Anthropology of γαστήρ
  • 1 Peeping into Darkness: γαστήρ in the Greek-Byzantine Tradition
  • 2 Case Study No. 1: Γαστὴρ in the Byzantine Ascetic Tradition
  • 3 Case Study No. 2: The Gnawing Teeth of γαστήρ/ὕστερα and the Gorgon's Head
  • 4 Case Study no. 3: Die Like Arius!
  • 5 Case Study no. 4: The 'Non-Ascetic' Asceticism of the Drunken Monk Jacob
  • 6 A Final Case Study: The Monstrous Body and the Disembowelment of a Usurper
  • Bibliography
  • 2 Crime et châtiment à Byzance: Le corps humain comme espace public
  • 1 La διαπόμπευσις comme procédé exemplaire de spatialisation du corps
  • Bibliographie
  • 3 The World from Above: Divine Amphitheatres, Spiritual Watchtowers, and the Moral Spatialities of κατασκοπή
  • 1 From Skopiai to Theatra Mundi
  • 2 The Theatre of Creation
  • 3 The Theatre of Salvation
  • 4 Spiritual Watchtowers
  • Bibliography
  • 4 Space and Identity, a Located Negotiation: A Case Study on Mobile Bodies in Byzantine Hagiography
  • 1 Mobility and Walking
  • 2 Setting Boundaries
  • Bibliography
  • Part 2 Experienced Spaces: Human Bodies within Their Natural Environments
  • Editorial Note on Part 2
  • 5 Space-environment as Historical Actor in Byzantium
  • 1 Space as Enabler: Pathogens
  • 2 Space as Tele-Connector: Climatic Fluctuations
  • 3 Space as Partner: Anthropogenic Ecosystems and Landscapes
  • Bibliography
  • 6 In the Shadow of Virgil: The Significance of Butrint's Liminality in Deep Mediterranean History
  • 1 Albanian Thanks to Lord Grey.
  • 2 The Butrint Foundation Project: Re-envisioning the Liminality of Butrint
  • 3 Space and Time at Butrint: From the Bronze Age until Today
  • 4 The Importance of Topography in Narrative
  • Bibliography
  • 7 At Home in Cappadocia: The Spatialities of a Byzantine Domestic Landscape
  • 1 The Cappadocian House and Its Components
  • 2 Living in the Landscape
  • 3 Finding Comfort in Cappadocia
  • Bibliography
  • 8 A Byzantine Space Oddity: The Cultural Geography of Foodways and Cuisine in the Eastern Mediterranean (700-1500)
  • 1 Spatial Dimensions of Byzantine Food Preservation and Storage
  • 1.1 Athenian Pithoi
  • 1.2 Pithoi in a Wider Context
  • 2 The Spatial Dimensions of Byzantine Food Preparation with Heat
  • 2.1 The First Level: "A Designated Space for Cooking"
  • 2.2 The Second Level: "A Special Space for Cooking"
  • 2.3 The Third Level: "A Specialized Space" for Cooking
  • 3 The Spatial Dimensions of Byzantine Consumption
  • 3.1 Changing Table Wares
  • 3.2 Changing Eating Habits
  • Bibliography
  • 9 Space and Identity: Byzantine Conceptions of Geographic Belonging
  • 1 Terms and Paraphrases for Identity
  • 2 Identity and Space
  • 3 Local Identity: The Patris
  • 3.1 Polis and Politeuma
  • 3.2 Chorion and Kome
  • 3.3 Chora
  • 4 Regional Identity
  • 4.1 Klima
  • 4.2 Epeiros
  • 5 Supra-regional Identity
  • 5.1 Oikoumene
  • 5.2 Terms Related to Romania
  • 5.3 Terms Related to Barbaroi
  • 6 Soma and Space
  • Bibliography
  • Part 3 Anthropogenic Spaces: Byzantine Landscapes
  • Editorial Note on Part 3
  • 10 What Is a Byzantine Landscape?
  • 1 Byzantine Views
  • 2 Sacred and Religious Landscape
  • 3 Contemporary Views
  • 4 Space and Placemaking
  • Bibliography
  • 11 Adapting to the Cypriot Landscape: A Study of Medieval to Modern Occupation of the Malloura Valley
  • 1 Theoretical Perspective
  • 2 The Athienou Archaeological Project on Cyprus.
  • Bibliography
  • 12 Constructing New Cities, Creating New Spatialities: An Ethnoarchaeological Experiment
  • 1 Dara vs Littoria: A Bizarre or Useful Idea?
