НАШАТA БИБЛИОТЕКА: Companion to Byzantium and the West, 900-1204 / Edited by Nicolas Drocourt and Sebastian Kolditz. Brill, 2022. 591 p.

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The eighteen chapters of this book explore the complex history of exchange between Byzantium and the Latin West over a period of more than three hundred years, with a focus on the political, ecclesiastical and cultural spheres.

Besides outlining the history of competition and collaboration between two empires in medieval Europe, a range of regional approaches, stretching from England to the Crusader kingdoms, offer insights into the many aspects of Byzantine-Latin contact and exchange. Further sections explore patterns of mutual perception, linguistic and material dimensions of the contacts, as well as the role played by various groups of “cultural brokers” such as ambassadors, merchants, monks and Jewish communities.

Contributors are: Axel Bayer, Saskia Dönitz, Nicolas Drocourt, Leonie Exarchos, Daniel Föller, Christian Gastgeber, Hans-Werner Goetz, Dominik Heher, Klaus Herbers, Christopher Hobbs, David Jacoby, Sebastian Kolditz, Savvas Neocleous, Johannes Pahlitzsch, Annick Peters-Custot, Miriam Salzmann, Jonathan Shepard, Juan Signes Codoñer, and Eleni Tounta.

Осемнадесетте глави на тази книга изследват сложната история на обмена между Византия и Латинския Запад в период от повече от триста години, с фокус върху политическата, църковната и културната сфера.

Освен че очертават историята на конкуренцията и сътрудничеството между две империи в средновековна Европа, редица регионални подходи, простиращи се от Англия до кралствата на кръстоносците, предлагат прозрения за многото аспекти на византийско-латинските контакти и обмен. Допълнителни раздели изследват моделите на взаимно възприятие, езиковите и материалните измерения на контактите, както и ролята, играна от различни групи „културни посредници“ като посланици, търговци, монаси и еврейски общности.

Сътрудници са: Axel Bayer, Saskia Dönitz, Nicolas Drocourt, Leonie Exarchos, Daniel Föller, Christian Gastgeber, Hans-Werner Goetz, Dominik Heher, Klaus Herbers, Christopher Hobbs, David Jacoby, Sebastian Kolditz, Savvas Neocleous, Johannes Pahlitzsch, Annick Peters-Custot, Miriam Залцман, Джонатан Шепард, Хуан Сигнес Кодонер и Елени Тунта.

Contents

Preface ix

Notes on Contributors x

Introduction: Approaches to Byzantine-Western Relations in the Period

from the Late 9th Century to 1204: Some Introductory Remarks 1

Nicolas Drocourt and Sebastian Kolditz

Part 1

Perceptions and Linguistic Aspects

1 Knowledge of the West in Byzantine Sources, c.900–c.1200 31

Jonathan Shepard

2 The Image of the Greeks in Latin Sources 85

Hans-Werner Goetz

3 Linguistic Competence, Diplomacy and Diplomatics 108

Christian Gastgeber

Part 2

The Two Empires and Italy: Political and Ecclesiastical Relations

4 Byzantine-Western Relations in the Political and Ecclesiastical Spheres

in Later Carolingian Times 137

Klaus Herbers

5 Beyond Liudprand and Theophano: Aspects of Western-Byzantine

Relations in Ottonian and Salian Times 148

Sebastian Kolditz

6 Byzantium, Rome and the Papacy: A History of Ecclesiastical

Separation 192

Axel Bayer

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7 Komnenoi and Staufer: Ambition and Confrontation 215

Leonie Exarchos

8 Political and Cultural Encounters between Byzantium and the Normans,

11th–12th Centuries 247

Eleni Tounta

Part 3

Byzantium and a Multifaceted Latin World

9 Byzantium and Scandinavia 273

Daniel Föller

10 Byzantium and England, c.900–1204 300

Christopher Hobbs

11 Byzantium and the Iberian Peninsula. From the Capture of the Balearic

Islands to the Fourth Crusade 325

Juan Signes Codoñer

12 Byzantium and France 357

Savvas Neocleous

13 Latins in Byzantium and Orthodox Christians in the Crusader States,

1096 to 1190 391

Johannes Pahlitzsch

Part 4

Agents and Objects

14 Travellers, Diplomats, Interpreters and Others: Agents of Political

Relations 419

Nicolas Drocourt

15 Monastic Travel between the Byzantine Empire and the West:

The Italo-Greek Brokers, 10th–13th Century 446

Annick Peters-Custot

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16 Italian Traders in Byzantium, c.800–1204 471

David Jacoby

17 Jews as Cultural Brokers between Byzantium and the Latin West,

850–1200 AD 496

Saskia Dönitz

18 Objects of Desire: Exchange in Commodities and Gifts 513

Dominik Heher

General Bibliography 539

Index 555