Papers From the Fourth International Sevgi Gonul Byzantine Studies Symposium
350 pp, color figures, pb, articles in English.
CONTENTS
- Abbreviations
- Acknowledgements
- Preface / OMER M. KOC
- Opening Speech / NEVRA NECIPOGLU
- KORAY DURAK and IVANA JEVTIC / Identity and the Other in Byzantine Studies: An Introduction
I. IDENTIFYING THE OTHER: ETHNICITY, CLOTHING, BODY
- NICHOLAS DE LANGE / The Byzantine Jewish Other
- ANTHONY KALDELLIS / Ethnicity and Clothing in Byzantium
- MAJA KOMINKO / Changing Habits and Disappearing Monsters - Ethnography betvveen Classical and Late Antiquity
- PAMELA ARMSTRONG / Ethnicity and Inclusiveness in the Development of Religious Cults: Saint Christopherthe Dog-Headed and Saint George
II. IDENTITY AND THE OTHER IN SPACE
- ARIETTA PAPACONSTANTINOU / The Desert and the City: The Rhetoric of Savagery and Civitization in Some Early Byzantine Narratives
- GUNDER VARINLIOGLU / "Imagine There Is No (Is)land": Conceptualizing Byzantine Islands in Southern Asia Minör
- BUKET KITAPCI BAYRI / Byzantine Universalism and Patris: Geographic Identity Markers in the Late Byzantine Martyria
III. IDENTITY AND THE OTHER IN MEMORY
- LYNN JONES / Visual Evidence for the Mutability of Identity in the Middle Byzantine Period
- RUSTAM SHUKUROV / The Byzantine Concepts of Iran: Cultural Memory and Its Reactualization
IV. ON THE MARGINS OF ORTHODOXY: BELIEF CARVED IN STONE
- B. YELDA OLCAY UCKAN AND SECKIN EVCIM / The Other Beliefs in Byzantine Phrygia and Their Reflections in Rock-Cut Architecture
- SERCAN YANDIM AYDIN / Marginalizing Traditional Religious Groups, Cults, and Beliefs in the Early Patristic Period: Asceticism in Phrygia and Lykaonia
- HENRY MAGUIRE / Magic in Byzantine Pottery: The Other Within
V. MANIFESTATION OF IDENTITY THROUGH PATRONAGE
- SCOTT REDFORD / Rum Seljuk Emir Mübarizeddin Ertokuş and His Madrasa: Reading Identity through Architectural Patronage
- IOANNA RAPTI / Art from Another Byzantium: The Sculptural Decoration of the Church of Bghno Noravank'
- SUNA CAGAPTAY / The Laskarid Moment: Building an Empire with Constantinople in Mind
VI. APPROPRIATING THE OTHER
- ALICIA WALKER / Courtly Objects, Courtly Identities: Middle Byzantine Luxury Arts and the Material Culture of Elite Leisure
- BRIGITTE PITARAKIS / Jewelers, Coppersmiths, and Clientele: Between Byzantium and the Arab World
- Index
