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CEU MEDIEVALIA ; 1587-6470 ; 19
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CEU medievalia ; 19.
1587-6470
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This book is about the Christ Pantokrator, an imposing monumental complex serving monastic, dynastic, medical and social purposes in Constantinople, founded by Emperor John II Komnenos and Empress Piroska-Eirene in 1118. Now called Zeyrek Mosque, the second largest Byzantine religious edifice after Hagia Sophia still standing in Istanbul represents the most remarkable architectural and the most ambitious social project of the Komnenian dynasty. This volume approaches the Pantokrator from a special vantage point focusing on its co-founder, Empress Piroska-Eirene, the daughter of the Hungarian k. |
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Machine generated contents note: Greek Monasteries in Early Arpadian Hungary / Marianne Saghy -- What did Piroska see at Home? New Trends in Art and Architecture in the Kingdom of Hungary around 1100 / Beta Zsolt Szakacs -- Diplomatic Relations between Hungary and Byzantium in the Eleventh-Twelfth Centuries / Attila Barany -- Piroska-Eirene and the Komnenian Dynasty / Michael Jeffreys -- Komnenian Empresses: From Powerful Mothers to Pious Wives / Roberta Franchi -- Piroska-Eirene, First Western Empress of Byzantium: Power and Perception / Maximilian Lau -- Many Faces of Piroska-Eirene in Visual and Material Culture / Christopher Mielke -- Imperial Women and Religious Foundations in Constantinople / Elif Demirtiken -- To Each According to their Need: Medical and Charitable Institutions in the Pantokrator Monastery / Tyler Wolford -- Piroska and the Pantokrator: Reassessing the Architectural Evidence / Robert Ousterhout -- Piroska-Eirene and the Holy Theotokos / Etele Kiss -- "A New Mixture of Two Powers:" Nicholas Kallikles and Theodore Prodromos on Empress Eirene / Roman Shlyakhtin -- Ritual and Politics in the Pantokrator: A Lament in Two Acts for Eirene's Son / Foteini Spingou -- Concluding Remarks / Robert Ousterhout. |
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Pantokrator Monastery (Istanbul, Turkey)
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Pantokrator Monastery (Istanbul, Turkey) |
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Irene, Empress, consort of John II Comnenus, Emperor of the East, 1088-1134.
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Monasteries -- Turkey -- Istanbul -- History.
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Monasteries. |
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Turkey -- Istanbul. |
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History. |
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Empresses -- Byzantine Empire -- Biography.
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Empresses. |
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Byzantine Empire. |
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Biographies.
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Emperors -- Byzantine Empire -- Biography.
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Emperors. |
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Byzantine Empire -- History -- Alexius I Comnenus, 1081-1118.
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1081-1118 |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Biographies.
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Sághy, Marianne, 1961- editor.
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Print version: 9633862957 9789633862957 (OCoLC)1082967405 |
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9633862973 (electronic book) |
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9789633862971 (electronic book) |
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9633862957 |
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9789633862957 |
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