Rural Lives and Landscapes in Late Byzantium - Art, Archaeology, and Ethnography

This is the first book to examine the late Byzantine village through written, archaeological and painted sources.

List of contents

1. The landscape of the village; 2. Communication and the village church; 3. The village woman; 4. Village men, village labor; 5. In the service of the church; 6. The body and the soul.

About the author

Sharon E. J. Gerstel is Professor of Byzantine Art and Archaeology in the Department of Art History at the University of California, Los Angeles. She has authored and edited books including Beholding the Sacred Mysteries: Programs of the Byzantine Sanctuary (1999), A Lost Art Rediscovered: The Architectural Ceramics of Byzantium (2001), Thresholds of the Sacred: Architectural, Art Historical, Liturgical, and Theological Perspectives on Religious Screens, East and West (2007), Approaching the Holy Mountain: Art and Liturgy at St Catherine's Monastery in the Sinai (2010), and Viewing the Morea: Land and People in the Late Medieval Peloponnese (2013).

Summary

This is the first book to examine the late Byzantine (thirteenth to fifteenth centuries) village through written, archaeological and painted sources. This study inserts the Byzantine peasant into broader examinations of Mediterranean history and ethnography by discussing both the medieval villager and villagers of more recent centuries.

Product details

• Authors: Sharon Gerstel, Sharon E J Gerstel, Sharon E. J. Gerstel, Sharon E. J. (University of California Gerstel, Gerstel Sharon E. J.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.07.2015
• EAN: 9780521851596
• ISBN: 978-0-521-85159-6
• No. of pages: 234
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, History of Art, History of art: Byzantine & Medieval art c 500 CE to c 1400, Social and cultural anthropology, Archaeology by period / region, Byzantine Empire, Medieval style, ART / History / European / Medieval