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THE ROUTLEDGE WORLDS
CONTENTS
ILLUSTRATIONS
MAPS
FIGURES
CONTRIBUTORS
PREFACE
ABBREVIATIONS
INTRODUCTION
NOTES
MAPS
PART I THE BYZANTINES IN THEIR WORLD
CHAPTER ONE THE BYZANTINE POLITICAL PROCESS AT CRISIS POINT
I
II
III
NOTES
CHAPTER TWO THE RISE OF THE MIDDLE BYZANTINE ARISTOCRACY AND THE DECLINE OF THE IMPERIAL STATE*
THE ELEVENTH CENTURY: c. 950–1081
THE TWELFTH CENTURY: 1081–1183
COLLAPSE: 1183–1204
NOTES
CHAPTER THREE MONEY, COINS AND THE ECONOMY
COINS AND COINAGE (SIXTH TO FIFTEENTH CENTURIES)
MONEY AND IMPERIAL FINANCES
MONEY IN THE ECONOMY
NOTES
CHAPTER FOUR THE ARMY AND MILITARY LOGISTICS
STRUCTURES
STRATEGY
FOOD AND TRANSPORT
RAW MATERIALS AND EQUIPMENT
LIVESTOCK
THE BAGGAGE TRAIN
THE KOMNENOI AND BEYOND
NOTES
CHAPTER FIVE THE STUDY OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN
NOTES
CHAPTER SIX STRONG WOMEN AND THEIR HUSBANDS IN BYZANTINE HISTORIOGRAPHY
NOTES
CHAPTER SEVEN CHERCHEZ L’HOMME!
NOTES
CHAPTER EIGHT ON SLAVES AND SLAVERY*
NIKEPHOROS, SHORT HISTORY
KEDRENOS (AND OSTROGORSKY)
THEOPHANES CONTINUATUS, VITA BASILII
SKYLITZES
NOTES
CHAPTER NINE MONOTHEISTS, DUALISTS AND PAGANS
NOTES
CHAPTER TEN THE VIRTUES AND FAULTS OF THE LATIN CHRISTIANS
NOTES
PART II THE WRITTEN WORLD
CHAPTER ELEVEN POLITICAL LITERACY
NOTES
CHAPTER TWELVE BYZANTINE MILITARY MANUALS
NOTES
CHAPTER THIRTEEN DE CERIMONIIS AND THE GREAT PALACE*
NOTES
CHAPTER FOURTEEN RHETORIC AND PERFORMANCE
CONCLUSION
NOTES
CHAPTER FIFTEEN LETTER-WRITING
THE POLITICS OF COMMUNICATION
TOWARD LITERATURE
NOTES
CHAPTER SIXTEEN TRENDS AND DEVELOPMENTS IN THE BYZANTINE POETIC TRADITION
NOTES
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN THE CORPUS OF BYZANTINE HISTORIOGRAPHY
NOTES
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN CHRISTIANS, JEWS AND MUSLIMS IN BYZANTINE ITALY
INTRODUCTION
CHRISTIAN–JEWISH RIVALRY IN LOCAL PERSPECTIVE
CHRISTIAN–MUSLIM RIVALRY IN LOCAL PERSPECTIVE
A LOCAL JEWISH POINT OF VIEW
CONCLUSION
NOTES
CHAPTER NINETEEN THE MIRACLES OF GREGORY PALAMAS BY PHILOTHEOS KOKKINOS
GREGORY PALAMAS
PHILOTHEOS KOKKINOS
THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE CULT OF PALAMAS AND HIS CANONIZATION
STRUCTURE OF THE MIRACLE COLLECTION
TYPES OF AFFLICTIONS HEALED
ATTITUDES TOWARD MEDICINE AND PHYSICIANS
PHILOTHEOS’ EMPATHY WITH THE AFFLICTED
METHODS OF HEALING
LITERARY STYLE
DEPICTION OF BYZANTINE SOCIETY
NOTES
CHAPTER TWENTY WRITING FOR THE HEART
NOTES
PART III HEAVEN ON EARTH
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE WHAT IS A BYZANTINE ICON? CONSTANTINOPLE VERSUS SINAI
EIKON DURING ICONOCLASM: THE FORMATION OF THE CONCEPT OF AN “IMAGE”
ENAMEL, POIKILIA AND MOVING EYES
THE RETURN TO GRAPHE AS PAINTING
SINAI AND THE DOMINANCE OF THE PAINTED PANEL
CONCLUSION
NOTES
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO DEFINING LITURGICAL SPACE
INTRODUCTION
