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The Blessing o Watersand EpiphanyThe Eastern Liturgical Tradition

Nicholas E. Denysenko,

Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, USALITURGY, WORSHIP AND SOCIETY SERIES

One o the fnest recent examples o the crat oliturgical theology historical sources groundingtheological insights which have deep resonances

or the contemporary church.

Kevin W. Irwin, The Catholic University o America, USA

This book examines the historical development o theblessing o waters and its theology in the East, withan emphasis on the Byantine tradition. Exploringhow Eastern Christians have sought these waters asa source o healing, purication and communion withGod, Denysenko unpacks their euchology and ritualcontext. Denysenko presents an alternative rameworkor understanding the activity o the Trinity, enablingreaders to encounter a vision o how participantsencounter God in and ater ritual. This is inormativeor contemporary theologians, historians, pastorsand students.

August 2012 256 pagesHardback 978-1-4094-4078-9 55.00ebook 978-1-4094-4079-6

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Cassians ConerencesScriptural Interpretation and the Monastic IdealChristopher J Kelly, Sacred Heart University,Faireld, USA

NEW CRITICAL THINKING IN RELIGION, THEOLOGY ANDBIBLICAL STUDIES

This book explores Cassians use o scripture in theConerences, especially its biblical models, to conveyhis understanding o the desert ideal to the monasticcommunities o Gaul. This book demonstrates how thescriptures unctioned as a dynamic orce in the liveso Christians, emphasies the importance o Cassianin the development o the Western monastic tradition,and oers an alternative to the sometimes problematicdescriptions o patristic exegesis as allegoryor typology.

February 2012 148 pagesHardback 978-1-4094-0559-7 45.00ebook 978-1-4094-0560-3


Christians, Gnostics andPhilosophers in Late AntiuityMark Edwards, Christ Church, Oxord, UK

VARIORUM COLLECTED STUDIES SERIES

Gnosticism, Christianity and late antiue philosophyare oten studied separately; when studied togetherthey are too oten confated. These articles set out toshow that we misunderstand all three phenomenai we take either approach. We cannot interpret, oreven identiy, Christian Gnosticism without Platonicevidence; we may even discover that Gnosticismthrows unexpected light on the Platonic imagination.At the same time, i we read writers like Origensimply as Christian Platonists, or bring Christiansand philosophers together under the porous umbrellao monotheism, we ignore undamental eatureso both traditions.

September 2012 330 pagesHardback 978-1-4094-4822-8 80.00


Christs Resurrection inEarly Christianityand the Making o the New Testament

Markus Vinent, Kings College London, UK

A YANKEE BOOK PEDDLER US CORE TITLE FOR 2011

This is the rst Patristic book to ocus on the

development o the belie in the Resurrectiono Christ through the rst centuries A.D. ByPaul, Christs Resurrection is regarded as thebasis o Christian hope. In the ourth century itbecomes a central Christian tenet. But what aboutthe discrepancy in the rst three centuries? Vinentoers an eye-opening experience with insights intothe cratsmanship o early Christianity the earliestexistential debates about lie and death, death and lie all centred on the cross, on suering, enduring andsacrice.

August 2011 282 pagesPaperback 978-1-4094-1792-7 19.99

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Clothed in the BodyAsceticism, the Body and the Spiritual in theLate Antiue Era

Hannah Hunt, Leeds Trinity University College, UK

ASHGATE STUDIES IN PHILOSOPHY & THEOLOGY INLATE ANTIqUITY

This book explores religious anthropology andasceticism rom its biblical and desert roots andwithin eastern patristic writers including Ephrem,Pseudo-Macarius and Climacus. Hunt examinesthe apparent paradox that Jesus earthly existenceand post resurrection appearances are experiencedthrough consummately physical actions and attributesyet some ascetics within the Christian tradition appearto seek to deny the value o the human body, to nd itdeadening o spiritual lie.

July 2012 250 pages

Hardback 978-1-4094-0914-4 55.00ebook 978-1-4094-0915-1


Cult, Ritual, Divinity and Beliein the Roman WorldDuncan Fishwick, University o Alberta, Canada


The papers in this selection o studies range insubject matter rom early Judaic magic to aninscribed monument o the Neo-Classical period. Theprincipal emphasis o the collection is nevertheless onreligious developments under the High Roman Empire:problems arising rom the interpretation o oriental cultsimported rom the Hellenistic East but primarily thedevelopment o imperial cult, the one universal religiono the empire beore the coming o Christianity.

