The series publishes monographs and collections devoted to the history and literature of the Byzantine world, as well as its surviving forms and expressions in modern times, through a traditional, close analysis of primary sources (in Greek and other languages of the Christian East), but sensitive to current research issues and open to innovative methodological approaches.
Each volume in the series focuses on a specific Byzantine or post-Byzantine literary work or coherent corpus of texts which are considered to make a significant contribution to our knowledge of the Byzantine world, particularly (but not only) of religiosity and spirituality. The range of sources studied includes, but is not limited to, writings belonging to ascetic and monastic literature, homiletics, hagiography and hymnography, polemics and controversial literature, theology, dogmatics, etc.
Primary sources will be explored through various types of contributions. Priority will be given to critical editions and/or translations of edited works into modern languages, which are still too scarce in Byzantine studies. Scholars are particularly encouraged to submit translations of important works whose contents remain hardly accessible. Other contributions that will be welcomed are: in-depth and comprehensive analyses of the manuscript traditions of the selected works, with the necessary côté of palaeographical and codicological assessment of the examined witnesses, not excluding iconographical and historical-artistic testimonies where appropriate; systematic commentaries on already edited sources, whose text should also be included; comparative studies of the social, institutional, cultural, intellectual and political contexts and implications of the sources.
Alterum Byzantium aims to fill a gap in the international editorial panorama by offering a specialised series dedicated (though not exclusively) to Byzantine religious culture, which finds some similar parallels in series on the (Western) Middle Ages. Its specificity, however, lies in the centrality given to primary sources and in its ambition to promote solid research tools for a better understanding of a specific but predominant part of Byzantine literary production. The series is open to contributions in the following languages: French, English, Italian and German.
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- Arsenals for the Guardians of Orthodoxy
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- La littérature de l’Épire byzantine du XIIIe au XVe siècle
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- Giovanni VI Cantacuzeno e l’Islam
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- Byzantium and Its Neighbours
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