Society, Culture and Politics in Byzantium by Nicolas Oikonom... - 9781138382459

Taylor & Francis

This fourth selection of papers by the late Nicolas Oikonomides to be published in the Variorum Collected Studies Series focuses on the Byzantine world after the Fourth Crusade and during the Palaeologan period. The twenty-eight articles included look first at questions of language and literacy, and then at the relationships between art and politics. The final sections examine aspects of the history of the later empire, in the age of its decline. > Society, Culture and Politics in Byzantium is the fourth selection of papers by the late Nicolas Oikonomides to be published in the Variorum Collected Studies Series. Its focus is upon the Byzantine world after the Fourth Crusade and during the Palaeologan period, though several studies deal with a longer time span. The twenty-eight articles included look first at questions of language and literacy, and then at the relationships between art and politics. The final sections examine aspects of the history of the later empire, in the age o.