Includes 18 b&w illustrations

March 2012 338 pagesHardback 978-1-4094-3686-7 85.00


Exegesis and Theology inEarly ChristianityFrances Young, University o Birmingham, UK


This collection o articles brings together a numbero working papers which were signicant in thedevelopment o Frances Youngs understanding opatristic exegesis, studies not included in her ground-breaking book, Biblical Exegesis and the Formation oChristian Culture (1997). Also included is a selectiono papers on theology, church order and methodology,which combined with the ormer demonstrates theauthors scholarly approach to patristic material.

Includes 20 previously published essays

September 2012 334 pagesHardback 978-1-4094-4781-8 80.00


Herbs and Healers rom theAncient Mediterranean throughthe Medieval WestEssays in Honor o John M. Riddle

Edited by Anne Van Arsdall and Timothy Graham,both at the University o New Mexico, USA

MEDICINE IN THE MEDIEVAL MEDITERRANEAN

Herbs and Healers rom the Ancient Mediterraneanthrough the Medieval West brings together elevenpapers by leading scholars in ancient and medievalmedicine and pharmacy, honouring John M. Riddle,a pioneer o the study o early medicine. The volumesscope demonstrates the breadth o current researchin the eld, examining both practical medical artsand medical theory rom the ancient world intoearly modern times. It includes new ndings aboutknown and anonymous ancient healers, and outlinesa cutting-edge Internet-based system or ongoingacademic collaboration.


July 2012 394 pagesHardback 978-1-4094-0038-7 70.00ebook 978-1-4094-4723-8


Interpreting the Bible andAristotle in Late AntiuityThe Alexandrian Commentary Traditionbetween Rome and Baghdad

Edited by Jose Lssl and John W. Watt,both at Cardi University, UK

This book brings together sixteen studies byinternational scholars on the origins and earlydevelopment o the Latin and Syriac biblical andphilosophical commentary traditions. With its breadthand ground-breaking originality, this volume is anindispensable resource not only or specialists, butalso or all students and scholars interested in late-antiue intellectual history, especially the practice o

teaching and studying philosophy, the philosophicalexegesis o the Bible, and the role o commentaryin the post-Hellenistic world as ar as the classicalrenaissance in Islam.


November 2011 360 pagesHardback 978-1-4094-1007-2 70.00ebook 978-1-4094-1008-9


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The Platonic HeritageFurther Studies in the History o Platonismand Early Christianity

John Dillon, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland


In this third collection o articles by John Dillon, thesubjects covered range rom Plato himsel and theOld Academy, through Philo and Middle Platonism,to the Neoplatonists and beyond. Individual topicsinclude atomism in the Old Academy, Philos concept oimmateriality, Plutarchs and Julians views on theology,and peculiar eatures o Iamblichus exegeses o Platoand Aristotle, but also the broader uestions o thesocial position o the philosopher in second centuryA.D. society, and the nature o ancient biography.

June 2012 332 pagesHardback 978-1-4094-4662-0 85.00


Plotinus, Porphyryand IamblichusPhilosophy and Religion in Neoplatonism

Andrew Smith, University College Dublin, Ireland


These essays are devoted to Neoplatonism andespecially to Plotinus and Porphyry. They dealwith Plotinus development o the Platonic Forms,

and include a lengthy assessment o Porphyryscontribution to the Platonic tradition. Topics coveredinclude the importance o practical ethical activity,Plotinus speculations on time and eternity as well ashis observations on human consciousness. A closerexamination o the role o religion, magic and myth inthe lie o the philosopher reveals a much richer andmore nuanced appreciation o their importance andhighlights the contribution o Iamblichus.

January 2012 356 pagesHardback 978-1-4094-2168-9 85.00


Reuse ValueSpolia and Appropriation in Art and Architecturerom Constantine to Sherrie Levine

Edited by Richard Brilliant, Columbia University, USA

and Dale Kinney, Bryn Mawr College, USAThis book oers a range o views on spolia andappropriation in art and architecture rom ourth-century Rome to the late twentieth-century.Using case studies rom dierent historical momentsand cultures, contributors test the limits o spoliaas a critical category and seek to dene its speciccharacter in relation to other orms o artisticappropriation. Several authors explore the ethicalissues raised by spoliation and their implications orthe evaluation and interpretation o new work madewith spolia.




