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Material Culture and Well-Being in Byzantium (400-1453)

Veröffentlichungen zur Byzanzforschung Band XI

Material Culture and Well-Being in Byzantium (400-1453)

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ISBN-13978-3-7001-3602-6
ISBN-13 Online978-3-7001-4041-2
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Michael Grünbart, Ewald Kislinger, Anna Muthesius, Dionysios Ch. Stathakopoulos

Preliminaries

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Table of Contents

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List of Plates

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Editor´s Preface / Vorwort der Herausgeber

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Aims and Structure of the Conference - Acknowledgements

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Proceedings of the Conference

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A. Muthesius

Introduction. Studies on Material Culture – Some General Considerations

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Conference Papers

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Archbishop Damianos of Sinai

The Medical Saints of the Orthodox Church in Byzantine Art

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B. K. Bjørnholt, L. James

The Man in the Street: Some problems of gender and identity in Byzantine material culture

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H. Buchwald

Byzantine Town Planning – Does it Exist?

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B. Caseau

Incense and Fragrances: from House to Church. A Study of the Introduction of Incense in the Early Byzantine Christian Churches

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A. Diamandopoulos

The Effect of Medicine, in particular the Ideas about Renal Diseases, on the “Well-being” of Byzantine Citizens

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A. Dunn

Rural Producers and Markets: Aspects of the Archaeological and Historiographic Problem

101

G. Egan

Byzantium in London? New Archaeological Evidence for 11th Century Links between England and the Byzantine World

111

M. Emmanuel

Religious Imagery in Mystra. Donors and Iconographic Programmes

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S. Geroulanos

Surgery in Byzantium

129

M. Grünbart

Spartans and Sybarites at the Golden Horn. Food as Necessity and/or luxury

135

Justin (Priestmonk)

Life in the Monastic Community: the Living Tradition of the Desert Fathers

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E. Kislinger

Being and Well-Being in Byzantium: The Case of Beverages

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D. Konstantios

Introduction to Material Culture in the Byzantine and Christian Museum, Athens

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A. Muthesius

Textiles and Dress in Byzantium

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V. Nutton

Galen in Byzantium

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H. Papastavrou

The Byzantine Tradition on the Decoration of a 17th Century Sakkos (Inv. No 754) in the Byzantine and Christian Museum, Athens

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M. G. Parani

Byzantine Material Culture and Religious Iconography

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B. Popovic

The Most Precious Thread in Byzantium and Medieval Serbia

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C. Saliou

The Byzantine House (400–912): Rules and Representations

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L. V. Simeonova

Magic and the Warding-off of Barbarians in Constantinople, 9th-12th Centuries

207

D. Stathakopoulos

To Have and to Have not: Supply and Shortage in the Centres of the Late Antique World

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S. Torallas Tovar

The terminology of Egyptian monastic garments

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J. Shepard

Closing address: ‘Invisible Byzantiums’

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Basic Bibliography

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Index

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