Peu avant son retour à Byzance, l'empereur Manuel Paléologue rédigea une brève, mais alerte, description d'une tapisserie appartenant à la collection du Louvre. D'après le texte, il s'agit d'un paysage au printemps, rempli de personnages et d'animaux ; aucune tapisserie connue ne correspond à cette description. L'auteur de l'article avance l'idée qu'une telle recherche serait infructueuse, car il prétend que le texte reflète davantage la tradition littéraire grecque qu'un témoignage visuel. Tandis ...
Tópico(s): Classical Antiquity Studies
2003 - Peeters | Revue des études byzantines
Manuel II‘s admonitory speech to his son and successor John VIII, embedded in the tradition of the so-called -Mirror-of-Princes‖, amounts to the final manifestation of this political-rhetorical genre in the history of the Byzantine empire. By means of this historical source‘s content, the present article sets out to examine the calling towards transcendence that perpetually animated Byzantium - a calling that did not wilt under the adverse political conditions then plaguing the empire and endangering ...
Tópico(s): Classical Antiquity Studies
2006 - University of Chile | Byzantion nea hellás
This study analyzes the way in which the Eastern Roman Empire confronted one of the deepest political and ideological crisis. The reason was the Turkish pression to those who not only had fought by arms, but also with the creation of a discourse that by one side legitimated the Roman position and by other discredited the adversary. This was the task in which the emperor Manuel II Palaeologus engaged himself. In his work the enemy has some negative features and is dehumanized by a moral discourse, ...
Tópico(s): Byzantine Studies and History
2019 - University of Salamanca | Studia Historica Historia Medieval
... utteredthewords quoted severalyearsago byPope Benedict XVI, the emperorManuel II Paleologos ascended to the throne ofByzantium. He inherited an empire thatwas clearly on itslast legs,itsonce vastterritory reducedto a sliverof land around the capital city,Constantinople, along witha fewoutpostsin theAegeanand theBlackSea. Manuel himselfwas a vassal oftheOttomansultanBayezid,a fierce and uncompromising ...
Tópico(s): Byzantine Studies and History
2011 - Boston University | Arion