Through the looking glass : Byzantium through British eyes / papers from the Twenty-ninth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, London, March 1995 ; edited by Robin Cormack and Elizabeth Jeffreys.

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Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies (29th : 1995 : London, England)

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Through the looking glass : Byzantium through British eyes / papers from the Twenty-ninth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, London, March 1995 ; edited by Robin Cormack and Elizabeth Jeffreys.

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xii, 258 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

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Publications / Society for the promotion of Byzantine studies ; 7

Notes:
Symposium held at King's College, London.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Robin Cormack -- Sect. I. Encounters with places. 1. Byzantine 'purple' and Ruskin's St. Mark's, Venice / Michael Wheeler. 2. Twin reflections of a Byzantine city: Monemvasia as seen by Robert Weir Schultz and Sidney H. Barnsley in 1890 / Haris Kalligas. 3. Great Palace dig: the Scottish perspective / Mary Whitby. 4. British contribution to fieldwork in Byzantine studies in the twentieth century: an introductory survey / David Winfield -- Sect. II. Encounters with books. 5. Distorting mirror: reflections on the Queen Melisende Psalter (London, B.L., Egerton 1139) / Barbara Zeitler. 6. Byzantium perceived through illuminated manuscripts: now and then / John Lowden. 7. From Britain to Byzantium: the study of Greek manuscripts / Patricia Easterling. 8. Greek scribes in England: the evidence of episcopal registers / Jonathan Harris. 9. Fair exchange? Old manuscripts for new printed books / Colin Davey. 10. Gospels of Jakov of Serres (London, B.L., Add. MS 39626), the family Brankovic and the Monastery of St. Paul, Mount Athos / Zaga Gavrilovic -- Sect. III. Interpreters. 11. 'A gentlemen's book': attitudes of Robert Curzon / Robin Cormack. 12. Bury, Baynes and Toynbee / Averil Cameron. 13. O.M. Dalton: 'ploughing the Byzantine furrow' / Christopher Entwistle. 14. R.M. Dawkins and Byzantium / Peter Mackridge -- Sect. IV. Other perspectives.

Summary:

"The papers in this volume derive from the 29th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies. This was held for the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies in the University of London in March 1995, in order to complement the British Museum exhibition 'Byzantium: Treasures of Byzantine Art and Culture from British Collections'." "The objective of the symposium was to explore the ways in which British scholars, travellers, novelists, architects, churchmen and critics came into contact with Byzantium, and how they perceived what they saw."--BOOK JACKET.

ISBN:

0860786676 (alk. paper)
9780860786672 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Engelsen.
Rezeption
Kultur
Byzantine Empire History Congresses.
Empire byzantin Histoire Congrès.
Byzantine Empire
Großbritannien
Byzantinisches Reich
London <1995>
Byzantine studies
Byzantium

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Proceedings.
Conference papers and proceedings
History

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Jeffreys, Elizabeth.
Cormack, Robin.
Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies (Great Britain)
Publications (Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies (Great Britain)) ; 7.

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Location: Library main 214451
Call No.: DF552 .S6 1995
Status: Available

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