The Balkans and the Byzantine World before and after the Capt... - 9781498513272

The Balkans and the Byzantine World before and after the Captures of Constantinople, 1204 and 1453Author(s): Vlada Stankovic, Ivan Biliarsky, Jelena Erdeljan, Katerina Kontopanagou, Nicholas Melvani, Ema Miljkovic, Jelena Mrgic, Radu G. Paun, Duan Popovic, Radivoj Radic\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, United States\nImprint: Lexington Books\nISBN-13: 9781498513272, 978-1498513272\nSynopsis\nThis book represents the first attempt to analyze historical and cultural developments in late medieval and early modern southeastern Europe as a set of mutually intertwined regional histories, burdened by the strong dichotomy between the almighty centerConstantinopleand the periphery that is rarely visible in both contemporary sources and modern scholarship. This mosaic of original studies is devoted to various regions of the Byzantine Balkans and their historical, artistic, and ideological idiosyncrasies, mirroring the complex character and composite and fragmented stru.