... engagement with Byzantine iconoclasm and argues that by appropriating elements of Byzantine Aristotelian theology in order to undergird a postsecularist argument, the modern critic dehistoricizes ideas that were firmly rooted in East Roman social, political, and cultural contexts in a manner that ultimately...

... Critique,” offers a series of longer and more focused studies, each an examination of the consequences for particular intellectual constellations— from Byzantine history (Dimitris Krallis) to feminist and queer theory (Sadia Abbas, Nikita Dhawan), political theology (Jason Stevens, Gourgouris), and...

... euphoric aftermath of the Allies’ defeat of the Ottomans in World War I, which would reestablish the former borders of the Byzantine Empire. Like virtually every excursion we undertook that year, what hap- pened on this winter journey turned out almost from the beginning to be far from what we had...

... ideas to satire and dissent in the twelfth-­century, and the func- tion of “character assassination” in Byzantine literature and politics. Vassilis Lambropoulos is the C. P. Cavafy Professor of Modern Greek at the Univer- sity of Michigan, teaching in the Departments of Classical Studies and...

... official imperial banning of paganism, signified the erasure of centuries of accumulated knowledge and precipitated what, from this standpoint, were rightly called the Dark Ages. 144 boundary 2 / Spring 2013 monophysites, Byzantine iconoclasm, Franciscan or Calvinist asceticism, strict Islamism...

... history, were a con- catenation of preexisting forms already in situ when Muslims arrived, bear- ing traces of a (violent) mixing of Sassanid, Byzantine, Persian, and Judaic forms.24 Such mixing, he claims, is not the exception but the norm. Institu- to say that the West is not the modern world...

... rites (late 2nd cent. in Tertullian), the Eucharist, the elements used in the Eucharist (4th cent.) < ancient Greek mystery, secret, (plural) secret rites, implements used in such rites, in Hellenistic Greek also secret revealed by God, mystical truth, Christian rite, sacrament, in Byzantine...

..., the abyss of human consciousness is naked” (Confessions 10.2.2).26 Augustine’s other writings are likewise pervaded with a sense of the sublime.27 Michael Psellus, who lived some six hundred years later and in an entirely different world, that of the non-Latinate­ Byzantine era, could...

.... Then, looking from the Byzantine world, the Ori- ent of the official Catholic world, the Latin world is a secondary, pro-reform, and more superficial Roman world. That is how I started to see Europe from the outside. I lived this knowledge for two years in a world that situ- ated itself before the...

...- position to two successive colossi, the Byzantine and Ottoman Empires.”12 According to another opinion, the Balkans represented the “third time zone of Europe.”13 I would, however, side with Maria Todorova, who draws a rather thin line of demarcation between Eastern Europe and the Balkans. After...