Κοινότητα Αναγνωστών Βιβλίων - readers.gr

Αφιερωματική, συλλεκτική έκδοση για την Αγία Σοφία, το Κέντρο της Ορθοδοξίας και το σύμβολο του Έθνους. Με σύγχρονη καταγραφή του μοναδικού αυτού μνημείου, μετά από επιτόπια φωτογράφηση, αποτυπώνονται: η λαμπρότητα της τοποθεσίας, η ιστορία και οι παραδόσεις, οι μύθοι και οι θρύλοι, η αρχιτεκτονική, τα ψηφιδωτά και η σημασία του μνημείου για την παγκόσμια τέχνη. Η έκδοση συμπληρώνεται με σπάνιο υλικό από αρχεία και βιβλιοθήκες, ενώ απεικονίζει την εξέλιξη των ανασκαφών και των ερευνών την περίοδο του 19ου και του 20ου αιώνα. Τέλος, περιέχει σπάνιες γκραβούρες αλλά και χα...

The present volume offers a partial presentation of research that has been prosecuted, in one form or another, over the past decade and more. Some early, misguided ideas about the relationship between Hellenism and the Umayyads as manifest in the paintings of Qusayr Arma appeared in chapter 6 of Garth Fowden, "Empire to commonwealth: Consequences of monotheism in late antiquity (1993); while in chapter 6 of "The Barbarian Plain: Saint Sergius between Rome and Iran" (1999), Elisabeth Key Fowden looked at the relationship between Christianity and Islam in Umayyad al Rusafa. A...

[...] The catalogue that follows is not exhaustive, but it does aim to be representative: it treats all types of buildings in all the areas of Greece where such monuments appear. Also, in order to enable the reader to acquire a complete overview of the architecture of this period, a point has been made of including not only buildings which are unquestionably Ottoman in their function and architecture, such as mosques, imarets, hamams, tekkes etc., but also citadels, bridges or dwellings which were in use by all sections of the population. Ίhe book is divided into three par...

[...] The present volume is intended to show that the ideal of an at once sociohistorical and authentically philosophical approach to the spiritual life of the late Greek elites is still alive, and that a presentation of late antique philosophical life that does justice as much to the ideas themselves as to the circumstances in which they were studied and lived is a realizable aim. What follows is, then, work in progress, all destined to be presented more fully elsewhere. [...]