Add to ORKGThis essay analyzes the nuance, mutability, and political purposes of illustrated Greek manuscripts containing a ubiquitous medieval tale: Barlaam and Ioasaph. Exploring the dynamic nature of this Byzantine material and its global peregrinations, it reveals processes of medieval world formation through text and imagery of a story that, paradoxically, advocates the renunciation of the worldly. Ultimately, it argues that the textual transmission of this story and its diverse visual imagery bridged cultures from Asia to Europe, and religions from Buddhism to Christianity
This paper uses the conceptual framework of “Anchoring Innovation”, which is being developed by OIKO...
Spanning a 1,123 year period between Late Antiquity and the Italian Renaissance, the Byzantine Empir...
Byzantium and the Muslim world coexisted for more than eight centuries as rivals and partners. The e...
This paper sheds light on the evolution of the narrative nucleus of the life of Buddha from Eastern ...
Prace opublikowane w tym zbiorze są pokłosiem międzynarodowej konferencji naukowej Islam i muzułmani...
The article examines one of the most frequently discussed problems in Byzantine studies: the questio...
"Byzantine imperial imagery is commonly perceived as a static system. In contrast to this common por...
The iconographic representations of the fourth apologue of the Barlaam and Josaphat legend in the It...
From Byzantium to the Low Countries: via Italian cities such as Venice or Siena, through Crete, or B...
According to the orthodox priest John Meyendorff, the Byzantine dream consisted of the establishment...
The present chapter, consciously adopting a geographically limited approach when compared to the glo...
"For more than a millennium, the Byzantine Empire presided over the juncture between East and West, ...
In contrast to many recent attempts to establish concepts and platforms to study global literature, ...
Travelling to the ›Other‹ can be fascinating – and very dangerous, especially when the traveller mov...
The chapter presents some patterns of the transmission of Byzantine texts in their cultural context....
This paper uses the conceptual framework of “Anchoring Innovation”, which is being developed by OIKO...
Spanning a 1,123 year period between Late Antiquity and the Italian Renaissance, the Byzantine Empir...
Byzantium and the Muslim world coexisted for more than eight centuries as rivals and partners. The e...
This paper sheds light on the evolution of the narrative nucleus of the life of Buddha from Eastern ...
Prace opublikowane w tym zbiorze są pokłosiem międzynarodowej konferencji naukowej Islam i muzułmani...
The article examines one of the most frequently discussed problems in Byzantine studies: the questio...
"Byzantine imperial imagery is commonly perceived as a static system. In contrast to this common por...
The iconographic representations of the fourth apologue of the Barlaam and Josaphat legend in the It...
From Byzantium to the Low Countries: via Italian cities such as Venice or Siena, through Crete, or B...
According to the orthodox priest John Meyendorff, the Byzantine dream consisted of the establishment...
The present chapter, consciously adopting a geographically limited approach when compared to the glo...
"For more than a millennium, the Byzantine Empire presided over the juncture between East and West, ...
In contrast to many recent attempts to establish concepts and platforms to study global literature, ...
Travelling to the ›Other‹ can be fascinating – and very dangerous, especially when the traveller mov...
The chapter presents some patterns of the transmission of Byzantine texts in their cultural context....
This paper uses the conceptual framework of “Anchoring Innovation”, which is being developed by OIKO...
Spanning a 1,123 year period between Late Antiquity and the Italian Renaissance, the Byzantine Empir...
Byzantium and the Muslim world coexisted for more than eight centuries as rivals and partners. The e...