Margins and Metropolis

Authority across the Byzantine Empire

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Herrin, Judith

BuchKartoniert, Paperback

390 Seiten

Englisch

Princeton University Presserschienen am23.06.2015

This volume explores the political, cultural, and ecclesiastical forces that linked the metropolis of Byzantium to the margins of its far-flung empire. Focusing on the provincial region of Hellas and Peloponnesos in central and southern Greece, Judith Herrin shows how the prestige of Constantinople was reflected in the military, civilian, and ecclemehr

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KlappentextThis volume explores the political, cultural, and ecclesiastical forces that linked the metropolis of Byzantium to the margins of its far-flung empire. Focusing on the provincial region of Hellas and Peloponnesos in central and southern Greece, Judith Herrin shows how the prestige of Constantinople was reflected in the military, civilian, and eccle

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ISBN/GTIN978-0-691-16662-9

ProduktartBuch

EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback

Verlag

Princeton University Press

Erscheinungsjahr2015

Erscheinungsdatum23.06.2015

Seiten390 Seiten

SpracheEnglisch

MasseBreite 156 mm, Höhe 234 mm, Dicke 24 mm

Gewicht662 g

Artikel-Nr.34168639

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GenreGeschichte/Politik

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Inhaltsverzeichnis

Abbreviations ix Introduction xiii MARGINS 1.A Christian Millennium: Greece in Byzantium--How the Empire Worked at Its Edge 3 2.Aspects of the Process of Hellenization in the Early Middle Ages 33 3.Realities of Provincial Government: Hellas and Peloponnesos, 1180-1204 58 4.The Ecclesiastical Organization of Central Greece at the Time of Michael Choniates: New Evidence from the Codex Atheniensis 1371 103 5.The Collapse of the Byzantine Empire in the Twelfth Century: A Study of a Medieval Economy 111 6.Byzantine Kythera 130 METROPOLIS 7.Byzantium: The Palace and the City 159 8.Philippikos and the Greens 179 9.Philippikos "the Gentle" 192 10.The Historical Context of Iconoclast Reform 206 11.Constantinople, Rome, and the Franks in the Seventh and Eighth Centuries 220 12.The Pentarchy: Theory and Reality in the Ninth Century 239 13.From Bread and Circuses to Soup and Salvation: The Origins of Byzantine Charity 267 14.Ideals of Charity, Realities of Welfare: The Philanthropic Activity of the Byzantine Church 299 15.Mathematical Mysteries in Byzantium: The Transmission of Fermat's Last Theorem 312 16.Book Burning as Purification in Early Byzantium 335 Index 357mehr