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The art of Byzantium after Byzantium was preserved for more than three centuries, living till the early 19th century in a non-Byzantine world. The painters Ioannis and Anastasios from Kapesovo (Epirus, Greece), the last great representatives of a provincial but thoroughly professional - in the broadest sense - guild, participated in the artistic trends and the intellectual and religious fusion of a period of profound social and economic transformations (18th c.). Eventually, the iconographic wealth of the Kapesovo workshop offers a unique opportunity to bring together terms, concepts, topics...

This book represents the first attempt to analyze historical and cultural developments in late medieval and early modern southeastern Europe as a set of mutually intertwined regional histories, burdened by the strong dichotomy between the almighty center Constantinople and the periphery that is rarely visible in both contemporary sources and modern scholarship. This mosaic of original studies is devoted to various regions of the Byzantine Balkans and their historical, artistic, and ideological idiosyncrasies, mirroring the complex character and composite and fragmented structure of this vast...