From Constantinople to the frontier
Subtitle: the City and the cities
By: edited by Nicholas S.M. Matheou, Theofili Kampianaki and Lorenzo M. Bondioli
Series: The medieval Mediterranean, peoples, economies and cultures, 400-1500 -- volume 106; Medieval Mediterranean -- v. 106
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng; fre
Number of pages: 520
ISBN-13: 9789004307735; 9789004307742
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: City and town life; History; Congresses; Ancient Cities and towns; Borderlands; Urban ecology (Sociology); Human geography; Relations; Social conditions; International relations
Description: "From Constantinople to the Frontier : The City and the Cities provides twenty-five articles addressing the concept of centres and peripheries in the late antique and Byzantine worlds, focusing specifically on urban aspects of this paradigm. Spanning from the fourth to thirteenth centuries, and ranging from the later Roman empires to the early Caliphate and medieval New Rome, the chapters reveal the range of factors involved in the dialectic between City, cities, and frontier. Including contributions on political, social, literary, and artistic history, and covering geographical areas throughout the central and eastern Mediterranean, this volume provides a kaleidoscopic view of how human actions and relationships worked with, within, and between urban spaces and the periphery, and how these spaces and relationships were themselves ideologically constructed and understood."--
Notes: Papers from a conference that took place in Oxford, England, in February 2014.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 465-516) and index.

English, with 3 contributions in French.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Averil Cameron; title: Looking Eastwards: The Regina Orientis in Sidonius Apollinaris’ Carmen 2 / Lynton Boshoff; title: L’identité romaine est-elle exclusive à Constantinople? Dichotomie entre Byzance et les Balkans à l’époque médiobyzantine (VIe–XIIe siècles) / Victor Tremblay; title: City and Sovereignty in East Roman Thought, c.1000–1200: Ioannes Zonaras’ Historical Vision of the Roman State / Nicholas S.M. Matheou; title: “Furnish Whatever is Lacking to Their Avarice”: The Payment Programme of Cyril of Alexandria / Walter F. Beers; title: Constantinopolitan Connections: Liudprand of Cremona and Byzantium / Andrew M. Small; title: Strengthening Justice through Friendship and Friendship through Justice: Michael Psellos and the Provincial Judges / Jonas Nilsson; title: Eusebius’ Caesarea: The Writing of History and the Dynamics of Ecclesiastical Politics in Fourth-Century Palestine / Robson Della Torre; title: Spectatorship in City and Church in Late Antiquity: Theoria Returns to the Festival / Byron MacDougall; title: Constantinople and the Desert City: Imperial Patronage of the Judaean Desert Monasteries, 451–565 / Daniel Neary; title: Citadels of Prayer: The Christian Polis under Siege from the Summer of 502 to the Summer of 626 / David Gyllenhaal; title: Province in Contrast to City: Irregularities and Peculiarities in the Coinage of Antioch (518–565) / Pavla Drápelová; title: Rome in the Seventh-Century Byzantine Empire: A Migrant’s Network Perspective from the Circle of Maximos the Confessor / Philipp Winterhager; title: Rus’ Dynastic Ideology in the Frescoes of the South Chapels in St. Sophia, Kiev / Sarah C. Simmons; title: The Miracle Cycle between Constantinople, Thessalonike, and Mistra / Maria Alessia Rossi; title: Constantinople and Alexandria between the Seventh and Eighth Centuries: The Representation of Byzantium in Christian Sources from Conquered Egypt / Cecilia Palombo; title: A Forgotten Translation of Pseudo-Methodius in Eighth-Century Constantinople: New Evidence for the Dispersal of the Greek Apocalypse of Pseudo-Methodius during the Dark Age Crisis / Christopher Bonura; title: Comprendre les "Sarrasins" à Byzance dans la première moitié du ix e siècle / Jakub Sypiański; title: Byzantine Manuscript Colophons and the Prosopography of Scribal Activity / Jeremiah Coogan; title: Sayings Attributed to Emperors of Old and New Rome in Michael Psellos’ Historia Syntomos / Theofili Kampianaki; title: Ulysse, Tzetzès et l’éducation à Byzance / Valeria Flavia Lovato; title: Kastron, Rabaḍ and Arḍūn: The Case of Artanuji / Nicholas Evans; title: From the Frontier Cities to the City, and Back? Reinterpreting Southern Italy in the De administrando imperio / Lorenso M. Bondioli; title: Byzantine Art beyond the Borders of the Empire: A Case Study of the Church of St. Chrysogonus in Zara / Franka Horvat; title: Master of Kastamon, Emperor of Eternity: Ioannes Komnenos as Border-maker and Border-breaker in Theodoros Prodromos’ poem ‘On the advance to Kastamon’ / Roman Shliakhtin; title: Ioannoupolis’: Lopadion as ‘City’ and Military Headquarters under Emperor Ioannes II Komnenos / Maximilian Lau.