A Byzantine Century : Political, Colonial, and National Uses of Neo-Byzantine Architecture, 1820s–1920s

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://www.brepols.net/products/IS-9788028007973-1" target="_blank" >https://www.brepols.net/products/IS-9788028007973-1</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

A Byzantine Century : Political, Colonial, and National Uses of Neo-Byzantine Architecture, 1820s–1920s

Original language description

This open-access volume explores what it meant to invoke Byzantium during a century of restless political, cultural, and imperial transformation. From the 1820s to the 1920s, the "Neo-Byzantine" style was more than a matter of architectural taste in an age of eclecticism. It became a language of power and identity, called upon to serve colonial empires such as Britain, France, Russia, and Austria-Hungary, as well as contested regions like the Caucasus, the Balkans, and the Ottoman capital itself, where Byzantium was at once heritage and provocation. Far from being a marginal curiosity, the Neo-Byzantine revival was a crucible in which nations, religions, and empires negotiated their pasts and imagined their futures. Monumental churches, synagogues, and civic buildings across Europe, North Africa, and Western Asia were not simply constructed in a borrowed style: they materialized competing dreams of Byzantium, becoming instruments of political ambition, religious authority, national mythology, and cultural colonization. Through a series of case studies ranging from Dublin to Istanbul, from Marseille to Tbilisi, and from Prussian churches to diasporic Armenian projects, the contributors move between the macro and the micro, situating the style within broad historical currents while grounding it in the specificity of local histories. Together, they demonstrate how Byzantium was not only reinvented but actively contested - its image refracted through the shifting concerns of a global century. The volume is fully open-access and will be available on the website of Brepols in the next few weeks.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

B - Specialist book

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60401 - Arts, Art history

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA24-10991S" target="_blank" >GA24-10991S: Dreaming Byzantium in Nineteenth Century France: Neo-Byzantine Architecture, Orientalism, and the Racial and National Myths of Art History (1848–1900)</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2025

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

ISBN

9788028007973

Number of pages

266

Publisher name

Brepols Publishers

Place of publication

Turnhout

UT code for WoS book

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