The Byzantine Lists: ERRORS OF THE LATINS (Illinois Medieval Studies) - Hardcover

Kolbaba, Tia M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 025202558X ISBN 13: 9780252025587

Publisher: University of Illinois Press, 2000

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"This study shows that, rather than 'ridiculous' or 'hateful' documents -- adjectives Kolbaba herself sometimes finds it difficult to avoid -- the lists may be more productively understood as aggressive, yet complex, attempts to stake out and secure the boundaries of Orthodoxy against challenges, real and perceived, posed by the shifting cultural and political frontiers of the Middle Byzantine period." -- William L. North, Religious Studies Review "Only an outstanding scholar would dare to challenge accepted wisdom, is in this case: The Byzantine Lists were compiled over hundreds of years beginning in the 11th century. They were not assembled systematically until a later century." --The Orthodox Catholic Voice ADVANCE PRAISE "This deeply thoughtful book succeeds in creating an entire world out of evidence which is usually overlooked as myopic and vaguely disgusting. Kolbaba has entered into the imaginative world of Byzantium, to reveal a challengingly unfamiliar insistence on the relation of theology to ritual, of idea to symbol, of food to spirit. This is a model study of one great medieval society revealed in the mirror of its own extreme views of its overbearing western neighbor." -- Peter Brown, author of Authority and the Sacred: Aspects of the Christianisation of the Roman World "No seasoned specialist in the field will be able to go on thinking about things Byzantine without being affected by Tia Kolbaba's challenges. On the other hand, for newcomers to Byzantine studies, her ideas offer wonderful stimulation to further research. This is a superb piece of work by a superb scholar that will be an exciting and highly regarded contribution to Byzantine, Christian, and general religious studies." -- John W. Barker, author of Justinian and the Late Roman Empire

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 025202558X
• ISBN 13: 9780252025587
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 248