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The Critic’s Byzantine Ploy: Voltairean Confusion in Postsecularist Narratives
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boundary 2 (2013) 40 (1): 223–243.
Published: 01 February 2013
... 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...
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Eis tin Polis : Istanbul, December 1969
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boundary 2 (2008) 35 (1): 127–168.
Published: 01 February 2008
... 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 expected...
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Different and Familiar: Les enfances Renier and the Question of Medieval Orientalism
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boundary 2 (2023) 50 (3): 189–209.
Published: 01 August 2023
... mark him as an outsider and prevent total integration. He decides to leave and crisscross the southern Mediterranean in search of his Latin Christian birth family. Renier also must protect his beloved Ydoine and her lands from invading rival Muslim forces. In his travels, he helps a young Byzantine...
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Introduction
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boundary 2 (2013) 40 (1): 1–4.
Published: 01 February 2013
... 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
postcolonial criticism...
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Race, Medieval Studies, and Disciplinary Boundaries
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boundary 2 (2023) 50 (3): 107–121.
Published: 01 August 2023
... invasions left intact. . . . This was the most essential event of European history which had occurred since the Punic Wars. It was the end of the classic tradition. It was the beginning of the Middle Ages, and it happened at the very moment when Europe was on the way to becoming Byzantinized” (Pirenne 2001...
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C. P. Cavafy as an Egyptiote
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boundary 2 (2021) 48 (2): 123–160.
Published: 01 May 2021
... of artificial stones in place of precious ones at the coronation of the Byzantine emperor in 1347, the empire now so impoverished. But the dovetailing of pathos and grandeur in this photograph is of a somewhat different order. For a Cavafy aged sixty-four, no longer is it a matter of the bruised pride of a once...
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Idolatry, Prohibition, Unrepresentability
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boundary 2 (2013) 40 (1): 137–153.
Published: 01 February 2013
... what, from this standpoint, were
rightly called the Dark Ages.
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monophysites, Byzantine iconoclasm, Franciscan or Calvinist asceticism,
strict Islamism, or Protestant fundamentalism)—must involve a rather nar-
row construct of “image” in its most literal sense. Bild...
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Cavafy's Levant: Commerce, Culture, and Mimicry in the Early Life of the Poet
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boundary 2 (2021) 48 (2): 7–39.
Published: 01 May 2021
... of these spectacularly successful but ultimately doomed colonies of commerce overlaps with the history of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Hellenism. The Greek Kingdom, eager to expand its borders in what would become the ideology of the “μɛγάλη ιδέα/great idea”—the reconstitution of the Byzantine state...
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Contributors
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boundary 2 (2013) 40 (1): 267–268.
Published: 01 February 2013
... 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 Comparative
Literature. His...
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At a Slight Angle to the Empire: Cavafy among the British
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boundary 2 (2021) 48 (2): 41–57.
Published: 01 May 2021
... individuals and communities operating outside the Greek state: the Egyptiot paroikia , other diaspora communities, or the Graikoi of the Eastern cultural tradition, going back to the Byzantine years. Thirdly, and in a different set of poems, Cavafy's Hellenism is used primarily as code for homosexual desire...
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boundary 2 (2014) 41 (2): 71–98.
Published: 01 May 2014
... of the Umay-
yad dynasty, which became traditional within Islamic 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...
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Another Colonial History: How Cosmopolitan Was Cavafy's Contemporary Alexandria?
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boundary 2 (2021) 48 (2): 89–121.
Published: 01 May 2021
... Marilyn , 151 – 92 . Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press . Dragoumis Philippos . 1984 . Alexandria 1916: Imerologio . Athens : Dodoni . Ekdawi Sarah . 1996a . “ Cavafy's Byzantium .” Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies 20 : 17 – 34 . Ekdawi Sarah . 1996b...
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Making Islam (Coherent): Academic Discourse and the Politics of Language
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boundary 2 (2023) 50 (3): 33–55.
Published: 01 August 2023
...” within the wider context of Byzantine, Sasanian, and Greco-Roman history, the medieval period does not seem to function more than as a catch-all term between the classical period—so called because supposed foundational literary and legal genres developed in this period, with everything else following...
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Seven Aspects in Search of a Narrative: A Review of The West: A New History by Anthony Grafton and David Bell
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boundary 2 (2022) 49 (2): 193–211.
Published: 01 May 2022
... itself. It divided into Eastern and Western halves, adopting Christianity and with it the Bible as a fundamental text. The Byzantine Empire projected norms of Christian rule into the Slavic lands—to great long-term effect. In the West, Charlemagne (768–814) was crowned emperor by the Pope. Charlemagne's...
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Dare to Care: Between Stiegler's Mystagogy and Foucault's Aesthetics of Existence
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boundary 2 (2017) 44 (1): 149–166.
Published: 01 February 2017
...), 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 Greek also the elements used in the Eucha-
rist...
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Spoiled History: Leprosy and the Lessons of Queer Medieval Historiography
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boundary 2 (2023) 50 (3): 211–231.
Published: 01 August 2023
... a special association with sex. The fifth-century Byzantine physician Aetius assumed that leprosy was contracted via sexual intercourse, a view that seems to have been quoted with especial frequency by nineteenth-century medical authorities. 16 In the twelfth century, Hildegard of Bingen linked...
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The Soviet Invention of Postcolonial Studies
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boundary 2 (2023) 50 (2): 133–156.
Published: 01 May 2023
... Pamuk's celebrated novel Snow (2002), which for the past one thousand years has been ruled by a bewildering succession of Armenian, Byzantine, Seljuk Turkish, Anatolian, Armenian-Georgian, Mongol, Iranian Safavid, Ottoman, Russian, Armenian and lastly, with the 1921 treaty of Kars, Turkish rulers—often...
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A Bridge Too Far? Ludovico Marracci's Translation of the Qurʾan and the Persistence of Medieval Biblicism
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boundary 2 (2023) 50 (3): 145–169.
Published: 01 August 2023
.... . Nutzman Megan . 2013 . “ Mary in The Protevangelium of James : A Jewish Woman in the Temple .” Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 53 : 551 – 78 . Peter the Venerable . 1967 . The Letters of Peter the Venerable . Edited by Constable Giles . 2 vols. Cambridge, MA : Harvard...
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What Is “Postmedieval”? Embedded Reflections
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boundary 2 (2023) 50 (3): 57–81.
Published: 01 August 2023
... the new editorial board, which we hoped would include disciplines, language traditions, geographic locales, and perspectives heretofore little featured in the journal. At the time of writing, we have twenty board members, who bring expertise in fields and languages including musicology, Byzantine studies...
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The Sublime without Longinus
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boundary 2 (2016) 43 (2): 73–124.
Published: 01 May 2016
..., that of the non-Latinate Byzantine era, could con-
trast sublime biblical creation with the petty and material creation of the
pagan Greek philosophers. Whereas for the Greeks “God works in the ser-
vice of nature,” among the Christians “God’s creative activity is beyond
nature. Thus it happens...
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