Shiting Cultural Frontiers inLate AntiuityEdited by David Brakke, Deborah M. Deliyannisand Edward Watts, all at Indiana University,Bloomington, USA

Shiting Cultural Frontiers in Late Antiquity explores

the transormation o classical culture in late antiuityby studying cultures at the borders-the borders oempires, o social classes, o public and privatespaces, o literary genres, o linguistic communities,and o the modern disciplines that study antiuity.Although canonical gures o late ancient studiesappear in its pages, by looking away rom the coreand toward the periphery, whether spatially orintellectually, the volume oers resh insights intohow ancient patterns o thinking and creating becamerecongured into the diverse cultures o the medieval.

Includes 28 b&w illustrations and maps

June 2012 298 pages

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The Spirit o AugustinesEarly TheologyContextualiing Augustines Pneumatology

Chad Tyler Gerber, Walsh University, USA


This book-length study o Augustines pneumatologyexamines his earliest extant writings, penned duringthe years surrounding his amed return to the CatholicChurch and the height o his eorts to synthesieCatholic theology. Careul analysis o these initialtexts casts resh light upon Augustines more matureand well-known theology o the Holy Spirit while alsoilluminating ongoing discussions about his earlythought.

February 2012 234 pages

Hardback 978-1-4094-2437-6 50.00ebook 978-1-4094-2438-3


Studies on the Melitian Schismin Egypt (AD 306335)Hans Hauben, University o Leuven, Belgium, andPeter Van Nuelen, University o Ghent, Belgium


This collection o essays by Hans Hauben ocuseson the earliest phase o the Melitian schism, rom the

Diocletianic persecution to the Synod o Tyre (335). Itelucidates the chronology o the schism, the impacto the Council o Nicaea, the internal organisation othe parallel church, and the tensions in Alexandriacaused by its repression, as well as interpretativeproblems posed by the sources. The papers constitutean in-depth assessment o the causes, developmentand meaning o the Melitian schism, and together withadditional, related studies also included in the volumethey paint a rich picture o early Christian society.

July 2012 294 pagesHardback 978-1-4094-3942-4 80.00


Truthulness, Realism, HistoricityA Study in Late Antiue Spiritual Literature

Peter Turner

The subject o this book is a wide range o spiritual

narrative texts rom the third to the sixth centuriesA.D.: pagan philosophical biographies, Greek andLatin Christian saints lives, and autobiographicalworks by authors such as Julian and Augustine.Unlike traditional readings which seek in these workshistorical acts, or religious and intellectual attitudes,this book argues that contemporary reality can beound in the interplay between these two types oinormation. Any historical reality we derive romsuch works must be seen in terms o the writerscommitment to realism as it would have beenunderstood within a Platonic and/or Christianworld view.

June 2012 228 pagesHardback 978-0-7546-6954-8 65.00ebook 978-0-7546-9715-2


Vrbes ExtinctaeArchaeologies o Abandoned Classical Towns

Edited by Neil Christie, University o Leicester, UKand Andrea Augenti, Ravenna-Bologna University, Italy

The essays in this collection consider specicexamples and case studies o lost classical

cities rom across the many Roman provinces inorder to help understand why some ailed andwere subseuently abandoned. Bringing togetherarchaeologists rom Britain, Spain, Italy and Hungaryto share views on and ndings rom excavations andsurveys o ailed towns, this volume has much to oerscholars o Roman, late antiue and early medievalarchaeology, urban scholars and ancient historians.

Includes 106 b&w and 32 colour illustrations.

