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Experiencing Byzantium : Papers from the 44th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Newcastle and Durham, April 2011, Paperback / softback Book

Experiencing Byzantium : Papers from the 44th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Newcastle and Durham, April 2011 Paperback / softback

Edited by Claire Nesbitt, Mark (University of Exeter, UK) Jackson

Part of the Publications of the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies series

Paperback / softback

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From the reception of imperial ekphraseis in Hagia Sophia to the sounds and smells of the back streets of Constantinople, the sensory perception of Byzantium is an area that lends itself perfectly to an investigation into the experience of the Byzantine world.

The theme of experience embraces all aspects of Byzantine studies and the Experiencing Byzantium symposium brought together archaeologists, architects, art historians, historians, musicians and theologians in a common quest to step across the line that divides how we understand and experience the Byzantine world and how the Byzantines themselves perceived the sensual aspects of their empire and also their faith, spirituality, identity and the nature of ’being’ in Byzantium.

The papers in this volume derive from the 44th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, held for the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies by the University of Newcastle and University of Durham, at Newcastle upon Tyne in April 2011.

They are written by a group of international scholars who have crossed disciplinary boundaries to approach an understanding of experience in the Byzantine world.

Experiencing Byzantium is volume 18 in the series published by Ashgate on behalf of the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies.

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