Bøger i Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman Studies serien

The contributors of this volume take the Memoirs of Slyvester Syropoulos, written by a Byzantine ecclesiastical official in the fifteenth century, as their starting point in reconstructing Mediterranean living conditions and artistic and commercial exchange in the late Middle Ages. Syropoulos's text.

Discussing the cult of the Theotokos (Virgin Mary) in Byzantium, this title focuses on textual and historical aspects of the subject. It re-examines the relationship between icons, relics and the Virgin, asking whether increasing devotion to these holy objects or figures was related in any way.