December 2012 360 pagesHardback 978-0-7546-6562-5 70.00


Image, Word and God inthe Early Christian CenturiesMark Edwards, University o Oxord, UK


January 2013 224 pages

Paperback 978-1-4094-0671-6 19.99Hardback 978-1-4094-0645-7 50.00ebook 978-1-4094-0646-4


Dreams, Healing, and Medicinein GreeceFrom Antiuity to the Present

Edited by Steven M. Oberhelman,Texas A&M University, USA

March 2013 290 pagesHardback 978-1-4094-2423-9 65.00ebook 978-1-4094-2424-6



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The Formation of the Classical Islamic World Series

THe FormATion

oF THe CLAssiCAL

isLAmiC WorLdFounding editor: Lawrence I. Conrad, ormerlyUniversity o Hamburg, Germany

The Formation o the Classical Islamic Worldis a libraryreerence collection that makes available the mostimportant articles and research papers in its subject.International scholars representing a whole rangeo methodologies and disciplines, have joined tocollaborate on what is the most ambitious endeavouro its kind in the modern study o Islam.

By reprinting material rom a wide range o

sources that are traditionally dicult to nd, thisseries constitutes a major new resource or libraries.All articles not previously published in English havebeen specially translated or this series, and eachcontains a specially-written introduction to thesubject, a bibliographical guide and an index. Thecollection is planned to consist o 48 thematicallyordered volumes. The articles are selected not only ortheir current role in breaking new ground, but also ortheir place as seminal contributions to the ormationo the eld, and their utility in providing access to thesubject or students and specialists in other elds.

The Articulation o Early IslamicState StructuresEdited by Fred M. Donner, University o Chicago, USA

This volume reprints nineteen articles that dealwith the ormation o the rst Islamic state underthe rightly-guided and Umayyad caliphs (632-750CE). The articles (ve o which originally appearedin languages other than English and are translatedhere) trace the crystaliation o key institutions o thegrowing empire and treat such undamental issuesas taxation, military institutions, administrativeorganiation and practices, the barid or ocial courierand intelligence service, succession, the ruling elitesand their income, and uestions o legitimation. Thevolume includes an introduction by the editor thatoers an overview o the processes involved and helpsplace each article in its proper context. It also oers anextensive bibliography o urther works relevant to thetheme o the volume.

February 2012 468 pagesHardback 978-0-86078-721-1 100.00


Education and Learning inthe Early Islamic WorldEdited by Claude Gilliot, Universit de Provence, France

Studying education and learning in the ormative periodo Islam is not immediately easy. Most sources are roma later period, and reuently project the assumptionsand conditions o their own day on to the earlier period.The studies in this volume have been selected or thecritical approaches and methods o their authors, andare arranged under ve headings: the pedagogicaltradition; scholarship and attestation; orality andliteracy; authorship and transmission; and libraries.Together with the editors introductory essay, theypresent a broad picture o the beginnings and evolution

o education and learning in the Islamic world.August 2012 500 pagesHardback 978-0-86078-717-4 100.00


Late Antiuity on the Eve o IslamEdited by Averil Cameron, Keble College Oxord, UK

This volume refects the huge upsurge o interest

in the Near East and early Islam currently takingplace among historians o late antiuity. At the sametime, Islamicists and quranic scholars are alsoincreasingly seeking to place the lie o Muhammadand the quran in a late antiue background. AverilCameron, hersel one o the leading scholars o lateantiuity and Byantium, has chosen eleven keyarticles that together give a rounded picture o themost important trends in late antiue scholarshipover the last decades, and provide a coherent contextor the emergence o the new religion. A substantialintroduction, with a detailed bibliography, surveysthe present state o the eld, as well as discussingsome recent themes in quranic and early Islamic

scholarship rom the point o view o a late antiuehistorian.

April 2013 400 pagesHardback 978-1-4094-0070-7 100.00




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The Worlds of Eastern Christianity, 3001500 Series

THe WorLds oF eAsTern

CHrisTiAniTy, 3001500Series editors: Robert Hoyland, Oxord University, UKand Arietta Papaconstantinou, University o Reading, UK

Eastern Christian studies have traditionally beenoriented towards text collection and edition, with aheavily theological approach. Scholarly productionon the subject, though abundant, suers romragmentation and compartmentaliation acrossdisciplines, with a lamentable lack o integratedand comparative studies.

This series aims to promote a more holistic andinter-disciplinary approach towards the history o theEast Christian communities o the Byantine, Iranian

and Islamic worlds during the period 300-1500.It has two parts: the rst presenting each o the EastChristian cultural and linguistic communities in turn;the second ocusing on a number o themes that cutacross usual cultural, conessional and linguisticdivides. Each volume brings together the mostinfuential articles on the given topic and will openwith an introduction by a leading expert in the eldwho will discuss the key aspects and debates andtry to rame new uestions and directions or utureresearch. It is intended that they will act as a stimulusor new research into Eastern Christianity and as suchthey will be essential reading or all students and

academics o Late Antiuity, Byantium, Islamand Western Christendom.

