Power and Subversion in Byzantium: Papers from the 43rd by Michael, Dr Saxby,Dimiter, Professor Angelov

By Michael, Dr Saxby,Dimiter, Professor Angelov

This quantity addresses a subject matter of specific value for Byzantine experiences. Byzantium has frequently been deemed a civilisation which deferred to authority and set particular shop via orthodoxy, canon and correct order. on account that 1982 whilst the prestigious Russian Byzantinist Alexander Kazhdan wrote that 'the historical past of Byzantine highbrow competition has but to be written', students have more and more highlighted instances of subversion of 'correct perform' and 'correct trust' in Byzantium. This leading edge scholarly attempt has produced vital effects, even though it has been hampered through the inability of discussion around the disciplines of Byzantine studies.

The forty third Spring Symposium of Byzantine reports in 2010 drew jointly historians, paintings historians, and students of literature, faith and philosophy, who mentioned shared and discipline-specific techniques to the subject matter of subversion. the current quantity provides a range of the papers added on the symposium enriched with specifically commissioned contributions. such a lot papers care for the interval after the 11th century, even supposing early Byzantium isn't really missed. Theoretical questions on the character, articulation and bounds of subversion are addressed in the frameworks of person disciplines and in a bigger context. the quantity comes at a well timed junction within the improvement of Byzantine experiences, as curiosity in subversion and nonconformity often has been emerging gradually within the field.

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