Liminal Spaces and Spatial Practices in Byzantium [Hardcover]

This book offers a novel twist, combining intra-/inter-disciplinary research across the humanities and social sciences by transforming two distinct disciplinary concepts (liminality from social anthropology and space from cultural geography) into methodological devices for historical investigation.

Presents new approaches to the study of Byzantium / Applies two interdisciplinary concepts (liminality from social anthropology and space from cultural geography) to historical investigation / Surveys a wide variety of spaces including Byzantine frontiers, monasteries, public and private spaces, and natural spaces as mountains, rivers and islands.

Introduction

Liminal Spaces Inside and Beyond the Byzantine World

Myrto Veikou and Buket Kitap?i Bayri

Part I: Natural Space as Liminal

Chapter 1

Encounters in Crocodile Waters: The Nile as a Liminal Riverscape in Monastic Egypt

Darlene Brooks Hedstrom

Chapter 2

Desert Islands: Aspects of the Byzantine Perception of Liminal Space

Charis Messis

Chapter 3

Liminal Insularity or Islandness? Relational and Comparative Perspectives on Big Islands in the Mediterranean and the Baltic Sea in the Early Middle Ages (SixthTenth Centuries)

Luca Zavagno, Christoph Kilger and Max Kusserow

Part II: Social Space as Liminal: Public and Private

Chapter 4

Myths Transformed: Perceptions of Ancient Sculpture in Byzantine Liminal Spaces

Livia Bevilacqua

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