Doctrine and Debate in the EastChristian World, 3001500Edited by Averil Cameron, Keble College, Oxord, UKand Robert Hoyland, Oxord University, UK

This volume presents an introduction to, and aselection o the key studies on, the ways in which andmeans by which the dierent Eastern Christianities

debated with one another and with their competitors:pagans, Jews, Muslims and Latin Christians. It alsoincludes the iconoclast controversy, which dividedparts o the East Christian world in the seventhto ninth centuries, and devotes space both to themethodological tools that evolved in the processo debate and the promulgation o doctrine, and tothe literary genres through which the debates wereexpressed.

December 2011 470 pagesHardback 978-1-4094-0034-9 100.00


Languages and Cultures oEastern Christianity: EthiopianEdited by Alessandro Bausi,University o Hamburg, Germany

This volume brings together a set o contributions,many appearing in English or the rst time, togetherwith a new introduction, covering the history othe Ethiopian Christian civiliation in its ormativeperiod (300-1500 AD). Rooted in the late antiuekingdom o Aksum (present day Northern Ethiopiaand Eritrea), and lying between Byantium, Aricaand the Near East, this civiliation is presented in aseries o case studies. At a time when philologicaland linguistic investigations are being challenged

by new approaches in Ethiopian studies, this volumeemphasies the necessity o basic research, whileavoiding the reduction o cultural uestions tomatters o act and detail.

June 2012 480 pagesHardback 978-0-7546-6997-5 125.00


Languages and Cultures oEastern Christianity: GeorgianEdited by Stephen H. Rapp, Jr, Sam Houston

State University, Texas and Paul Crego, Libraryo Congress, USA

This volume brings together a set o key studies on thehistory and culture o Christian Georgia, along witha substantial new introduction. The opening sectionsets the regional context, in relation to the Byantineempire in particular, while subseuent parts deal withthe conversion and christianiation o the country, themaking o a national church and the development oa historical identity.

October 2012 450 pagesHardback 978-0-7546-5986-0 110.00



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Approaches to ByantineArchitecture and its DecorationStudies in Honor o Slobodan Curcic

Edited by Mark J. Johnson, Brigham Young University,

USA, Robert Ousterhout, University o Pennsylvania,USA and Amy Papalexandrou, University o Texasat Austin, USA

The ourteen essays in this collection demonstrate awide variety o approaches to the study o Byantinearchitecture, a refection o both newer trends andtraditional scholarship in the eld. Three papersexamine Early Christian monuments, two o whichexpand the inuiry into their architectural aterlives.Others discuss later monuments in Byantine territoryand monuments in territories related to Byantiumsuch as Serbia, Armenia, and Norman Italy. NoOrthodox Church being complete without interior

decoration, two papers discuss issues connected torescoes in late medieval Balkan churches. Finally,one study investigates the continued infuence oByantine palace architecture long ater the allo Constantinople.




The Ashgate ResearchCompanion to ByantineHagiographyVolume I: Periods and Places

Edited by Stephanos Ethymiadis,Open University o Cyprus

This Companion is the work o an international teamo specialists and represents the rst comprehensivesurvey ever produced in the eld o ByantineHagiography. It will consist o two volumes and isaddressed to both a broader public and the scholarlycommunity o Byantinists, Medievalists, historianso religion and theorists o the narrative. The present

volume covers, rst, the authors and texts o the ourdistinctive periods during which Greek Byantinehagiography developed, and then the hagiographyproduced in Oriental and Slavic languages and ingeographical milieux around the periphery o theempire, rom Italy to Armenia. The second volumeto ollow will deal with uestions o genres and thesocial and other contexts o Byantine hagiography.

Includes 4 maps & 14 commissioned essays

December 2011 464 pagesHardback 978-0-7546-5033-1 85.00ebook 978-1-4094-0724-9


Byantine Chronicles and theSixth CenturyRoger Scott, University o Melbourne, Australia


Byantine chronicles have traditionally beenregarded as a somewhat inerior orm o Byantinehistory writing, especially in comparison withclassiciing historians. The aim o these papersis both to rescue the reputation o the Byantinechroniclers, especially Malalas and Theophanes, andto provide examples o how such chroniclers can beexploited not only to reveal aspects o the past itsel,but also o how the Byantines interpreted their ownpast, including on occasions rewriting that past to suitcontemporary needs. By considering more generalaspects o the place o history-writing in Byantineculture, the papers also explain why history remainedsuch an important aspect o Byantine culture.

August 2012 348 pagesHardback 978-1-4094-4110-6 85.00


Byantium and the Other:Relations and ExchangesAngeliki E. Laiou, ormerly Harvard University, USA


Angeliki Laiou (1941-2008), one o the leadingByantinists o her generation, broke new ground inthe study o the social and economic history o theByantine Empire. Byzantium and the Other: Relationsand Exchanges, the second o three volumes to bepublished posthumously in the Variorum CollectedStudies Series, brings together studies that refect herenduring interest in Byantiums political, ideological,and commercial relations with its neighbours. Thearticles examine Byantine attitudes to oreignersand strangers within the empire, the response tothe Crusades and, more generally, to uestions ojustice in the spheres o confict and coloniation,and political and commercial relations with otherregional and Mediterranean powers, in particular

Venice and Genoa.September 2012 340 pagesHardback 978-1-4094-3206-7 85.00




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The Celebration o the Saintsin Byantine Art and LiturgyNancy Patterson evenko


The studies in this volume all deal with imagesand texts that relate to the veneration o the saintsin Byantium ater the 9th century. Some papersare devoted to the church calendar and the annualcommemorations o hundreds o saints throughliturgical poetry and seuences o isolated images inresco, icon painting and illuminated manuscripts.Others are concerned with the longer and rarer,narrative cycles devoted to the lie o a single saint,cycles ound mainly in resco and on the so-calledvita icons that rst appear in the East in the late 12thcentury. Additional studies deal with the developingrole o icons in liturgical ceremonies, and with imageso a saint being approached by a supplicant or patron.A nal section is devoted to places made holy by thesaints, and to their holy relics.


November 2012 384 pagesHardback 978-1-4094-1160-4 100.00


Constantine o Rhodes,On Constantinople and theChurch o the Holy ApostlesWith a new edition o the Greek text by Ioannis VassisEdited by Li James, University o Sussex, UK

Constantine o Rhodess tenth-century poem is anaccount o public monuments in Constantinopleand o the Church o the Holy Apostles. On one level,the poem oers an account o what was visible butit cannot be read as a straightorward description.Rather, Constantines work oers insights intoByantine perceptions o works o art.

This book supersedes the two previous editions othe poem, both dating to 1896, and provides the rstull translation o the text. It consists o a new Greek

edition o Constantines poem, with an introductoryessay, prepared by Ioannis Vassis, and a translationand commentary by a group o scholars headed byLi James. Li James also contributes an extensivediscussion o the two distinct parts o the poem, thecity monuments and the Church o the Holy Apostles.



The Cult o the Mother oGod in ByantiumTexts and Images

Edited by Leslie Brubaker, University o

Birmingham and Mary B. Cunningham,The University o Nottingham, UK

BIRMINGHAM BYzANTINE AND OTTOMAN STUDIES

This is a rich collection with a multiplicity oapproaches

Eliabeth Jereys, Anglo-Hellenic Review

This volume, on the cult o the Theotokos (VirginMary) in Byantium, ocuses on textual and historicalaspects o the subject, thus complementing previouswork which has centered more on the cult o images othe Mother o God. This international cast o scholars,consider the development and transormation o thecult rom approximately the ourth through the twelthcenturies. The aim o this volume is to build on recentwork on the cult o the Virgin Mary in Byantiumand to explore new areas o study. The rationale iscritical and historical, using literary, artistic, andarchaeological sources to evaluate her role in thedevelopment o the Byantine understanding o theways in which God interacts with creation by meanso icons, relics and the Theotokos.

Includes 32 colour and 9 b&w illustrations

August 2011 328 pagesHardback 978-0-7546-6266-2 65.00


The Hypotyposis o theMonastery o the TheotokosEvergetis, Constantinople(11th12th Centuries)Introduction, Translation and Commentary

R.H. Jordan, ormerly Institute o ByantineStudies, queens University o Belast, UKand Rosemary Morris, University o York, UK

This book orms part o the Evergetis Project,which aims to investigate all surviving textsassociated with the Theotokos Evergetis Monasterynear Constantinople (ounded 1049). Together withan English translation o the Hypotyposis (oundationdocument) o the Monastery, it provides a ullcommentary and a book-length introduction dealingwith the historical signicance o the house andits important place in the development o medievalOrthodox monasticism.

March 2012 330 pagesHardback 978-1-4094-3687-4 65.00ebook 978-1-4094-3688-1



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Poetry and its Contexts inEleventh-century ByantiumEdited by Kristoel Demoen and Floris Bernard,both at Ghent University, Belgium

Byantine poetry o the eleventh century isascinating, yet underexplored terrain. This book, therst collaborative book-length study on the topic, takesan important step to ll this gap. It brings togetherspecialists o the period who delve into this poetrywith dierent but complementary objectives in mind,covering the links between art and text, linguisticevolutions, social unctionality, contemporary readingattitudes, and the like. The authors aim to give theproduction o 11th-century verse a place in theByantine genre system and in the historic evolutiono Byantine poetry and metrics. As a result, this bookwill, to use the expression o two important poets othe period, oer a small taste o what can be gainedrom the serious study o this period.

April 2012 256 pagesHardback 978-1-4094-4071-0 65.00ebook 978-1-4094-4072-7


Visions o Community in thePost-Roman WorldThe West, Byantium and the Islamic World,3001100

Edited by Walter Pohl, University o Vienna, Austria,Clemens Gantner, Institut r Mittelalterorschung,sterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaten,Austria and Richard Payne, Mount Holyoke College,Massachusetts, USA

This volume looks at visions o community in acomparative perspective, rom Late Antiuity to thedawning o the age o crusades. It addresses theuestion o why and how distinctive new politicalcultures developed ater the disintegration o theRoman World, and to what degree their dierenceshad already emerged in the rst post-Roman centuries.The Latin West, Orthodox Byantium and its Slavic

periphery, and the Islamic world each retained dierentparts o the Graeco-Roman heritage, while introducingnew elements. For instance, ethnicity became alegitimiing element o rulership in the West, remaineda structural element o the imperial periphery inByantium, and contributed to the inner dynamic oIslamic states without becoming a resource o politicalintegration. Similarly, the political role o religion alsodiered between the emerging post-Roman worlds.Anybody interested in the development o the post-Roman Mediterranean, but also in the relationshipbetween the Islamic World and the West, will gainnew insights rom these studies on the political role oethnicity and religion in the post-Roman Mediterranean.

Includes 13 b&w illustrationsJune 2012 588 pagesHardback 978-1-4094-2709-4 85.00ebook 978-1-4094-2710-0


Coinage and Coin Use inMedieval Italy

Alessia Rovelli, Universit degli Studi della Tuscia, ItalyVARIORUM COLLECTED STUDIES SERIES



Authority in ByantiumEdited by Pamela Armstrong, Oxord Universityand Oxord Byantine Ceramics Project, UK

PUBLICATIONS OF THE CENTRE FOR HELLENIC STUDIES,KINGS COLLEGE LONDON

February 2013 360 pagesHardback 978-1-4094-3608-9 70.00


Icons in Time, Persons in EternityOrthodox Theology and the Aesthetics o theChristian Image

Cornelia A. Tsakiridou, La Salle University, USAFebruary 2013 350 pagesHardback 978-1-4094-4767-2 65.00ebook 978-1-4094-5273-7


Byantine Art and RenaissanceEuropeEdited by Angeliki Lymberopoulou, Open University,UK and Rembrandt Duits, The Warburg Institute,University o London, UKMarch 2013 230 pagesHardback 978-1-4094-2038-5 65.00


The Emperor Theophilos andthe EastJuan Signes, University o Valladolid, Spain

BIRMINGHAM BYzANTINE AND OTTOMAN STUDIES


Wonderul Things: Byantiumthrough its artEdited by Antony Eastmond, Courtauld Institute oArt, UK and Li James, University o Sussex, UK

PUBLICATIONS OF THE SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OFBYzANTINE STUDIES



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