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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
Subject AreaByzantine Studies
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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

page 21

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Conference Papers

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Archbishop Damianos of Sinai

The Medical Saints of the Orthodox Church in Byzantine Art

page 41

B. K. Bjørnholt - L. James

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

page 51

H. Buchwald

Byzantine Town Planning – Does it Exist?

page 57

B. Caseau

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

page 75

A. Diamandopoulos

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

page 93

A. Dunn

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

page 101

G. Egan

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

page 111

M. Emmanuel

Religious Imagery in Mystra. Donors and Iconographic Programmes

page 119

S. Geroulanos

Surgery in Byzantium

page 129

M. Grünbart

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

page 135

Justin (Priestmonk)

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

page 141

E. Kislinger

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

page 147

D. Konstantios

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

page 155

A. Muthesius

Textiles and Dress in Byzantium

page 159

V. Nutton

Galen in Byzantium

page 171

H. Papastavrou

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

page 177

M. G. Parani

Byzantine Material Culture and Religious Iconography

page 181

B. Popovic

The Most Precious Thread in Byzantium and Medieval Serbia

page 193

C. Saliou

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

page 199

L. V. Simeonova

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

page 207

D. Stathakopoulos

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

page 211

S. Torallas Tovar

The terminology of Egyptian monastic garments

page 219

J. Shepard

Closing address: ‘Invisible Byzantiums’

page 225

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Basic Bibliography

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Index

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Plates

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