Update

Oxford Reference Browse

Narrow Your Choices

By Availability

By Reference Type

Refine By Subject

  • Open Section History (3)
    • Early history (500 CE to 1500) (3)

By Content Set

By Illustrations

Overview

cosmos

Return to overview »

You are looking at 1-3 of 3 entries  for:

  • Early history (500 CE to 1500) x
clear all

View:

Cosmos

Cosmos   Reference library

Karl-Heinz Uthemann and Anthony Cutler

The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2005
Subject:
History, Early history (500 CE to 1500)
Length:
321 words
(κόσμος, lit. “world”). The fundamental Greek world view emphasized the unity, harmony, and beauty of reality. In the Platonic tradition, the perceptible cosmos is conceived as an image of ... More
Maximos the Confessor

Maximos the Confessor  

Reference type:
Overview Page
Subject:
History, Early history (500 CE to 1500)
Theologian and saint; baptismal name Moschion; born 580. According to the 10th-C. enkomion by a Stoudite monk, Michael Exaboulites (W. Lackner, AB 85 [1967] 312), Maximos was born in Constantinople ...
personification

personification  

Reference type:
Overview Page
Subject:
History, Early history (500 CE to 1500)
Representation of a human figure with attributes to suggest an abstraction, such as Hope with Anchor. Cesare Ripa's Iconologia (1593) was an important source-book for personification.Lampugnani (ed.) ...

View: