The Byzantine world

Weitere Verfasser: Stephenson, Paul.
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: London ; New York : Routledge, 2010.
Umfang/Format: xxx, 606 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm.
Schriftenreihe: Routledge worlds
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iDAI.gazetteer: Oströmisches Reich
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • Part I : The Byzantines in their world
  • The Byzantine political process at crisis point / Michael Angold
  • The rise of the middle Byzantine aristocracy and the decline of the imperial state / Paul Stephenson
  • Money, coins and the economy / Cécile Morrisson
  • The army and military logistics / John Haldon
  • The study of women and children : methodological challenges and new directions /Anthony Kaldellis
  • Strong women and their husbands in Byzantine historiography / Lenora Neville
  • Cherches l'homme! Byzantine men : a eunuch perspective / Shaun Tougher
  • On slaves and slavery / Günter Prinzing
  • Monotheists, dualists and pagans /Christopher Livanos
  • The virtues and faults of the Latin Christians / Tia Kolbaba.
  • Part II : The written world
  • Political literacy / Catherine Holmes
  • Byzantine military manuals : prescriptions, practice and pedagogy / Denis F. Sullivan
  • De cerimoniis and the Great Palace / J.M. Featherstone
  • Rhetoric and performance / Emmanuuel C. Bourbouhakis
  • Letter-writing / Stratis Papaioannou
  • Trends and developments in the Byzantine poetic tradition / Christopher Livanos
  • The corpus of Byzantine historiography : an interpretive essay / Anthony Kaldellis
  • Christians, Jews and Muslims in Byzantine Italy : medieval conflicts in local perspective / Youval Rotman
  • The miracles of Gregory Palamas by Philotheos Kokkinos /Alice-Mary Talbot
  • Writing for the heart : the spiritual literature of Byzantium /Joseph Munitiz .
  • Part III : Heaven on earth : Byzantine art and architecture
  • What is a Byzantine icon? Constantinople versus Sinai / Bissera V. Pentcheva
  • Defining liturgical space / Vasileios Marinis
  • Celestial hierarchies and earthly hierarchies in the art of the Byzantine Church / Warren T. Woodfin
  • Unofficial art and the resistance to Orthodoxy / Henry Maguire
  • Constantinople and the construction of a medieval urban identity / Robert Ousterhout
  • The practice, perception and experience of Byzantine fortification / Nikolas Bakirtzis
  • Imperial outliers : building and decorative works in the borderlands and beyond / Jonathan Shepard
  • The medieval progeny of he Holy Apostles : trails of architectural imitation across the Mediterranean / Tassos Papacostas
  • Sacred space from Constantinople to Venice / Thomas E.A. Dale.
  • Part IV : The world of Byzantine studies
  • The history of editing Byzantine historiographical texts / Diether Roderich Reinsch
  • Byzantium in nineteenth-century Greek historiography / Despina Christodoulou
  • Pioneers of popular Byzantine history : Freeman, Gregorovius, Schlumberger / Paul Stephenson
  • A case study in the emergence of Byzantine studies : Serbia in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Srđan Privatrić
  • Byzantium and historical sociology / Johann P. Arnason
  • Byzantium's European future / Paul Stephenson.