This book offers the first comprehensive study of Byzantine influence on the art and iconography of East Central Europe. Petr Balcárek focuses on the Byzantine cultural and religious legacy in the Czech lands, thereby bringing to light rarely seen images and presenting fresh hypotheses based on newly-explored theological interpretations and historical evidence.
Including a discussion of the Czech and Slovak historiography on Byzantine studies, the work analyses significant artistic and iconographical artefacts in light of the intricate historical and political relationships that shaped Byzantine presence in these territories, comparing them with similar objects from other areas of Byzantine influence in order to draw wide-reaching conclusions.
Author(s): Petr Balcárek
Series: East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450
Publisher: Brill
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 531
City: Leiden
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
List of Maps
Abbreviations
Introduction
1 General Considerations
2 Byzantine Studies in the Czech Lands as a Potential Source for Interpretation: A Preliminary Outline
3 Byzantine Studies in Czechoslovakia After WWII
4 Byzantinoslavica
5 Czechoslovak Archaeologists and Art Historians
Part 1 From 324 AD Up to the Eleventh Century
Chapter 1 The Period from 324 AD to Approximately 500 AD
1 Introduction and Chronology
2 The Historical Background and Main Characteristics of the Period
3 Evidence of Archaeological Artefacts
Chapter 2 The Period Between 500–670
1 Historical Background
2 Material Evidence
3 Church Organization and Jurisdiction
Chapter 3 The Period from 670 AD to Approximately 800 AD
1 Historical Background
2 Artefacts
3 Conclusion
Chapter 4 The Great Moravian Period, Ninth Century
1 Characteristics and Historical Background
2 Artefacts
3 Conclusion
Chapter 5 The Post-Great Moravian Period – from the Year 900 to Approximately 1050 AD
1 Primary Characteristics of the Period
2 The Ecclesiastical Situation and Cultural Centres
3 Artefacts
4 Hungary as a Bridge Between East-Central Europe and Byzantium
Chapter 6 Conclusion and Summary of the First Part
Part 2 Second Half of the 11th Century up to the 16th Century
Chapter 7 Introduction: Periodisation
1 From Mid-Eleventh Century to ca. 1204
Chapter 8 From Mid-Eleventh Century to ca. 1204
1 Historical and Artistic Background
2 Material Evidence
3 Conclusion – the Period Between 1054–1204
Chapter 9 Thirteenth Century
1 Historical Background
2 Material Evidence
3 Conclusion
Chapter 10 The Fourteenth Century
1 Historical Background
2 Material Evidence
3 Conclusion
Chapter 11 Epilogue: The Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries
1 Historical Background
2 Material Evidence
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
