Visions of Empire: Gaze, Space, and Territory in Isidore’s Encomium for John VIII Palaiologos

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<a href="https://www.academia.edu/34583862/Visions_of_Empire_Gaze_Space_and_Territory_in_Isidore_s_Encomium_for_John_VIII_Palaiologos" target="_blank" >https://www.academia.edu/34583862/Visions_of_Empire_Gaze_Space_and_Territory_in_Isidore_s_Encomium_for_John_VIII_Palaiologos</a>

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Visions of Empire: Gaze, Space, and Territory in Isidore’s Encomium for John VIII Palaiologos

Original language description

This article explores the spatial thinking and correlative rhetorical design embedded in an imperial oration penned by Isidore, known also as Metropolitan of Kiev, a scholar, ecclesiastic, and imperial scribe living in the first half of the fifteenth century. In His Encomium for John VIII , emperor of the Byzantines, he devotes much of its content to the description of spaces, in particular, the urban area of Constantinople and the provinces of Peloponnese and continental Greece. I argue that space represents a core component of the author’s strategy to mediate between the necessity to praise and the intention to construct discursively a symbolic reality that would reflect the challenges of a collapsing state. Concurrently, I suggest that, as a self-standing symbol, space corresponded to a different vision of imperial Byzantine authority and of Byzantine enco-miastic writing. Thus, by turning space into a tool for imperial praise and not using it as a mere ornament, Isidore confronted the empire’s new territoriality, a city-centric mindset that emphasized Constantinople’s preeminence as well as its self-sufficiency

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60206 - Specific literatures

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Dumbarton Oaks Papers

ISSN

0070-7546

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Volume of the periodical

2018

Issue of the periodical within the volume

71

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

24

Pages from-to

249-272

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85045151569