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Research on occasions and forms of private representation in art from the close of Antiquity to the end of the Middle Ages has so far been carried out rarely and not very systematically. This volume presents the proceedings of an international conference held at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in 2013. His contributions were devoted to private portraits between Late Antiquity and Byzantium on very different groups of monuments and on aspects in a broad diachronic and methodological perspective. Forschungen zu Anlässen und Formen privater Darstellungen in der Kunst vom Ausgang der Antike bis zum Ende des Mittelalters sind bislang selten und wenig systematisch durchgeführt worden. Dieser Band legt die Akten einer 2013 an der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften abgehaltenen internationalen Tagung vor. Seine Beiträge widmeten sich dem Privatporträt zwischen Spätantike und Byzanz auf ganz unterschiedlichen Monumentengruppen und zu Aspekten in weiter diachronischer und methodischer Perspektive.

Byzantine Empire.

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Trends and Turning Points presents sixteen articles, examining the discursive construction of the late antique and Byzantine world, focusing specifically on the utilisation of trends and turning points to make stuff from the past, whether texts, matter, or action, meaningful. Contributions are divided into four complementary strands, Scholarly Constructions, Literary Trends, Constructing Politics, and Turning Points in Religious Landscapes. Each strand cuts across traditional disciplinary boundaries and periodisation, placing historical, archaeological, literary, and architectural concerns in discourse, whilst drawing on examples from the full range of the medieval Roman past. While its individual articles offer numerous important insights, together the volume collectively rethinks fundamental assumptions about how late antique and Byzantine studies has and continues to be discursively constructed.

Byzantine Empire --- History --- Civilization --- Civilization. --- Byzantine Empire. --- History. --- Byzantine Empire - History --- Byzantine Empire - Civilization

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The material legacy of Byzantine period from Ephesos includes, in addition to jewellery and dress accessories, liturgical artefacts, various instruments, tools and weapons, as well as small-scale implements including lighting devices, locks and keys. The declared aim of this study was a presentation of the Ephesian material as complete as possible including the manufacturing techniques and the material composition of individual objects. The interdisciplinary collaboration allowed to identify regional tendencies and local preferences as well as to compare the artefacts with other well-documented regions.

Byzantine Empire --- History.

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This volume presents the results of a scholarly meeting which focused on the patronage of women in the Byzantine Empire. In their scope, the articles address broadly not only the founding or re-founding of churches and monasteries, but also their rich decoration, as well as numerous smaller donations. In spite of increased attention to gender research in recent years, a comparative treatment of the legal and economic potentiel that women in Byzantium could exercise in order to exert independent influence has been lacking; thus a gender-specific viewpoint for the volume was intentionally chosen.

Byzantine Empire --- Church history.

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"In Procopius on Soldiers and Military Institutions in the Sixth-Century Roman Empire, Conor Whately examines Procopius' coverage of rank-andfile soldiers in his three works, the Wars, Buildings, and Secret History. By evaluating his accounts alongside other comparative evidence, such as the edicts of Anastasius, legislation from the Codex Justinianus, and various papyri, Whately reveals the limitations to Procopius' work, especially when it comes to frontier soldiers. However, this study also shows the impact of Procopius' experiences with institutional matters such as unit structures on his writing, and the particular value he brings to our understanding of recruitment in the sixth century ce"--

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