{"id":55114,"date":"2026-08-27T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=55114"},"modified":"2026-08-26T11:58:53","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T09:58:53","slug":"worlds-of-byzantium-religion-culture-and-empire-in-the-medieval-near-east-ur-elizabeth-s-bolman-scott-fitzgerald-johnson-jack-tannous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=55114","title":{"rendered":"\u201eWorlds of Byzantium: Religion, Culture, and Empire in the Medieval Near East\u201c, ur. Elizabeth S. Bolman, Scott Fitzgerald Johnson, Jack Tannous"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Worlds of Byzantium offers a new understanding of what it means to study the history and visual culture of the Byzantine empire during late antiquity and the Middle Ages. Arguing that linguistic and cultural frontiers do not always coincide with political ones, it suggests that Byzantine studies should look not only within but also beyond the borders of the Byzantine empire and include the history of Christian populations in the Muslim-ruled Middle East and neighbouring states like Ethiopia and Armenia and integrate more closely with Judaic and Islamic studies. With essays by leading scholars in a wide range of fields, it offers a vision of a richly interconnected eastern Mediterranean and Near East that will be of interest to anyone who studies the premodern world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Table of Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Scott Fitzgerald Johnson, \u201cWorlds of Byzantium: Problems, Frameworks, and Opportunity in the Byzantine Near East\u201d<br>Columba Stewart, \u201cEast of Byzantium Revisited: The Study of the Byzantine Near East, Past and Present\u201d<br>Averil Cameron, \u201cByzantium and the Turn to the East\u201d<br>Kevin T. van Bladel, \u201cThe Classical Near East\u201d<br>Christian Raffensperger, \u201cAlternatives to Commonwealth: Modes of Connectivity between Byzantium and Medieval Eastern Europe\u201d<br>Elizabeth S. Bolman, \u201cMovement and Creation: A Reassessment of Early Byzantine Visual Culture\u201d<br>Alicia Walker, \u201cLetters from the Edge: Mapping Pseudo-Arabic between Byzantium and the Near East\u201d<br>Michael J. Decker, \u201cAntioch after Dark: Archaeology and the \u2018Dark Ages\u2019 in North Syria\u201d<br>Cecily J. Hilsdale, \u201cArs Sacra in the East and after Byzantium\u201d<br>Karel C. Innem\u00e9e, Lucas Van Rompay i Dobrochna Zieli\u0144ska, \u201cThe Church of the Virgin in Dayr al-Sury\u0101n (Wadi al-Natrun): Architecture, Art, and History between Coptic and Syriac Christianity\u201d<br>Christina Maranci, \u201cThree Questions Concerning Armenian and Byzantine Art\u201d<br>W\u0142odzimierz Godlewski, \u201cMakurian Visual Culture: Between Byzantium and Africa\u201d<br>Jack Tannous, \u201cByzantine Syriac: Language and Religious Community in the Middle East\u201d<br>Hieromonk Justin of Sinai, \u201cGreek Identity in the Sinai\u201d<br>Daniel Galadza, \u201cPatriarchs, Caliphs, Monks, Scribes, and the Byzantinization of Jerusalem\u2019s Liturgy\u201d<br>Eve Krakowski, \u201cByzantine Judaism in Early Islamic Palestine: Rethinking the Gaonic Model\u201d<br>George Hatke, \u201cEthiopia: Christianity, Language, and Identity\u201d<br>Robin Darling Young, \u201cArmenia and Byzantium: Simultaneously at the Center and on the Periphery\u201d<br>Stephen Rapp Jr., \u201cByzantine Georgia\/Georgian Byzantium\u201d<br>Jack Tannous, \u201cConclusion: Ends and Means\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Objavljeno: 2024.<br>ISBN: 9781108492096<br>726 str.<br>Cambridge University Press<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Op\u0161irnije: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/books\/worlds-of-byzantium\/72055E948EF61CB12C559DB9D3204CAF\">https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/books\/worlds-of-byzantium\/72055E948EF61CB12C559DB9D3204CAF<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":55115,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-knjige","category-novosti"],"acf":{"facebook_opis":"\u201eWorlds of Byzantium: Religion, Culture, and Empire in the Medieval Near East\u201c novi je opse\u017ean zbornik u kojem autori bizantski svijet promatraju u \u0161irem kontekstu Bliskoga istoka, isto\u010dnoga Sredozemlja, isto\u010dne Europe i Afrike."},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Worlds-of-Byzantium.webp?fit=373%2C536&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":55129,"url":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=55129","url_meta":{"origin":55114,"position":0},"title":"\u201eRevisiting the Byzantine Commonwealth: Nodes, Networks, and Spheres\u201c, ur. 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