Where the Middle Ages Begin
Orthodoxy on Sale: The Last Byzantine and the Lost Crusade By Silvia Ronchey Proceedings of the 21st International Congress of Byzantine Studies, London, 21–26 August (2006) Introduction: In July of 1460 a Venetian galley departed Porto Longo close to Pylos, and slowly tacked its way up the western coast of the Peloponnese. The galley had aboard […]
Inspiration and Innovation: Orthodox Art in the Romanian Lands in the Fourteenth and FifteenthCenturies D-Vasilescu, Elena Ene (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK) 21st International Congress of Byzantine Studies Communication (VI.8 Art and Orthodoxy) Abstract One in the series of overlapping Christian discourses which Averil Cameron speaks about in her book Christianity and the Rhetoric of the Empire […]
A Swedish Crusader King as Russian Orthodox Saint on the Valamo Archipelago? Lind, John H. (University of Southern Denmark, Odense) University of Paris, Sorbonne, Cahiers slaves n°7, March 21 (2005) Abstract In 1347 King Magnus Eriksson of Sweden undertook a crusade against Novgorodian territory. In this he was inspired by the powerful aristocrat Birgitta Birgersdaughter, […]
Latins and Franks in Byzantium: Perception and Reality from the Eleventh to the Twelfth Century Kazhdan, Alexander The Crusades from the Perspective of Byzantium and the Muslim World, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection Washington, D.C. (2001) Abstract When scholars write about relations between the West and Byzantium in the Middle Ages, they naturally emphasize the contrasts […]
The Crusader Church of the Holy Sepulchre Burke, Tiffany L. (University of Notre Dame Department of History) University of Notre Dame, March 22 (2002) Abstract The main focus of this essay is to describe in great detail the events leading up to and following the predominant architectural changes of the Holy Sepulchre Church in Jerusalem. More precisely, […]
Novgorodian Travelers to the Mediterranean World in the Middle Ages Matsuki, Eizo Studies in the Mediterranean World Past and Present (1988) Abstract “Novgorod the Great,” a unique republic city state in the 12th-15th centuries, was situated at the Northwest corner of the Russian plain, not far from the Baltic Sea. It was on the northern […]
The Journey of Saint Catherine of Mount Sinai Duelt, Daniel Duran Mediterraneum: The Splendor of the Medieval Mediterranean (13th-15th centuries), ed. Xavier Barral i Altet (Lunwerg, 2004) Abstract During the Middle Ages, the monastery of Saint Catherine of Mount Sinai was a pilgrimage centre of great importance for the Christian world. The 6th century foundation by Justinian was […]
The Eastern Schism and the Division of Europe Ledit, Joseph S.J., Theological Studies, Vol.12:4 (1951) Abstract Now that Europe has been cut in two, and its two fragments have become minor parts of the large systems that fill the world, Eurasia on one side, and the Atlantic community on the other, it becomes the object of […]
The making of Byzantine Orthodoxy: definition and display, inclusion and exclusion Magdalino, Paul (St Andrew’s University, Scotland) Paper given at the 21st International Congress of Byzantine Studies (2006) Abstract Orthodoxy means ‘right belief’, ‘correct theological doctrine’; to its adherents, it represents immutable, universal truth. Yet the convener and the invited speakers of this session are all […]
This essay explores the evolving significance of a famous fourteenth-century Paul’s Cross sermon by Thomas Wimbledon in late medieval and early modern England and its transmission from manuscript to print.
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