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Research paper thumbnail of Imperial Visions of Late Byzantium: Manuel II Palaiologos and Rhetoric in Purple

Edinburgh University Press, 2020

Explores a Byzantine emperor’s construction of authority with the help of his rhetorical texts •... more Explores a Byzantine emperor’s construction of authority with
the help of his rhetorical texts
• Examines the changes in the Byzantine imperial idea by the
end of the fourteenth century with a particular focus on the
instrumentalization of the intellectual dimension of the imperial
rule
• Integrates late Byzantine imperial visions into the bigger picture
of Byzantine imperial ideology
• Provides a fresh understanding of key pieces of Byzantine public
rhetoric and introduces analytical concepts from rhetorical,
literary, and discursive theories
• Offers translations of key passages from late Byzantine rhetoric

Research paper thumbnail of The Visual Culture of Later Byzantium (c.1081–c.1350), parts 1 & 2.

by Foteini Spingou, Charles Barber, Nathan Leidholm, Thomas Carlson, Ivan Drpić, Alexandros (Alexander) Alexakis, elizabeth jeffreys, Theocharis Tsampouras, Mircea G . Duluș, Nikos Zagklas, Ida Toth, Alexander Riehle, Brad Hostetler, Michael Featherstone, Emmanuel C Bourbouhakis, Shannon Steiner, Efthymios Rizos, Divna Manolova, Robert Romanchuk, Maria Tomadaki, Kirsty Stewart, Baukje van den Berg, Katarzyna Warcaba, Florin Leonte, Vasileios Marinis, Ludovic Bender, Linda Safran, Sophia Kalopissi-Verti, Rachele Ricceri, Luisa Andriollo, Alex J Novikoff, Annemarie Carr, Marina Bazzani, Greti Dinkova-Bruun, Renaat Meesters, Daphne (Dafni) / Δάφνη Penna / Πέννα, Annemarie Carr, Alexander Alexakis, Jeremy Johns, Maria Parani, Lisa Mahoney, Irena Spadijer, and Ilias Taxidis

ISBN: 9781108483056 Series: Sources for Byzantine Art History 3 In this book the beauty and m... more ISBN: 9781108483056
Series: Sources for Byzantine Art History 3

In this book the beauty and meaning of Byzantine art and its aesthetics are for the first time made accessible through the original sources. More than 150 medieval texts are translated from nine medieval languages into English, with commentaries from over seventy leading scholars. These include theories of art, discussions of patronage and understandings of iconography, practical recipes for artistic supplies, expressions of devotion, and descriptions of cities. The volume reveals the cultural plurality and the interconnectivity of medieval Europe and the Mediterranean from the late eleventh to the early fourteenth centuries. The first part uncovers salient aspects of Byzantine artistic production and its aesthetic reception, while the second puts a spotlight on particular ways of expressing admiration and of interpreting of the visual.

Papers by Florin Leonte

Research paper thumbnail of The Letters of Demetrios Kydones

A Companion to Byzantine Epistolography, 2020

Research paper thumbnail of Conveying Imperial Ideals to the Periphery of Empire

Center, Province and Periphery in the Age of Constantine VII Porphyrogennetos, 2018

Research paper thumbnail of Aspects of Collective Decision-Making in Late Byzantium. Institutions and Experts

Research paper thumbnail of Plutarch and Late Byzantine Intellectuals (c. 1350–1460)

Research paper thumbnail of Dramatisation and narrative  in late Byzantine dialogues  Manuel II Palaiologos’s  On Marriage and Mazaris’ Journey to Hades

Dialogues and Debates from Late Antiquity to Late Byzantium, Edited by Averil Cameron and Niels Gaul, New York: Routledge, 2017, 2017

Research paper thumbnail of Translation, Introduction, and Commentary: Euthymios Malakes (ca 1115 – before 1204): Oration for Manuel I Komnenos when the Sultan came to Constantinople

Texts on Byzantine Art and Aesthetics, vol. 3 : Visual and Textual Culture in Later Byzantium (10... more Texts on Byzantine Art and Aesthetics, vol. 3 : Visual and Textual Culture in Later Byzantium (1081–ca.1330), ed. F. Spingou, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Research paper thumbnail of Conveying imperial ideals to the periphery of the empire: the two military orations of Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus

Center, Province and Periphery in the Age of Constantine VII Porphyrogennetos: From De Cerimoniis... more Center, Province and Periphery in the Age of Constantine VII Porphyrogennetos: From De Cerimoniis to De Administrando Imperio, ed. N. Gaul

Research paper thumbnail of The Letters of Demetrios Kydones

Brill Companion to Byzantine Epistolography, ed. A. Riehle, Leiden: Brill

Research paper thumbnail of Didacticism in Byzantine Epistolography

Brill Companion to Byzantine Epistolography, ed. A. Riehle, Leiden: Brill

Research paper thumbnail of Plutarch and Late Byzantine Intellectuals (ca. 1350-1460)

A Companion to the Reception of Plutarch, ed. Sophia Xenophontos and Katerina Oikonomopoulou, Lei... more A Companion to the Reception of Plutarch, ed. Sophia Xenophontos and Katerina Oikonomopoulou, Leiden: Brill

