The easternmost part constitutes the western edge of the great Anatolian plateau whose elevation varies in the vicinity of 1000 m. The section immediately to the north, west, and south is made up of mountain ranges which attain altitudes of up to 2000 m. in the north, about 2500 m. near Bursa, and over 3000…

Article Introduction: Identity and Byzantine Historiography Byzantine conceptions of the Seljuk Turks’ and Turkish nomads’ communities in Asia Minor from the 11th to the mid-13th century. By developing a vocabulary with which to address the Seljuk and other Turks, Byzantine historiographers left us with telling traces of how they perceived belonging to a social and…

Silk Economics and Cross-Cultural Artistic Interaction: https://ia801604.us.archive.org/21/items/DOP58_08_Jacoby/DOP58_08_Jacoby.pdfIn the Mirror of the OtherImprints of Muslim–Christian Encounters in the Late Antique and Early Medieval Mediterraneanhttps://ia800404.us.archive.org/12/items/DOP75_09_Akin-Kivanc/DOP75_09_Akin-Kivanc.pdfEastern Christian and Islamic Manuscripts in Minnesotahttps://muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/article/916137Byzantine Views of IslamJohn Meyendorffhttps://ia801607.us.archive.org/17/items/DOP18_06_Meyendorff/DOP18_06_Meyendorff.pdfThe Normans between Byzantium and the Islamic WorldLucia Travainihttps://ia800303.us.archive.org/30/items/DOP55_09_Travaini/DOP55_09_Travaini.pdfIslamic Art and Byzantiumhttps://ia800700.us.archive.org/7/items/DOP18_04_Grabar/DOP18_04_Grabar.pdfThe Iconoclastic Edict of the Caliph Yazid II, A. D. 721https://ia804607.us.archive.org/29/items/Vasiliev1956YazidEdict721/Vasiliev_1956_Yazid_Edict_721.pdfThe Byzantine…

Article By the late 14th century, the conflict between Byzantium and the Ottoman Turks had arrived at the very gates of Constantinople. The Ottomans, who had appeared within the Byzantine eastern border a century previously, had expanded through Asia Minor rapidly, conquering city after city, and by the 1350s they had already obtained a foothold…

Article Architectural history books distinguish between Roman architecture and Byzantine architecture (C. Mango, Byzantine Architecture, Milano: Electa Editrice, 1978; Idem, Approaches to Byzantine Architecture, Murqarnas 8, K.A.C. Creswell and his Legacy, 1991, 40-44, http://www.jstor.org/stable/1523151). As David Talbot Rice commented, the most famous of the Byzantine churches, Hagia Sophia in Constantinople, was not the beginning of…

Article A number of scholars have examined mechanisms of Byzantines’ policy to integrate foreign elements. R. Lopez argued that a foreigner, whatever his origin, could become a real citizen if he has his home within the Empire, intermarry with citizens, and accept the Byzantine way of life (R. Lopez, Foreigners in Byzantium, Bulletin de l’institut…

The early Byzantine attitudes toward Islam emerge primarily from the genre of religious polemic of the eighth and ninth centuries (W. Eichner, “Die Nachrichten tiber den Islam bei den Byzantinern,” Der Islam 23 (1936) 133~2, 197-244. C. Guterbock, Der Islam im Lichte der byzantinischen Polemik (Berlin 1912). A. Abel, “La poUmique damascenienne et son influence…

Barber, C. 2002. Figure and Likeness: On the Limits of Representation in Byzantine Iconoclasm (Princeton). Betancourt, R. 2016a. “Tempted to Touch: Tactility, Ritual, and Mediation in Byzantine Visuality.” Speculum 91, 3: 660–90. Betancourt, R. 2016b. “The Icon’s Gold: A Medium of Light, Air and Space.” West 86th 23, 2: 252–58. Brubaker, L. 1989. “Perception and…

The evidence is overwhelmingly Greek. The panels are Greek in style, in materials, in composition, and in painting methods. The language too, in Egypt’s Fayyum under Roman rule, was Greek. The dedicatory inscriptions were in Greek, especially the very common “ep’agatho,” or “for a benefit.” Further, the religious ritual itself of employing paintings as “votive”…