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This volume offers new perspectives on the history of the Byzantine Balkans and beyond-regions that lived for centuries under the long shadow of Constantinople-as well as unique insights into the complex world of late medieval and early modern southeastern Europe during a period of catastrophe.
List of contents
Introduction: In the Balkans "Without" Constantinople: Questions of Center and Periphery, Vlada Stankovi¿
Part I: In a World Without a Center: Remaining Byzantine
Chapter 1: Byzantium's Retreating Balkan Frontiers during the Reign of the Angeloi (1185-1203): A Reconsideration, Alicia Simpson
Chapter 2: Discontinuity and Continuity of Byzantine Literary Tradition After the Crusaders' Capture of Constantinople: The Case of "Original" Byzantine Novels, Dušan Popovi¿
Chapter 3: The Divided Empire: Byzantium on the Eve of 1204, Radivoj Radi¿
Chapter 4: The Fate of the Palaiologan Aristocracy of Thessalonike after 1423, Nicholas Melvani
Chapter 5: Paintings of Donor Portraits in the State of Epirus: Aesthetics, Fashion and Trends in the Late Byzantine period, Katerina Kontopanagou
Chapter 6: Monastic Foundation Legends in Epirus, Christos Stavrakos
Part II: The Peripheries: In the Shadow of Constantinople and Its Influence
Chapter 7: Studenica and the Life Giving Tree, Jelena Erdeljan
Chapter 8: Rethinking the Position of Serbia within the Byzantine Oikoumene in the Thirteenth Century, Vlada Stankovi¿
Chapter 9: The Synodicon of Orthodoxy in Manuscript BAR Sl. 307 and the Hagioriticon Gramma of the Year 1344, Ivan Biliarsky
Chapter 10: Mount Athos and the Byzantine-Slavic Tradition in Wallachia and Moldavia after the Fall of Constantinople, Radu P¿un
Chapter 11: The Center of the Periphery: The Land of Bosnia in the Heart of Bosnia, Jelena Mrgi¿
Part III: Aftermath: Between Two Empires, Between Two Eras
Chapter 12: Before and After the Fall of the Serbian Despotate: The Differences in the Timar Organization in the Serbian Lands in the mid-15th Century, Ema Miljkovi¿
Chapter 13: Memories of Home in the Accounts of the Balkan Refugees from the Ottomans to the Apennine peninsula (15th-16th centuries), Nada Ze¿evi¿
About the author
Vlada Stankovi¿ is professor of Byzantine studies and director of the Center for Cypriot Studies at the University of Belgrade.
Summary
This volume offers new perspectives on the history of the Byzantine Balkans and beyond—regions that lived for centuries under the long shadow of Constantinople—as well as unique insights into the complex world of late medieval and early modern southeastern Europe during a period of catastrophe.