Research paper thumbnail of “... For I have brought to you the fugitive animals of the desert”: Animals and Representations of the Constantinopolitan Imperial Authority in Two Poems by Manuel Philes

Animaltown: Beasts in Medieval Urban Space, ed. A. Choyke and G. Jaritz, Publisher: British Archa... more Animaltown: Beasts in Medieval Urban Space, ed. A. Choyke and G. Jaritz, Publisher: British Archaeological Reports Oxford, 2017

Research paper thumbnail of A Late Byzantine Patroness :  Helena Kantakouzene Palaiologina

Wiener Jahrbuch für Kunstgeschichte, Female Founders in Byzantium and Beyond Herausgegeben von: Lioba Theis, Margaret Mullett und Michael Grünbart Bearbeitet von Galina Fingarova und Matthew Savage, 2013

Research paper thumbnail of A Brief “History of the Morea” as Seen through the Eyes of an Emperor-Rhetorician: Manuel II Palaiologos’s Funeral Oration for Theodore, Despot of the Morea

Research paper thumbnail of Advice and Praise for the Ruler: Making Political Strategies in Manuel II Palaiologos’s Dialogue on Marriage

Research paper thumbnail of Between Constantinople and Italy: scholarly circles, agency, and imperial patronage in Byzantium before the Fall (c. 1350-1453)

Research paper thumbnail of Role Playing Strategies in Demetrios Kydones' letters to Manuel II Palaiologos

Annual of Medieval Studies at CEU 13 (2007): 21-38

Research paper thumbnail of Review of Denis Searby, Ewa Balicka Witakowska, Johan Heldt, eds, "ΔΩΡΟΝ ΡΟΔΟΠΟΙΚΙΛΟΝ: Studies in Honour of Jan Olof Rosenqvist." Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. Studia Byzantina Upsaliensia, 12.   Uppsala:  Uppsala Universitet, 2012.

BRYN MAWR CLASSICAL REVIEW, 2013

Research paper thumbnail of Review of Stratis PAPAIOANNOU | Michael Psellos: rhetoric and authorship in Byzantium Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2013, pp. 347.

Byzantinoslavica LXXIV/2016

Research paper thumbnail of Imperial Visions of Late Byzantium: Manuel II Palaiologos and Rhetoric in Purple

Edinburgh University Press, 2020

Explores a Byzantine emperor’s construction of authority with the help of his rhetorical texts •... more Explores a Byzantine emperor’s construction of authority with
the help of his rhetorical texts
• Examines the changes in the Byzantine imperial idea by the
end of the fourteenth century with a particular focus on the
instrumentalization of the intellectual dimension of the imperial
rule
• Integrates late Byzantine imperial visions into the bigger picture
of Byzantine imperial ideology
• Provides a fresh understanding of key pieces of Byzantine public
rhetoric and introduces analytical concepts from rhetorical,
literary, and discursive theories
• Offers translations of key passages from late Byzantine rhetoric

Research paper thumbnail of The Visual Culture of Later Byzantium (c.1081–c.1350), parts 1 & 2.

by Foteini Spingou, Charles Barber, Nathan Leidholm, Thomas Carlson, Ivan Drpić, Alexandros (Alexander) Alexakis, elizabeth jeffreys, Theocharis Tsampouras, Mircea G . Duluș, Nikos Zagklas, Ida Toth, Alexander Riehle, Brad Hostetler, Michael Featherstone, Emmanuel C Bourbouhakis, Shannon Steiner, Efthymios Rizos, Divna Manolova, Robert Romanchuk, Maria Tomadaki, Kirsty Stewart, Baukje van den Berg, Katarzyna Warcaba, Florin Leonte, Vasileios Marinis, Ludovic Bender, Linda Safran, Sophia Kalopissi-Verti, Rachele Ricceri, Luisa Andriollo, Alex J Novikoff, Annemarie Carr, Marina Bazzani, Greti Dinkova-Bruun, Renaat Meesters, Daphne (Dafni) / Δάφνη Penna / Πέννα, Annemarie Carr, Alexander Alexakis, Jeremy Johns, Maria Parani, Lisa Mahoney, Irena Spadijer, and Ilias Taxidis

ISBN: 9781108483056 Series: Sources for Byzantine Art History 3 In this book the beauty and m... more ISBN: 9781108483056
Series: Sources for Byzantine Art History 3

In this book the beauty and meaning of Byzantine art and its aesthetics are for the first time made accessible through the original sources. More than 150 medieval texts are translated from nine medieval languages into English, with commentaries from over seventy leading scholars. These include theories of art, discussions of patronage and understandings of iconography, practical recipes for artistic supplies, expressions of devotion, and descriptions of cities. The volume reveals the cultural plurality and the interconnectivity of medieval Europe and the Mediterranean from the late eleventh to the early fourteenth centuries. The first part uncovers salient aspects of Byzantine artistic production and its aesthetic reception, while the second puts a spotlight on particular ways of expressing admiration and of interpreting of the visual.

