The Byzantine court
Subtitle: source of power and culture ; papers from the Second International Sevgi Gönül Byzantine Studies Symposium, Istanbul 21 - 23 June 2010
By: edited by Ayla Ödelam, Nevra Necipoğlu, Engin Akyürek
Contributors: Ödekan, Ayla, 1940-; Necipoğlu, Nevra; Akyürek, Engin, 1957-
Publisher: Koç University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Istanbul
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9786055250171
Subjects: Congresses; Civilization; Court and courtiers; History; Medieval Civilization
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Opening speech  -- Ayla Ödekan -- 1.; title: Byzantine palace architecture.; title: The Byzantine court as a physical space  -- Albrecht Berger ;; title: Excavations at the Byzantine Great Palace (Palatium Magnum) in the area of the Old Sultanahmet Jail  -- Asuman Denker ;; title: Water and the Great Palace in Constantinople  -- James Crow ;; title: The rotunda at the Myrelaion in Constantinople: pilaster capitals, mosaics, and brick stamps  -- Philipp Niewohner ;; title: The architecture of aristocratic palaces in Constantinople in written sources  -- Peter Schreiner ;; title: Constantinople, Konya, conical kiosks, cultural confluence  -- Scott Redford ;; title: The New Palace of Mehmed Fatih and its Byzantine legacy  -- Simon Malmberg -- 2.; title: The Byzantine court as the center of imperial power.; title: Power building and power space in Byzantine Constantinople: the ethics and dynamics of construction and conservation  -- Paul Magdalino ;; title: Palatial gardens as symbols of imperial power  -- Antony R. Littlewood ;; title: The emperor as cosmopolitan ruler: imaging middle Byzantine imperial power  -- Alicia Walker ;; title: The Great Palace and the iconoclast emperors  -- Marie-France Auzépy ;; title: Female space at the Byzantine court  -- Judith Herrin ;; title: Daily life at the Blachernai Palace: the servants of the imperial bedchamber (1261-1354)  -- Frouke Schrijver ;; title: Emblems of power in Palaiologan Constantinople  -- Robert G. Ousterhout ;; title: Between the imperial court and the western maritime powers: the impact of naturalizations on the economy of late Byzantine Constantinople  -- David Jacoby ;; title: Circulation of people between the Byzantine and Ottoman courts  -- Nevra Necipoğlu -- 3.; title: Ceremonies at the court and in the city.; title: Art, ceremony, and spiritual authority at the Byzantine court  -- Henry Maguire ;; title: Processions and public spaces in early and middle Byzantine Constantinople  -- Leslie Brubaker ;; title: From the Hippodrome to the reception halls of the Great Palace: acclamations and dances in the service of imperial ideology  -- Brigitte Pitarakis ;; title: De cerimoniis: the revival of antiquity in the Great Palace and the 'Macedonian renaissance'  -- J. Michael Featherstone ;; title: Dressed to kill: middle Byzantine military ceremonial attire  -- Maria G. Parani ;; title: Diplomacy as performance: power politics and resistance between the Byzantine and the Early Medieval Islamic courts  -- Koray Durak ;; title: Inside and outside the palace: ceremonies in the Constantinople of the Palaiologo  -- Ruth Macrides -- 4.; title: Court culture and visual arts.; title: Did Byzantium have a court literature?  -- Margaret Mullett ;; title: History writing as political propaganda in late Byzantium  -- Apostolos Karpozilos ;; title: The school in Byzantium: structure and problems  -- Athanasios Markopoulos ;; title: Translations from Greek into Arabic at the court of Mehmed the Conqueror  -- Maria Mavroudi ;; title: Antiquarianism and revivalism in late Byzantine court culture and visual arts  -- Ivana Jevtic ;; title: Cultural aspects of power in the Byzantine Empire: the court as patron of metal art objects  -- Meryem Acara Eser ;; title: Byzantine lead seals representing the Kanikleios of the imperial palace  -- Vera Bulgurlu; title: Closing speech -- Ayla Ödekan.