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

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

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

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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

Název v anglickém jazyce

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

Popis výsledku anglicky

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

Druh

J_SC - Článek v periodiku v databázi SCOPUS

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60206 - Specific literatures

Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2018

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název periodika

Dumbarton Oaks Papers

ISSN

0070-7546

e-ISSN

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Svazek periodika

2018

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

71

Stát vydavatele periodika

US - Spojené státy americké

Počet stran výsledku

24

Strana od-do

249-272

Kód UT WoS článku

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EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85045151569