THE RITUAL
THE ARCHITECTURE
THE SANCTUARY
THE TEMPLON
THE NAOS
THE NARTHEX
GALLERIES
OUTER AMBULATORIES AND EXONARTHEXES63
CRYPTS AND OTHER COMPARABLE SPACES
CHAPELS
SOME CONCLUSIONS
NOTES
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE CELESTIAL HIERARCHIES AND EARTHLY HIERARCHIES IN THE ART OF THE BYZANTINE CHURCH
INTRODUCTION
THE IMPERIAL REALM AS IMAGE OF HEAVEN
REFLECTIONS OF HEAVEN IN THE CHURCH
AFTER THE FALL OF CONSTANTINOPLE
NOTES
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR UNOFFICIAL ART AND THE RESISTANCE TO ORTHODOXY
ORDER AND DISORDER IN BYZANTINE ART
INNOVATION
NUDITY
SEXUALITY
ABANDON
CONCLUSION
NOTES
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE CONSTANTINOPLE AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF A MEDIEVAL URBAN IDENTITY
INTRODUCTION
THE INVENTION OF CONSTANTINOPLE
CONSTANTINOPLE IN TRANSITION
BUILDINGS IN TRANSITION
URBAN THEMES IN URBAN BUILDINGS
CONCLUSIONS
NOTES
CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX THE PRACTICE, PERCEPTION AND EXPERIENCE OF BYZANTINE FORTIFICATION*
FORTRESSES, TOWERS AND LINEAR WALLS
FORTIFICATIONS OF TOWNS AND KASTRA
THE FORTIFICATIONS OF LARGE URBAN CENTERS
WORD, IMAGE, AND CIVIC IDENTITY ON THE WALLS OF BYZANTINE THESSALONIKA
A PROTECTIVE CIRCLE FOR LATE BYZANTINE THESSALONIKA
CONCLUSION
NOTES
CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN IMPERIAL OUTLIERS
NOTES
Footnotes
CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT THE MEDIEVAL PROGENY OF THE HOLY APOSTLES
THE HOLY APOSTLES AND SAN MARCO
AQUITAINE
APULIA
CYPRUS
CONCLUSION
NOTES
CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE SACRED SPACE FROM CONSTANTINOPLE TO VENICE
THE RITUAL SETTING: THE PULPITS AND THE HIGH ALTAR
RENEWING THE HIGH ALTAR AND THE PALA D’ORO
THE NICOPEA AND MARIAN ICONS IN VENETIAN SACRED SPACE
RELICS FROM BYZANTIUM
NOTES
PART IV THE WORLD OF BYZANTINE STUDIES
NOTES
CHAPTER THIRTY THE HISTORY OF EDITING BYZANTINE HISTORIOGRAPHICAL TEXTS
NOTES
CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE BYZANTIUM IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY GREEK HISTORIOGRAPHY
NOTES
CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO PIONEERS OF POPULAR BYZANTINE HISTORY
INTRODUCTION
E. A. FREEMAN
FERDINAND GREGOROVIUS
GUSTAVE SCHLUMBERGER
CONCLUSION
NOTES
CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE A CASE STUDY IN THE EMERGENCE OF BYZANTINE STUDIES
NOTES
CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR BYZANTIUM AND HISTORICAL SOCIOLOGY
HISTORICAL AND SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES: FROM WEBER TO EISENSTADT
BEYOND CAESAROPAPISM AND CONTINUITY
INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL DYNAMICS
NOTES
CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE BYZANTIUM’S EUROPEAN FUTURE*
NOTES
REFERENCES
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