A companion to Byzantium
By: edited by Liz James.
Contributors: James, Liz.
Series: Blackwell companions to the ancient world
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781405126540
Subjects: Byzantine Empire -- History; Byzantine Empire -- Civilization
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Byzantium: a very, very short introduction / Liz James; title: Writing histories of Byzantium: the historiography of byzantine history / Fiona Haarer; title: Being Byzantine.; title: Economics and "Feudalism" / Peter Sarris; title: Byzantium = Constantinople / Paul Magdalino; title: Provinces and capital / Catherine Holmes; title: Insiders and outsiders / Dion Smythe; title: Young people in Byzantium / Cecily Hennessy; title: The good, the bad and the ugly / Myrto Hatzaki; title: The memory culture of Byzantium / Amy Papalexandrou; title: Emotions / Martin Hinterberger; title: Having fun in Byzantium / Shaun Tougher; title: God and the world.; title: Byzantine views of God and the universe / Mary Cunningham; title: Giving gifts to God: aspects of patronage in Byzantine art / Vassiliki Dimitropoulou; title: Orthodoxy and northern peoples: goods, gods and guidelines / Jonathan Shepard; title: Christology and heresy / Andrew Louth; title: Beyond Byzantium: the non-Chalcedonian churches / Niall Finneran; title: Reading Byzantine texts.; title: No drama, no poetry, no fiction, no readership, no literature / Margaret Mullett; title: Rhetorical questions / Mary Whitby; title: Text and context in Byzantine historiography / Roger Scott; title: Byzantine narrative: the form of story-telling in Byzantium / Emmanuel C. Bourbouhakis and Ingela Nilsson; title: Byzantine book culture / Judith Waring; title: Some questions in material culture.; title: Archaeology / James Crow; title: Makers and users / Anthony Cutler; title: Art beyond Byzantium / Antony Eastmond; title: Icons and iconomachy / Leslie Brubaker; title: The rise and fall of the Macedonian Renaissance / John Hanson; title: Late and post-Byzantine art under Venetian rule: frescoes versus icons and Crete in the middle / Angeliki Lymberopoulou.