Balkans and the Byzantine World before and after the Captures of Constantinople, 1204 and 1453 (eBook)

Vlada Stanković is professor of Byzantine studies and director of the Center for Cypriot Studies at the University of Belgrade.

Introduction: In the Balkans “Without” Constantinople: Questions of Center and Periphery, Vlada StankovićPart I: In a World Without a Center: Remaining ByzantineChapter 1: Byzantium’s Retreating Balkan Frontiers during the Reign of the Angeloi (1185–1203): A Reconsideration, Alicia SimpsonChapter 2: Discontinuity and Continuity of Byzantine Literary Tradition After the Crusaders' Capture of Constantinople: The Case of "Original" Byzantine Novels, Dušan PopovićChapter 3: The Divided Empire: Byzantium on the Eve of 1204, Radivoj RadićChapter 4: The Fate of the Palaiologan Aristocracy of Thessalonike after 1423, Nicholas Melvani Chapter 5: Paintings of Donor Portraits in the State of Epirus: Aesthetics, Fashion and Trends in the Late Byzantine period, Katerina KontopanagouChapter 6: Monastic Foundation Legends in Epirus, Christos StavrakosPart II: The Peripheries: In the Shadow of Constantinople and Its InfluenceChapter 7: Studenica and the Life Giving Tree, Jelena ErdeljanChapter 8: Rethinking the Position of Serbia within the Byzantine Oikoumene in the Thirteenth Century, Vlada StankovićChapter 9: The Synodicon of Orthodoxy in Manuscript BAR Sl. 307 and the Hagioriticon Gramma of the Year 1344, Ivan BiliarskyChapter 10: Mount Athos and the Byzantine-Slavic Tradition in Wallachia and Moldavia after the Fall of Constantinople, Radu Păun Chapter 11: The Center of the Periphery: The Land of Bosnia in the Heart of Bosnia, Jelena MrgićPart III: Aftermath: Between Two Empires, Between Two Eras Chapter 12: Before and After the Fall of the Serbian Despotate: The Differences in the Timar Organization in the Serbian Lands in the mid-15th Century, Ema MiljkovićChapter 13: Memories of Home in the Accounts of the Balkan Refugees from the Ottomans to the Apennine peninsula (15th–16th centuries), Nada Zečević