{"id":55137,"date":"2026-08-31T10:40:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T08:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=55137"},"modified":"2026-08-26T09:18:44","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T07:18:44","slug":"a-byzantine-century-political-colonial-and-national-uses-of-neo-byzantine-architecture-1820s-1920s-ur-adrien-palladino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=55137","title":{"rendered":"\u201eA Byzantine Century: Political, Colonial, and National Uses of Neo-Byzantine Architecture, 1820s\u20131920s\u201c, ur. Adrien Palladino"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This volume explores what it meant to invoke Byzantium during a century of restless political, cultural, and imperial transformation. From the 1820s to the 1920s, the \u201cNeo-Byzantine\u201d style was more than a matter of architectural taste in an age of eclecticism. It became a language of power and identity, called upon to serve colonial empires such as Britain, France, Russia, and Austria-Hungary, as well as contested regions like the Caucasus, the Balkans, and the Ottoman capital itself, where Byzantium was at once heritage and provocation. Far from being a marginal curiosity, the Neo-Byzantine revival was a crucible in which nations, religions, and empires negotiated their pasts and imagined their futures. Monumental churches, synagogues, and civic buildings across Europe, North Africa, and Western Asia were not simply constructed in a borrowed style: they materialized competing dreams of Byzantium, becoming instruments of political ambition, religious authority, national mythology, and cultural colonization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Through a series of case studies ranging from Dublin to Istanbul, from Marseille to Tbilisi, and from Prussian churches to diasporic Armenian projects, the contributors move between the macro and the micro, situating the style within broad historical currents while grounding it in the specificity of local histories. Together, they demonstrate how Byzantium was not only reinvented but actively contested \u2014 its image refracted through the shifting concerns of a global century.<\/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\">Adrien Palladino, <em>A Mosaic of Byzantiums. Neo-Byzantine Style Across a Century of Dreams and Empires<\/em><br>Francesco Lovino, <em>How Byzantine Was Romano-Byzantine Architecture?<\/em><br>Dimitra Kotoula, <em>\u201cA Growth of Thought\u201d. The Arts and Crafts Reconsideration of the Byzantine Building<\/em><br>Giovanni Gasbarri, <em>\u201cA Harmonious Conglomerate of Particles\u201d. Abstraction, Visual Mediation, and the Reception of Byzantine Art in the Age of Modernism<\/em><br>Niamh Bhalla, <em>Thresholds for \u2018Byzantinism\u2019 in Architecture. Newman University Church, Dublin, and Early English Architectural Histories<\/em><br>Fani Gargova, <em>Sonic Sacred Spaces. The Adoption of Byzantine Revival Architecture in Central European Reform Synagogues<\/em><br>Dragan Damjanovi\u0107, <em>Neo-Byzantine Style in the Southern Lands of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. In Search of an Appropriate (National) Style<\/em><br>Ivana Mance Cipek, <em>South Slavic Confabulation of the \u201cByzantine Style\u201d in the Writings of Ivan Kukuljevi\u0107 Sakcinski (1816\u20131889)<\/em><br>Ivan Foletti &amp; Margarita Khakhanova, <em>The Neo-Byzantine Style, Russia\u2019s Imperial Desires, and the Wars (1855\u20131920)<\/em><br>Irene Giviashvili &amp; Anna Mgaloblishvili, <em>\u201cSailing to Byzantium\u201d. The Georgian Perspective<\/em><br>Semra Horuz, <em>Foreign Style, Local Heritage. Ottoman Encounters with Byzantium in Nineteenth-Century Istanbul<\/em><br>Thomas Kaffenberger, <em>A Caucasian Revival between Armenia, Paris and Baghdad. Cross-Arched Vaults, Interwar France, and Architecture for the Diaspora<\/em><br>I\u00f1igo Salto Santamar\u00eda, <em>If Berlin Was Constantinople. Prussian Neo-Byzantine Churches on Both Sides of the Wall<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Objavljeno: 2026.<br>ISBN: 9788028007973<br>258 str.<br>Brepols<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Op\u0161irnije: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brepols.net\/products\/IS-9788028007973-1\">https:\/\/www.brepols.net\/products\/IS-9788028007973-1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":55138,"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-55137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-knjige","category-novosti"],"acf":{"facebook_opis":"\u201eA Byzantine Century\u201c zbornik je radova koji istra\u017euju politi\u010dke, kolonijalne i nacionalne uporabe neobizantske arhitekture, a za hrvatske je \u010ditatelje posebno zanimljivo poglavlje Dragana Damjanovi\u0107a o potrazi za prikladnim nacionalnim stilom u ju\u017enim zemljama Austro-Ugarske."},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/A-Byzantine-Century.webp?fit=400%2C484&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":55129,"url":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=55129","url_meta":{"origin":55137,"position":0},"title":"\u201eRevisiting the Byzantine Commonwealth: Nodes, Networks, and Spheres\u201c, ur. 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