Basileia
Subtitle: essays on imperium and culture in honour of E. M. and M. J. Jeffreys
By: edited by Geoffrey Nathan & Lynda Garland
Contributors: Jeffrey, Michael; Jeffrey, Michael; Moffat, Ann; Moffat, Ann; Croke, Brian; Australian Association for Byzantine Studies
Series: Byzantina Australiensia -- 17; Byzantina Australiensia -- 17.
Publisher: Centre for Early Christian Studies, Australian Catholic University
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Virginia, Queensland, Australia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9781876503300
Subjects: History; Civilization; Bibliography
Notes: "Published and distributed by Australian Association for Byzantine Studies"--Label, t.p. verso.

"The collection of studies published here began as a series of papers delivered at the Fifteenth Biennial Conference of the Australian Association for Byzantine Studies, held at the University of New South Wales in Sydney in February of 2008"--P. [vi].

"The conference, held in honour of ... Byzantinists Elizabeth and Michael Jeffreys, took as its theme 'Imperium and culture' which also serves as the main subject of this volume"--P. [vi].

Imprint from label on t.p. verso.

"Publications of Michael John Jeffreys and Elizabeth Mary Jeffreys (excluding book reviews): P. [5]-13.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Michael and Elizabeth Jeffreys / Ann Moffat; title: Publications of Michael John Jeffreys and Elizabeth Mary Jeffreys / Ann Moffat; title: Purple prose? : the emperor and literature / Elizabeth Jeffreys; title: Versified press-releases on the role of the Komnenian Empire : the public poems of Manganeios Prodromos / Michael Jeffreys; title: Archbishops, generals and governors between East and West in early Byzantine Greece / Amelia R. Brown; title: Brushes with the imperium : letters of Synesius of Cyrene and Augustine of Hippo on crisis / Pauline Allen; title: Imperial benefactions to the fifth-century Roman church / Bronwen Neil; title: Ethnography and imperium in the sixth century : Frankish and Byzantine rhetoric in the Epistolae Austrasicae / Andrew Gillett; title: Interpreting the late fifth and early sixth centuries from Byzantine Chronicle trivia / Roger Scott; title: The Vienna Dioscorides' dedicatio to Anicia Julina : a usurption of imperial patronage? / Geoffrey Nathan; title: Justinian the "Sleepless Emperor" / Brian Croke; title: Procopius and Justinian's propaganda / Sarah Gador-Whyte; title: Justinian's fortifications east of Antioch / Ross Burns; title: Public lavatories, mosquito nets and Agathias' cat : the sixth-century epigram in its Justinian context / Lynda Garland; title: Demonstrations of imperium : Byzantine influences in the late eighth and tenth centuries in the west / Penelope Nash; title: Imperial types in Byzantine panegyric / Andrew Stone; title: Alexios Komnenos as the last Constantine / Penelope Buckley; title: Joseph the Philosopher, an outstanding outsider : philosophy and rhetoric at the court of Andronicus II / Erika Gielen; title: The medieval town of Prilep / Robert Mihajlovski; title: The Freshfield folio view of the Hippodrome in Istanbul and the Church of St. John Diippion / Nigel Westbrook.