  • 2 Circles in the Water: The Economic Impact of a New City's Building Site
  • 3 New Socio-economic Spatiality in the Surrounding Countryside
  • 4 After the End: A New Micro-ecological Spatiality
  • 5 Concluding Remarks: Evaluation of the Experiment
  • Bibliography
  • 13 'The Humility of the Desert': The Symbolic and Cultural Landscapes of Egyptian Monasticism
  • 1 Why Study the Cultural Landscape? Theoretical Models
  • 2 The Physical Environment of the Cultural Landscape of Monasticism
  • 3 The Anthropogenic Structures of the Cultural Landscape of Monasticism
  • 4 The Things of the Cultural Landscape of Monasticism
  • Bibliography
  • 14 From the Ancient Demes to the Byzantine Villages: Transformations of the Landscape in the Countryside of Athens
  • Bibliography
  • Part 4 Empowered Spaces: Byzantine Territories
  • Editorial Note on Part 4
  • 15 L'inscription du pouvoir impérial dans l'espace urbain constantinopolitain à l'époque des Paléologues
  • Bibliographie
  • 16 Byzantine Notions of the Balkans: Symbolic, Territorial and Ethnic Conceptions of Space, Sixth to Ninth Centuries
  • Bibliography
  • 17 The Partitioned Space of the Byzantine Peloponnese: From History to Political and Mythical Exploitation
  • Bibliography
  • 18 Spatial Concepts and Administrative Structures in the Byzantine-Turkish Frontier of Twelfth-Century Asia Minor
  • 1 Frontier Studies and Scholarly Debates on Byzantium's Eastern Borderland
  • 2 Ideological Expressions and Political Realities
  • 3 The Main Sections of the Byzantine-Turkish Frontier
  • 4 Conclusions
  • Bibliography
  • 19 The Other Than Self: Byzantium and the Venetian Identity
  • 1 Water and Golden Forks
  • 2 At the Dinner Table.
  • 3 Spolia, the Legacy of Byzantium and the Ancient World
  • 4 Burials and Kinship Memories
  • 5 Byzantine Venice?
  • Bibliography
  • Part 5 Performed Spaces: Spatialities of Cultural Practices
  • Editorial Note on Part 5
  • 20 Tents in Space, Space in Tents
  • 1 Transformations
  • 2 Identity and Community
  • 3 Transitional and Unstable Space
  • Bibliography
  • 21 Variations on the Definition of Sacred Space from Eusebius of Caesarea to Balsamon
  • Bibliography
  • 22 "Dwelling Place and Palace": The Theotokos as a "Living City" in Byzantine Hymns, Icons and Liturgical Practice
  • 1 Sacred Space and Sacred Places-Hierotopy and Chora
  • 2 Constantinople as Theotokoupolis
  • 3 The Akathistos Hymn and Theotokia
  • 4 Pokrov-The Protection of the Theotokos
  • 5 Partaking in the Chοra
  • Bibliography
  • 23 The Development of Religious Topography at Constantinople in the Fourth to Seventh Centuries
  • 1 Worship outside the Walls: Old Rome and New
  • 2 Processional Liturgy
  • 3 Protecting the City
  • Bibliography
  • 24 Mind the Gap: Mosaics on the Wall and the Space between Viewer and Viewed
  • Bibliography
  • Part 6 Imaginary Spaces: Byzantine Storyworlds
  • Editorial Note on Part 6
  • 25 The Phenomenology of Landscape in the Menologion of Basil ii
  • Bibliography
  • 26 Pachon's Progressive Return: Figurativity, Framing and Movement in Historica Lausiaca 23
  • 1 The Problem of 'Intuitive' Figurality
  • 2 Pachon as a Lost Sheep
  • 3 Mindsets as Determinants for Movement Frames
  • Bibliography
  • 27 Spaces Within, Spaces Beyond: Reassessing the Lives of the Holy Fools Symeon and Andrew (bhg 1677, 115z)
  • 1 Spaces 'Within'
  • 2 Spaces 'Beyond'
  • 3 Inner 'Space'
  • Bibliography
  • 28 Textualization of Space and Travel in Middle Byzantine Hagiography
  • 1 From the Seventh to the Tenth Century
  • 2 The Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries
  • Bibliography.
  • 29 The Visual Structure of Epigrams and the Experience of Byzantine Space: A Case Study on Reliquary Enkolpia of St Demetrios
  • Bibliography
  • Afterword: Byzantine Spacetime: A Rough Guide For Future Tourists to the Past
  • 1 Byzantine Spacetime Travel Requires Physical Spacetime Travelling Devices
  • 2 The Space We Explore Changed and Changes in Time
  • 3 Our Disciplines of Historical Understanding Depend on Spatial Metaphors
  • 4 Travel from Topography to Landscape Overlays Place with Meaning and Narrative
  • 5 Beware the Byzantine Butterfly Effect
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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