Research paper thumbnail of The Letters of Demetrios Kydones

A Companion to Byzantine Epistolography, 2020

Research paper thumbnail of Conveying Imperial Ideals to the Periphery of Empire

Center, Province and Periphery in the Age of Constantine VII Porphyrogennetos, 2018

Research paper thumbnail of Aspects of Collective Decision-Making in Late Byzantium. Institutions and Experts

Research paper thumbnail of Plutarch and Late Byzantine Intellectuals (c. 1350–1460)

Research paper thumbnail of Dramatisation and narrative  in late Byzantine dialogues  Manuel II Palaiologos’s  On Marriage and Mazaris’ Journey to Hades

Dialogues and Debates from Late Antiquity to Late Byzantium, Edited by Averil Cameron and Niels Gaul, New York: Routledge, 2017, 2017

Research paper thumbnail of Translation, Introduction, and Commentary: Euthymios Malakes (ca 1115 – before 1204): Oration for Manuel I Komnenos when the Sultan came to Constantinople

Texts on Byzantine Art and Aesthetics, vol. 3 : Visual and Textual Culture in Later Byzantium (10... more Texts on Byzantine Art and Aesthetics, vol. 3 : Visual and Textual Culture in Later Byzantium (1081–ca.1330), ed. F. Spingou, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Research paper thumbnail of Conveying imperial ideals to the periphery of the empire: the two military orations of Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus

Center, Province and Periphery in the Age of Constantine VII Porphyrogennetos: From De Cerimoniis... more Center, Province and Periphery in the Age of Constantine VII Porphyrogennetos: From De Cerimoniis to De Administrando Imperio, ed. N. Gaul

Research paper thumbnail of The Letters of Demetrios Kydones

Brill Companion to Byzantine Epistolography, ed. A. Riehle, Leiden: Brill

Research paper thumbnail of Didacticism in Byzantine Epistolography

Brill Companion to Byzantine Epistolography, ed. A. Riehle, Leiden: Brill

Research paper thumbnail of Plutarch and Late Byzantine Intellectuals (ca. 1350-1460)

A Companion to the Reception of Plutarch, ed. Sophia Xenophontos and Katerina Oikonomopoulou, Lei... more A Companion to the Reception of Plutarch, ed. Sophia Xenophontos and Katerina Oikonomopoulou, Leiden: Brill

Research paper thumbnail of “... For I have brought to you the fugitive animals of the desert”: Animals and Representations of the Constantinopolitan Imperial Authority in Two Poems by Manuel Philes

Animaltown: Beasts in Medieval Urban Space, ed. A. Choyke and G. Jaritz, Publisher: British Archa... more Animaltown: Beasts in Medieval Urban Space, ed. A. Choyke and G. Jaritz, Publisher: British Archaeological Reports Oxford, 2017

Research paper thumbnail of A Late Byzantine Patroness :  Helena Kantakouzene Palaiologina

Wiener Jahrbuch für Kunstgeschichte, Female Founders in Byzantium and Beyond Herausgegeben von: Lioba Theis, Margaret Mullett und Michael Grünbart Bearbeitet von Galina Fingarova und Matthew Savage, 2013

Research paper thumbnail of A Brief “History of the Morea” as Seen through the Eyes of an Emperor-Rhetorician: Manuel II Palaiologos’s Funeral Oration for Theodore, Despot of the Morea

Research paper thumbnail of Advice and Praise for the Ruler: Making Political Strategies in Manuel II Palaiologos’s Dialogue on Marriage

Research paper thumbnail of Between Constantinople and Italy: scholarly circles, agency, and imperial patronage in Byzantium before the Fall (c. 1350-1453)

Research paper thumbnail of Role Playing Strategies in Demetrios Kydones' letters to Manuel II Palaiologos

Annual of Medieval Studies at CEU 13 (2007): 21-38

Research paper thumbnail of Review of Denis Searby, Ewa Balicka Witakowska, Johan Heldt, eds, "ΔΩΡΟΝ ΡΟΔΟΠΟΙΚΙΛΟΝ: Studies in Honour of Jan Olof Rosenqvist." Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. Studia Byzantina Upsaliensia, 12.   Uppsala:  Uppsala Universitet, 2012.

BRYN MAWR CLASSICAL REVIEW, 2013

Research paper thumbnail of Review of Stratis PAPAIOANNOU | Michael Psellos: rhetoric and authorship in Byzantium Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2013, pp. 347.

Byzantinoslavica LXXIV/2016

Research paper thumbnail of Review of Nevra Necipoğlu, Byzantium between the Ottomans and the Latin: Politics and Society in the Late Empire. Cambridge: CUP, 2009. Pp. XXI, 350.

Research paper thumbnail of RSA 2022: Renaissance Humanism and the Venetian Empire

Panel at RSA Conference 2022: Renaissance Humanism and the Venetian Empire I-II Wednesday, March ... more Panel at RSA Conference 2022: Renaissance Humanism and the Venetian Empire I-II
Wednesday, March 30 2022
9:00AM-12:30PM
The Spencer Hotel - Club Lounge - 1st Floor

Research paper thumbnail of Breaking Genres in Palaiologan Byzantium: The Cases of Demetrios Chrysoloras and John Chortasmenos

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